Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-06-07-Speech-2-320"
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Mr President, I have heard a number of references this evening to a common European immigration policy. I can assure you all that the British people do not want a common European immigration policy.
In the recent British general election, all the large pro-EU parties made impossible promises about containing immigration. Their pledges were incompatible with EU membership. The Commission itself said so with regard to the Conservative Party’s asylum proposals. But it is internal EU immigration that really demonstrates the futility of their promises. Over 130 000 people from Eastern European countries entered the UK between May and December 2004: ten times the maximum official predictions. We bear no ill-will to the people of the new Member States. But go to London and observe its creaking housing, transport and health systems: it cannot cope with such a large and sudden increase in population.
Now Spain intends to grant legal status to up to 700 000 illegal immigrants. These people will then be free to move to Britain if they wish. Spain’s selfish and irresponsible act demonstrates how Britain can have no independent immigration policy inside the European Union."@en1
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