the_tyrant
05-05-11, 05:26 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334271/Eight-want-tighter-controls-immigration---Lib-Dem-voters-want-cap.html
The public, including a sizeable majority of Lib Dem supporters, want far stricter controls on immigration to the UK, according to a poll released last night.
The YouGov survey found 81 per cent support for the government's cap on economic migration - which will slash the number of non-EU workers given visas by a fifth.
It is part of a policy to cut net migration - the number of people arriving in Britain, versus those leaving - from 215,000 to the 'tens of thousands'.
However, the public, including a large chunk of Lib Dem supporters, is calling on the Coalition to go much further.
Some 70 per cent of the public thought that net immigration of 50,000 or less would be 'best for Britain'.
This was the view of 61 per cent of Lib Dems. The figure will surprise party managers, who had widely assumed their supporters wanted relaxed immigration controls.
Separately, the YouGov survey found public concern about a report, published by an Oxford University academic, warning that white Britons will be a minority by 2066 if immigration continues at the current rate.
Prof David Coleman said that, If immigration stays at its long-term rate of around 180,000 a year, the white British-born population would decline from 80 per cent of the total now to 59 per cent in 2051.
also, if your interested the original survey can be found here:
http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/excel/YouGov-Poll-Restricting-NonEC-Mig301110.xls
The public, including a sizeable majority of Lib Dem supporters, want far stricter controls on immigration to the UK, according to a poll released last night.
The YouGov survey found 81 per cent support for the government's cap on economic migration - which will slash the number of non-EU workers given visas by a fifth.
It is part of a policy to cut net migration - the number of people arriving in Britain, versus those leaving - from 215,000 to the 'tens of thousands'.
However, the public, including a large chunk of Lib Dem supporters, is calling on the Coalition to go much further.
Some 70 per cent of the public thought that net immigration of 50,000 or less would be 'best for Britain'.
This was the view of 61 per cent of Lib Dems. The figure will surprise party managers, who had widely assumed their supporters wanted relaxed immigration controls.
Separately, the YouGov survey found public concern about a report, published by an Oxford University academic, warning that white Britons will be a minority by 2066 if immigration continues at the current rate.
Prof David Coleman said that, If immigration stays at its long-term rate of around 180,000 a year, the white British-born population would decline from 80 per cent of the total now to 59 per cent in 2051.
also, if your interested the original survey can be found here:
http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/excel/YouGov-Poll-Restricting-NonEC-Mig301110.xls