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Quotes on immigration

quotesmachine | 07.01.2004 02:51

Quotes from respected sources on the effects

"...The entire reason that HIV in Britain has shot to record levels is because the Government has embarked on a programme of mass immigration from countries devastated by HIV, without insisting on HIV tests for immigrants. Last year, Britain imported more than 2,000 HIV-positive immigrants, double the number two years ago, and four times the number five years ago. Almost all were from Africa."

"...This is draining the resources of the NHS. Each of these people requires treatment costing £10,000 a year. If they live for 30 years on average, the total NHS bill for last year’s immigration alone will be £600 million. Even if immigration just stays at this level, the NHS will over the next decade import a total HIV bill of £6 billion."

--Anthony Browne, The Times, 27 November 2002


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"...Most muggers are black."

--Ian Blair, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, The London Evening Standard, 11 October 2002


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"Mr Blunkett’s new policies to stem the flow of asylum-seekers to the UK include a presumption against those from countries which are about to join the EU. One such is the Czech Republic, from which 850 applications were received in July alone.

"But once the Czech Republic and the other countries have been accepted into the EU, then those 850 applicants and presumably thousands of others will not need to apply for asylum to get into the UK. They can simply come here unchallenged."

--John Ralphs, The Times, 11 October 2002


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"...the ethnic population in Britain is growing 15 times faster than the white population, and that the nation will have to find room for an estimated 5m more people by 2025"

--John Elliott, The Sunday Times, 29 september 2002


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"WHENEVER there's a row about Europe, BBC news bulletins always seem to take the EU's side.

"So it comes as no surprise that the BBC is arranging to borrow £25million from the European Investment Bank.

"The bank is an EU offshoot which boasts in its publicity blurb that it supports projects giving practical expression to EU objectives.

"In other words, it lends money to people who don't say bad things about its paymasters.

"Isn't it marvellous that the supposedly politically-neutral BBC is in hock to such zealots?..."

--The Sun, 28 August 2002.


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"Mobie phone thefts have soared in two years and violence is now frequently used.

• Thieves are snatching almost 3,000 mobiles a month in London.
• 39 per cent of London street robberies involve mobile phones.
• 710,000 handsets were stolen in England and Wales last year.
• Schoolchildren constitute half the victims and the most common age of the phone robbers is 16.
• Last month a 19-year-old survived being shot in the head by a robber who stole her mobile.
• Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice, has called for five-year plus sentences for mobile thieves.
• A Home Office study said gangs of black youths carry out most of the robberies and the majority of their victims are white."

--London Evening Standard, 25 February 2002.


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"...the compulsory ID scheme would cost the taxpayer £1 billion. That would be better spent on 20,000 extra police"

--Peter Lilley, The Times, 18 February 2002.


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"The Government is making oppressive laws faster than lawyers can keep up with them.

"UK law now enables the Government to put you in prison without trial - simply on suspicion of terrorism.

"Blair's Government is planning to make it legal for the police anywhere in the world to have access to your medical records.

"Why do American or German police need to know the names of every Briton who's taken an antibiotic or anti-depressant in the last 12 months?

"Why does your local copper need to know the names of every man suffering from impotence? Isn't privacy and medical confidentiality part of the freedom we're supposed to be protecting?

"The EU has passed a new law giving each member country the right to arrest British citizens - without evidence.

"The arrested citizen can be taken abroad and thrown into jail. The number of crimes for which citizens can be "kidnapped" by foreign police forces is extensive.

"Democracy, the rule of law, human rights and freedom have all been destroyed.

"Within two years it will be a serious crime to make rude remarks about a country..."

--Dr. Vernon, The Sunday People, 17 February 2002.

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