New Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s position on immigration is to be admired. She likely will not succeed, however, given her party’s fecklessness and lack of will to deal with Britain’s out-of-control illegal migration. As soon as Tory leader Liz Truss became Britain’s prime minister, she reneged on her pledge to stop illegal migration, and instead threw her backing behind the globalist open-door policy.
“Suella Braverman revives Tory pledge to cut net migration to ‘tens of thousands,’” by Rajeev Syal, Guardian, October 4, 2022:
Suella Braverman has revived a previous Conservative pledge to reduce net migration to tens of thousands of people, despite the failure of successive governments to hit the same target over a nine-year period.
The home secretary said she would aspire to cut the overall migration figure from the current level of 239,000 amid a growing clamour from party activists for the government to take control of immigration levels.
She was also forced to admit that the Conservative plan to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda will not happen “for a long time”.
In an appearance at a Tory party conference fringe meeting, she said her “ultimate aspiration” is to get net migration down into the tens of thousands, but refused to set an exact target to be achieved before the next election.
“In the 90s it was in the tens of thousands under Mrs Thatcher – net migration – and David Cameron famously said tens of thousands, no ifs no buts.
“So that would be my ultimate aspiration but we’ve got to take it slowly and we’ve got to go incrementally….
Devasur says
The problem is she is focused on reducing Indian legal immigration instead of Pakistan or illegal Islamic immigration. Basically opening to more Islamic immigration. she should send all those rich Indians back to India LOL.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Indian Hindus should strike Britain and Canada off their list of options to settle down, unless of course they happen to be the Hindutva-hating secular kind. As it is, the economy in India is improving, and so they might as well go gangbusters there. In terms of justice, if they are assaulted by muslims, they’re more likely to find justice in most states in India than in the UK, where the Leicester culprits have gone scott free
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Instead of challenging her party to do anything, she should haul up the bureaucracy of her department and read them the riot act: Stop allowing in those dingies from across the channel! And work w/ the Defense Secretary to treat this as an invasion, nothing less. Also, on the home front, start deporting all non-British citizen muslims found guilty of any crime, no matter how minor. That’s the only way to get a lid on this
Hank says
her “ultimate aspiration” is to get net migration down into the tens of thousands, but refused to set an exact target to be achieved before the next election
Only to repeat the mantra for the next election and get elected.
Amazing to observe. Even though Pritti&Boris handed over a working processing center in Rwanda they still don’t know how to use it. Maybe they haven’t established the onward, scheduled repatriation flights to some of those wealthy Muslim countries yet.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Maybe if they could work out an arrangement w/ China to have those migrants complement the Uyghur slave workers that China has, it would inspire muslims worldwide to strike Britain off their list of countries to go work
gravenimage says
UK Home Secretary challenges Tories to live up to pledge to reduce net migration to tens of thousands
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Will anyone listen to Suella Braverman?
mick says
The plan to cut the 45% rate of tax lost Truss the confidence of the majority. Her backtracking tells me that some Tories think straight.
Her plan to grow the economy by importing tens of thousands of unskilled workers, will lose Her the election, whether she backtracks or not.
Just lower the school leaving age.
Scotsman48 says
Is everybody in the current UK Government non white ?.
It seems as if the ethic Brit is a time of the past in powerful positions whereas all the non Caucasian people entering the UK demand we take care of them while demanding we adjust to the ways of their culture which they have ran away from…
Ya cant make this stuff anymore.
I was born there but I sure am glad I left there in 1970 when I was 21 years old.
bill carr says
I think US commentators like Ms Williams should focus on the borders of USA where illegals including people from the ME and Africa are flooding in. The valiant border guards are doing their best in horrendous circumstances but they are only catching a few jihadis. Many more are escaping arrest witht the aid of smugglers
James Lincoln says
So, according to the feature article:
“UK Home Secretary challenges Tories to live up to pledge to reduce net migration to tens of thousands”
I would recommend reducing it to ZERO – at least for as long as it takes to effectively vet the migrants that they already have.
And deport the muslim migrants that they can legally deport.