Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Cooke Gavin
Title : Britain's great immigration disaster
Year : 2012

Link download : Cooke_Gavin_-_Britain_s_great_immigration_disaster.zip

Introduction. On October 20, 2010, like millions of others, I watched the news on television and listened to the coalition chancellor George Osborne announce a range of drastic austerity measures. Major cuts in the cost of our social welfare system needed to help reduce a huge national deficit that was close to bankrupting Britain. So we could avoid the fate of already bankrupt Greece and Ireland there would be budget cuts of £83 billion that would result in almost half a million jobs lost in the public sector. Yet in all the bulletins and analysis on BBC and ITV news that day, including BBC radio, never once was the cost of immigration mentioned as a contributing factor. I was left to reflect that not even Stalin, gripped by the madness of soviet doublethink, could have contrived a more complete control of the political agenda to exclude any mention of this most important of all economic variables. Since 1997 Britain has seen the biggest population change in its long history, changes overseen and approved by the New Labour administrations of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. ...