Though member states will still be allowed to choose how many people they allow in, a simplification of visa regulations should make it easier for people of non-member states to come work in Europe.

Official figures show that 1,338 primary and secondary schools are made up of mostly foregn speaking pupils, placing huge strain on the education system.

In 600 schools, less than a third of pupils speak English as their first language, sparking criticism from education chiefs that the situation was 'out of control'.

Common Humanitarian Fund Contributions £35.0m . Contribution to ICRC and NGOs £30.0m. Support to the humanitarian response in Chad £6.0m.
Multi-Donor Trust Fund Contributions £17.0m. Basic Services Fund (South Sudan)£4.0m. Capacity Building in Southern Sudan £2.3m. Governance Support through UNDP £5.7m. Promoting Safety, Security and Access to Justice £4.9m. DDR/SSR £0.12m. Support to the Darfur Peace Agreement £1.4m.
Fighting Malaria £1.5m. Support to UNICEF on Water infrastructure and Child Rights £0.8m. Support to local recovery processes £1.0m. Total DFID £109.72m.
Africa Conflict Prevention Pool £3.6m. Total £113.32m.

BANGALORE, Jan. 5

THE visiting British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, today announced a string of financial assistance measures for development programmes in India. One of the important announcements was to increase British aid from the current financial year's figure of £175 million to £300 million in the next two years.

In his keynote address at the CII Partnership Summit here today, Mr Blair also said the UK intends to increase the quantum of allocation further in the years to come.

``Our funding is allocated according to a strategy agreed with the Government of India, and it includes spending on health, education and on improving, and getting access to, services for those who need them the most,'' Mr Blair said.

This month the UK is expected to sign agreements for £98 million as part of that Government's support to India's polio eradication programme and another £123 million for HIV/AIDS relief. The British Government has also decided to extend assistance worth £32 million for rebuilding primary schools affected by the Orissa super-cyclone.

Muslim plans to broadcast a loudspeaker call to prayer from a city centre mosque have been attacked by local residents who say it would turn the area into a "Muslim ghetto".

Dozens of people packed out a council meeting to express their concerns over the plans for a two-minute long call to prayer to be issued three times a day, saying that it could drown out the traditional sound of church bells.

But a spokesman for the Central Mosque said that Muslim's also have the right to summon worshippers.

Dr Mark Huckster, who lives in Stanton Road and works at East Oxford hospice Helen House, told the Oxford Mail: "The proposal to issue a prayer call is very un-neighbourly, especially in a crowded urban space such as Oxford.

The extent to which bogus colleges are being used to help illegal immigrants enter Britain was exposed on Tuesday 8th January 2008. Almost half of private colleges visited by inspectors have been struck off an official list of approved providers. Some were removed for "technical" reasons, but many others are understood to be fronts for student visa scams. Out of 256 colleges checked since the register was set up three years ago, 124 were removed.

Thousands of illegal immigrants have been given the green light to work in Britain because the Government has handed them National Insurance numbers, shocking new figures suggest.

Almost 900,000 numbers have been issued to non-EU nationals in the last three years, but only 270,000 work permits have been granted.

Incredibly, though only 755 work permits were issued to people from Ghana between January 2004 and April 2007, 21,300 got NI numbers.

While 1,455 Nigerians were given leave to enter the UK, 35,900 got numbers, and though only 110 Albanians got permits, 4,160 were handed numbers

Up to 47,000 Eastern Europeans were treated as asylum seekers for more than three years after becoming EU citizens. The migrants received asylum benefits paid by the taxpayer. Once their countries joined the EU the refugee claims should have been stopped but the Home Office lost 450,000 men and women. The first 5,500 to be discovered have been sent letter telling them to withdraw their claims. The Government said perks such as free housing and benefits have been stopped in most cases. But others still get asylum benefits which are worth £16,500 per family a year.

Up to a million migrants have gathered in Libya, from where they will attempt to sail across the Mediterranean for Europe and, ultimately, the UK.
New estimates reveal that there are two million migrants massed in the North African country and that half of them plan to sail to the European mainland and travel on to Britain in the hope of building a new life.

A baby less than a year old was among 10 children taken into care after a police operation targeted gangs who used youngsters to pick pockets.
Officers from several forces, including the Metropolitan Police, raided 17 addresses across Slough, Berkshire.

At least 25 adults were held, accused of immigration breaches, deception, fraud, theft and pick-pocketing.

The inquiry surrounds child trafficking from Romania and the welfare of the children involved.

Police suspect poor families in eastern Europe may be forced into allowing gangs to take their children into the UK to carry out offences such as pickpocketing and thefts near cash machines.

The gangs are believed to have taken the children into west London to commit the crimes.

Taxpayers are forking out £21million a year to bankrole child benefit for 27,000 youngsters still living in Poland.  16,286 Polish adults are receiving £21.4million 
in taxpayer funded benefits.

An investigation has found the cost of providing maternity services for immigrants has more than doubled in only a decade to £350million a year. The number of babies born to British mothers has fallen by around 44,000 a year since 1997 but the number born to foreigners is up 64,000 a year.

Most organised crime committed in Britain has its origins abroad, one of the country's top law enforcement officers has revealed.

Bill Hughes, director-general of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, said gun crime, drugs and people smuggling are heavily linked to overseas gangsters.

He told MPs on Tuesday: "Most of the crimes we are dealing with are international. The source of the trouble starts elsewhere."

His comments came as Sir Stephen Lander, SOCA's chairman, warned that large-scale "cannabis factories" run by Vietnamese and Chinese criminals are springing up across the country.

Husbands living in a "harem" with multiple wives have been cleared to claim state benefits for all their different partners.

A Muslim man with four spouses - which is permitted under Islamic law - could receive £10,000 a year in income support alone.

He could also be entitled to more generous housing and council tax benefit, to reflect the fact his household needs a bigger property.

Ministers have been accused of wasting taxpayers' money after spending nearly £500,000 on a fun park in Afghanistan's most dangerous region.

The three-acre "women's park" in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, is in the middle of an area known more for explosions and kidnappings than the sound of children at play. Locals are mystified why money has been spent on a recreational facility when the security situation continues to deteriorate.

Figures show that a foreigner is being arrested every four minutes on the streets of Britain.

Hundreds of migrants and other visitors are held every day as a devastating result of the Government’s open door policy.

In some forces, arrests of foreigners account for one in seven of all those detained. Poles have now become the worst foreign offenders after hundreds of thousands flocked here following Labour’s decision to throw open our jobs market.

Alan Gordon, vice-chairman of the Police Federation, said: “Immi­gration on the scale we have experienced is putting an intolerable strain on all public sectors, not only policing. We have got to recognise the need for additional resources where there are large congregations of migrant workers.”

It is reported in today’s media that at least 860 immigrants a day arrive in Britain and that when illegal immigrants are taken into account the figure is believed to be approaching 1,000 a day!

Even official statistics confirm that Britain’s immigrant population has leapt by almost 2.4 million since Labour came to power a decade ago and probably approaches 4 million since Maggie Thatcher played on electors fear of immigration in 1979 to win office. According to analysts, the figures show an increase of 316,000 immigrants - or 865 a day - for 2006 alone, this being the latest period for which figures are available.Furthermore, during 2006, no fewer that 126,000 people gave up on Britain to seek a new life overseas.

All of which now confirms that a staggering one in ten British residents (as opposed to citizens) are believed to have been born abroad, creating a dramatic, obvious and undesirable change to the face of British society. In a move that has further exposed the deceitful stance of the Labour regime, the official figures have been analysed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and prove, beyond a doubt, that the bulk of new arrivals are coming from outside the EU – not from within, as claimed previously by untrustworthy Government ministers. Prior to the ONS investigation Government spokespersons have repeatedly maintained that the percentage of migrants to Britain from outside the EU was 52% - which in itself is a recent increase on previous statements. However the work undertaken by the ONS now means that the 52% is another Government myth busted - as the real figure is 68%.

According to ONS research 2,337,000 more foreigners arrived in Britain since 1997 than have left! From this may be calculated that the overseas-born population of Britain has been increasing, on average, by 640 a day (excluding illegal migrants). And, confirming what the BNP has been saying for years, an opposition politician is reported as saying: “It is clear there are huge pressures on public services because of the sheer scale of the rising population. Ministers are foolish to ignore this growing problem.”

England is in the middle of a profoundly disturbing social experiment. For the first time in a mature democracy, a Government is waging a campaign of aggressive discrimination against its indigenous population.

In the name of cultural diversity, Labour attacks anything that smacks of Englishness. The mainstream public are treated with contempt, their rights ignored, their history trashed. In their own land, the English are being turned into second-class citizens.

This trend was highlighted this week by the case of Abigail Howarth, a bright teenager who applied for a training position with the Environment Agency in East Anglia but was turned down because she was too white and English. The post, which carries a £13,000 grant, was open only to ethnic minorities, including the Scots, Welsh and Irish.

Such social engineering was justified by the Agency on the grounds that minorities were under-represented in its workforce, the parrot cry used by bureaucrats throughout the public sector to justify bias against the English.

Up to 1,500 Iraqis are to be airlifted to Britain after ministers agreed to grant sanctuary to the interpreters who worked for our forces. In a multi-million pound operation starting in April, the translators and their families will be flown here in groups of 100 every fortnight until the autumn. They will be transported in military planes to an RAF base in the South-East where they will be processed by immigration officials. They will then go to a hotel west of London for a few days before
being resettled in two northern cities. They will receive free housing and benefits to help them start their new lives. Details of the highly-sensitive operation are being finalised by the Home Office and Border and Immigration Agency. It is understood officials are liaising with the police about possible "community tensions" caused by the mass arrival of so many Iraqis.

A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects - comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.

Phil Woolas, an environment minister, said the culture of arranged marriages between first cousins was the “elephant in the room”. Woolas, a former race relations minister, said: “If you have a child with your cousin the likelihood is there’ll be a genetic problem.”

The minister, whose views were supported by medical experts this weekend, said: “The issue we need to debate is first cousin marriages, whereby a lot of arranged marriages are with first cousins, and that produces lots of genetic problems in terms of disability [in children].”

Woolas emphasised the practice did not extend to all Muslim communities but was confined mainly to families originating from rural Pakistan. However, up to half of all marriages within these communities are estimated to involve first cousins.
Medical research suggests that while British Pakistanis are responsible for 3% of all births, they account for one in three British children born with genetic illnesses.

More More than 250,000 UK passports could be handed out to foreigners every year under new proposals.

The Government wants all migrants settling here to become full British citizens.
All except the worst criminals would be eligible, including minor offenders and those who cannot be bothered to play an "active" role in community life.

They will merely be expected to spend longer as "probationary" citizens under a Home Office consultation paper published yesterday.

Even murderers and rapists could be entitled to a passport if their homeland is considered too dangerous under human rights law for them to be deported

Blundering police officers put a group of illegal immigrants on a train, gave each of them free tickets and told them to make their way to a detention centre 80 miles away under their own steam.

Unsurprisingly, none of the nine reported to the centre and all nine disappeared on their journey from Cambridge to Croydon.

But police have defended their actions, claiming they were only acting on the advice of immigration officials and the decision was out of their hands.

James Paice MP for South East Cambridgeshire where the men of Afghani origin were found under a lorry last week, has hit out at officials who co-ordinated the men's travel.

WHITE men could be blocked from jobs under a Government equality drive spearheaded by Harriet Harman.

The Labour Deputy Leader and Equalities Minister is planning laws to promote women and ethnic minorities in the workplace.

Firms would be allowed to favour candidates for jobs or promotion on the grounds of race or gender.

Officials insist the move is “positive action” rather than discrimination and remain opposed to job quotas for women or ethnic minorities.

Tory MP Mark Pritchard said: “This is yet more political correctness from Harriet Harman, pandering to the rampant feminism still lurking in Labour. It is a counter-productive and patronising idea that can only breed resentment.”

A source close to Ms Harman said the move was designed to bring Britain’s employment law closer in line with EU practices.

The aim was to “address under-representation” in cases where candidates were “equally qualified”.

The source added: “This is not about positive discrimination, we don’t think that is the right way to do it.”

The move is likely to be outlined in a Government policy document to be published within the next two months.

Ministers hope to introduce a new Equalities Bill into Parliament this year.

The measure would apply only in cases where two or more equally-qualified candidates were after the same post.

It is just a few days until Easter, the most important date in the Christian calendar. But for 700 Muslims who have gathered in a rural caravan park, this week has a different religious significance.

And to some of their neighbours, the thrice-daily calls to prayer are proving a strain on a harmonious relationship. The Iranian Muslims have converged on the Trevelgue Holiday Park in Porth, Cornwall, to celebrate yesterday's Persian New Year.

Membership of the European Union will cost every man, woman and child in Britain £873 next year, according to research published yesterday.

The Bruges Group, a Eurosceptic think-tank, estimated that the combined direct and indirect costs in 2007 will amount to £100,000 a minute, or £52.4 billion — about £2 billion more than this year.

This includes a direct gross contribution of £14.2 billion (£4.7 billion net after rebates and grants), payments of £2.2 billion to European institutions, £15 billion for the Common Agricultural Policy, £1 billion for the Common Fisheries Policy, and £20 billion in the additional costs to business of regulations emanating from Brussels.

A clergyman is in hospital after he was beaten up in his churchyard by three Asian youths, in an incident which police are treating as a "faith-hate" attack.

Canon Michael Ainsworth, 57, asked the gang to keep their noise down but they turned on him, taunting him about his faith and hitting him in the face and body.

He was found slumped in the churchyard of St George-in-the-East in Stepney, east London. Police said the gang made "remarks insulting his occupation" before fleeing.

Doctors in Glasgow are treating Scotland's first diagnosed case of the drug-resistant XDR tuberculosis strain.
The man who has the XDR-TB strain is reported to have come to the UK from Somalia. He is now in isolation at the Gartnavel General Hospital.
The "super strength" strain of the disease is extremely resistant to traditional antibiotics and has to be treated with a cocktail of drugs.
Doctors have said there is no risk to the general public.
"We have taken very prompt measures to try and manage the chance of this person spreading the infection to others" Dr Jim McMenamen Health Protection Scotland.

This is the first case of its kind reported in the UK since the revised definition of XDR-TB was published by the World Health Organization in 2006.

Officers looking for a man who raided a jewellers while wearing a burka are investigating a similar incident.
A man thought to be wearing a burka threatened a security driver in Birmingham on 14 March 2008 with what is thought to be a firearm before fleeing.

Last Thursday, an armed robber pushing a child's buggy and disguised as a woman in a burka went to the Friends Jewellers in Smethwick, West Midlands.

He was joined by four other men who smashed cabinets before fleeing.

STATE schools should be forced to open their doors to Islamic preachers teaching the Koran, the largest classroom union demanded yesterday.

The National Union of Teachers' conference also said existing religious schools - almost all of them Christian - should have to admit pupils from other faiths.

The union's general secretary Steve Sinnott said that allowing Muslim imams to preach in schools would be a way to reunite divided communities.

But the proposals prompted immediate outrage. Conservative Party backbencher Mark Pritchard said: "This is just further appeasement for Muslim militants".

Will they teach about Mohammeds wives and the fact that he married Ayesha when he was 55 and she was a child just 9 years old?

Last night Mohammed Shafiq, director of the Ramadhan Foundation, said the police were differentiating between criminals on the basis of race.

He claimed, driven by fear of race riots in places like Blackburn and Oldham, officers were "overtly sensitive" and not clamping down on the sordid practice.

His controversial comments in this week's Panorama reignite a massively controversial issue which exploded over a Channel 4 documentary in 2004.

That programme which claimed Asian men in Bradford were grooming under age white girls for prostitution was pulled from C4's schedules.

This was because police claimed at the time that it could provoke racial violence during the local election campaign.
Now the BBC is to risk the wrath of police officials and campaigners by airing a programme which will look at the same issue.

Speaking as part of the Panorama investigation, which airs tomorrow (Thursday), Shafiq said: "I think the police are overcautious on dealing with this issue openly because they fear being branded racist and I think that is wrong."

"These are criminals they should be treated as criminals. They are not Asian criminals, they are not Muslim criminals, they are not white criminals. They are criminals and they should be treated as criminals."

In Britain, the National Lottery refuses to give grants to maintain either war memorials at home or war graves abroad, preferring to fritter away millions on illiterate modern "art", heroin addicts, illegal immigrants, terrorist apologists, Bolivian guinea pig farmers and Peruvian prostitutes.

Our heroes are without honour in their own land. Squaddies are forced to change out of their uniforms at Birmingham airport.

RAF Wittering personnel are instructed to wear civvies when visiting nearby Peterborough, in case they provoke local "youths".

Anarchists deface a statue of Sir Winston Churchill and the late Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris is regarded as a war criminal.

While Bosnian mass murderers and Islamic terrorists live unmolested - and usually on benefits - in British suburban council houses, loyal Gurkhas are turned away and a serving British soldier from St Lucia is denied citizenship on a petty technicality.

Immigration has little if any long-term economic benefit to people already in Britain, a new report is expected to conclude.

But the inquiry by the Lords economic affairs committee is also set to warn that data on immigration is flawed. The main finding is understood to be that it has a negligible economic impact.

That would undermine claims by ministers that migrants boost our economy. Lord Turner, a government adviser who is on the committee, had dismissed the idea that immigration could be justified on economic grounds.

He accused people of using economic arguments to justify an influx of immigrants and avoid a "racist backlash".
One peer said: "The more we looked at the flawed statistics, the more we felt the Government is flying blind."
The headline figure used by Ministers against critics of the unprecedented influx of foreign workers to the UK is that they boost the economy by £6billion every year.

But the most in-depth study of its kind by a parliamentary committee will conclude this is not the best measure of the policy's success or failure.

In a blow to the Government, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee will say tomorrow that the amount migrants boost the economy per person - rather than overall - is far more relevant.

Experts say this shows only a tiny net contribution to gross domestic product, worth as little as 28p per week.
This has to be balanced against the enormous strain they place on schools, hospitals and other series - valued at almost £9billion.

In evidence to the committee, which includes former Chancellor Norman Lamont, the Home Office produced the headline figure that migration boosted output growth by £6billion in 2006.

THE OPPOSITION Movement for Democratic Change party is set to agree a 1 billion pounds a year aid and development package with the British government to rescue the Zimbabwean economy, the Zimbabwe Guardian can reveal.

According to sources, the package will be coordinated by the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, European Union and the United Nations.

The average European couple now has fewer than 1.4 babies, compared to 3.6 babies born to the average Muslim immigrant couple in Europe. Across Western Europe 16 to 20 percent of babies are being born into Muslim families... By 2025, one-third of all European children will be born to Muslims... In Italy, 95% of all rapists are Muslims. Eighty-five percent of all murderers are Muslims... France will have a Muslim majority in less than 25 years! Another telling statistic is that
although the Muslims are 12% of France's population, 70 percent of a total of 60,775 prisoners in France are Muslims! All of France's urban suburbs are being roamed by Muslim black African or Arabic gangs... A very high proportion of French Muslims are in the underclass, that segment of the population that relies not so much on education and work as on welfare and predatory activities. In fact, over one thousand Muslim neighborhoods are under monitoring throughout France.
Seven hundred of those Muslim neighborhoods are listed as "violent" and nearly 400 hundred are listed as "very violent." Violence ranges from rape (95% of rapists are Muslim), murder (85% of murderers are Muslim), theft and looting of cars (58% committed by Muslims) and street fighting to assault on teachers and civil servants.
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Two million Muslims are now living in the UK, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith revealed yesterday. The milestone total includes 10,000 millionaires, she said

during a visit to Pakistan to discuss counter-terrorism. It means the Islamic population in the UK has increased by 400,000 since the 2001 census - adding more than 50,000 to the total each year. Miss Smith told the Pakistan National Council of the Arts: "After Christianity, Islam is the largest faith community in the UK.

"1.6million declared themselves Muslims in the 2001 census, and that figure may now be as high as 2million. Islam is one of many faiths which are practised in UK communities.

THE mother of a 15-year-old boy left with brain damage by an Asian gang is blaming multi-culturalism for the way ethnic minorities get away with violent bullying in schools.

Liz Webster, 43, from Swindon, whose son Henry nearly died in the attack, believes a “culture of timidity” among teachers is stopping them clamping down on ethnic minority bullies because they fear accusations of racism. She also accuses teachers of failing to recognise that ethnic minorities can exhibit racism against whites.

Her son, who was a pupil at Ridgeway comprehensive, near Swindon, was set upon by a 16-strong Asian gang, smashed on the skull by repeated blows from a claw hammer and left for dead. Last week 13 of the gang were convicted of charges relating to the attack.

Before the assault little action appears to have been taken against the gang, despite incidents of persistent aggressive be-haviour. In the immediate aftermath of the assault, neither the school’s headmaster, Steven Colledge, nor any of its 90 teachers visited the Webster family or even sent a get-well card

London, April 18 (IANS) Half of all Britons think immigrants should be encouraged to leave Britain, a BBC poll said Friday. And almost two-thirds of people in Britain fear race relations are so poor that tensions are likely to spill over into violence.

Of the 1,000 people polled, 60 percent said Britain had too many immigrants.

A COUNCIL has sparked fury by virtually shutting a swimming pool on Sunday afternoons for “Muslim-only” sessions.

All women are banned ? and non-Muslim men may swim IF they follow the strict Islamic dress code of swim shorts that hide the navel and extend below the knee.

Croydon Council in South London runs the sessions at Thornton Heath leisure centre between 4.45pm and 6.45pm.

Similar slots are laid on for Muslim women outside opening hours, where bathers must be covered from the neck down to the ankle.

Locals who flock to the area’s only major leisure centre each week are furious.

ONE in four people now living in an English town are from Eastern Europe because of the “scale and pace of change” from immigration, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears revealed yesterday.

A quarter of the population of Boston, in Lincolnshire, are migrant workers and their families, who have flocked there from Poland and its former Eastern Bloc neighbours.

It is believed to be the highest proportion of migrants in any town or city in the country and is a sign of the huge impact Labour’s open door policy has had on our communities.

Official figures today revealed that one in seven pupils don't speak English as their first language - and the number of infant school pupils in unlawfully large classes has risen by more than 50 per cent in the last year.

The statistics, compiled by the The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF),show that the proportion of pupils whose first language is not English has risen to an all-time high.

In primary schools, 14.4 per cent of pupils speak another language as their mother tongue, up from 13.5 per cent in 2007, while in secondary schools the figure is 10.8 per cent, up from 10.6 per cent.

This equates to more than 800,000 pupils on the school roll with English as their second language.

A hospital is pioneering a "get tough" attitude on health tourists - by throwing them out of hospital before their treatment is complete unless they pay up.

It means that foreigners who travel to Britain to get free care on the NHS will now be asked to produce cash or a credit card at their hospital bed.

The new approach has already saved the West Middlesex University Hospital in Isleworth up to £700,000 a year. Its proximity to Heathrow Airport makes it a particular target for immigrants.

If all hospitals did the same, the NHS could recoup tens of millions of pounds a year from health tourists.

More than 30 state schools in England are made up solely of ethnic minority pupils with no white children on the roll, according to government figures. The finding follows a warning from Britain’s race watchdog that schools are becoming increasingly segregated along racial lines. This year’s school census, carried out in January, found that 27 primaries and four secondaries were entirely non-white. The schools, which were not identified, are likely to include England’s nine state Muslim schools and two state Sikh schools. The remaining 20, all primaries, are likely to be in areas with large ethnic minorities. Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who has claimed that Britain is “sleepwalking into segregation”, said last year that there was a disturbing trend for schools to become either mainly white or mainly black. He pinned the blame on the phenomenon of “white flight” from racially mixed areas, saying: “To put it crudely, white parents, particularly, are unhappy about putting children in schools where they think their children are going to be in a minority.”

The number of people in England and Wales has shot up by a million in only three years in a population boom of a scale not seen for a century.

And the dramatic increase - mainly fuelled by immigration - is rapidly gathering speed, according to estimates made public yesterday.

Foreign workers are at the heart of the population explosion, according to Government figures which show that numbers had reached 54,348,000, up more than a million since March 2005.

Other startling statistics released yesterday show that:

* The number of foreign-born workers who found new jobs in Britain since 1997 is now 1.8million. In all, foreign workers now make up one in eight of the UK working population.

* This is 400,000 more than the 1.4million Britons who have found work during the same period.

* A record 207,000 Britons left to make new lives abroad in 2006. Most went to Australia, New Zealand, Spain, France and the U.S.

* A record number of new passports were issued last year - one every three minutes - despite measures designed to tighten up the system.

* Britain is once again topping the European league for asylum claims, as the number of applications to other countries falls.

The latest population leap of a million took three years. The last similar jump took four years, from 2001 and 2005. And before that it took six years for the population to increase by a million between 1995 and 2001.

Historians have to go back to before the First World War to find such a fast growth in population. The rate of increase now - likely to be reaching 5 per cent over a ten-year period - is unmatched since the Victorian era of industrial revolution and the birth of Britain's great cities.

The figures from the Office for National Statistics also show that immigrants are playing a major role in pushing up numbers.

It said the number of foreign-born workers in Britain is now 3.7million. This is 12.5 per cent - one in eight - of all workers in the country.

The ONS also gave a detailed breakdown of the number of immigrants who have found jobs in Britain since Labour came to power in 1997.

Last autumn former Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain gave the number as 800,000, but later admitted a truer figure was 1.1million. Yesterday the ONS said the real number is 1.8million.

A dispute remains over the way numbers of migrants are counted. The Department for Work and Pensions says the best way is to count foreign citizens. But the independent statisticians at the ONS say it is better to count those born abroad, because country of birth does not change and thus gives an indication of the background of the worker.

The figure of 1.8million means that more than half - 55 per cent - of new jobs created since 1997 have gone to immigrants. Over the same period, between four and five million British adults have continued living in homes where no one has a job and everyone relies on state benefits.

The new England and Wales population estimates follow Whitehall projections-last year that said numbers in Britain could swell to 100million in 60 years' time.

The overwhelming reason for the expansion is immigration, now said officially to be adding to the population at the rate of 191,000 a year.

Yesterday's estimates suggest that numbers are going up at over 300,000 a year, pushed up by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans since their countries joined the European Union in April 2004, alongside continued high immigration from other parts of the world.

The number of people granted British citizenship reached record levels last year, new figures showed today. Government data revealed 164,635 foreign nationals became British, up 7% on the previous 12 months. Separate figures showed there was a 16% rise in asylum applications in the first three months of this year, to 6,595, compared with the same period in 2007. The number of failed asylum seekers deported from January to March was down 13% to 2,805.

More than 80 per cent of new jobs created by Labour over the last decade have gone to foreign-born workers, a new analysis of official figures claims.

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The Statistics Commission found in a study that 1.4 million of the 1.7 million jobs created since 1997 had been filled by those born overseas.

Chris Grayling, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said last night: "The reality is that for all the billions spent by Gordon Brown on welfare-to-work programmes all he actually seems to be doing is creating British jobs for foreign workers."

The Statistics Commission was asked to study the proportion of foreign workers filling new jobs in Britain following confusion over Government statistics released in the autumn.

After publishing incorrect data, ministers said that 2.1 million jobs had been created in the past decade - 54 per cent of which, or 1.1 million, had gone to foreign workers.

Based on figures from the Office of National Statistics, the Migrationwatch study shows there was a net migration to the UK of 2.3 million people between 1991 and 2006.

The Migrationwatch flow includes returning Britons but this number is very low in comparison. More significantly, the vast majority of migrants have come from outside the EU, predominantly the third world. Only eight per cent came from the new Eastern European members of the EU.

The debate over annual limits for migrants centres on the fact that an annual cap would not effect EU citizens who have free movement between member states.

WHITE men could be blocked from jobs and promotions under a so-called equality drive unveiled by Labour today.

Instead women and ethnic minorities will be favoured in the workplace under a new Bill to be revealed by Equalities Minister Harriet Harman.

Critics blasted the measure as an unworkable piece of political correctness that will see good candidates overlooked for jobs in the interests of positive discrimination.

Tory MP Mark Pritchard said: “Everyone supports equal rights, but special rights cause resentment, do nothing for community cohesion and do not tackle racial prejudice. This is another example of political correctness which will not achieve an improvement in equality.”

And John Midgley of the Campaign Against Political Correctness said: “There is nothing positive about positive action or discrimination. It is counter-productive and potentially racist and sexist. This is typical of Harriet Harman, who must be the most politically correct MP.”

Nearly one third of Muslim students believe it can be acceptable to kill in the name of religion, according to a survey published yesterday.

It also found that 40 per cent want to see the introduction of Islamic sharia law in Britain, 40 per cent think it wrong for Muslim men and women to mix freely together, and 33 per cent want to see a worldwide Islamic government based on sharia law.

The findings were described by researchers at the Centre for Social Cohesion think tank, which commissioned the poll, as 'deeply alarming'.

The real problem is that successive Tory and Labour governments have preferred to dish out British taxpayers’ money on things such as foreign aid (the UK’s foreign aid budget is some £7.8 billion per year - compared to the NHS deficit of £1.3 billion). Both Labour and Tory governments have put British people at the very bottom of their priorities. The time has come for a new broom to sweep clean, and put British people first.

The quality of NHS care has plummeted because ministers failed to predict a massive rise in the birth rate among immigrant mothers, according to a survey by the Royal College of Midwives.

Four in 10 of midwives questioned by the RCM said care is worse as a direct result of the rising birth rate - and was putting mothers and babies at risk.

Almost all - 91 per cent - said the birthrate had shot up on their wards over the past few years, putting their units under intolerable pressure.

The warning comes amid reports that maternity wards are being forced to turn away expectant mothers because they cannot cope with the soaring demand.

The number of babies born to British mothers has fallen by around 44,000 a year since 1997, while the number born to foreigners is up 64,000 a year. This has raised the overall birth rate to its highest for 26 years.

Almost 40,000 more babies were born in 2006 than officials at the Department of Health expected.

. Stoke-on-Trent — Zimbabwean Swindler Jailed Over £100,000 Drugs. Yet another bogus asylum seeker — who crossed 30 ’safe’ countries before claiming asylum in Britain — has been jailed after he was caught with a bag full of crack cocaine with a street value of more than £100,000.

Zimbabwean Raymond Sapezeka, aged 30, admitted possessing class-A drugs with intent to supply. Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court was told that police raided Sapezeka’s home in Chorlton Road, Birches Head, on April 6.

Judge Ross Duggan sentenced Sapezeka to 40 months in prison, minus 136 days he has already spent in custody. He may be deported on his release.

Douglas Alexander, Labour’s International Development Secretary, will announce this week that the “Government” (i.e. British taxpayers) is to pour in excess of £6 million into Afghanistan to “encourage farmers to switch from poppy cultivation to wheat.”

Ministers are to launch a campaign to persuade 26,000 farmers each to grow a hectare (2½ acres) of wheat in place of poppies, to cut heroin trade and address food shortages.

Afghanistan is facing a food crisis this autumn as a drought combined with soaring food prices has led to shortages and hunger. Alexander will say that the British taxpayer-funded Department for International Development (DfID) is donating £2 million to the governor of Helmand’s short-term counter-narcotics plan, which is also backed by the British taxpayer-funded “Civil-Military Mission to Helmand,” which is providing a further £2.125million, and the US Agency for International Development.

Wheat seed, fertiliser and expert advice will be given to farmers. The plan covers more than 37,000 acres of farmland. In dangerous areas where the insurgents are still active, farmers will be able to collect seeds from British military bases but not fertiliser, which could be used on poppies.

In the rest of Afghanistan, farmers will be offered vouchers to buy subsidised seed, fertiliser and tools. The DfID is providing a further

Immigration and a sharp increase in the birth rate among non-British mothers will make Britain Europe’s most populated country by 2060.

The European Union’s statistics office has projected the population of Britain to rise from the current 61 million people to 77 million over the next 50 years.

As incoming migrant invaders and birth rates amongst invaders already present increase, Britain is set to become Europe’s most densely populated country.

Germany, currently Europe’s most populous nation, is projected to decline from 82 million to 71 million people by 2060. France will also overtake Germany to become the EU second-most populous country after Britain with 72 million residents, according to the forecast by Eurostat. Both Britain and France have rapidly expanding Muslim populations, whose birth rates are dramatically higher than Europeans.

http://www.cih.org/policy/openingdoors/

A government funded website has been set up — with the help of tax payers money — explaining to “refugees, immigrants and their families, foreign students etc etc, on how to get free housing and benefits in Britain. In addition, the website also tells them how to take legal action if they think they have been denied a home on the grounds of their race. The Housing Rights site also offers advice to “new arrivals” in Britain on what welfare assistance they qualify for and how to claim
it. This website is part of a three-year project called Opening Doors run by the Chartered Institute of Housing and the Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust, which has been given funding by the Department for Communities and Local Government to help immigrants settle in Britain. Recent figures show 2.5 million people moved to Britain over the past decade. This is the period of time in which the Labour division of The Lib/Lab/Con Party has misgoverned the UK.

“It is like watching a nation busily building its own funeral pyre”.

Millions of pounds of foreign aid given to the Third World from Britain and other European countries is spent by those countries’ leaders on hi-specification aircraft, complete with gold taps and solid wood interiors, rather than going to the people for whom it was aimed.

FAMILIES were furious last night to discover that a councillor is claiming £700 a month to represent them – although he has moved to America.

Philip Thompson, 26, was tracked down to Tucson, Arizona, where he moved last month to study for a PhD in American politics. Even though he hasn’t told his constituents he is 5,500 miles away, he is still claiming the allowance to represent residents in Kentish Town, part of Camden Council in north London.

Speaking from the US last night, the Lib Dem councillor said he was delighted to be studying in Arizona. Although his course could last for three years, he insisted: “There is no reduced service for people in Kentish Town, I have carried on with all my casework. This was an opportunity too difficult to pass up.

Foreign patients are costing the NHS tens of millions of pounds by giving hospitals false identities and addresses, or even leaving the country in order to avoid paying for their treatment.

Senior hospital managers said overseas visitors were leaving hospitals with hefty bills by evading the system that is meant to ensure that those ineligible for free NHS care pay for treatment.

“A lot of people come to the UK and use the NHS when they aren’t entitled to its services and it’s hard to get the money back from them,” said a director of one of London’s biggest hospital trusts. “There are people who just turn up at A & E who could have been diagnosed in their own country with cancer or heart disease and either can’t get care or the quality of care they need at home.”

A senior executive at a Midlands hospital trust said: “Foreign patients use fake addresses and fake identities. They often come with a UK relative and look affluent and able to afford treatment. But when it comes to payment, the addresses are bogus; there’s no response to phone calls and the relative shrugs, saying that the patient has left the country.”

Muslim hate fanatics plan to take over Britain by having more babies and forcing a population explosion, it has been revealed.

The swollen Muslim population would be enough to conquer Britain from inside, they claim.

Fanatics told a meeting of young Muslims on the anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity, that it would then be easy to impose Sharia law on the population, the Sun newspaper reported.

Speaking at a meeting in London, Anjem Choudary, right-hand man of exiled preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed, said: "It may be by pure conversion that Britain will become an Islamic state. We may never need to conquer it from the outside."

Radical Islam has declared war on Europe and the terrorist attacks of today are “merely a sad climax, a battle in a 14-century long war,” Filip de Winter, leader of Belgium’s foremost patriotic party, the Vlaams Belang, has said.

Speaking at a conference in Italy organised by ‘Counterjihad Europe 2008', De Winter said “Islam is in war with Europe and the free West.”

“Islam only executes what’s written in Quran, and follows Mohammed’s example. Mohammed was not a prophet, but a warlord who overcame and silenced his enemies with violence, weapons, and spilled blood. The Quran is a ‘license to kill’ with unconcealed calls for waging war on dhimmis, the non-Muslims.”

The conference, organised in memory of Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who fought as a youngster in the anti-fascist resistance in Italy, and who then later won renown as a journalist warning of the dangers of the Islamification of Europe, was arranged by the organization Una Via per Oriana.

“It’s a good thing that the organisation Una Via per Oriana strives to keep the remembrance of Oriana Fallaci vivid, and thus continues to resist the politically correct dictatorship that wishes to restrict the freedom of speech,” the VB leader said.

“The political legacy of Oriana Fallaci exists in that we should not submit ourselves to those who — with multiculturalism and anti-racism as dummy-arguments — bring Islam in our society as a Trojan horse, and even feed it.”

“Oriana Fallaci was driven by a mission; her mission consisted in prosecuting the cowardice of Western and European politicians, and in breaching the European policy of consensus.”

“After the 9/11-attacks Oriana Fallaci tried with her sharp writings to open the eyes of the European intellectual, political, and social elite that had been collectively hummed asleep by the leftist multicultural discourse.”

“This multiculturalism has undermined the combativeness of our European, Western society; it has hollowed the fundamentals and freedoms of our civilisation; and it has affected democracy and freedom of speech.”

“The ideology of multiculturalism has grown into a kind of new religion with the equality and equivalence of cultures as first dogma.”

“The simple fact that we are no longer allowed to consider our own European civilisation as superior, generates an ‘away-with-us’ mentality.”

“Multiculturalism aggrieves Europeans with an excessive guilt complex about the West — with its history of colonialism, racism and Jew-slaughter — being the source of all evil.”

“According to these multiculturalists we can liberate ourselves from this ‘original sin’ by throwing open the gates of Europe and the West for all kinds of third-world peoples.”

“This dangerous and disastrous ‘one-world’ ideology puts on sale all of what we in the West stand for.”

“In the meantime, we have to share our prosperity with tens of millions of third-world immigrants — of whom a majority has hardly contributed to our economy or social security — that are as parasites on our system of social security and who take advantage of social acquirements of the European welfare state.”

British person visiting Poland who falls ill and requires hospital treatment will be deported back to the UK, while a Polish person falling ill in Britain qualifies for taxpayer-funded NHS services.

The Polish Government claims its deportation threat is legal and necessary to protect its citizens from infections from abroad.

Polish Home Ministry spokesman Witold Liwicki said: “We have a right to protect our citizens. We’re eliminating the threat of an epidemic.”

MORE than 50 million African workers are to be invited to Europe in a far-reaching secretive migration deal, the Daily Express revealed in Oct 2008.

A controversial taxpayer-funded “job centre” opened in Mali this week is just the first step towards promoting “free movement of people in Africa and the EU”.

Brussels economists claim Britain and other EU states will “need” 56 million immigrant workers between them by 2050 to make up for the “demographic decline” due to falling birth rates and rising death rates across Europe.

The report, by the EU statistical agency Eurostat, warns that vast numbers of migrants could be needed to meet the shortfall in two years if Europe is to have a hope of funding the pension and health needs of its growing elderly population.

I have long been concerned by Britain’s failure to acknowledge the true nature of the threat from global Islamism. This latest move is yet more alarming evidence of that process. Saudi Arabia is at the root of the Islamic onslaught against the West. It is Saudi’s Wahhabi form of Islam which, along with its Shi’ite counterpart in Iran, aims to restore the dominance of Islam in the world and destroy rule by ‘unbelievers’. It is Saudi money which has fuelled the enormous spread of Wahhabi
mosques, preachers and educational institutions in this country, delivering the message of holy war and radicalising countless thousands of British Muslims.

And it is this Saudi ideology which was the inspiration for Al Qaeda. True, Al Qaeda turned upon Saudi itself on account of its ties with the U.S. As a result, Saudi regards Al Qaeda as its mortal enemy, and as such co-operates with Britain and the U.S in combating it. But sometimes, to rephrase the old adage, our enemy’s enemy is not actually our friend, but our enemy as well.

Saudi Wahhabism seeks to conquer the West through a pincer movement comprising violence on the one hand and cultural infiltration and takeover on the other.

At the very least, Saudi Arabia speaks with the most lethal of forked tongues, and we should actively be seeking to diminish its influence over our affairs.

But instead our Prime Minister is effectively offering it yet more opportunity to control us. Mr Brown claimed he did not want such investment to be used to gain
political influence. But Lord Mandelson blurted out the truth when he acknowledged that the Saudis and other Gulf states would expect a bigger role in global institutions in return.

British taxpayers are facing a huge bill for sending illegal immigrants home - from France.

A group of Afghans rounded up in Calais will be on the first of a planned series of deportation charter flights leaving Stansted for Kabul tomorrow.

The plane, carrying armed guards in an operation costing £200,000, will touch down in Lille to collect the French group.

The cost of removing the Calais Afghans is being justified on the grounds that they were trying to reach Britain when they were held.

Successive flights are likely to send the bill into the millions.

The taxpayer-funded Organization for Economic Development (OECD) has demanded that the government do more to “protect migrants during the economic recession” by employing more in the public sector, and by implementing lower taxes and subsidies to low skilled jobs which migrants most often fill.

The OECD, which receives funding of £25 million a year from British taxpayers, has also demanded increased rights for migrants living here because of the recession.

The OECD said that in tougher economic times migrants tended to fare less well, noting that they were often employed in less stable, more cyclical sectors such as construction

Muslim prisoners at a maximum security jail were treated to £3,500 of takeaway curries to mark a religious festival. Some 200 inmates at Whitemoor prison near March in Cambridgeshire had meals worth around £18 each after complaining about the quality of jail food. Staff, who also tucked into the meals, drove 40 miles to pick them up from a takeaway in Peterborough.

The meals were bought at the end of October this year to celebrate Eid, a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Main dishes included lamb 
rogan josh and beef madras. 

When Benjamin Disraeli wrote of “two nations who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts and feelings as if they were inhabitants of different planets”, he was referring to the rich and the poor. But in Brown’s Britain, two very different nations have emerged: the grafters and the passengers.

The fortunes of the latter ultimately depend on the success of the former. But you wouldn’t know it. For almost everything announced by Mr Darling as Chancellor, and by Gordon Brown before him, has penalised the grafters and transferred money to those who contribute nothing.

On Monday, Mr Darling raised means-tested pension credit by more than the non-means tested basic State pension, rendering the sacrifices of those who put money away for their old age even more pointless. More cash was thrown at single parents, too.

The moves came hard on the heels of benefits claimants receiving extra money for utility bills while workers received none. And do not forget the doubling of the starting rate of tax, which hit the low-paid especially hard.

So Britain’s striving classes are right to feel embattled and infuriated. But do not expect the nation’s millions of long-term economic passengers to feel compassion. They are bursting with an un­warranted sense of entitlement.

Watching their reaction to Mr Darling’s latest gifts was telling. One non-working single mother complained she would still have nothing left for “treats”.

“I wish more could be done to help us out as bringing up kids is more than a full-time job,” she grumbled. What she meant was that hard-pressed taxpayers should fund the upkeep of her children as well as theirs.

Not only that but they should pay even more so she can enjoy doling out treats.

Immigrants have taken the overwhelming majority of new jobs created in Britain in the last two years, official figures have proven.

More than 500,000 posts have been taken by foreigners since 2006, and the number of British-born people in jobs has slumped by 149,000 over the same period.

To add insult to injury, young immigrants and those aged over 50 have earned higher average wages than their British counterparts.

The news follows earlier revelations that at least 75,000 foreigners a year are taking jobs for which Brits do not even get the chance to apply — or are even told about.

The Office of National Statistics said more than 500,000 foreigners arrived to live in Britain last year. It was the second-highest annual rise on record.

In the past two years, the number of British-born workers in jobs fell by 149,000 while the number of migrants working here rose by 469,000.

Labour's public sector spending has created a wave of 'Soviet' boroughs where around half the population depends on the state for work, figures revealed yesterday.
An analysis of council statistics showed that in ten areas more than 40 per cent of the workforce is employed in the public sector.
Many are deprived areas where the true dependency on the state will be far greater once benefit payments to those out of work are taken into account.
Castle Morpeth: Top of the list with 57.1% of the population employed by the state

All but two have Labour MPs - the others are Liberal Democrat.
Top of the list compiled by the Centre for Economics and Business Research is Castle Morpeth, Northumberland, where - in an echo of the Soviet system where everyone was employed by the state and therefore owed their loyalty to the communist party - 57.1 per cent of jobs are in the public sector.

A convicted robber who converted to Islam after being jailed for 12 months has been handed £10,000 funding by Midland police and council leaders as part of their campaign to ‘prevent extremism’ amongst Muslim youth.

Bilal Davis was given the cash to set up Inner-City Guidance in Birmingham to ‘prevent youth offending and radicalisation of vulnerable Muslim teenagers.’

The company is currently £10,000 in debt due to rent arrears. Mr Davis set up the firm after spending 10 years at the University of Medina in Saudi Arabia where he studied Salafi Islam. The university is hailed as a leading centre for the study of the ultra-conservative Salafi interpretation of Islam followed by Al Qaeda members.

OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients’ beds so they face towards Mecca.

The lengthy procedure, which also includes providing fresh bathing water, is creating turmoil among overstretched staff on bustling NHS wards.

But despite the havoc, Mid- Yorkshire NHS Trust says the rule must be instigated whenever possible to ensure Muslim patients have “a more comfortable stay in hospital”.

And a taxpayer-funded training programme for several hundred hospital staff has begun to ensure that all are familiar with the workings of the Muslim faith.

The scheme is initially being run at Dewsbury and District Hospital, West Yorkshire, but is set to be introduced at other hospitals in the new year.

Yet another shocking example of how the EU has completely subverted British immigration law has come with the news that a Brazilian man, married by proxy to a Polish citizen, has gained permanent residency in Britain because he is now married to an EU citizen.

The bizarre case came to light with a landmark court ruling which said that a Polish immigrant and a Brazilian man who were married at a ceremony which neither attended have been given the right to remain in the UK. Aneta Kowalczyk and her fiance Carlos stayed in London while their wedding went ahead without them in Brazil. (Image: street scene from the Estrutural slum in Brazil).

Their places at the altar were taken by friends, and a lawyer ensured the 15-minute marriage went ahead smoothly. Though illegal in Britain and open to abuse, ‘marriage by proxy’ is perfectly above board under Brazilian law. Now a landmark legal judgment has ruled that the union must be recognised as legitimate here on human rights grounds.

A hard-line Muslim teacher who launched a tirade against children in Birmingham for celebrating Christmas has been appointed as a Government schools inspector.

Mr Israr Khan, who is now headmaster of an Islamic school, launched into his tirade during a concert rehearsal at Washwood Heath Secondary School in Birmingham in 1996 after the choir, which included around 40 Muslim youngsters, had sung a number of popular Christmas songs, including carols.

He leapt from his seat, yelling: “Who is your god? Why are you saying Jesus and Jesus Christ? God is not your god — it is Allah.” Many of the children walked out in tears.

Mr Khan was asked to work from home pending an investigation but there was no disciplinary action. He has now been appointed as an inspector for the Office of Standards in education (Ofstred), a government body, which, according to its web site, “inspects and regulates care for children and young people, and inspects education and training for learners of all ages.”

Failed asylum seekers should be given benefits and cash, a leading Tory think tank has said.

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), founded by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, said in a new report that asylum seekers refused permission to live in the UK should continue to receive benefits to “prevent them turning to crime.”

In a typical piece of Tory cowardice, Duncan Smith’s report says that Britain should give in to this blatant blackmail by the world’s scroungers and parasites, instead of just sending them straight back.

A 7ft 2IN Pakistani women is expected to be allowed to stay permanently in Britain because she claims her height has made her a target at home.

Zainab Bibi arrrived two years ago and has been living on welfare benefits and has been able to send money home to her family while Home Office examine her application for political asylum.

She said she was afraid to return home " as youths throw stones at her".

Her freinds though backj in her impoverished village say she enjoyed celebrity status when ever she returned home.

While 1.8 million immigrants have moved to London from abroad over the last decade, native indigenous Brits have fled their capital city, making London the area with the largest internal migration of any area in the UK.

Research released by the Bank of Scotland showed that between 1998 and 2007 nearly 2 million people moved out of the capital to other parts of Britain, while 1.6 million moved to it - mostly from overseas.

This 2 million was equivalent to more than a quarter (26 percent) of the city’s population in 2007.

London was the only region of the UK to experience a net population loss, which was 344,558. However, the capital’s population was boosted over the 10 years to 2007 by what the bank called “international immigration.”

The South East of England was the most popular region for people to move to from elsewhere in the UK, leading to a net increase of 550,889.

More than 2.2 million people moved to the area, while almost 1.7 million left.

Failed asylum seekers who resort to violence and aggression to avoid being deported are costing the taxpayer £4 million a year.

In the past three years 3,638 people who were due to be deported managed to temporarily stay in the country because they became so disruptive that officials declared it unsafe to carry on with the expulsions.

Figures released by the National Audit Office show the cost of a forced removal is around £11,000 per person, depending on where they are sent.

When a deportation is stopped due to a failed asylum seeker’s violent behaviour, much of that cost has already been incurred. But officials admit that around 10 percent of the total is taken up with the final expulsion.

The statistics show that some people get so violent at their holding centre that it is deemed unsafe to move them, while others have to be hauled off planes at the last moment because pilots are concerned about the safety of passengers due to the asylum seeker’s behaviour.

Almost £1 in every £5 handed over by council taxpayers is used to support the pensions of town hall workers, a report reveals today.
The country's 1.6million local government employees have 'gold-plated' final salary pensions, while many in the private sector face retiring on a pittance.
Experts criticised the devastating findings, which they said prove a "pensions aristocracy" is developing.
Council workers can retire as young as 55 ? while everyone else faces working until their 68th birthday.
The report by the TaxPayers' Alliance will anger millions of council tax payers whose bills have nearly doubled since Labour came to power.
In 1997, the average Band D bill was £688. Today, a family in the same size house would pay £1,321.

IMMIGRANTS have taken 40% of all homes built in the UK in the past 10 years.

The number of properties available for Brits has been squeezed because of the record number of foreigners coming to live here, according to official figures released yesterday.

Nearly 600,000 properties have been needed to house immigrants since 1997 - three times the amount required under the last Tory Government. On average, 19,000 new homes were needed for migrants each year from 1992 to 1997.

But after Labour came to power, that figure rocketed to an average of 66,000 each year from 1997 to 2005 - the latest year figures are available for - making a total of 592,000 homes.

And experts say the figure is likely to have continued rising due to East European immigration since 2005.

Tory MP James Clappison, who requested the figures, said the extra homes also damage the countryside.

"These figures are a direct result of policies adopted by the current Government since 1997, " he said.

British taxpayers will be ecstatic to learn that they have contributed another £15 million to promoting “gender equality” in Uganda - the latest foreign aid scandal which has cost the people of this country billions while our own elderly cannot afford to pay heating bills. According to a press release issued by the Department for
International Development (DFID), £15 million of British taxpayers’ money has been given to a joint UN programme “that will improve gender equality in Uganda.”

At a press conference in Kampala, UK International Development Secretary Ivan Lewis announced: “The UK is committed to improving opportunities for women in Uganda. Faster progress on gender equality is vital for Uganda to achieve middle-income country status and realise the Millennium Development Goals.”

The Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander MP, has pledged £30m to help rebuild damaged and destroyed homes, schools, and hospitals in Gaza, during a visit to the region today.

The money will support the first phase of rebuilding Gaza which is still devastated from the recent fighting. It will include the repair of essential infrastructure including water, sewage and electricity supplies. Six weeks after the conflict ended, many people are still living in temporary housing and over 90% of the population require food aid. The pledge includes a new £20m provision and an allocation of £10m from UK support announced in January.

Speaking during his visit, the Secretary of State said:

“I’ve seen first hand today the effect that the recent conflict has had on ordinary people. That is why we are making available £30m to help kick-start a recovery. We want people to be able to go about their day-to-day lives, for schools to be open and for families to have a home once again. The continuing suffering in the area is very clear and we must provide more than just basic humanitarian support if we are to help rebuild people’s lives.”

While our pensioners are donated winter pullovers from charities in Iceland, Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander announced yesterday that British taxpayers will hand over an additional £50m to “fight poverty in Afghanistan.”

The pledge brings the total amount of your money dished out to Afghanistan to £510 million, which will, Mr Alexander kindly informed us “go towards creating jobs, fighting the drugs trade and helping develop the Afghan Government.”

It is a pity Mr Alexander does not think about British pensioners, whose hard work over decades has created the economy which he now is looting to hand out to an unappreciative Third World.

A homecoming march by soldiers returning from Iraq was today marred by ugly scenes after Muslim anti-war protesters hurled abuse at parading soldiers.

Around 20 men in Islamic dress yelled 'terrorists' and held placards denouncing the soldiers as 'butchers of Basra' and 'baby killers' as they marched through Luton.

Other signs described the 200 men and women from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment as 'Criminals, Murderers Terrorists'.

A headmistress who was hounded out of her job after being falsely accused of racism was yesterday awarded more than £400,000 in compensation. Erica Connor had run a 'happy and successful' primary school but was driven to a breakdown by the allegations. We can reveal the school's troubles started when a local mosque decided to pack the governing body with Muslims. Paul Martin - a Muslim convert - and Mumtaz Saleem began monopolising meetings with the aim of turning New Monument in Woking into an Islamic faith school.
The Surrey town is home to the first purpose-built mosque in the country - the Shah Jahan Mosque - which dates from 1889. Mr Martin, a businessman, yesterday confirmed there had been a 'conscious effort' to increase the number of Muslims on the board. But when Mrs Connor resisted the new governors' plans - such as the introduction of Islamic worship into the school - she became the target of a smear campaign. An anonymous petition was circulated among parents, stating that those signing 'no longer have confidence in Erica Connor to educate our children in a way that respects and values our faith, culture and heritage'. An accompanying document accused the headmistress of 'racism and Islamophobia'. The accusations drove her to suffer from depression. She eventually retired from the 300-pupil school because of illhealth in December 2006.
She is unlikely ever to return to teaching and now does voluntary work for a cancer charity.A judge at the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday ordered Surrey County Council to pay Mrs Connor £407,781 in compensation

FOREIGN AID

Third World gangsterism of the worst sort has descended onto London’s inner city schools, a new report by the Department for Children, Schools and Families has shown.

The rise in lawlessness, gangsterism, sexual violence and crime has paralleled precisely the rise in Third World immigration in London, a city where in many areas so-called ethnic “minorities” are already the overwhelming majority.

According to the report, girls as young as seven are joining gangs to carry drugs and weapons for group “elders” as a culture of youth violence spreads to primary schools.

Children recruited to some London gangs — known as “tinys” or “youngers” — must also complete initiation rituals, which can include the rape or even murder of rival gang members, according to the report.

Growing numbers of younger children are believed to be joining gangs to win respect and recognition from their peers, the report said.

Recruitment agencies have been caught operating an 'immigrants only' policy in one major city, a report out today has revealed.

A study of migrant workers in Bristol and Hull by research organisation Centre for Cities found that in Hull, migrants are "unofficially" channelled through 'Polish only' recruitment agencies to work in factory work, particularly food processing and packaging.

The report, which comes as the total number of unemployed people in the UK is expected to top two million this week, is likely to fuel the row over "British jobs for British workers".

The report said: "[In Hull] unless you were Eastern European, recruitment agencies were unlikely to put you on their books. This may have prevented the same vacancies being advertised to local people."

The European Union has announced that it is adding a further £55 million to its already bloated foreign aid to Afghanistan, bringing the total amount dished out to that nation since 2002 to an incredible £1,4 billion.

All this money has been taken from the long-suffering EU member state taxpayers, and does not include the direct British foreign aid given directly to Afghanistan of some £510 million.

£32 million — that is how much British taxpayers might have to cough up for what is billed as “the biggest illegal immigrant detention centre in all of Europe” which the Government is considering building in rural England at Bullingdon, near Bicester, Oxfordshire.

The Tory controlled Cherwell District Council approved the building of the centre last Thursday, showing that both Labour and Conservative parties are one and the same when it comes to betraying Britain.

Instead of just deporting illegal immigrants out of hand, which is what any normal, sane government would do, the Tory/Labour ruling elite prefers to spend millions to build accommodation to house the invaders. The £32 million does not include running costs, which will add further open-ended millions to the bill.

The development will hold 800 illegal invaders and failed asylum seekers who will be surrounded by a 17ft-high razor wire fence. The centre is earmarked to open by 2012.

TERROR suspects under house arrest are claiming up to £60.50 a week in ­Jobseeker’s Allowance.

In the latest example of ­soft-touch Britain, 22 out of 23 extremists who applied for the state benefit received it.

Yet none of them is available for work. Severe restrictions are placed on their ­movement because they are deemed a risk to national security.

The taxpayer-funded handouts last night sparked outrage among politicians and campaign groups who said it was yet another reminder of why extremists hellbent on ­destroying Western civilisation make a beeline for Britain.

Northamptonshire County Council chief executive Katherine Kerswell is the top earner with a salary of £179,000 last year.

This has come down by £39,000 compared with the salary of former chief executive Peter Gould who earned £215,000, more than any other chief executive in the country at the time.

East Northamptonshire Council chief executive David Oliver earned £101,244 in 2007/08 and Wellingborough Council boss Lyn Martin-Bennison's wage was £104,105 in the same year.

A new report has revealed that a fifth of Britain’s population - equivalent to some 13 million people - are officially living in poverty. Almost simultaneously, the government has announced a gift of £100 million to “to rebuild southern Africa’s infrastructure after decades of neglect.”

According to an Oxfam report called “Close to Home — UK Poverty and the Economic Downturn,” life for the fifth of the UK’s population living in poverty is set to worsen because of the recession.

At the same time, Gareth Thomas, minister of state at the department for international development announced in Lusaka on Monday that Britain will be giving £100 million of taxpayers’ money to build a North-South corridor in Africa to try and rectify what he claims is the reason behind Africa’s plummeting share of world trade.

European judges today overturned an order freezing the assets of Abu Qatada, the radical Muslim cleric, on the ground that its implementation breached his fundamental rights.

The ruling in the European Court of Justice is a further blow to the Government’s counter terror policies after the Law Lords’ judgment that suspects held under control orders must be given details of the allegations against them.

Qatada, once described as Osama bin Laden’s “spiritual ambassador” in Europe, was added to a United Nations sanctions blacklist freezing the funds of associates of Bin Laden, al-Qaeda or the Taleban.

The ruling today means that Qatada, currently being held in a top security prison pending deportation, will regain access to his accounts and any other assets in two months and ten days if the British Government does not appeal.

THE GOVERNMENT has handed out six times more cash to bogus Afghan asylum seekers than to our heroes wounded fighting the Taliban.

Shocking figures show £30million of taxpayers’ money has been squandered on food, shelter and legal aid for 2,500 refugees seeking asylum.

During the same period, the Government handed out just £5.3million under the controversial Armed Forces Compensation Scheme to 560 British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan.

Of the 2,500 Afghans who sought asylum, only 85 were genuine, meaning 2,415 bogus applicants received an average of £12,000 each. The average for wounded soldiers was just over £9,000.

Last week, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth pledged to review the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme after being forced into a humiliating U-turn.

Soft touch Britain, created by successive Tory and Labour regimes, has generated so many foreign scroungers that an entire town in Romania lives off benefit fraud, an investigation has revealed.

According to a report in The Times newspaper, an estimated £1 billion a year is defrauded from the benefits and tax credits system, with tens of millions of pounds lost to organised crime.

There is, according to the newspaper, “mounting concern about the high proportion of fraudulent claims orchestrated by traffickers which are being rubber-stamped after only the most basic checks.”

The investigation revealed that many of the suspects behind this fraud can be traced to Tandarei, a town of 15,000 people in eastern Romania which includes a 2,000-strong gypsy population.

“Over the past five years, previously rundown neighbourhoods have inexplicably prospered,” reports The Times.

According to the paper, the “minor economic boom has seen 100 imposing new homes built, valued at about £20 million. BMWs and Land Rovers with British number plates cruise the dusty streets.”

According to British police sources, this new-found wealth is the proceeds of crime sent back from the UK, Spain and Italy. The source of this money is human trafficking, street crime and benefit fraud.

It is easy for scroungers to tap into the benefits system in Britain, as claims can be made by the self-employed who have National Insurance numbers and by those who have worked in the country for 12 months.

As Britain is signed up to the freedom of movement EU legislation, and was the only country not to impose restrictions on the movement of new EU member citizens into Britain, tens of thousands of Gypsies have been able to move freely into this country.

According to The Times, these gangs use a variety of forged documents to “prove” adults are eligible for benefits and then bring in street children from Gypsy camps in Romania to boost their benefit claims.

Child benefit and tax credits for children can be claimed even if the children are not in the country, but the presence of a trafficked child means extra housing benefits and additional tax credits.

“Many of the families who have had their claims rubber-stamped by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Revenue & Customs have never worked in this country and are not entitled to benefits,” reported The Times.

“The Metropolitan police began an investigation because of concern about the increase in crime involving Romanians after the country’s accession to the EU — more than 1,000 offences were recorded in the first six months of 2007, compared with 168 in the whole of 2006,” continued that paper.

“In January 2008, police made well-publicised raids on 16 addresses used by the traffickers, discovering homes crammed with young children who had been trained in street crime.”

This crime will continue until Britain’s benefits system is overhauled to prevent the sort of abuse which has developed due to decades of liberal Tory and Labour misrule.

Ten British soldiers died in Afghanistan for the sake of just 150 votes in the country's election.

Operation Panther's Claw, which claimed their lives in ferocious fighting, was meant to improve security in the Babaji district of Helmand.

But only 150 of the 80,000 potential voters there braved Taliban threats to vote last week, it was reported on 26/08/2009.

The astonishingly low turnout in the presidential election poses massive questions about the war against the Taliban and the wider British role in Afghanistan.

An immigrant baby boom is fuelling Britain's fastest population growth in half a century.

The number of people in the UK has passed 61million for the first time, figures showed yesterday.

Record immigration levels over the past decade have driven up the number of women of childbearing age.

This helped boost the number of births last year to 791,000 - up 33,000 on 2007.

For the first time in a decade, the excess of births over deaths played a bigger role than immigration itself in driving population growth, which is now twice as fast as in the 1990s.

For the second successive day, a bus packed full of British people has come under sustained attack from young Muslims in the district of Savile Town, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

“Youths” targeted the Thornhill-bound Arriva bus as it pulled away from a stop in Savile Road late on Saturday night.

According to the local ‘Press’ newspaper, a local white businessman told how stones smashed windows on both sides of the bus at 11pm.

The victim rushed off the bus to chase the youths, bleeding from a cut to his face.

“They told me not to come shouting in their area,” he said. “I told them it was my area as well. I was born and bred in Dewsbury.

“There were other Asians around and they said what happened was wrong and it would be sorted.

“I don’t want to scare people but they have to know what is going on.”

The man said there were about a dozen people on the bus including an elderly woman and a father with children.

“It was like a war zone,” said the injured man who was with his wife.

More than 25 percent of British university graduates have not been able to find full-time jobs three years after graduating — but foreigners continue to pour into Britain and have taken the majority of new jobs.

New figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) have shown that not only were a quarter of students not in full-time jobs more than three years after leaving university, but a fifth of those failed to secure work in graduate professions, finding employment instead in bars, supermarkets and building sites.

The HESA also found more than one in 10 students who left university in 2004/05 had been out of work at least once. The figures were compiled in November last year. As a result, they do not factor in the latest recession, and the unemployed figures for graduates today will therefore be even higher.

Figures released earlier this year by the Office of National Statistics showed that the number of UK-born people in work had fallen over the previous year, while the number of non UK-born workers had soared by 214,000 in the same period.

There are now 3.8 million foreign workers in Britain, the ONS figures revealed.

The HESA statistics showed that 16,835 students leaving full-time first degree courses last year, just before the recession tightened its grip, were not in employment six months after graduation.

According to media reports, a survey of the top 100 graduate employers published in July found that vacancies for students leaving university this summer have been cut by 28 percent.

* Meanwhile, students at British universities finish their studies with an average of £23,000 debt. University minister David Lammy has already announced the freezing of all student loans — at the same time that it was announced that the budget for the foreign aid and the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had topped £10 billion.

The annual cost of UK military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year alone has reached £4.37 billion and the foreign aid budget is set at £6.6 billion. This means that so far this year the Labour government has spent twice as much on wars and foreign aid than it has helping British students.

* The Conservative Party has promised, if elected, to increase foreign aid.

IMMIGRANTS BABY BOOM COSTS £1BN

TAXPAYERS face a £1billion bill to provide school places for ­children born in a looming immigrant baby boom, a shocking new study reveals today.

The vast sum will be needed to create more than 96,000 extra places at primary level – around 67,000 to educate children of parents born outside the UK.  It will also cost the British taxpayer at least
£200million a year to run them, warns a cross-party group of MPs.

Indigenous British people are being brushed aside in favour of people from “black and minority ethnic groups”
by North East Lincolnshire Council’s housing policy.

The latest shocking example of Britain’s colonisation by Third Worlders has come with an announcement by the council that BME “ethnic groups are to get dedicated support workers to help them find and maintain homes in North East Lincolnshire.”

The York Housing Association has been chosen by Liberal Democrat controlled North East Lincolnshire Council to help the non-British people “access facilities and become more involved with the local community.”

Two housing support workers will be employed to work with the community, and translation and interpreting services will also be provided.

A report published in 2007 by the Labour Party-affiliated Institute for Public Policy Review (IPPR) entitled “Britain’s Immigrants, an Economic Profile” showed that 80% of Somalis, 49% of Turks, 41% of Bangladeshis, 39% of Ghanaians, 35% of Jamaicans, 33% of Iranians, 29% of Nigerians, 21% of Ugandans, 20% of Zimbabweans, 15% of Filipinos, 15% of Pakistanis, 14% of Sri Lankans, 12% of Kenyans and 9% of Chinese immigrants live in public housing.

These figures show that immigrant groups occupy a massively disproportionate amount of public housing compared to their percentage of the population, confirming the long-held suspicion that immigrants are given priority over native British people.

At least the Liberal Democrat controlled NE Lincolnshire Council is open about its anti-British treachery, unlike the Tories and Labour Party which tries to pretend otherwise.

The rate at which foreigners are swelling the population has increased by 50 per cent since a secret Government immigration policy document was written.

Critics said it was clear evidence that ministers had implemented the controversial Cabinet Office report.

This allegedly claimed mass immigration would make Britain more multicultural and allow Labour to portray the Tories as racists. Speaking in the Commons yesterday, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said it would be 'utterly disgraceful' for ministers to base immigration policy on party politics.
Immigration.

He asked Immigration Minister Phil Woolas: 'Can I invite you to put the record straight - what was the motivation behind the very rapid increase in immigration under this Government?'.

Incredibly, Mr Woolas did not appear to know which report Mr Grayling was referring to - despite the widespread coverage it received over the weekend.

Yesterday, the Daily Mail told how ministers were facing calls for an inquiry into claims by former Labour adviser Andrew Neather that the Government opened up Britain's borders in part to try to humiliate Right-wing opponents of immigration.

His allegations referred to a 2001 report from the Performance and Innovation Unit, a think-tank based in the Cabinet Office, which made the case for mass immigration.

Earlier drafts are said to have included the statement of 'a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural'.

Now an analysis of officials statistics has found that - from the date the report was published - the number of foreign nationals being allowed into the UK surged.

Whitehall statistics show that in the year of the document's publication, 370,000 non-British nationals arrived. That rose to 416,000 the following year and, by 2006, had reached 510,000.

In 2007, it fell back slightly to 502,000 - but this was still an increase of 30 per cent on 2001.

For net foreign immigration - the number of non-British citizens arriving, versus the number leaving - the figures are more dramatic.

In 2001, it stood at 221,000 - but by 2007 it had reached 333,000 - up by 50 per cent. This is the size of the increase in the foreign-born population of the UK.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the Migrationwatch think-tank, said: 'Now it has been revealed that mass immigration under this government was a deliberate policy concealed from the public, and especially from the white working class whose lives and neighbourhoods have been most affected.

Iraqi Robin Mawud claiming benefits in Britain is suspected of being part of a people smuggling network which brought thousands of illegal migrants to Europe, a court heard yesterday.

Robin Mawud, 24, who has indefinite leave to remain here and receives job seekers’ allowance and housing benefit, was one of four men arrested in Britain this week.

The operation was part of a Europe-wide swoop on human traffickers.

GORDON Brown was yesterday accused of allowing taxpayers’ cash to go to Muslim schools linked to Islamic extremists.

Tory leader David Cameron said the Government was going soft on Muslim fanatics in Britain.

He singled out the handing over of £113,000 of taxpayers’ cash to two schools with links to extremists. In an angry exchange in the Commons he said the money had been given to the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation to run the schools, in London and Slough. The foundation has close links with the organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir, which describes itself as a global political party for Muslim “liberation”, he said.

And Mr Cameron attacked the Prime Minister for failing to ban another extremist group, Islam4UK, led by Anjem Choudhary, which he said had supported the 9/11 Twin Towers attack in the US. Mr Cameron told the Prime Minister: “Hizb ut-Tahrir’s constitution states that non-Muslims are ‘combatants in the battlefield’ and that their ‘blood is lawful, as is their propert’.” He added: “This is an organisation that said Jews should be killed ‘wherever you find them’.”

IMMENSE pressure is being put on just one NHS hospital from immigration and health tourism

In a snapshot of the healthcare “free-for-all”, the Chelsea and Westminster hospital's neonatal intensive care ward treated babies from more than 70 countries.

The unit, which treats 550 babies a year, helps children born prematurely, requiring specialist care or needing life-saving surgery.

The hundreds of dots scattered across the world map, which was pinned up on the ward’s wall, shows how the NHS treats patients from every part of the globe.

The administrators of London’s Chelsea and Westminster hospital put up the map three years ago so that staff, patients and visitors could see how the NHS was attracting scores of mothers-to-be. They said the map was meant “to celebrate the ethnic diversity” of its tiny patients.

But it also reveals the huge financial burden on the NHS, as each child costs £1,400 a day to treat.

The 243 mothers who took up the invitation to place a pin on the map to “represent” their home country came from nations as far-flung as Mongolia, Sweden, Japan, Uganda, Chile, Saudi Arabia and Papua New Guinea.

The British mother of a baby treated in the ward this summer said: “Almost every cot and incubator at this wonderful unit was occupied by a baby with a foreign mother.

FOREIGN students are using qualifications in circus skills and theatre studies to claim the right to live in Britain.

The joke degrees are being handed out by more than 700 bodies, including churches and colleges of Chinese medicine.

They allow students to obtain a visa to work in Britain as “high-skilled migrants”, the Government’s chief immigration adviser warned yesterday.

Professor David Metcalf, chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee, admitted he was “stunned” at the number of colleges handing out degree-level qualifications. He urged the Government to launch an investigation to see if “post-study work” was being exploited as an easy route into ­Britain.

And he warned that, rather than filling highly skilled jobs, it was possible that ­foreign students were taking lower-paid jobs away from people born here.

The Tories last night claimed the scandal revealed a loophole in Britain’s border controls. Shadow Immigration Minister ­Damian Green said: “This is a late recognition of the chaos surrounding student visas. The important thing is to close this loophole without destroying hundreds of legitimate college courses.”

The concerns were raised by a report on the Government’s “points-based system” for assessing the skills of people wanting to live in Britain.

TAXPAYERS are footing a £50million-a-year bill to fund appeals by relatives of immigrants barred from Britain.

More than 1,000 are lodged every week, it was revealed last night. The caseload has soared eightfold since the Government scrapped fees for family visitor visas in 2002.

Critics last night warned that the explosion in the number of appeals was more evidence that Labour has lost control of Britain’s borders. The visa shambles was uncovered in a report from the population think tank Migrationwatch.

Chairman Sir Andrew Green said: “In the current recession it is no longer acceptable that taxpayers should pay the appeal costs for foreign nationals wishing to visit Britain. The defin­ition of a family visitor is so wide that it could include as many as 120 relatives of a middle-aged ­person. The definition should be narrowed and charges which the Government abolished in 2002 should be re-introduced.”

Illegal immigrants have been working at some of the most sensitive Government offices in the country - including the headquarters of the UK Border Agency - a investigation has discovered.

Following enquiries, the Home Office admitted employing a dozen illegal foreign staff over the past four years - 11 Nigerians and a Ghanaian.

Ten of them secured cleaning jobs at Becket House, the headquarters of the UK Border Agency, which vets immigrants. The building in Croydon, South London, also serves as an immigration detention centre, holding up to 270 people awaiting deportation.

Two other illegal immigrants worked at the Whitehall headquarters of the Home Office, which houses the office of Home Secretary Alan Johnson. One was a chef in the canteen, while the other worked as a security guard on the front door for 19 months.

The Home Office headquarters is regarded as one of Britain's most high-profile terrorist targets and receives round-the-clock police protection.

Eight of the 12 have since been deported, three are detained pending appeals and one was later granted leave to remain in the country.

The embarrassing disclosures come despite repeated pledges by Labour to crack down on illegal immigration.

London has more mosques than any other city in the world except Istanbul and is home to at least one million ‘legal’ Muslim colonisers, or 13 percent of the population of Britain’s capital city, new figures have shown.

The figures are only of legal residents, and do not include illegal immigrants. Estimates of the number of illegal immigrants vary greatly but the most common figure is around one million. It is unknown how many of these are Muslim.

The number of suspected sham marriages by illegal immigrants has leapt by more than half in the past year.

Figures from the Home Office show a 54% jump in suspected cases reported by registrars in England and Wales.

The leap comes after the Law Lords overturned a government scheme designed to stop illegal immigrants marrying.

Registrars have told the BBC that marriage rackets are using Eastern European brides to provide other migrants with a toehold in the UK.

The scale of the problem has been highlighted in a special BBC investigation in which a reporter posed as an illegal immigrant - and quickly found people offering to help him marry.

Europe's law chief wants Britain to reinstate the payment of tens of thousands of pounds in State handouts to the wives of suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban fanatics.

Ministers have halted benefit payouts made to the families of suspected terrorists to prevent the money falling into the hands of banned groups.

The Treasury says the power is a vital weapon in the war against terrorism. It stems from a crackdown on terrorist financing launched in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

However, the senior advocate of the European Court of Justice, Paolo Mengozzi, yesterday declared the decision to stop the payments was unfair on the grounds of human rights.

His opinion is likely to prove crucial when Europe's highest court considers three test cases brought by the wives of British-based terror suspects later this year.

In eight out of every ten cases, the court has agreed with the Advocate General - making it highly likely the UK taxpayer will soon begin forking out hundreds of pounds a week to the families.

Whitehall officials have refused to name the families involved in the test cases - but all three of the husbands are foreign nationals on the United Nations list of international terror suspects.

They have been linked by security officials to Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban

The payouts to their wives include income support, child benefit and housing assistance worth 'several hundred' pounds a week.

Tory and Labour controlled councils across Britain force hard-pressed council taxpayers to cough up £55,000 every day for translation costs for immigrants from 75 different nations, a new study has revealed. The total cost per year amounts to some £20 million and is in addition to the £77 million spent by the National Health Service on translation services.

According to the study, published in a daily newspaper, the languages are from all corners of the globe — none of whose speakers should have any claim to residence in Britain.

For example, Edinburgh City Council’s translation costs include translating booklets into Kurdish, Badini and Sorani, spoken in Iraq; Malayalam, a dialect in South India; Mongolian; and Tagalog, common in the Philippines.

Manchester City Council translated the booklet Help Your Child Have Fun into Urdu, Somali and Arabic, while a booklet on how to feed pigeons was translated into Urdu.

Warwickshire County Council translated a document called “Weight Busters” into Panjabi, Gujerati and Urdu for £207 and a “business card” into Chinese for £30, according to the report.

The research, conducted by translation agency Lingo24, saw requests for information sent to Britain’s 380 councils, of whom 321 responded.

In 2008–09, Edinburgh spent £110,000 on translation services. Northamptonshire spent £73,000, an increase of 164 percent over the previous year.

Translation services cost the NHS some £22 million per year, another report revealed. Apparently surgeries across the country spend £2,500 every hour to provide interpreters for the flood of foreigners making use of the free clinic services.

Mass immigration is destroying Britain’s national identity, according to The Townswomen’s Guild (TG), one of this country’s oldest women’s groups.

In a report issued yesterday, the TG said a survey amongst its 34,000 members showed that immigration is “a major concern for the campaigning group’s members up and down the country.”

The survey, published in the latest edition of TG’s national magazine, was devised by MigrationWatch UK. The questions were phrased in such a way as to try and draw the readers into supporting the Tory/Labour “balanced migration” scam but even so, fully 28.5 percent of respondents called for a total ban on immigration.

According to a press release issued by TG, almost “80 percent of the respondents felt Britain should have either a total ban on immigration (28.5 percent) or a one in, one out policy (50.4 percent).

“And almost all (95 percent) think current immigration levels will cause us to lose our cultural identity to some degree,” the TG continued.

It was also evident from the survey that the vast majority of TG’s 34,000-strong membership is very worried about the environmental impact which immigration will have. According to the TG, 96 percent of respondents were concerned about the pressure immigration was putting on public services.

In addition, the TG said, 94 percent of “respondents felt current immigration levels were putting a strain on community relations to some degree.”

Sue Smith, National Chairman of TG, whose members range in age from 18 to over 80, said:

“TG has never been afraid to tackle thorny issues and receiving five times the normal response to this questionnaire was to be expected on such a hot topic.

“For Townswomen the issue isn’t race, it’s numbers and they clearly feel immigration policy needs to protect our way of life and environment and recognise the increasing pressure on already overstretched public services.”

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IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOUR.

IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.

IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.

IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.

IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.

IF YOU CROSS THE BRITISH BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET A JOB, A DRIVERS LICENSE, PENSION CARD, WELFARE, CREDIT CARDS, SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE, FREE EDUCATION AND FREE HEALTH CARE.

MORE than 1.3 million immigrants have been given the right to work and claim benefits in Britain since Gordon Brown promised “British jobs for British workers”.

Damning Whitehall figures revealed last night prove a shattering new blow to Labour’s open-door border policies.

Official statistics show that a total of 1,370,820 foreigners have been granted National Insurance numbers over the last two years. And the influx has continued despite hundreds of thousands of British-born workers losing their jobs in the recession and unemployment rising to 2.46 million.

Latest evidence of the collapse of Britain’s border controls will be a huge embarrassment to the Prime Minister following his now discredited vow to put British-born workers first.

And it raises fresh questions about Britain being a target for “benefits tourism”, with concerns that immigrants are using National Insurance numbers to get state pensions and other welfare handouts.

The Conservative Party has announced that it intends to force British taxpayers to pay millions to teach immigrants to speak English “so they can integrate better.”

Making the announcement, Tory Shadow Communities Minister Sayeeda Warsi said: “Taxpayers’ money should be spent on teaching people English rather than keeping people apart by translating into a plethora of languages.”

She was responding to the news that at least £10.9 million and possibly as much as £20 million is spent by councils across Britain each year translating official documents into a variety of languages.

The correct policy is, of course, not to allow mass immigration in the first place which would prevent this problem from occurring — but that simple solution is not on the Tory or Labour agenda.

BRITAIN’S benefits shambles was exposed last night by the case of a mother-of-six who receives £7,000 a month of taxpayers’ cash to live in a £2million mansion.

Critics hit out at the Government for overseeing a system that entitles jobless Essma Marjan to claim almost £100,000 a year in housing benefit and other free handouts.

The money allows her to live in a plush five-bedroom villa in a desirable part of London, close to the home of Sir Paul McCartney.

The 34-year-old single mother says she was forced to move after the birth of her five-month-old son meant her previous home was too small for her growing brood.

She even moaned: “The house is lovely and very big but I don’t have enough furniture to fill it.”

Yesterday, outraged politicians called for an overhaul of the system which allows Miss Marjan to legitimately claim £1,600-a-week in housing benefit, adding up to £84,000 a year.

She also receives an estimated £15,000 a year in other payouts, including child benefit. Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Theresa May said: “We cannot go on with a situation where families on housing benefits live in million-pound mansions.

“We plan to review the whole system to make sure it is fair. Families on benefits should not be able to live in houses that people in work and not on benefits can’t afford.”

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “This is a huge bill, which is clearly excessive. The current rules put councils in the impossible situation of having to pay for houses chosen by the claimant, even if they cost an absolute fortune.

“Of course people shouldn’t be left without a home but there are plenty of better value houses. This is costly for taxpayers and deprives other people of much needed assistance.”

London-born Miss Marjan found the house in Maida Vale, north-west London, herself on the internet and rented it through a private letting agency, rather than wait for Westminster City Council to give her a vacant property on its books.

UK-BOUND migrants were yesterday massing in their own comfy members-only club in Calais before making their bid for Britain.

French charities have helped to create a virtual “departure lounge” for illegal immigrants heading across the Channel, offering them rest and recreation before they complete the final leg of their journeys.

Our investigators gained access to the illegal “Sangatte II” centre and exclusive photographs show it bears a closer resemblance to a holiday camp than a shelter for the homeless.

One observer said: “They are being treated like VIPs.”

The converted warehouse, just a short walk from the town’s port, offers migrants a range of amenities, from relaxation rooms with a piano, a cinema and sports hall for indoor games like table tennis and football to even a makeshift disco for dancing.

The centre – which bears a huge “Welcome To All” banner – was officially closed down 12 days ago by riot police after Calais authorities deemed it unfit for public use.

And last night the CRS riot squads returned – forcing the migrants and activists out using batons and shields. But it is expected they will just move back in.

The charities SOS and the No Borders Network got round prohibition by opening it as a private space for members, declaring: “All migrants and activists inside the hangar have official membership.”

The organisers have also painted the text from Article 1 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights on a sign warning that any attempt to close it down could face a challenge in the courts.

The Migrationwatch think tank has just released a copy of the uncensored Home Office Economics and Resources Analysis Unit and the Cabinet Office Performance and Innovation Unit document which proves that mass immigration to Britain is a political tool used by the Labour Party to socially engineer society for its own ends.

This document was given restricted circulation in October 2000 and was obtained by Migrationwatch UK under a Freedom of Information Act request to the Cabinet Office.

“The massive increase in immigration under Labour was a deliberate policy undertaken for ‘social’ as well as economic reasons,” said Migrationwatch.

In an article for the Evening Standard last October, Andrew Neather, a former speech writer for Blair, Straw and Blunkett in the early 2000s, revealed that mass immigration “didn’t just happen: the deliberate policy of Ministers from late 2000 until at least February last year… was to open up the UK to mass migration.”

Thanks to a Scottish Prime Minister and a Scottish Chancellor, the people of England along with their children and grandchildren have been saddled with paying off enormous debts incurred by the wanton profligacy of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank of Scotland.

Now the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, is demanding that Scotland's already over-generous Barnett subsidies should be continued untouched, thereby leaving the enormous burden of the Scottish bank bail-out to fall primarily on public services in England whilst leaving Scotland unscathed.

With no Parliament and Politicians of our own to speak up for us and defend our interests, the Campaign for an English Parliament wishes to remind the British Government that any attempt to make England suffer an unfair share of the burden will be neither understood nor forgiven.

The colonisation of Britain by Third World immigrants has reached such proportions that Afro-Caribbean voters now claim to hold the balance of power in at least 70 parliamentary seats.

This claim was made last week by Matilda MacAttram, director of charity Black Mental Health UK, at a parliamentary meeting.

Ms MacAttram made the astonishing assertion while she was complaining about the large number of black males on the police’s DNA database.

At the last count, conducted in 2008, the police DNA database had recorded swabs taken from just 6 percent of all white men in Britain.

This compares to 42 percent of all black men and 77 percent of black men between the ages of 15 and 35.

Ms MacAttram claimed that this is a “disgraceful” injustice and said that it was a wholly unfair stereotyping of the black community. “This is not just a civil liberties issue, but an election issue,” she said.

“We as a community cannot afford to elect any government that would criminalise us when we haven’t been convicted of a crime.”

According to the National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA), who administer the database, DNA samples are only taken from people in police custody when they are “arrested for a recordable offence.”

According to the NPIA these “include any offence punishable with imprisonment.

“People may be asked to provide DNA samples for elimination or volunteer purposes to assist an inquiry. These profiles will not be added to theNDNAD unless explicitly requested by the person providing the sample.”

Prisoners are being paid 'unemployment benefit' to sit idle in their cells, it emerged tonight.

The £2.50 weekly benefit is paid to inmates who are willing to carry out prison duties, but are unable to because the jail cannot find suitable employment.

The controversial scheme is available to all 80,000 members of the prison population, including murderers and rapists, with inmates also able to claim sick pay when they are unwell.

Tonight, the Taxpayers' Alliance and the Tories condemned the benefit, which came to prominence when an inmate wrote to a prisoner's magazine, Inside Time, asking how much he could claim.

The £3 billion civil servant “pay freeze” announced by Gordon Brown is exactly half of the foreign aid budget’s £6 billion spend on “improving health systems across the world’s poorest countries.”

Mr Brown made the pay freeze announcement as part of the Government’s attempts to cut the ballooning deficit — but, in common with the Tories, the Labour regime has promised to increase the foreign aid spend if re-elected.

Earlier, Labour’s chief secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, proposed domestic spending cuts of £11 billion in the budget due in two week’s time.

Mr Byrne said it would be the “toughest spending review for 20 years” and will include a 20 percent cut in the civil service, halving the cost of consultants, reductions in marketing budgets and sales of assets.

Polish women are being told to come to Britain for free NHS abortions to avoid strict laws at home.

They are being urged to take advantage of cheap flights and hotels as part of a poster campaign which features a semi-naked woman with the words 'my choice' written across her stomach.

Tory leader David Cameron has blamed whites for black business failures and has promised to start a blacks-only taxpayer-funded national mentoring programme to give financial priority to Afro-Caribbeans over white British people.

Mr Cameron’s shocking display of anti-white racism appeared in an article published today in the far left, extremist Guardian newspaper, titled “We’ll change black Britain.”

The Home Office has given a Muslim police support group 15 times more taxpayer funded handouts than that given to Christian equivalents — proving once again that the ruling elite puts the interests of British people last.

The Christian Police Association (CPA) has been given £15,000 over the past five years while the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) was paid £90,000 in the past two years alone, according to Home Office figures.

The Home Office claims that the CPA received an average of £3,000 a year while the NAMP received £45,000 a year. Both organisations have about 2000 members.

The NAMP received general funding of £90,000 over the past two years:£45,000 from 2008/9 and another £45,000 from 2009/10.

The CPA was given general funding of £5,000 in 2004/5 and £10,000 in 2009/10.

A JOB advertisement seeking an applicant “preferably of Indian origin” provoked fury yesterday when it appeared on a British website.

The advert for the £38,000-a-year post was branded “quite clearly racist” by angry campaigners.

They claimed it showed anti-British discrimination and urged the equalities watchdog to launch an immediate investigation.

KILLER disease rabies could return to Britain after more than a century if controls on pet passports are relaxed within the European Union, experts warned yesterday.

Strict rules requiring animals to be blood tested for rabies before they are allowed into the UK will be scrapped next year as part of an EU bid to “harmonise” pet travel across Europe.

Britain’s taxpayer-funded foreign aid budget is now at least £2 billion higher than England’s university education budget, with Tory, Labour and Lib Dems all committed to spending even more on overseas “aid” next year.

According to figures released by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), universities will be provided with a fund of £7.3 billion next year, which is some £449 million less than what the institutions expected or needed.

This will cause job losses and thousands of fewer places for British kids at university next year. Scottish and Welsh universities will receive their budgets later, but they are also expected to face cuts.

At the same time, a statement issued by the Department for International Development (DFID) revealed that the “direct spend” budget of the Government’s foreign aid programme for 2010/11 is £7.76 billion — the difference being more than the cut to England’s university funding budget.

THE impact of Britain’s open-border policy on immigration was laid bare yesterday when it emerged how Romanian squatters moved into a man’s home while he was at work and attempted to claim it as their own.

Mihai and Laura Dediu, who have two children, said they met a man in a local shop who told them the house had been empty for some time.

Home owner David Mooney was only saved from having to fight a lengthy eviction case when he unexpectedly returned home to retrieve his forgotten wallet.

He was stunned to find the Romanian couple had forced the locks on his two-bedroom end-of-terrace home and were in the process of emptying it of his belongings.

He promptly called police who arrived at the house in Southfields, Northampton, and arrested the couple.

The extraordinary episode was revealed at Northampton Crown Court last week in front of a incredulous judge who warned the case demonstrated how Britain was in danger of regressing to the 19th century.

Outlining the incident last December, Judge Richard Bray said: “The owner comes back at 5pm and there’s an unknown car parked in his drive and the lights to the house are on.

“He goes in and finds these two defendants and, wait for it, a young child. “We are going back to Dickensian times it appears.

“When challenged, the defendants say they own the property and are just moving in and that the male defendant was going to alter the locks as part of that process.

“Then an unidentified person attends to take the child away. What’s going on here?”

The judge added: “This is a bizarre case. I must be the most experienced person in this building for burglary and in 26 years I cannot remember a case where burglars have taken a young child with them to carry out a burglary. I really can’t.”

Dediu, 30, and his 24-year-old wife, who now live at a rented flat in Southfields, pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage to the locks and windows. A burglary charge was dropped.

Judge Bray sentenced them to 12-month community orders with 100 hours community service. Astonishingly, they have been allowed to stay in Britain and continue claiming state benefits, such as child benefit.

Migrant workers have been accused of 'raping and pillaging' a river by preying illegally on fish and swans.

Anglers have complained of plummeting fish stocks, while the carcasses of swans have been found on the bank.

Witnesses claim fish are being caught out of season and using inhumane methods, such as long lines with multiple hooks which are left in the water overnight and cause a slow and painful death.

The Islam Channel has been accused of promoting extremist groups and broadcasting a show backing 'marital rape' by a Muslim think-tank in the Daily Mail.

An inquiry by the Islamic think-tank, the Quilliam Foundation found that programmes broadcast on the popular Islam Channel have told women they should not refuse to have sex with their husbands or leave home without their permission.

The channel has regularly acted as a propaganda platform for Hizb ut-Tahrir, the fundamentalist organisation that Tony Blair wanted to ban after the 2005 London bombings. It has also promoted hate preachers, a report said.

The think-tank also claims that the channel is also trying to sow hatred between different Muslim groups by promoting a single strand of hardline theology.

The think-tank has now called on media regulator, Ofcom to investigate the channel's output.

Fighting on the hellish battlefields of Iraq, he risked his life for his country every day. But when Private Joe MacDonald asked his local authority to help find his young family a house, his sacrifice counted for nothing.

He first met with a point-blank refusal, followed by the offer of nothing more than a room in a hostel for himself, his wife and three young children.

The council, which organises the provision of social housing through housing associations, put his case behind the unemployed, single mothers, criminals freed from prison and asylum seekers.

It claimed that because he was leaving the Army he was deliberately making himself homeless. The bizarre loophole could affect thousands of military personnel when they end their service.

A civil servant who sold passports and travel documents to illegal immigrants has been jailed for six years.

On at least 20 occasions mother-of-four Bridget Eworth, 39, granted 13 Nigerians the right to remain in the UK when they were not entitled to stay here.

It was also found that a £1,000 cheque had been paid into her bank account from one of the immigrants.

GORDON Brown’s immigration policy faced ridicule yesterday following attempts to claim that Labour had “got tough” on foreign nationals entering Britain.

The Prime Minister repeatedly rejected Tory plans for a cap on immigration, insisting his points-based system for admitting skilled migrants was a better way of controlling the numbers.

Asked if 160,000 coming in each year was acceptable, he said: “It’s going to be lower. It’s already lower this year. It’s going to be a lot lower because the number of students coming in is going to be reduced in the coming year and the points system is starting to have a big effect.”

Mr Brown’s comments came after it emerged that more than 40,000 extra foreign students were allowed in last year under the visa system.

Official Home Office figures show 100,000 student visas were granted in the academic year to September 2009.

Frank Field, the former Labour minister who obtained the figures, said: “You cannot get a more clear demonstration that the points system does not work unless you also set a cap.”

And Sir Andrew Green of the anti-immigration think tank MigrationWatch, said: “This blows out of the water Government claims about their system being tough.”

A FLAGSHIP Tory pledge to tear up the Human Rights Act has been watered down because of the Lib Dem coalition pact.

The Conservatives repeatedly promised to scrap Labour’s controversial Human Rights legislation and replace it with a Bill of Rights.

But Government sources said last night that an independent commission would now be established to examine the “feasibility” of the switch. Senior Lib Dems, including Energy Secretary Chris Huhne and Justice Minister Lord McNally, are said to have threatened to resign if the Tory pledge was carried out.

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke is believed to have put the scrapping of the act, which became law in 2000, on the back burner.

News of the Human Rights Act’s reprieve comes on the day that two Islamic terrorists who plotted to kill thousands of Britons were told they would not be deported because it would infringe their human rights.

A BRITISH family returned from a short break to find eight Romanians had moved into their home and locked them out.

The squatters had installed their own TV satellite dish and were drinking champagne when Abu-Taher Ahmed confronted them.

Father of four Mr Ahmed, 68, climbed through an open window to gain access to his home in ­Tottenham, north London.

He then barricaded himself, his wife Iffet, 52, and their children in the master bedroom after police told him they were unable to act because it was a civil matter.

The family spent last weekend locked in the bedroom while the Romanians had the run of the house – cooking, sunbathing in the garden and throwing a party.

When they demanded £3,000 to leave, Mr Ahmed contacted the Daily Express for help.

It was only after we intervened that police threatened the squatters with arrest for breach of the peace if they didn’t leave.

Mr Ahmed said: “To go away for a few days and find people have moved into your house is the biggest shock you’ll ever ­experience.

“The locks had been changed. People inside wouldn’t come to the door. I climbed through a ­window and confronted them. They became quite aggressive and ordered me to leave.

Towns in southern England will see their populations swell by nearly a fifth over the next eight years, official predictions revealed yesterday. Among them the fastest-growing will be Colchester in Essex, which will have to accommodate 33,000 extra people by 2018. The projections from the Office for National Statistics set out in detail just what England's fast-rising population means for local areas. Official figures also showed 203,790 were naturalised last year, the most since data was first published in 1962. It means a British passport was handed to a foreigner every three minutes. The ONS named ten towns and cities across southern England where the pressure of immigration, rising birth rates fuelled by the new arrivals and the longer life expectancies of older people will bring the fastest increase in numbers. Bristol and the district of North Somerset to its south will grow by nearly 100,000 in the next eight years. And while the greatest population increases will be in East Anglia, the Hertfordshire commuter heartlands of Welwyn and Hatfield will see a further 18,000 people arrive, a rise of 16.1 per cent. The rapid population increases point to the scale of the immigration challenge facing ministers. More than half a million immigrants a year are coming into the country, figures showed, and immigration over the 12 months to September added 142,000 to the population. A total of 503,000 new immigrants arrived, 270,000 of whom were from outside the EU. The number of people awarded citizenship rose to 203,790 in 2009, up 50 per cent on the previous year.

Prison cooks have been told to spice up the meals

A PRISON’S cooks have been ordered to “celebrate food from different cultures” after inmates complained the Caribbean chicken wasn’t as good as their mums’.

An inspection report said yesterday: “Only nine per cent of black and minority ethnics and four per cent of Muslim prisoners in our survey said the food was good.”

Now menus at Armley prison in Leeds will be more “ethnically diverse”.

But an angry senior prison source said: “Have we now reached a stage where jail canteens have to aspire to achieve Michelin stars to keep crooks happy? This really is unbelievable.”

It is very apparent that the political philosophy of far-left groups such as Searchlight is that anyone who opposes Marxist internationalism is a ‘fascist’. It’s therefore not surprising to find that those that oppose Marxism are subject to the most vicious of smears – especially dead people who can’t respond to such attacks. And, it would appear, especially British war heroes, who seem to especially enrage the sensibilities of the likes of Searchlight. Clearly the Searchlight organisation feels safe in indulging in this particular tactic.

In total, European workers take around 122million 'sickies' a year - and Britons account for nearly 30 per cent of the total.

For example, a British worker is more than four times as likely to feign an illness to get time off work than Europe's 'most honest' workforce, the Danish.

When asked why they had taken their most recent day off work, only half said it was for 'a genuine physical or mental illness'.

But everybody else was faking illness, with many saying they had to look after another family member, typically a young child or elderly parent.

A 'man of 21 with learning disabilities has been granted taxpayers' money to fly to Amsterdam and have sex with a prostitute.

His social worker says sex is a 'human right' for the unnamed individual - described as a frustrated virgin.

His trip to a brothel in the Dutch capital's red light district next month is being funded through a £520million scheme introduced by the last government to empower those with disabilities.

They are given a personal budget and can choose what services this is spent on.

The man's social worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said his client was an 'angry, frustrated and anxious young man' who had a need for sex.

'He's planning to do more than just have his end away - he's having a holiday,' he said.

British children are being displaced from schools in Peterborough by a tidal wave of immigration which has hit that city, new reports have indicated.

Peterborough — already famous for having more than 15 destitute immigrant squatter camps on roundabouts and other public places — now faces a school crisis as well after the town has borne the brunt of more than 20,000 immigrants over the last two years.

The registrar general's population estimates for mid 2007 for Peterborough was some 163,300. This means that the population has leaped by more than 12 percent in two years, and now stands at around 185,000.

According to reports, emergency classrooms have had to be put up to cope with the demand for primary school places which has resulted, and indigenous children have largely lost their first-choice places by the tidal wave of newcomers.

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