Category Archives: Business/Economy

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Agricultural workers from Ukraine may be needed in future, May told

The home secretary, Theresa May, has been warned that she needs to consider bringing in more eastern European workers from countries such as Ukraine and Russia to the UK or face a sharp rise in fruit and veg prices and job losses in Conservative heartland seats. The official migration advisory...

Sunday April 28 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Change to family visitor appeals

The Home Office is removing the full right of appeal for applicants refused leave to enter the UK as a family visitor. On 25 April 2013 Royal Assent was given to a clause in the Crime and Courts Bill, published on 10 May 2012, which will allow the change to...

Saturday April 27 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Paris museum organizes toy collection for Syrian refugee childre

(UNHCR) – Refugee children from Syria have few reasons to smile. The two-year-long conflict in their homeland has brought great suffering to them and their parents. But on Wednesday in Turkey, one group of Syrian refugee children received something to bring a small bit of sunshine into their lives –...

Saturday March 02 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Somali government to relocate IDPs, welcome returning refugees

(IRIN) – The Somali government plans to relocate thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) currently living in Mogadishu to camps on the outskirts of the city, but there are concerns over inadequate government capacity as well as security and access to services in the proposed relocation areas. There are an...

Sunday February 17 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Theresa May ‘picking a fight with judges’ on immigration

The home secretary is promising a new law to stop potentially dangerous, foreign criminals staying in the UK by arguing their right to a family life here. But a Labour peer and lawyer specialising in human rights said picking a fight with judges was very bad for the rule of...

Saturday February 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Rare mass rally over Singapore immigration plans

Singaporeans have staged a rare demonstration, in protest at government plans to allow more immigration. Organisers said more than 4,000 people attended the rally, making it one of Singapore’s largest ever protests. They are angry at a recent government policy paper that predicted the population would grow by 30% to...

Saturday February 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Bus taunts that sparked Australian racism debate

Jeremy Fernandez could easily be the face of the new Australia, a poster-boy of immigrant success. Born in Malaysia, of southern Indian heritage, he came here with his family 22 years ago, aged 13, and is now an up-and-coming presenter on the ABC news channel, News 24. He is one...

Friday June 22 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Why job agencies prefer foreign workers

After 15 years in recruitment, Alison Andrews, who runs an agency for temporary staff in Somerset, has some strong views on UK workers. “I don’t take the British applications very seriously, to be honest,” she said. “Before I recruited foreign workers I only used to recruit English people. Then, people...

Tuesday July 26 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Leadership of Infrastructure UK.

The Treasury is today announcing the appointment of Geoffrey Spence as the new Chief Executive of Infrastructure UK. Geoffrey Spence combines a background in infrastructure finance in Deutsche Bank AG and HSBC Bank plc, with a track record of delivering at the heart of Whitehall. He will also be the...

Wednesday July 13 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

EASTERN AFRICA: Too soon to blame climate change for drought

(IRIN) – As parts of the Horn of Africa experience their driest periods in 60 years, pushing the numbers needing aid to beyond 10 million, some have been quick to blame climate change. But no single event can be attributed to climate change, which involves long-term (decades or longer) trends...

Wednesday July 13 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Displacement scenarios surrounding South Sudan secession.

(UNHCR) – As South Sudan became an independent country last weekend, the UN refugee agency joined the international community in welcoming this historic event. However, there are a number of ongoing displacement situations affecting the country. Dominik Bartsch, UNHCR Operations Manager for Chad and Sudan, recently spoke to Geneva-based journalists...

Saturday July 09 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

SUDAN: Beyond the euphoria of Southern independence.

JUBA, 8 July 2011 (IRIN) – South Sudan becomes the world’s newest nation on 9 July, the final step in the six-year Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), a deal that ended the 1983-2005 North-South war. The government is upbeat, but after the euphoria of celebrations and the pomp of speeches, the...

Friday July 01 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UK Government publishes proposals on Controlled Foreign Companies.

The Government has published proposals for reforming the UK’s Controlled Foreign Company (CFC) rules, as part of its ambition to create the most competitive tax system in the G20. This marks the next step towards introducing a modernised CFC regime in 2012 that better reflects the way that businesses operate...

Friday July 01 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

First payments confirmed for Equitable Life policyholders

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, has confirmed that the first cheques will be sent to Equitable Life policyholders on Thursday 30 June 2011, meeting the Government’s commitment that payments will start by the end of June. Hundreds of policyholders will receive cheques in the coming weeks...

Sunday June 19 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Government consults on reforms to the taxation of non-domiciled individuals and a statutory definition of tax residence.

The Government is publishing a consultation on its plans to reform the taxation of non-domiciled individuals (“non-domiciles”). It wants to ensure that non-domiciles make a fair tax contribution, as well as encourage them to invest in the UK and simplify the current tax rules for them. The consultation provides details...

Friday June 17 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Speech by The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, The Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP to the IPPR

Few subjects are as open to misunderstanding and misrepresentation as public service pensions. Pensions are vitally important to all of us, but they are also both complex and long-term. Pensions for public service workers even more so, not least because it’s a benefit for one part of the population, that’s...

Friday June 10 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Highly Skilled Migration and the Brain Drain Issue.

From Carim An important issue arising from the debate on highly-skilled migration is brain drain and its potential impact. Hence, if source countries suffer a significant loss of their highly qualified workforce and if this produces negative economic outcomes, then one usually speaks of skilled migration as a “brain drain”....

Wednesday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Greece’s other imminent crisis.

Takis S Pappas It is already a year after Greece was forced to seek a bailout from its fellow euro partners and the IMF but the outlook seems no brighter than before. Despite the Socialist Government’s great efforts, accomplishments have in general fallen short of expectations. Greece’s budget deficit in...

Monday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Profiteering on Third World debt.

The Government has taken action to prevent creditors from exploiting the poorest countries in the world through the UK courts. Legislation to make permanent The Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Act 2010 was passed in the House of Commons today. The legislation will stop creditors, including so-called “Vulture Funds”, from using...

Friday May 06 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Agency Workers Regulations guidance published.

The Government has published guidance to help employers and the recruitment sector prepare for the introduction of the Agency Workers Regulations. The guidance, which has been produced in partnership with a wide range of businesses, trade unions and recruitment agency representatives, will help hirers and agencies understand the requirements of...

Thursday April 21 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Winners of Queen’s Award for Enterprise Named.

Small and large companies from across the UK are today (21 April 2011) named as winners of The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise 2011 – the UK’s highest accolade for business success. A total of 156 Queen’s Awards have been announced this year. Overall, 102 companies have won awards for international...

Friday April 08 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

British Chambers of Commerce Annual Conference, (2011)speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer,Rt Hon George Osborne MP

Let me start by thanking Sue for the very kind introduction and also David Frost for inviting me to speak at your annual conference today. David is a great advocate for Britain’s businesses community and a tireless campaigner for the issues that matter to your members. In fact, this is...

Editorial- Who are the targets and victims of the immigration Speeches

At this year’s UKIP conference, the UKIP Leader said that both the Conservative party, Labour, and Liberal democrats are the same. It is ironic how the leaders of these parties in their recent disgraceful immigration speeches proved him right, by all engaging in xenophobia, and/or anti immigration rhetoric.

First, it was ED Miliband and his shadow home secretary who started pandering to xenophobia by apologising to the British public for being good to immigrants in the past, and for having welcomed immigrants from Eastern Europe, earlier than they should have done in 2004. Then came the Prime Minister, who threw caution to the wind, and gave an immigration speech reminiscent of the “rivers of blood speech”, crucify immigrants, stop them, deport them, deny them health service, deny them benefits, they are scroungers. Then appeared the deputy prime minister, as it was his turn to malign immigrants, and he did not disappoint. Crucify them, crucify them, and let them pay a mortgage, and/or lump sum and/or bond to be used to reduce our deficit if they fail to return home at the end of their visa.
Before I forget, all of them started their speeches with some sort of- do you know what; my father and/or grand parents came into UK as immigrants running away from persecution, and do you know what again; immigrants contribute……… to the British economy, but this small Ireland is now full. It reminds you of racists who start their racist chants with, “how can I be racist all my friends are black and my cousin married an Asian woman”. Just like Di Canio-“I am a fascist not a racist”.

The fallacy and paucity of their ranting are so glaring. United Kingdom can only minimally control immigration from EU member states, as she is signed up to the freedom of movement rights. The target of achieving net migration by reducing immigration from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands is also unachievable without recording all emigration from UK. So if these parties cannot really control EU immigration, who are the immigrants that are the subject and object of these ranting? It is definitely not American immigrants whom Ali Bai Brown indicated in a recent article, that their population in UK is more than that of Somalis and Jamaicans put together. They cannot also be referring to the white immigrants from Australia and New Zealand. So who are the targets of these attacks? They are citizens of the commonwealth. They are the only ones who can be threatened with evil bonds and considered as members of risky nations. They are the last to be hired and first to be fired. They are the easy targets for deportation and least with financial resources to resist abuse. They are the first to be hired for menial jobs, and the unsung heroes of UK’s growth and development.

I hate consistently voting inconsistent Labour; I am disappointed by the Liberal democrats, and I am clearly not thinking what the Conservatives are thinking. The UKIP may eventually be the winner after all.

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