Immigration is Bad For Britain | Godfrey Bloom

if I may put you right on one thing bongoland is actually y86 and if you Google that code you'll find it uh I only found that out myself the other day um great thing about politics is that tonight it's the Oxford Union and I'm very flattered to be invited and tomorrow night it's pocklington rugby clubs uh anniversary dinner and I rather suspect on both occasions I will be the worst for where um can I just again as our introducing speaker uh suggested draw your attention to the actual motion here the motion isn't about whether immigration is a good or bad thing immigration of course is like the curro's egg it's good in parts so I would argue that we must pay attention to that particular motion of the em motion being we've had too much immigration since the War I wouldn't even argue that myself I would say perhaps we've had too much immigration in the last 20 or 30 years I'm married into a Polish immigrant family my father-in-law uh finished up after the war he was a tank commander uh with uh the first polish armor division uh he was a successful businessman successful enough to send two children through public school he was a pillar of the community and a great benefactor for Char charity who would suggest for one moment he wasn't welcome certainly not me and of course we look back historically don't we we look back at those uh turbulent times in Europe and we see those religious refugees uh who came to us and they brought their skills uh the gold Smiths and silver Smiths which parts of London and that part of London in and around Hatton Garden still benefit today who would suggest that they weren't welcome certainly not me what about the uh the people from the low countries who showed us how to drain the fen East Anglia producing some of the most uh fertile Farmland in the country if not Europe so successful now is that part of the world rumor has it they have a university in the fence I you not be that as it may and of course after the war we saw the West Indians come across and I lived in South London when they came in significant numbers because we couldn't man uh our Health Service and we couldn't man our uh Transport Services wonderful people yes indeed my Lord they loved cricket and all the better for that in my view uh they were God-fearing family valued uh really really nice people and I lived amongst them I counted a number of them as my friends and in point of fact they turned dominoes into a spectator sport who would suggest for one moment that they weren't welcome certainly not me certainly not me and then of course for those of you old enough to remember we had that beastly regime in Uganda who threw out those hardworking uh Asians who came to us with all that entrepreneurial spirit that integation spirit that they brought here and they've done so well haven't we so many of those families that came to us have done so well who would for a moment say that they weren't welcome not me certainly not me but what I would suggest is we've got to acknowledge some things that are simply a fact of life this is one of the most crowded pieces of real estate on the face of the planet we are just full now I'm a libert iian I'm a classical liberal you might argue well goodness me what's Bloom doing arguing against free movement of Labor well generally speaking in a pure uh economic sense I wouldn't be but we have a welfare state for Worse not for better in my view but we have moved miles away from beverage where we have a social network that produces cradle tog grave pensions social security health education none of these things I would go for myself as a Neo Austrian Economist I'd get rid of the lot but we are where we are so when you bring significant numbers in they are then going to expect quite rightly and quite naturally and the noble Lord makes the point we're a fair Nation Nation we're quite right we should extend these facilities uh if if uh if they are there and if that is appropriate but of course they they can come and they are welcome and I know how hardworking in my constituency are they are and how well received they are and how well thought of they are but if they stay and of course many will like my father-in-law eventually they will want their pensions their State uh uh uh education and all the other things that go with the modern welfare state and you may or may not made the argument for economic advancement for immigration uh and I'm not here to make that argument for or against uh and I I don't really think that matters particularly we know just down the road outside Oxford they're already beginning to concrete over Greenfield sites the government tell us we need another 200,000 dwellings a year well I don't want my nation my beautiful Island concreted right over to tweak up GDP by another half a percent a year thank you very much I don't want rep representing a Yorkshire constituency significant amounts of immigration from wherever it comes when I have 30% youth unemployment in the north of England it doesn't make any economic sense at all what we need of course is a system where we work out who we want to come in who we know who comes in and they apply like any other civilized country on the face of the planet Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa perfectly reasonable if we need that skill we bring people in but an open door policy an open door policy is a recipe for disaster and the people that it will affect most of those immigrant families like the one I married into who have been here for a generation they're the people because people will not distinguish between who is new who is old who's adding to the community who isn't adding to the community and like the noble Lord I don't believe for one minute most immigrants come here for welfare benefits that would be absurd thank you uh you mention adding to the community yet you proposed to get rid of welfare how would that add to your community that you represent when you get rid of welfare and is that UK could policy well firstly will have escaped your notice perhaps I'm now an independent not you and I would very I would very happily come back and de debate the advantages or disadvantages of a welfare state but tonight that's not the debate the debate is the motion is this country has seen too much immigration since the war that is the motion and I commend it to the house

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Length: 8min 9sec (489 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 31 2014