Letters to the Editor – UK Permit system refusing entry or terminating the right of residence

Sir,

The level of migration greatly increased when eight new nations from Eastern European joined the EU in 2004 with combined populations of around 76 million and an average income of about one fifth of the UK.

They were joined by Romania and Bulgaria in 2007 representing about another 29.3 million very poor people with an average income about one twelfth of Britain’s.

They all had the right to come and work in Britain if they wished. The Government put limits on Bulgarians’ and Romanians’ working rights after the debacle of 2004 when the UK, Ireland and Sweden were the only EU Member States not to make use of the refusing entry or terminating the right of residence provision, but these restrictions did not apply to the self-employed and were therefore no more than a cosmetic exercise…

In 2003 the British Government predicted that only about 13.000 people would come in the first year after the Eastern European countries joined the EU, but no fewer than 600,000 Central and Eastern Europeans arrived in the following two years. In January 2007 Bulgaria and Romania, two of the poorest countries in European joined the EU. Another 29.3 million people were given right of entry to Britain. Many more people followed.

How many migrants in total have come from the Federal European Union since 2004?

That question cannot be answered with any great accuracy but the enormous numbers speak for themselves: an estimated almost 2.9 million immigrants and a net population growth of over one million just for the years 2004 to 2008!

So what is the true number of migrants and true level of immigration in your view?

Yes we can get data from NSO, but can you actually trust a Government funded Administration?

Remember we were first told 2.5 million then 3 million then 3.5 million years ago and that without all the illegal migrants who are in the range of 1.5 million.

I for one no longer trust the British Government do you?

James Cole

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