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With opinion polls showing immigration – rightly or wrongly – the number one concern of voters, and with UKIP snapping at the heels of David Cameron, you can only imagine how damaging it would be if the fact were ever to come out that the prime minister has secretly agreed to a flood of cheap labour from India into the UK.
Well, the fact is, he has.
And that’s probably why he and his media friends have been keeping really really quiet about it.
Here’s a question for you. What was the purpose of David Cameron’s recent trip to India?
Bilateral trade you might well say. After all, that was how it was spun in the UK media.
In India however, the truth is somewhat easier to find.
The main purpose of the trip was actually to boost completion of the EU/India Free Trade Agreement.
India’s sole demand in this agreement is that the EU allows Indian companies to supply cheap temporary labour into the EU – approximately 85% of which would be to the UK.
The Coalition will argue in its defence that the UK now has an ‘immigration cap’.
However, the government has excluded temporary workers from the cap and the trade agreement with India allows specifically for temporary workers to come to the UK.
Temporary? How temporary? Well, the UK government has stipulated that ‘temporary’ can be as long as 9-10 years.
Cameron may well also argue that the agreement only allows for ‘graduates’ or ‘students’ to work in the UK.
But what he won’t tell you is that the ‘graduates’ and ‘students’ only need to be classed as that status in India. In the UK they could take any jobs from factory workers and care assistants to doctors, teachers and accountants.
And finally the government will argue that there are restrictions on the numbers of certain kinds of workers who will be allowed into the UK.
What they won’t tell you is that there are no restrictions on the overall number of Indian workers who will be allowed into the UK.
For a more detailed analysis of the trade agreement and what it will mean for the UK, have a look at this excellent article here:
What was the real purpose of David Cameron’s visit to India?
The truth is, Cameron knows full well that this flood of cheap labour from India is sure to put a strain on employment, housing, health and public services in the UK as well as driving down wages and working conditions.
Of course, as long as this immigration bombshell is kept secret from the UK electorate, Cameron is counting on the effects of the agreement only being noticed well after the next election in 2015, by which time he’s hoping he will be in power for another 5 years anyway.
And needless to say, if this information were ever to get out – it would have a devastating effect on Cameron’s chances of winning the next election.
So best keep it to ourselves then, hadn’t we?
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As ever Tom you have the story and are prepared to stick your head above the parapet. Well done! I have no worries about immigration or asylum seekers….just that those who do, confuse the two. Most are desperate to work & contribute to society. This Tory led gvmt is the worst I’ve ever encountered. They lie cheat obfuscate and are the greediest I can imagine. Never thought anyone could be worse than Maggie but here we are living through a worse nightmare.The BoJo interview with lovely Eddie Mair showed him & his pals in their true light. Please keep battling and telling the truth. Thank you.
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Well said! (worse luck).
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@Tom just seen newspaper headline ‘Cameron to cut off benefit to EU migrant workers if they dont find work after 6 months’….
heres a question..what is this obsession with work for gods sake?
i have a video made a while back by darkus howe called slave nation..its about a fixation about work..where in it a father who runs a business hardly sees his kids, another man when driving back from work late at nigh draws into a layby and does company work on his laptop, then darkus goes to a call centre where the workplace is made to look like fun where staff who hit targets get to wear a funny hat.
My friend told me where he used to work staff were sent on seminars to play scalextric games to increase their sense of competition and ‘bonding’..all this pseudo science bullshit….
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Mum’s the word..ill just let a …few friends know Tom, im sure he wont mind 😀
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He won’t mind if it’s just a few friends, I’m sure.
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Reblogged this on Dawn Willis sharing the News & Views of the Mentally Wealthy.
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Why is it that Cameron always says one thing and then does the opposite? (apart from the fact he’s a repetitive Liar). Did nobody tell him actions speak louder than words? Thanks for exposing this and let’s make sure his actions speak very loudly indeed to all those Tory voters getting sucked in by his BS.
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But gov’t immigration scare stories can’t be true for one set of migrants & not another, tho’ their take-taxes-no-give-back policies will put a strain on all services. Migrants contribute to the economy, so provision shld be made for all citizens & residents in terms of housing & services, because the ‘free market’ won’t do it.
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Fantastic Tom that you are bringing this to the attention of a wider audience. Linda Kaucher has worked tirelessly to try and get this into the public domain and was fundamental in the RMT union’s president Alex Gordon moving a motion against “mode 4″ transfers – the World Trade Organisation’s term for moving workers across borders – September 2011.
TUC delegates were warned about the new European Union free trade agreements:
“This is potentially the greatest threat to collective bargaining and workers’ rights for many years,” he said.
Under Mode 4, Indian companies operating in Delhi and London could move low-paid workers from India to Britain, undercutting workers domestically.
“Transnational companies will be able to move workers across national borders and nation states will limit their own constitutional authority over these corporations.
“Workers’ rights will be lost forever to corporate power.”
But the FTA is not only detrimental to UK workers. The implications for Indian farmers and shop keepers are dreadful but perhaps worst of all is the impact on the production of generic medicines which will be under huge threats from new patent laws on behalf of the pharmaceutical companies. More than 80% of the drugs used in fighting AIDS are generics and costs will rise prohibitively with the new rules.
In addition, the UK needs to be alarmed by the US-EU FTA which is being rushed through by 2014. All these negotiations are kept secret, on the basis of ‘commercial sensitivity’ .. details are not available to even MPs. They are less about trade than ‘harmonisation of rules’ so that the global economy is opened up conform to the US model.
All the ongoing privatisation of NHS, Education, public services in the UK stem from the 1994 GATS treaty which institutionalised the neoliberal tenets of US liberalisation and WTO supremacy over national sovereignty. The situation will be that domestic laws will be required to be changed under the instruction of a corporate tribunal .. and that includes employment/environmental protection, and internet freedom (SOPA by the back door).
Cameron is not just a hypocrite over immigration. He is also a hypocrite in criticising the EU powers over domestic legislation. The US-EU FTA will be a huge leap up the ladder of removing the democratic process and back to the future neofeudalism.
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Governments of either persuasion don’t give a monkey’s about the very real concerns of the working class people of this country. There are at least four people competing for every job vacancy in Britain already, the figure is said to be as high as twenty per vacancy in some parts of London.
Some local authorities have been forced to create up to twenty new reception classes for primary school pupils, and resources such as GP appointments and hospital beds for the disenfranchised workers are being stretched to the limit.
It’s high time that a grown up debate was held about asylum and immigration which is now acknowledged to be to high even by some members of the liberal elite.
All politicians cheat, lie and obfuscate but the worm is turning and ordinary people are sick of their concerns about multicultural separatism and unlimited immigration to this country being disregarded. The branding of those who are opposed to unlimited mass immigration as ‘racist’ will no longer wash, the student politics lefties need to defend their position or admit their mistakes because the tolerance and patience of British workers is coming to an end.
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Just like Labour did to drive down wages http://t.co/mqO3AEezmG #allthesame
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silly me and i thought it was employers that drove down wages…but obviously it is immigrants,labour,santa claus,mickey mouse,fairies,etc etc..
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This information is highly top secret, as is likewise David Cameron’s [top secret] plans after Easter to visit Pakistan, Kashmir, Burma, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet… 🙂
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…and Bangladesh !!
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Reblogged this on kickingthecat and commented:
I wasn’t for a minute expecting a politician to be consistent, but hasn’t Cameron signed the EU/India Free Trade Agreement. Whatever a person’s thoughts on immigration, if you are going to attempt this kind of politics remember what you’ve already agreed to!
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Immigrants coming here from countries that have no welfare state are instrumental in demonizing our welfare state and taking such a stance when voting ,so much so the 3 major parties think there is growing support for welfare reform. Such immigrants consider themselves holier than thou and more hard working than those of us who have to claim from a system we paid into long before they came here to live and steal our jobs.
More propaganda from the bbc daily politics with a minister stating there were 21jobs and only 3 people eligible in this country to fill them. What were they for brain surgeons. If we do not have the trained people then it’s time they started educating our own instead of bring in immigrants for skilled jobs and undermining ours.
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http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/51560/2015-starts-now-tories-get-tough-scroungers-and-immigrants
Meanwhile David Cameron is travelling to India where he will make it clear that there is no bar to Indian students wanting to study in Britain and that visas will be given freely to Indian investors wanting to invest in UK businesses. In short, you are welcome to come to Britain if you have the money.
All of which has rung alarm bells with some Tory supporters who don’t want the Conservatives to fight the next election as the Nasty Party.
Peter Hoskin, associate editor of the Tory grassroots website ConservativeHome, yesterday warned the party to “resist falling back on lazy and pernicious rhetoric about ‘shirkers’ and ‘scroungers’. Not only does this overlook the broader truth of the situation… it also denies the moral impetus behind Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms, which is to help the workless back into the labour market.”
Hoskin concluded: “There is a more general concern, too. Mr Cameron recently told his MPs that the Tories’ focus at the next election will be on aspiration and on ‘raising the nation up’. This can certainly overlap with a tough line on welfare dependency; less obviously so with immigration. There’s a risk that an essentially positive message will be muddied, perhaps even overwhelmed, by something more negative.”
Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/51560/2015-starts-now-tories-get-tough-scroungers-and-immigrants#ixzz2Oa2aRw6J
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you didn’t believe whot this one says he,s lied along and doesn’t know the truth if it was infront of him
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http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/12/the-benefits-squeeze-will-cause-real-hardship-to-many-families-its-a-necessary-measure-in-difficult-.html
The benefits squeeze will cause real hardship to many families. It’s a necessary measure in difficult times but no Tory should see it as a political ploy.
The case studies of “indigence” should worry Conservative and Liberal Democrat HQs. The BBC-Guardian media complex will serve them up to Britain on a regular basis. More people than ever are already accessing food banks and extortionate payday loan companies. Three years of below inflation rate increases in benefit at a time when certain prices – notably household energy bills – are rising fast will bring real difficult to many homes. It is a policy that, on balance, I think is right. We need to cut the deficit and we need to increase the gap between in-work and out-of-work income. But let’s avoid any sense that this benefits squeeze is an exciting or masterful political ploy. Unlike the £26,000 welfare cap it’s a harsh but necessary policy rather than one that is clearly and unambiguously fair. It is also, as Labour has pointed out, going to hurt some very low-waged workers because of the squeeze on certain credits. It’s also harder to defend because the Coalition hasn’t also asked wealthier pensioners or those living in expensive properties to help shoulder the deficit reduction task. We’ll need to watch this policy carefully as it is implemented.
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@Tom is it ok if i unsubscribe from your blog..i’m getting a bit fed up of it all now to be honest…
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Bob – it’s a free world. TBH, I don’t think you ever quite ‘got’ the satire thing. You kept telling me I should be more serious. Which is bit like telling a stripper they should be more balletic. 😉
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Unmentioned of course is the quid pro quo of this Indian deal, and that is that the City of London and financial sector there get inward investment opportunities from India to fill the pockets of the banksters and their chums in Government.
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The call-center chickens coming home to roost.
We are in a post-work paradigm. 3.5 million looking for work that is not there and probably never will be again, what with our manufacturing gone to where environmental concerns don’t exist and our service industry reduced to nail technicians, hairdressers and beauticians hooked on xfactor and the voice, with all the service jobs that held any interest, such as computer support, farmed out offshore to people who recite from idiot-boards for 60p an hour.
The Tories problem is they are terminally unimaginative and stupid and dreamed of hitting us with their stick for so long that they forgot to notice the world had collapsed while they waited for their turn.
Now they want to push every disabled person into the pile so the numbers will be 4 million before long. It might have worked if they could have paid pensioners their actual pensions instead of moving the goalposts so that they cant retire just yet, thereby denying a young person a job because the bankers stole the pot.
And don’t get me started on the subsidies for windmills and solar or the kowtowing to Europe’s’ crazy climate demands that are snarfing up hundreds of billions a year that could be spent fixing real, pressing problems while we see prices rising for everything from electricity to bread even as the world goes into the cold side of the natural 60 year cycle we are told is being perturbed by our minuscule addition to a trace gas responsible for all life.
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I wonder how it all squares up with the billions Cameron likes giving to India in foreign aid? People here still insist that this country benefits from immigration…HOW?
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How do immigrants contribute to society in a way that doesn’t just disadvantage our own workers?
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@tom no its not that , i’m just fed up of it all , whining on and getting no where..i quit the void too…its the same thing over and over again with the usual suspects moaning on and stuff….it just feels pointless…
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Bob – fair enough. Welcome back any time! 🙂
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It’s amusing to read what everyone thinks of ‘the Tories’. Personally I despise the bar stewards but which set of Tories? The Tories who call themselves ‘Conservative’ or the Tories from what was once the ‘Labour Party’?
The plain and simple fact is that working people have become serfs, no one wants our vote and no one cares what we think.
Workers are there to be bullied by their employers, spied on by the state and the politicised police and exist solely to further enrich the very rich.
Uncontrolled mass immigration lowers standards of living and creates a hungry labour pool where the work will be given to those who demand the least in terms of wages and working conditions.
Nu Labour under millipede think that UKIP is a threat to the Liberals and Conservatives but he’s mistaken, UKIP will also threaten support for Labour.
The working class either no longer bother to vote or when they do they vote for those who include populist measures in their manifestos such as UKIP.
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I’d want to dispute some of this as we have Bulgarians & Romanians here ( Italy ) who when you speak with them , all their familys friends and relations are all heading for the UK . Believe me they really are cheap labour, they even undercut the Bangladeshies here who used to sit at the base of the cheap labour pyramid along with the Africans.
I dont think the Indians will be able to compete with their base rates of pay, Most greedy employers in the UK will be falling over each other to snap them up at their kind of prices no doubt even driving those rates down as well.
Personally I take no pleasure from any of it, I think its all highly regretable and a tragedy for all involved but important to add to any debate with some hard facts!
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Have you deliberately ignored Maggie’s principal acolyte Blair and of course the self-proclaimed `heir to Blair’ Cameron as a result of this odious trinity the country, it’s culture and traditions have been virtually destroyed over the past 35 years – thank God for Farage and UKIP it gives us some remote hope for it’s future
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Good God you’re not suggesting he’ll enter into similar arrangements with them – this is the stuff of nightmares!!
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You seem like a person on a see saw your opinion dithering from one side to the other without any clear conclusion – it is probably true of any policy taken at random that it has pros and cons but we must weigh these in the light of our own preferences and finally decide to come down firmly on one side or the other. Do you believe on balance the Tory austerity policies do more good than bad or vis versa?
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Cameron is just another one of those nondescript European leaders of today , out of touch with the country , and what is needed in this world .
He is not alone , most governments and politicians in Europe are using old outdated economic models , do not understand the problems of immigration and the lack of integration , and are the lackeys of the industrial and financial lobbies .
It looks as though many politicians and so called experts in fact know more and more about less and less , and are incapable of learning from mistakes in the past ( not having studied history during education) .
There has to be a political change , politicians have to be made accountable to populations outside the election system , and made legally accountable for many decisions , accountability at election time is minimal , they only lose the election and their parliamentary seat and often leave chaos in a country .
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i do, many of us indiginious cant get a job, feed our families or pay for basic bills like heating and food you moron!! we ARE full up. im case you didnt notice we already have 600,000 immigrants on benefits!!!
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immigrants can afford lower wages, many sharing big rooms, no council tax, no kids education etc etc, its not worth argueing with idiots like you, its all about cheap labour=more profits for shareholders! basic fact so wake up to the real world
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a very good statement Henry, i expect all the lefties will have a field day with you
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Surely this is no more than can be expected of the self-proclaimed `heir to Blair’ who -despite austerity financial measures; despite many of the indigenous population either without work or finding it difficulty to cope financially; despite this small island being already one of the most congested areas in the world- can be depended upon with his Bilderberg/EU cohorts to make things decidedly worse in their efforts to bring about their ugly New World Orwellian creation. When are the much abused overly patient for their own good British people going to say enough!! and string these people from lamp-posts? If UKIP fails to make rapid headway I can see massive social unrest -not simply in Britain but Europe generally whose citizens are finally beginning to recognise they have been taken for a ride by the undemocratic EU bureaucracy – with people taking matters into their own hands.
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Look at all this anti-whitism. In the 60’s, anti-whites forced ALL and ONLY white countries to bring in millions of non-whites. Then anti-whites forced ALL and ONLY white people to “integrate” or face penalties for being “naziswhowantokill6millionjews.” Now anti-whites are praising and counting down the days till ALL and ONLY white children are minorities and extinct EVERYWHERE. That makes it genocide. “Anti-racist” is a codeword for anti-white. /watch?v=lKDeyuM0-Og
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If you seek an explanation for the perverse and clearly destabilising things that are going on around the world at present and have two hours to spare I recommend you waive one’s customary cynical response at least sufficiently long to consider the information contained in the following link it may provide the explanation:
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Our Politicians are out of control, and it is our Duty to Protect our nation, and its people.
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Is this yet another David Cameron blunder?
Any thoughts?
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What is the population of India?
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