Conservative leader David (call me Dave) Cameron has recently announced that the Tories will introduce a cap on immigration, which would reduce the number allowed in each year to “Tens of thousands”. Tens of thousands of immigrants would of course be an improvement on the current situation, (if Cameron really meant it – which he doesn't) but only in so far that, instead of allowing in numbers equivalent to the population of Newcastle each year (I say Newcastle based on “official figures” - the population of Bristol is closer to reality) we would still be “welcoming” a new Carlisle, Wigan or Grimsby year after year after year, not to forget the anchor babies they would immediately start breeding after they arrive.
It is a mark of how out of touch politicians, such as Cameron, are that he seems to think people will believe that such tinkering would even come close to solving the problem.

In the red corner, Labour Communities Secretary John Denham attempted to reassure the public by cooing disingenuously that "We don't think population is going to go to 70 million, so there is a bit of a straw man there".

Of course, most experts agree a rise to over 70 million is inevitable unless something is done to fundamentally change current policy, however, Denham continued his fairytale by adding "We have got tight immigration control - the points-based system that is now in place means that people can only come here if what they are going to give to this country is something we need."

However, Denham then argued against Cameron's cap saying, with the dishonesty which only a trained politician can achieve with a straight face: "Suppose the first person after the cap was an international heart specialist?" suggesting that Britain should act rather like the gambler who keeps buying the same lottery numbers in the hope that now and then they might win a tenner back.

According to Denham's logic the country should continue to take in thousands upon thousands upon millions of immigrants in the hope that one or two of them might benefit the country. Has it not occurred to the pureed brained zealot that billions of pounds would be saved, and untold levels of social damage avoided, had we trained a few home grown heart specialists instead of importing millions of people in the hope of finding a few foreign trained ones among them?

Deceiving the electorate is clearly John Denham's latest brief, as he even went so far as to make a pretence of expressing concern for the white working classes, stating that, sometimes the white working classes suffered more from discrimination than many ethnic minorities, as if this was some new phenomenon, which only he had noticed.
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