Immigration & Crime: Blair's Demise?

Fire of Liberty

While Tony Blair and his Labour allies have tried their best to either avoid questions on illegal immigration into the UK or present the Tories as nutty nativists, Michael Howard has answered these questions on the BBC. During an interview session on BBC 1, the aspiring Tory MP candidate was more than willing to discuss an effective but sane immigration policy. Here's what The Daily Mail reported on Howard's appearance on the show:

Mr Howard said: "We haven't got a number yet ... We will ask Parliament every year to set a limit on the number of people who can come into this country.

"Parliament will set the limit after there has been consultation, there would have to be consultation with the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) and other employers' organisations so that we can get the right number of people coming into this country with skills, which we need, as economic migrants.

"We will set a number for family reunion. And we will set a number for genuine refugees.

"And in that way we arrive at the annual limit."

Pressed on what the overall figure might be, Mr Howard said: "I think it will be less than the number of people who come into the country today, which is about 150,000 ... I can't give you a precise figure."

Though the media is presenting the Tories support for tighter immigration controls as alarmist and the Tory wets are cautioning Howard on charging ahead with the issue, the Tory leader has stuck to his guns and fought for the people of England. This just shows you when the elites are adamantly opposed to a certain issue and the party in control runs away from the issue screaming, you have a winning issue. It also helps when a large percentage of the population agrees with you on this issue. In the UK, Labour has practiced a policy of benign neglect with immigration in the same manner that they dealt with crime. If immigration is as bad as crime is in the UK, I can assure you that the people really are upset and want a solution and not a mere band-aide or platitudes that Blair has offered. Expect a closer election than what the British press is promoting.