Labour Party think tank says Britain needs more immigrants

The Labour Party’s leading ideological think tank, the extremist, leftist Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), has called for an increase in Third World migration to Britain on the grounds that it “economically benefits” the immigrants’ origin nations — even though it costs Britain billions and is destroying British cohesion and identity.

The revealing insight into the criminal and treasonous nature of the Labour Party’s leading ideologues in the IPPR was provided in a report entitled”Development: Do points mean prizes? How the UK’s migration policies could benefit the world’s poor”, published at the beginning of this month.

The IPPR was previously headed up by Matthew Taylor, the Labour Party’s Campaign Co-ordinator and Director of Policy during the 1997 general election. He played an important role in drawing up the Labour manifesto and was Assistant General Secretary of the Labour Party until 1998.

Tony Blair appointed Mr Taylor to head the Number 10 Downing Street Policy Unit and to draw up the Labour Party’s manifesto for the 2005 election.

Other IPPR directors have included Nick Pearce, a former special advisor to David Blunkett MP. Former IPPR staffers have included cabinet ministers Patricia Hewitt and David Miliband while another leading light in the IPPR is Tristram Hunt who sits on the Labour’s National Parliamentary Panel.

(Mr Hunt recently published a sympathetic biography of Friedrich Engels, the co-founder of communist ideology, called Marx’s General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels.)

According to the new IPPR report, the Government’s “points-based system” for assessing the skills of newcomers should be used as a tool for international aid.

The report says that ministers should “take into account the economic boost when immigrants send cash home to their families” — in other words, the billions that migrant workers send home, out of Britain, are another way of subsidising the Third World.

Although this is of course true, it ignores the fact that it is the British economy — already struggling under a massive deficit, unprecedented Government borrowing and near-record unemployment — which is being used as a source for this “subsidy.”

The report claims: “There are arguments for increasing the freedom of movement to migrants between the UK and their home countries for skilled and low-skilled workers.

“Our analysis has shown that trying to reduce skilled migration flows to the UK from developing countries may actually be bad for development in many circumstances.

“Many developing countries could benefit, it appears, from more rather than less skilled emigration because of the remittances that migrants send, the transnational communities that migration creates, and the positive incentives that migration can create, which in many places outweigh any negative impacts that skilled emigration has.”

The IPPR report even called for an increase in non-skilled Third World migration, saying: “We also think that in some cases there is a development argument for increasing migration flows. For some developing countries this would involve more skilled emigration (certainly to above five percent), and many countries seem likely to benefit from the opening up of more channels for low-skilled migration.”

The British National Party’s policy is one of closing the gates. Britain is already overpopulated and the time has come for a government to put the interests of the British people first — economically, socially and politically.

* The annual total cost of immigration to the British taxpayer is now set at just over £13 billion per year.

According to figures compiled earlier by Oxford Professor of Demography, David Coleman, and released by independent think tank Migrationwatch, immigration already costs the British taxpayer some £12.8 billion per year.

This figure does not include the cost of housing and feeding foreign prisoners generated by the imprisonment of 11,350 foreign convicts in Britain’s overcrowded jails. Criminal immigrants held in British jails cost the taxpayer £283 million per year, Government figures have revealed

It is estimated that foreign nationals already remit over £4 billion a year back to their “home” countries every year.