Grrr!!

[KeithD]

99% of the immigrants in the last 13 years were allowed in under the EU agreement signed by the Tories.

Prior to the Border Agency we had no one checking who came in or out at our borders, at least we've now made a start doing that, but it'll be another 10 years before we get as good at it as the Yanks.... although that depends on the new computer system which will probably be finished in 3048 at a cost of £46Zillion over budget

[Dedworth]

99% of the immigrants in the last 13 years were allowed in under the EU agreement signed by the Tories.

So the remaining 1% are made up of non EU workers, spouses, fiancees, dependants, bogus students, Iraqis, Afghans, Moldovans, Kosovans, Zimbabweans, Albanians, Vietnamese, Iranians, Algerians etc etc ? Not counting the untold who evade UKBA Controls and jump out of the lorry when it reaches Watford Gap Services.

[dontpushme]

I'm for British jobs for British workers ( and spouses of course )
next in line should be the Europeans and then the non Europeans

Haha! Joe, in your world, I'd never be able to be with my British boyfriend. I'm neither his wife nor a European. The only way I can get in the UK is by getting a visa myself. So far, the job prospects are nil (Well, not really. I found a spatial Analyst opening at KFC, but all the other openings I've found were for PhD assistantships), the Tier 1 visa possibility is crap (I can't believe folks with MBAs automatically qualify no matter now much or how little they earned in the last year), and I'm definitely not even considering getting a tourist visa only to run away and disappear in the UK.