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Join our Crusade today... stop new EU migrants flooding in to Britain

DAVID Cameron’s plan to open Britain’s borders to a new wave of European immigration is dramatically challenged today by a new Daily Express crusade.

By: Alison Little & Martyn Brown
Published: Thu, October 31, 2013
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Nigel Farage says it is time to hold the Government to account [EMPICS]

We invite readers and supporters to back us by signing a petition calling on the Prime Minister to keep controls on Bulgarian and Romanian workers coming here.

You can sign up online at www.express.co.uk/eumigrants.

Mr Cameron insists there is nothing he can do under EU law to avoid lifting existing temporary controls at midnight on December 31.

Campaigners say that could see 50,000 to 70,000, Romanians and Bulgarians a year arriving in Britain over a period of five years.

The Government has repeatedly dodged Daily Express demands to provide its own estimate of the numbers expected.

Our petition urges Mr Cameron to have the courage to stand up to Brussels and protect British workers by keeping limits in place.

Beggars from eastern Europe have arrived in significant numbers in recent years [STEVE REIGATE]

I am 100 per cent behind the Daily Express campaign. It’s something I’ve called for myself in the Commons
Conservative MP Philip Hollobone

It was welcomed yesterday by politicians who have warned of the dangers in allowing unrestricted migration from Bulgaria and Romania.

Conservative MP Philip Hollobone said: “I am 100 per cent behind the Daily Express campaign. It’s something I’ve called for myself in the Commons. Telling the EU that Britain will not admit Romanians and Bulgarians would help our renegotiation of our EU membership.

“It would signal that we mean business and it would be a hugely popular move. But more importantly, it’s the right thing to do.

“Britain is full and can’t cope with another wave of mass migration from two relatively poor countries with which we have very little in common.”

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said: “It’s imperative we start holding our Government to account and stop them using the excuse that there is nothing they can do about opening our borders to Bulgaria and Romania.



Nick Clegg has blamed fears on "wildly inaccurate" predictions made by the last Government [GETTY]

“I would like to see David Cameron pluck up the courage to confront the EU. We have rising youth unemployment, overcrowding in schools and hospitals. We simply cannot afford to have thousands more people coming to live in the UK in January while we are still trying to patch up our fragile economy.

“This petition is the perfect way for people to make their voices heard. I urge everyone to give it their support.”

Conservative MP Stewart Jackson said: “The Daily Express is absolutely right to highlight the likely pressure on public services and the jobs market.”

Mr Cameron has vowed to renegotiate Britain’s EU membership and then hold an in-out referendum.

And he has signalled he may press for member states to have more power over their borders.

Member states can currently impose time-limited “transitional controls” when new countries join.

The previous Labour Government catastrophically underestimated the numbers that would come here when eight countries joined the EU in 2004 and put no controls in place.

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As a result, Bulgarians and Romanians were strictly limited in the types of jobs they can do here after their nations joined in 2007.

But from January 1 states are required to lift limits and offer 29 million people full rights to work and benefits.

MPs and the Daily Express say we should enforce our right in EU law to waive free movement rules in our national economic interest.

Europhile Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem Deputy PM, was yesterday asked by the Daily Express if he shares public concern about Romanian and Bulgarian immigration.

He told us: “I think public confidence was very severely damaged by wildly inaccurate predictions made by the last Government. I totally understand why people are sceptical about official reassurances.”

But he added that “circumstances are very different now” to the last time the EU was enlarged in 2004.

To join our crusade go to express.co.uk/eumigrants


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Roma surge threatens to add to estimated 200,000 population already in UK

AN estimated 200,000 Roma gypsies are already living in Britain – one of the biggest populations in western Europe, research claims.

By: Anil Dawar
Published: Thu, October 31, 2013
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Ukip leader Nigel Farage feels the Government is sleepwalking into serious problems [GETTY]

And frontline officers fear the figure will rocket once visa restrictions are lifted at the end of the year, according to the University of Salford study.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage said: “It’s causing significant problems for local services.

We’re sleepwalking into serious problems, yet this Government does nothing to stop it happening.”

Advice worker Gulnaz Hussain of Page Hall, Sheffield said the number of Roma families she meets has soared from one or two in 2004 to several hundred now.

She said: “The schools are full, more or less. I don’t think we could accommodate more.”

It’s causing significant problems for local services.

We’re sleepwalking into serious problems, yet this Government does nothing to stop it happening
Nigel Farage

As employment restrictions are relaxed on December 31 the UK will throw open its Jobcentres and benefit offices to what pressure group Migration Watch predicts could be as many as 70,000 people a year for the next five years.

Once migrants find a job they will become eligible for income-related benefits far more generous than in their home countries.

Access to welfare is easier here than in France or Germany, which is relaxing work restrictions at the same time.

To join our crusade go to express.co.uk/eumigrants

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This time let us keep the floodgates closed, say NO to the EU

IN NO area of public policy does membership of the European Union limit our country’s right to pursue its national interest more than in the matter of immigration.

Published: Thu, October 31, 2013
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The Daily Express is calling on the Government not to betray the British people on immigration again [JONATHAN BUCKMASTER]
All mainstream political parties now admit that immigration throughout the early years of this century has been too high.
Much too high.
Few people any longer bother to deny that the huge volume of immigration, especially from the so-called A8 new EU member states, has placed enormous strains on society.
Youth unemployment began its long climb to nearly a million when the floodgates were opened to incomers from Poland, Lithuania and the rest.
At the time official Whitehall estimates suggested that only a few thousand would come.
To join our crusade go to express.co.uk/eumigrants

It is very hard to believe that David Cameron would be so foolish as to throw open our borders voluntarily to all-comers from two sizeable and impoverished European nations

This newspaper warned that hundreds of thousands would. And this newspaper was right.
In fact more than a million eastern Europeans are thought to have moved here since immigration controls were lifted in 2004.
Back then Labour did not even implement the transitional controls allowed under EU law. That was a reckless and unforgivable decision.
Inevitably the vast migrant inflow put great pressure on many aspects of life from housing to school places, hospitals, welfare and community cohesion.
Yet instead of learning its lesson the political class proposes to make the same mistake all over again.
Once more the interests of the British people are to be sacrificed on the altar of EU rules.
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This time it is 28 million Romanians and Bulgarians who are to get full access to our jobs market.
That is despite Britain only now emerging from a five-year economic depression and with youth unemployment remaining intolerably high.
It is very hard to believe that David Cameron would be so foolish as to throw open our borders voluntarily to all-comers from two sizeable and impoverished European nations.
He is only doing it because EU rules say he has to.
Yet the Prime Minister must know that what he is proposing is against the interests of the British people.
In effect he is asking his own country to “take one for the team”. But that team is one most of us would rather not play for at all: the EU.
In fact there are grounds for thinking that the Romania/Bulgaria experiment could go even more wrong than the A8 one.
For a start we are more full than we were back then.
And immigration from southern European countries such as Spain and Greece has already increased sharply as a wave of so-called “eurozone refugees” has headed our way.
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Secondly, Romania and Bulgaria are two of Europe’s poorest countries, with average wage levels far below our minimum wage levels or benefit levels.
Given that life in Britain for an EU migrant comes with so many more advantages attached – from public services to an extensive welfare safety net – it may be quicker to ask which Bulgarians and Romanians would not consider moving here than those who would.
Ministers have refused to publish an estimate of how many they think will come, though the usually unerring MigrationWatch suggests something in the order of 50,000 additional migrants per year can be expected.
That would amount to the population of a city the size of Coventry in a single parliamentary term.
Then there is the awkward fact that Romania and Bulgaria have large populations of what are known in the politically correct jargon as “socially excluded groups”.
Such groups typically have very high welfare dependency rates and place a large strain on social services, which are already stretched in Britain.
They can also have a tendency towards crime and antisocial behaviour – as if we do not already have enough of that within our own citizenry.
Britain was betrayed once before by Labour and Tony Blair [GETTY]
Romanian gangs are already thought to be responsible for most cashpoint fraud as well as a lot of pickpocketing and shoplifting. From January they will be able to call up reinforcements from the mother country more easily.
And to the extent that the new arrivals do take up jobs it is likely to be minimum-wage work.
Given that a higher personal allowance is moving us towards a situation in which nobody on the minimum wage will pay income tax that means the benefits to the public finances of such workers will be negligible.
But the demands they put on the Exchequer could be huge.
Community relations are likely to be harmed and it may well be that it is Britain’s established ethnic minority communities who suffer the most from the extra competition for public resources.
This week the Prime Minister said of eastern European immigrants: “You can’t blame them, they want to work, they see the jobs, they come over and they do them.
"But as a country what we ought to be saying is no.”
Immigration has led to a flood of beggars appearing on our streets [TIM CLARKE]
Mr Cameron’s “no” was meant as a call for more welfare reform and better schools to equip our own young people for the jobs market.
Amen to those. But without controlling immigration there will be many fewer vacancies for them to step into.
So he should direct his “no” to Brussels.
He should dare to say that a million young unemployed amounts to an “exceptional circumstance” of the kind that entitles Britain, even under EU rules, to limit immigration by Romanians and Bulgarians.
If Brussels will not accept that and takes Britain to court to enforce free movement, well wouldn’t that be yet another excellent reason to pull out of the EU?
Britain has a skyrocketing population as it is, with much of the increase due to high birth rates among recent arrivals. Large parts of the country are full to the gunwales.
So acute is our housing crisis that young adults in good jobs have no prospect of home ownership and face seeing their money leak away in rent for decades to come. This is no time to be making their predicament worse by importing yet more people.
For all these reasons the Daily Express is today launching a crusade to stop the Government from lifting controls on Romania and Bulgaria.
We ask you, our magnificent army of readers, to support us as you always do.
The British people were betrayed by Labour on immigration.
Mr Cameron must ensure they are not betrayed by the Conservatives too.

To join our crusade go to express.co.uk/eumigrants


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Quit the EU? UK voters don’t even know we’re in it, claims watchdog

THE wording of the referendum on EU membership should be changed – because some voters are ­unaware Britain is a member, according to the elections watchdog.

By: Martyn Brown
Published: Wed, October 30, 2013
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The Private Members' Bill for a referendum on the UK's EU membership is backed by David Cameron [GETTY]

MPs are considering proposals to go to voters in 2017 asking: “Do you think that the United Kingdom should be a member of the European Union?”

But yesterday the Electoral Commission said some people were unaware the UK was already in the EU.

It has proposed two alternatives to ensure as “much clarity as possible”.

It suggested asking: “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?”

The other more neutral alternative, it said, would be: “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?”

That would mean voters would be asked to vote to remain or leave instead of just answering yes or no.

The watchdog said any ­referendum question must be “clear, unambiguous and to the point”.

But it said tests had suggested that some people did not know whether the UK was an EU member or not and that this “presented a risk of misunderstanding”.

[EXPRESS]

It said a simple yes/no question which made clear that the UK was already a member “presented difficulties with some element of perceived bias remaining in each version tested”.

A Private Members’ Bill paving the way for a referendum is being considered by the Commons and will be debated again by MPs next week.

The Bill, tabled by Conservative MP James Wharton, has the backing of David Cameron but is not guaranteed to become law as it is opposed by his Lib Dem deputy Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed ­Miliband.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg (pictured) and Ed Miliband oppose the Bill [GETTY]

Any change in the wording is likely to delay its passage through Parliament. It returns on November 8.

Mr Wharton said there was “no need” to change the question following the commission’s report.

Earlier this year MPs voted for Britain to be given an in/out referendum on its membership by 2017. Labour and Lib Dem MPs abstained.

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Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

Youth unemployment began its long climb to nearly a million when the floodgates were opened to incomers from Poland, Lithuania and the rest....

And to the extent that the new arrivals do take up jobs it is likely to be minimum-wage work.

Gee, I sure hope that that never happens here
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