Home Office Immigration report shows we were right, says UKIP Deputy Leader

Paul Nuttall, UKIP’s Deputy Leader

A Home Office report on the impact of immigration has been described by local UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall as corroboration of his party’s long held standpoint.

“The fact that 2.2 million immigrants have come from inside the EU and 2.4 million outside the EU shows that we could halve immigration by regaining our independence from Brussels,” said MR Nuttall, Deputy Party Leader.

“The Home Office report shows half of Britons are now living under the strain of mass immigration, which is impacting on health services, schools and housing. This simply is not right.

“But the report also shows, something we have said for a long time, that this is having a detrimental effect on the migrants themselves, with many living in substandard, overcrowded accommodation, struggling to maintain work.

“It’s not fair on anybody. The point here is that uncontrolled migration is bad for everybody. It’s a simple question of numbers.

“When our borders open next year to up to 27 million Romanians and Bulgarians we are risking worsening an already difficult situation.

“It’s about time the Government got a grip on the problem. But little can be done unless we leave the EU. We want to see a fair, balanced common sense approach to immigration where people are merited on their skills and intent, wherever they are from, and not simply by the fact that they happen to hold a passport from one of the EU 28,” he said.

UKIP has enjoyed its greatest success in recent local elections, particularly in the East of England in Norfolk and Lincolnshire, areas highlighted by the report as having some of the highest levels of immigration.