Category Archives: immigration

It’s a sin

November 11, 2010 – 10:00 pm

I listened to Iain Duncan Smith’s interview on Radio 4 this morning when he was introducing his ideas about reforming welfare. He made the point that what he wanted to change was the situation where people are disadvantaged by taking a job, in that they lose so many benefits that work forces them into greater [...]

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What is worse than leaflets stirring up racial tension?

November 7, 2010 – 1:55 pm

I know it is not news to anyone that the Daily Mail is staggeringly hypocritical, but sometimes it is just worth repeating because they do something like this: Phil Woolas is a deeply unpleasant man who not content with authorising the forceful deportation of children during his time as Immigration Minister also decided to run [...]

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The same old stories

October 29, 2010 – 11:38 am

It has been another busy week for media disinformation on a range of their favourite topics. The Daily Mail has made more extremely misleading claims about migration, this time attacking skilled workers by implying that only 1 in 4 of them actually work in a ‘top job’. The figures in fact could only confirm that [...]

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Daily Mail still lying about asylum seekers and social housing

October 9, 2010 – 10:34 am

In July 2009 the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) released a report on social housing in which they correct the misconception that asylum seekers or immigrants somehow are top of the housing queue. The BBC reported: There is no evidence that new arrivals in the UK are able to jump council housing queues, an Equality [...]

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The next ‘Wave’

September 24, 2010 – 1:48 pm

Another scary immigration headline in the Daily Mail today, implying that Bulgaria has granted British citizenship to non-EU residents: What has actually happened is that Bulgaria plans to grant Bulgarian citizenship to around 500,000 human beings currently residing in the Ukraine and Moldova. The Daily Mail implies that Bulgaria is giving these people the right [...]

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