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pondlife on June 4, 2009 - 9:01am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Having just read the policies of the UK 'Greenparty', I found it full of contradictions and wooly logic:

"We will work to achieve greater equity between the UK and non-Western countries. In step with this, we will progressively reduce UK immigration controls."

We already have an extra million every 3 years arriving in the UK.

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phil harris on June 4, 2009 - 4:07pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

pondlife
I wouldn't worry too much - mostly new EU legal work migrants I am led to believe, and many of them head home as the jobs market slides. Sad about the non-westerners but that is one of the side effects of seriously disturbed places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and previously Somalia, a lot of people flee into exile. Come to think of it our deportation policy, while not exactly Guantanamo, has not been pretty - knocking down doors at dawn and so on, so maybe the Greens have a moral point.
Nice counterpoint to the Polish migration is British EU conservative MEPs being told to desert the Euro centre-right bloc and move in with the right-wing Eastern Europeans like the Polish. All a bit contradictory I have to admit.
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