UKIP says every in the EU wants to live here so why have only 1 in 31,000 come this year ?

Just been reading UKIP propaganda saying "in the last 12 months immigration figures were 625,000"

 

As the following table from MigrationWatchUK (hardly known for a positive approach to immigration) shows:  Net migration, (immigration minus emigration) was 298,000 year ending September 2014. Why did UKIP use a misleading higher figure ? I can hardly guess.

Net migration form the EU over which UKIP say the UK has ‘no control’ was 162,000 out of 500,000,000 UKIP says have the presumptive right on entry ! (0.0003%, one in every 31,000)
One wonders what the other 499,838,000 are waiting for before coming over to steal “our” jobs whilst simultaneously ”living” on benefits.

 

Meanwhile, almost as many British people 137,000 went to live elsewhere in the world as came to live in the UK.  UKIP seem confused about whether they will cap immigration, will they cap emigration too ?

	All Citizenships	British	Non-British	EU	Non-EU
Immigration	624,000	82,000	543,000	251,000	292,000
Emigration	327,000	137,000	190,000	89,000	101,000
Net Migration	298,000	-55,000	353,000	162,000	190,000

So actually the number of people coming to the UK from the EU is 1/4 of the figure UKIP implies and given that 2-3 million British people who live in other EU countries will lose their right of residency if we leave the EU and be sent back to the UK, presumably net immigration that year will be 2-3 million.

Arthur Scargill has a point !

launching the Social Labour Manifesto Arthur Scargill is reported by the BBC to have said

We believe all faith schools should be abolished as well because they are a breeding ground for prejudice and intolerance. "If Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics or Protestants can go to university together then they can go to school together."

So why aren't there faith Universities ???  I believe in the USA there are. Odd really to think their might be a denominational approach to civil engineering. 

how nicola sturgeon is ignoring all the 'advice' to be sucessful

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/04/how-nicola-sturgeon-is-blundering-her-way-to-a-majority/

A Lib Dems lots is not a happy one

TUNE/MUSIC – A Policeman’s Lot, Gilbert and Sullivan, Pirates of Penzance

When a Lib Dems out campaigning for election,
His election
Or maturing all his pointless little plans
Little plans
His capacity for losing his deposit
His deposit
Is far more greater than for any other man's
other man's

Our polices we with difficulty smother
'Culty smother
When there's canvassing's and leaflets to be done
to be done.
 Ah, take one consideration with another
 With another,
 A Lib Dems lot is not a happy one.
 
Ah!,   With elections to be fought and lost and won, 
Lost and won, 
A Lib Dems lot is not a happy one,
happy one.

When your stuck inside a Tory coalitionCoalition. When the voters just think your a waste of timewaste of time, And tuition fees and more than what you promised – what you promisedYou can only hope for better luck next time   Luck next time  

When Nick Clegg is up the creek without a paddle
Without a paddle
And the full horror has only just begun
Just begun
Ah, take one consideration with another
With another
 A Lib Dems lot is not a happy one.

With elections to be fought and lost and won, lost and won, A Lib Dems lot is not a happy one, happy one.

The Pirates of Nick Clegg

I am the very model of a modern Liberal Democrat,
People used to like me, now they think I am a total pratt,
I know the by-election wins, and I quote the fights historical
From Orpington to Bermondsey, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with policies impractical,
I understand elections, both the simple and problematical,
It seems opinion polls are teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about all the seats we're going to lose.

ALL:
With many cheerful facts about all the seats we're going to lose
With many cheerful facts about all the seats we're going to lose
With many cheerful facts about all the seats we're going to lose

Third humanist killed in the streets of Dhaka

Washiqur Rahman becomes the third humanist to be cleavered to death in the streets of Dhaka

This morning, the humanist satirist and blogger Washiqur Rahman was hacked down not 500 yards from his house, because he criticised religious fundamentalism in a blog. Barely a month has passed since Avijit Roy, the Bangladeshi American founder of the Mukto-Mona blog, was killed in identical circumstances. Ahmed Rajib Haider met a similar end in 2013.

The institutionalised persecution of the non-religious is seen all over the world. In some places, as in Saudi Arabia, the state acts as persecutor. In others, like Bangladesh, a tradition of turning a blind eye to murders committed in the name of blasphemy has given confidence to well-coordinated thugs and terrorists. Following an international outcry over Avijit Roy's death, the man who promised to murder him was arrested for the crime, and afterwards Ahmed Haider's suspected killers were indicted for murder as well. But these late-in-the-day reactions did little to deter the man who killed Washiqur this morning.

As we told the UN this month, states need to act decisively to emphatically and explicitly prohibit murders inspired by perceived acts of blasphemy. A wave of violence now plagues the non-religious in large swathes of the world, and governments, including our own, face a moral obligation to resist it.

Terry Pratchett

Remembering Terry Pratchett (1948–2015): storyteller, campaigner, humanist

We were all saddened to hear of the death of our patron Sir Terry Pratchett last week

Many of us grew up reading his stories and feeling moved by the wonder and joy of the fictional worlds he created.

We were also very lucky to have worked with Terry on a range of issues. As our patron he lobbied with us against 'faith' schools, filmed videos about Humanism for teachers to use in schools, and, after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he became a public face for our longstanding campaign to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill and incurably suffering.

Just last year, he took part in our open letter to the Prime Minister, rebuking him for his damaging assertion that Britain was a 'Christian country'. He also submitted testimony in favour of assisted dying as part of our intervention at the Supreme Court case of Tony Nicklinson and Paul Lamb, making a powerful plea for the right to die.

Truly, Terry was someone who lived a good life, spreading a great deal of joy and happiness, even transforming his own suffering into a cause for the betterment of all society. We are eternally grateful for all his work, and can only say that we will miss him and that our thoughts are with his loved ones.