UN backs BNP claim on refugee numbers.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has sparked controversy today (27th) by telling Europe that Britain is taking more than its fair share of refugees and asylum seekers. This is something that the BNP has been reporting for years and backs up our position on the asylum issue.

Ruud Lubbers told the BBC that Europe should "share the burden". While this is a welcome suggestion to ease the colossal economic and social burden on British taxpayers the suggestion itself will do little to ease the overall crisis. Britons living as far apart as Kent and Glasgow are seeing their localities change rapidly due to large numbers of migrants pouring into those areas. Equally the Dutch, Danes and French who voted in large numbers for parties standing on a anti-immigration platform will be less than pleased at the prospect of taking more migrants. The answer must initially be a "Fortress Europe" strategy, stopping all migration from every source outside Europe coupled with a comprehensive examination of the global issues that cause such large scale economic migration. One of the most obvious and pressing issues to be addressed is the forthcoming war between the US and Iraq. This will undoubtedly lead to a major refugee crisis, just as the US destruction of Afghanistan led to hundreds of thousands of Afghans flooding into neighbouring countries and on to Europe. The UN are predicting nearly a million Iraqi refugees will start fleeing the country when Washington attacks Baghdad.

Quite simply Britain does not need any more economic migrants, it cannot afford those that are here, mainly of them illegally and it cannot fund or tolerate an influx of even more asylum seekers.

Home Office figures show that there were 92,000 applications for asylum in 2001. The Government admit that there are many thousands who fall outside the system and have simply been "lost". The real figure may be in excess of 100,000 for the year. The current year, 2002 is likely to see a sharp increase on this number.


£1Billion bill picked up by taxpayers

Despite widespread opposition by British taxpayers who have to cough up for the cost reported to be in excess of £1 Billion to house, feed and clothe the 92,000 (known) migrants and despite today's claim by the UNHCR, there are some who suggest that Britain isn't doing enough. Acting out of muddle headedness, political mischief or just sheer stupidity some individuals want the UK to take in more migrants and expect British taxpayers to fund this!


Keith Best is head of the Immigration Advisory Service, a "charity" which also receives Home Office (taxpayers) funding yet continually attacks the British way of life by assisting "refugees" in the legal process of seeking domicile in the UK. This former Tory MP wants an even more liberal immigration policy. He suggested today that if the UK couldn't handle 100,000 migrants each year then we are "pretty pathetic". A term we could equally apply to Mr. Best's suggestion. When the failed economic policies of Blair & Co. force the Government to increase borrowing by £20Billion over the next 2 years, when we have trouble funding a national health service, when we cannot afford to fund students through tertiary education and when we cannot afford a decent environmentally friendly and integrated transportation system we simply cannot afford a single penny to be squandered on looking after migrants who have never contributed a penny to our national Treasury. "Charity begins at home" and Mr. Best should be strongly reminded of this.