BBC ‘bias’ hinders immigration crackdown, says report
The BBC’s bias in favour of immigration has been a key block on the Government’s ability to tighten control on Britain’s borders, a report has claimed.
MigrationWatch UK, which campaigns for tougher migration rules, said the Corporation was guilty of a “strong bias” and even a reluctance to address issues raised by immigration.
A report also warned there was pro-immigration in parts of the Civil Service including the Treasury, “irrespective of the impact of immigration on population growth and on the lower paid”.
The study, which analysed the Conservatives’ performance in the area since 2010, said the Government was spending just 0.25 per cent of its total budget on immigration control this year.
A BBC spokesman insisted there were no problems with its coverage.
“We believe our coverage of immigration is in the right place and we cover this complex issue in depth,” he said.
Immigration is always considered in terms of the economy. That is, immigrants are always considered as net benefit to the economy.
Even if that was true, the cost of unrestricted immigration, particularly Muslim immigration, will lead to the death of Britain. And thats too high a price to pay, for what may well be marginal, if not nil economic benefits.
What do you mean by Britain? Perhaps you could summerise what you mean by British values. I often wonder what these are. Maybe I could start the ball rolling by suggesting that being British involves:-
1. Watching football
2. Excessive consumption of alcohol
3. Excessive weight gain
4.Believing X factor is a legimate career path
5.Believing the UK is a world power
6.Believing in white supremecy
7.Believing that we won the second world war.
8.Believing that foreigners are inferior to us.
And other cultures are so superior to ours esp that large minority that is always in the news.
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You seem confused ? but being so achingly PC/pro BBC that’s understandable deary! here let me put it in the way you meant it !
1. defending the BBC no matter what crime they commit including bulling/theft / expenses scams/ ageism/ sexual abuse/ sexism / sexual harassment leading to the death of one young man and caving into Labour leading to the death of another man
2. Excessive consumption of alcohol on the tax payers dime
3. Excessive wallet weight gain
4.Believing strictly come is a legitimate pension pot path
5.Hating that fact the the UK is a world power
6.Believing in white subjugation
7.Dismissing the fact that we won the second world war cos we prefer so the Nazis to that evil Tory government that stood up to them .
8.Believing that foreigners are superior to everyone one not like us.
9. Just being a total puppet of a multi billlion £ media corporation [god I hope they pay you cos if not you are a real moron !]
MCO , that could be Scott or James O`Brian.
Because, the UK is the only country that does 1, 2 and three
Believing X Factor is a career path? You really going to base this on a dozen or so hopefuls each year? There’s well over 70million in the UK
Believing in White Supremacy, believing foreigners are inferior to us? Those aren’t our traits, or traits of any Western country. We do not execute minorities based on colour or religion (try ISIS or Boko Harem for the latter)
Believing we won WWII? We played a part. Read a book sometime, you’ll be amazed at how big that part was.
I think you must live somewhere other than Britain.
Regarding immigration and their economic contribution, I think there are some general principles applicable here. Firstly, immigrants cannot create jobs. The demand for labour is determined by the conditions of productivity and derived demand. Having labour does not automatically get capital to employ it as you can see in Spain, Greece, etc. Employers may like immigrants for a variety of reason including specific performance and because they undercut existing wage rates but, on the average, generalising individual good employee to all employees is invalid. Clearly, people will argue that highly skilled immigrant labour will be of benefit to individual employers but these skills only originate in similararly developed economies, not from developing economies which can only provide low skill employment. Second point is that the beneficiaries of immigrants working can only be employers and the immigrant workers themselves. The UCL report was only looking at fiscal effects but had odd assumptions and, anyway, was not peer reviewed. The idea that increasing labour supply creates wealth strikes me as very Nineteenth Century and no longer relevant.
Immigrants are always talked about as being a benefit to the British economy – for instance, we are told that the NHS would not function without them; are we also expected to believe that no immigrant ever uses such services? One of the biggest lies I remember hearing about some years ago was that we needed immigrants to provide pensions because we are all living longer. Don’t immigrants grow old?
The Green Party has been widely derided for it’s immigration policies, which is essence are: unlimited migration; no controls whatsoever, as they are waycist; immigration as a weapon to destroy the very concepts of Britain and borders. They might sound like the deluded ramblings of drunken students, but these are actually the de facto policies of Labour, the Conservatives and the LibDems as well – they are just not so naive to advertise the fact. No government, of whatever apparent hue, has any intention of implementing meaningful controls, as they have a visceral commitment to immigration. Any pronouncements contrary to this are simply sops to the public and to prevent support for UKIP and others. The BBC is an enthusiastic cheerleader for immigration – it is, after all, the state broadcaster – but the idea that it is acting as some sort of brake on the government is sheer sophistry.
Entirely misplaced understanding of Green Policies. The Greens are pointing out that under the circumstances that countries are economically and politically stable there would not need to be controls.
The point you may or may not understand is that no political party has much leverage over immigration from the EU because the free movement of labour is one of its basic tenets.
If its any consolation, more brits take more money in terms of unemployments benifits in other EU countries than ‘foreigners’ do in ours.
The BBC is indeed the State broadcaster but whether that includes consideration the views of any Political parties is questionable. It is however deeply conservative as evidenced by the complete lack of serious economic coverage which only acts to served the interests of the rich. In reality our economy is collapsing but looking at the BBC who would know. And that really is the point!
“If its any consolation, more brits take more money in terms of unemployments benifits in other EU countries than ‘foreigners’ do in ours.”
Please provide proof of this fantasy statement from a reputable source.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/-sp-thousands-britons-claim-benefits-eu
I did say reputable. The Guardian lies like the BBC so cannot be believed on anything.
I think you’ll find this is the collection of data,not opinion, from the EU member states. It has also been published by Merkel(you may have heard of her) who is the uber right wing leader of the Christian Democrats. The data is verifiable unlike a lot of spurious ideas floating about.
I know that you should not feed the trolls , but when he mentions data , everybody knows that the BBC & its print wing can be very economical with the truth .
Like with its UCL report of immigrants contributing £25 billion to the economy , but completely ” forgetting ” to mention that against a total cost to the country of over £ 130 billion , immigration was taking huge amounts of money out of everyone here,s pockets .
Do they also have figures on the amount of Brits claiming benefits in Somalia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria etc?
Thought not.
Somalia isnt in the EU but in the case of the others you mention only Bulgaria failed to report their data by the looks of it.
Think not!
“If its any consolation, more brits take more money in terms of unemployments benifits in other EU countries than ‘foreigners’ do in ours.”
Your statement, not mine.
So, you’re suggesting that Brits take more in “benifits” from the EU than ALL foreigners do in ours?
“Think Not!” – you certainly don’t, do you.
Ireland – from an EU perspective – is an independant country, so why has the grauniad decided to lump the 11k+ Irish benefit claimants – just under 50% of the total – into the graph? I have no issue with only including Northern Ireland, but they haven’t. If the Grauniad wanted to be accurate with the data (and let’s face it, it’d be a first), then they would have used UK figures.
Still – you fell for it. Job done as far as the sandle-weavers are concerned.
Most people understand that the free movement of labour between member states is a basic tenet of the EU – and it is one of the many reasons that people oppose it. However, EU migration is only responsible for a subset of immigration into Britain – there are several million people here from countries including India, Pakistan, China, Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia, Russia, Ukraine, none of which are in the European Union. Whether we make a profit or a loss on unemployment and other benefits is neither here nor there and had not been prior introduced into this discussion. The argument for many people is the preservation of their own culture and way of life – whether good, bad or indifferent to others – and not about economics. It is possible to make an economic argument for slavery – it was a key component of the economy of the United States until the mid-19th Century, for instance – but that does not make it right. Increasingly, many people feel the same way about mass immigration and reject those politicians who, in the words of Wilde, “know the price of everything and the value of nothing”.
Having read this post I am certain that you live somewhere other than Britain and somewhere that the BBC doesn’t reach. Can you let us know where it is please so we can move in with you to escape the BBC Labour and mass Immigration propaganda machine.
1.) Beeboids censor out the words “immigration” and “immigrants,” but instead use their politically default, inaccurate words of ‘migration’ and ‘migrants’. (The false implication: their human ‘migrants’ are like birds which migrate with the seasons. No: these humans intend to stay in U.K permanently.)
2.) Beeboids invariably lobby for such illegal immigrants/asylum seekers to enter European Union and Britain. This Beeboid political attitude colours all their ‘reports’ be they from the Mediterranean or from Calais.
3.) Beeboids do not talk numbers, and limits on immigration: they are committed to continuous, open-door, mass immigration. They do not recognise the negative economic, social and cultural impact of such mass immigration advocacy. (Until recently, Beeboids, inc ‘Today’ treated ‘Migrationwatch’ as politically anathema.)
4.) Beeboids campaign for the rapid colonisation of the E.U and Britain, under the cover of concepts such as ‘multiculturalism’ and Hall’s favourite: ‘diversity’. The BBC-NUJ political campaign for 80 million ‘diverse’ Muslims of Turkey to enter E.U is unassailable.
Have you any evidence or are you on the wrong medication?
Turkey is 99% Muslim. Not much diversity there.
This all part of a secret plan by the JEWS to destroy western civilisation.
what is?
The JEWS through marxism and cultural marxism are destroying western civilisation.
Karl Marx JEW.
Frankfurt School JEWS.
They want to punish the west for being bad to the JEWS for 2,000 years.
So what is Marxism and cultural marxism? How is marxist thinking evidenced in Jewish thinking. There are a lot of Marxist/post Marxist thinkers who are not jews so how does this play into your theory.
I’ve never intepreted Goldman Sacks as a Marxist outfit but maybe you are onto something there. Keep it coming !This is midly entertaining.
Manon, ignore the troll. He’s not worth your effort.
All Marxists are JEWS some hide it.
Especially the non jewish ones. You did PEP at Oxford didnt you Henry? I can tell.
If I start ranting on about Islam will I be popular on this site then?
Good job you weren’t ManonTavistockOmnibus
To be honest I haven’t been on a bus for 20 years. All those prols!!
Do they still smoke on the top deck?
As Neil Kinnock [might have] said… ‘I warn you not to Lesbian, I warn you not to be Gay, I warn you not to be Bi-Sexual, I warn you not to be Transsexual, I warn you not to be Female,…’
But wait; I’m not in any of those ROP target groups. Stuff it – why should I worry. Leave those progressive suckers in the front line to take on the first wave…
Is it progressive to be female then?
Undoubtedly. The South London Islamic Centre were peeved when a headscarf-covered Cathy Newman dared to tip-toe in. They’ll be well shocked when those big girls from Femen strut in to display their assets. I’ll be getting in extra popcorn for that one!
Femen are the most progressive group of all.
As Neil Kinnock [might have] said… ‘I warn you not to Lesbian, I warn you not to be Gay, I warn you not to be Bi-Sexual, I warn you not to be Transsexual, I warn you not to be Female,…’
Was that when he worked for the Tower Hamlets Housing Association?
My favourite immigrants are the black people on the black and white mistral show.
That would put the wind up the BBC!
Better give them a foehn call. Sorry that was an adiabatic lapse…
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/-sp-thousands-britons-claim-benefits-eu
If you total the Guardian figures:
Total British nationals receiving unemployment benefit in EU states = 29095.
Total EU nationals receiving JSA in UK = 52430.
“Keeping immigrants coming: Pro-immigration lobby hampers reforms, says STEPHEN POLLARD.
“Since its formation in 2001 Migration Watch, under Sir Andrew Green, has proved itself invaluable by cutting through much of the fog and bluster that dominates the debate over immigration.”
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/557835/A-conspiracy-to-keep-immigrants-coming-to-the-UK
dont forget that the pro mass immigration lobby never live in towns and citys that have mass immigration,they make me sick and one day i hope that there nice little peacefull lifestyles in there leafy surburbs and villages are destroyed by the mass immigration overflow that will come to them when the big citys and towns are at bursting point and cant take any more immigration,with the population increasing to 70 million in the next decade that might come sooner than they think,i despise the pro mass immigration lobby,the lot of them.