Category Archives: News

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Nigel Farage blasts ‘fascist’ protesters after Edinburgh confrontation

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has described protesters who besieged him in an Edinburgh pub as “fascist scum”. Mr Farage had to be escorted from the Canons’ Gait pub in a police van after angry confrontations on Thursday. He told BBC Scotland the incident was deeply racist and displayed a total...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Eurovision Song Contest 2013: who will win?

Russia will win the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 on Saturday – that is if statistical analysis from Channel 4 News is correct. An analysis of voting patterns over the past ten years suggests that Russia will win the contest on Saturday evening, being held in Malmo, Sweden. The country will...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

NHS: Poles, paracetamol and the myth of health tourism

Yvette Cooper- Labour got things wrong; Courtesy of BBC

Never mind the stupid EU referendum, there were some truly regrettable things about the Queen’s Speech: chiefly, the proposals to tackle benefit and healthcare “tourism” (modern Conservatives use this previously bland word, used for simply exploring foreign countries, as a euphemism for deliberate exploitation. Who knows where tourism tourism will...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

People are told EU migrants steal jobs – in truth bosses want cheap labour

Having a referendum on membership of the EU is a bit like having a referendum on membership of the moon’s gravitational pull. You can vote to leave it all you like, but it will still be there, exerting the natural influence of its mass. Even China has EU regulations...

Saturday May 18 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Number of Syrian refugees tops 1.5 million mark with many more expected

UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency announced on Friday that the number of Syrian civilians who have fled their country to escape conflict has passed the 1.5 million mark. “The Syrian conflict continues to have a devastating impact on the lives of those who are forced to flee,” added UNHCR...

Friday May 17 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Health ministers to focus on mental health inclusion

The Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting will look at ways of ensuring the economic and social inclusion of people with mental health challenges Commonwealth health ministers will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on 19 May 2013. A main item on the agenda will be to look at ways of ensuring the economic...

Friday May 17 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Commonwealth makes case for small, vulnerable countries at G20 meeting in Moscow

The contribution by the Commonwealth at this meeting has been timely, relevant and productive – Andrei Bokarev, chair of the Russian G20 Development Working Group The G20 group of the world’s leading economies should deepen consideration of the development concerns of small, poor and vulnerable economies in their efforts to...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UK Census: almost half of foreign-born population hold UK passports

Just half of the foreign born population of England and Wales hold a non-UK passport and the vast majority of the non -white British population consider themselves British, according to new figures from the 2011 Census. 45.6% of usual residents born outside the UK hold a British passport, or 3.4m...

Thursday May 16 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Britons obsess about immigration, Germans focus on education

Every German politician I have spoken to this week watches the chaos in David Cameron’s government over Europe with something close to horror. This is a very dangerous game, says one. It’s like the US Republicans with the Tea Party, says another. There will be a terrible awakening, says a...

Monday May 13 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Queen’s Speech signals a new Immigration Bill is on its way

The opening of the 2013-14 session of Parliament, with the Queen’s annual speech in the House of Lords offering an overview of the Government’s legislative programme for the year ahead, has turned out to be rather a muddle on the question of immigration. Immigration was trailed in the media, presumably...

Friday May 10 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UK Student visa interviews – Nigeria

From 9 May 2013, if you apply for a Tier 4 student visa you must now make an appointment online to attend the visa application centre. You will need to sit a short interview when you attend the visa application centre to submit your application and biometric information. The interview...

Wednesday May 08 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Queen’s Speech: Immigrants face tougher rules

A fresh attempt to curb immigration is the centre piece of the government’s planned new laws, set out by the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament. Short-term migrants will pay for NHS care, landlords will be forced to check immigration status and illegal migrants will not get driving licences....

Monday May 06 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UNHCR’s Guterres thanks Kuwaiti Emir for US$110 million donation

High Commissioner António Guterres meets His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

(UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has visited Kuwait and personally thanked the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, for an unprecedented donation of US$110 million for UNHCR’s emergency operation for Syrian refugees. Guterres met His Highness Sheikh Saba in Kuwait’s Bayan Palace on Sunday...

Monday May 06 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UK immigration control: children in extreme distress

Alarming numbers of parents are being separated from their children indefinitely in the UK for the purposes of immigration control. It is difficult to imagine any other situation where children could have such scant attention paid to their welfare, says Sarah Campbell. A new study by UK charity Bail for...

Monday May 06 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Guernsey immigration fees rise following UK changes

Guernsey immigration fees are to rise in line with increases made to charges in the UK. Anyone given indefinite permission to remain can move freely and work in the UK and across the Crown Dependencies. In April the UK increased its charges by about 3% and Guernsey’s Home Department has...

Monday May 06 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Neo-Nazi Gang Member On Trial Over Murders

The surviving member of a neo-Nazi cell blamed for a series of racist murders in Germany has gone on trial. Thirty-eight-year-old Beate Zschaepe appeared in court in Munich charged with complicity in the murder of eight Turks, a Greek and a policewoman between 2000 and 2007. Scuffles took place outside...

Sunday May 05 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

“Free to Be Me” toolkit promotes child protection, combats child trafficking in Ghana

Ghana – IOM Ghana has rolled out a new information toolkit “Free to Be Me” designed to build local capacity in Ghana’s Volta region to prevent child trafficking and address protection concerns. Many trafficked children are forced to work in Lake Volta fishing communities under hazardous and exploitative conditions. The...

Saturday May 04 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Conflict and returnees strain South Sudan food security

(IRIN) – Food security in South Sudan is deteriorating in the face of ongoing conflict, high food prices, and the large-scale return of refugee and internally displaced families. Lakes, Western Bahr El Ghazal and Unity states are the most affected, with at least 1.15 million people expected to face food...

Tuesday April 30 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

How has immigration changed Britain?

He is answering the criticisms made not just by the white British residents but a significant number of the city’s large Asian community, who complain that eastern Europeans simply don’t integrate. Sounds like America but, in fact, this is the UK – Peterborough, to be precise. I’ve been filming in...

Monday April 29 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UNHCR gives Malian soldiers primer on humanitarian law

(UNHCR) – The UNHCR instructor surveyed his class of 150 Malian soldiers in the cavernous hall. “If the enemy enters a mosque, is it honourable for you to follow him inside and fight?” he asked. “No,” the soldiers shouted back in unison, shaking their heads and waving their fingers. “If...

Monday April 29 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Derby councillor’s firm cleared over illegal immigrants

A firm run by a Derby councillor, which had been employing illegal immigrants, has been cleared by an investigation. In December five people were arrested following a raid by the UK Border Agency at A Star Clothing, in Stanhope Street, Normanton. But the firm, which was set up by Balbir...

Saturday April 27 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Migration: Council fears ‘serious difficulty’ from Romanian and Bulgarian changes

One of London’s largest councils says it will be in “serious difficulty” if it does not plan for the arrival of more Romanian and Bulgarian migrants. Philippa Roe, Conservative leader of Westminster City Council, said the end of work restrictions on migrants next year was likely to have a big...

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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