Archive for category Immigration
So long, and thanks for all the work
Posted by David Merlin-Jones in Family, Marriage and the Culture, Immigration, Social Cohesion, Social Security on 12/08/2010
A recent survey by Aon has found that only 43% of Britons want to retire and enjoy their golden years in this country, the lowest satisfaction rate in Europe. However, the figures involved don’t add up to anything worthy of pessimism, as they are merely fantasy and ideals. Read the rest of this entry »
Informing the debate
Posted by Anastasia de Waal in Crime, Education, European Union, Family, Marriage and the Culture, Health, Immigration on 01/04/2010
In a Times commissioned poll last month, 47% of respondents indicated that they still weren’t sure who they were going to vote for; 75% of respondents felt that it was ‘time for a change’ from Labour. Read the rest of this entry »
Immigration Minister Goes ‘Bononkers’ on the Today Programme
Posted by David Conway in Immigration on 23/02/2010
Last October, Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter to several government ministers, claimed in a newspaper article that, in 2000, the present government deliberately sought to increase foreign immigration, partly out of a belief that it would have beneficial economic consequences, and partly to neutralise Conservative concerns about the adverse negative impact foreign immigration was having on social cohesion and national identity.
Who Might Well Have Good Reason to Want to Put Back the Hands of Time
Posted by David Conway in Education, Immigration, Politics, Race and Equality on 24/11/2009
According to statistics published by the DCSF last week, the group of 11 year olds doing least well at school in England are white boys of British heritage from low-income homes that render them eligible for free school-meals. In 2009, while nearly three quarters of 11 year olds met target levels of attainment in English and maths, a figure which includes over half of ‘Black’ boys eligible for free school meals, fewer than half of their white British counterparts did. Moreover, whereas the attainment level of ‘Black’ boys eligible for free school meals increased, that of their white British counterparts fell.
It is Not Just Family Unity or Income that Determines Childhood Well-Being
Posted by David Conway in Education, Family, Marriage and the Culture, Immigration, Multiculturalism on 21/04/2009
Far be it from me to say a bad word about the institution of marriage or the benefits of the two-parent family. However, anyone tempted to hold the vast recent increase of family break-down and single parent families in Britain responsible for the country’s very low place in the European rankings for youth well-being should think again.
Many European countries with appreciably much higher rates of out-of-wedlock births than Britain come much higher than it in those rankings. One other European country, with a much lower rate of out-of-wedlock births than Britain (Lithuania), comes even lower than it does in the rankings.
It’s time to shelve the Equality Bill
Posted by James Gubb in Civil Liberty, Human Rights, Immigration, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Race and Equality on 30/10/2008
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), an organisation armed to the teeth with legal powers to protect groups that claim to be victims of oppression, recently expressed fears that the recession will not only harm ethnic minorities but also some white people.
“It is clear,” he said, “that what defines disadvantage won’t be black or brown, it will be white. And we will have to take positive action to help some white groups”.
Was he saying that we should help people when they need assistance, regardless of their colour? If so, he was spot on.
Continue at the Daily Telegraph Blog.