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Agreed. According to David Mellor a few years ago, Margaret Thatcher was unconcerned about immigration behind closed doors for that very reason.
At the manifesto launch Mr Howard claimed it had come to light that immigration officers at some airports had been given instructions that if someone presented themselves with suspect papers they were to be allowed into the country for two days, "in the hope that they will come back and report at the end of those 48 hours".
Pushed for evidence by reporters, Mr Howard said: "Everyone knows that the immigration officers have had their orders changed. I suggest that anybody who doubts what I am saying goes and talks to the chief constable of Avon and Somerset, who will confirm what I have just said."
The force was flooded with calls from the media, but the chief constable, Colin Port, declined to comment.
At first Tory aides said Mr Howard's remarks were based on a News of the World story published two weeks ago, in which it claimed a new "barmy plan" had been introduced at Bristol.
Pressed further, Mr Port's press office reissued - on behalf of the force, rather than the chief constable - a statement carried in the News of the World that "we are concerned about the new process and the implications of it".
The Tories insisted the statement confirmed the story.
But the Home Office denied strongly that there had been a change of policy. A spokeswoman said people had for many years been granted temporary admission if it was believed they were "not a security risk or a threat to society" under the Asylum and Immigration Act 1971.
Another twist followed when a source within the Avon and Somerset force suggested that questions should be addressed to the Conservative party co-chairman, Liam Fox, who is the MP for Woodspring, south of Bristol.
His office later confirmed that before the News of the World published its report, Dr Fox had taken up the matter with the chief constable after an immigration worker turned up at his surgery and told him of the alleged new system. A spokeswoman would not comment on whether it was he who had passed on the story to the tabloid.
Dr Fox said he spoke to the chief constable twice - shortly after the immigration official made the claims in his surgery and yesterday. He claimed: "The chief constable looked into the problem and confirmed that the system had changed."
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election/story/0,15803,1457632,00.html#article_continue
Interesting to note how many posts that refute your shambolic posts you choose to ignore... :rolleyes:
You are coming to study in Britain aren't you?
You will thus be an immigrant?
Front page of the Daily Mail today I think. So that's a fairly good refutation.
Music to my cloth ears.
Ah marvellous. :thumb:
Aaaah, we agree on something.
EU honey. The process involved is the same as if I should move to another part of Denmark more or less.
Being part of the EU means that it has been decided that the background I am used to is more or less on the level of what can be found in England. The integrating part has been taken care of in advance I'd say.
same as someone who comes here to work, need a visa
Way easier to get though (when people come from countries where it is required).
non eu basically
even US students in britain have to get one
Its people like you, and the Labour party, that hold the British people in such utter contempt, just because they have more sense in their little fingers, about key issues that affect them, than you have in your whole body!
well what about someone iwas chatting to down the pub, he's from albania, he's working on building sites here, and sending money home so his family can get their own business started there
if you have a strict immigraton system, when people get in here, they want to stay, whilst with effectively a discretionary policy, people just follow the jobs so to speak
condescending and arrogant perhaps........i just call it how i see it.......i dont hold the people in contempt, where do you think they get these ideas? it's scaremongering by the friggin tories and shitty tabloids that i have contempt for......a lot of brits are far too easily led, finding it harder and harder to think for themselves, especially if the leader of the main opposition party is spewing such crap, most ppl will think there must be some truth to it.........immigration is a non-issue, you are a moron.
Immigration is right up there, thank God!
Only because of the nasty papers you read and the lies of Micheal Howard and his fascist party.
and you're talking out of your arse (is that natural?
And I don't think its very nice, or intelligent, associating Michael Howard, (who is Jewish, and some of his family members were killed by the Nazi's), with a fascist party! I believe you should apologise for making such a statement.
I know about his family. Thats why i think its even worse what he is doing. I bet he wouldn't have been advocating the same policies if he was alive at the time his parents came over to the country.
You truely are either very stupid or just a closed minded nasty little individual if you think that the Daily Mail is a "Sword of Truth" Read a proper newspaper.
Millions of people also smoke, that doesn't make it a good thing does it?
why, a jewish holocaust survivor can't be a fascist or associated with that ilk? i think you should apologise for such a blatant display of ignorance.........
sword of truth?
Please clarify this for my own understanding.
What, the sword?
Can't help but notice you havn't taken notice of my reply Rich Kid.
A lot of people use drugs remember, does that make that a good thing?
It goes to prove beyond any doubt that you are on a wind-up mission.
just like a bunch of Anarchistic animal rights activists can be. :rolleyes:
I don't think it was meant literally, just that he leans so far to the right that it boggles the mind.