LadyJ
9th November 2007, 11:07
Anyone watched the programme 'Immigration - The BIG Debate' last night?
As part of an Immigration Special, Newsnight and Radio 5 Live commissioned a poll to discover people's views, and the results were fascinating.
The study found that 72% of the 1,026 adults questioned felt that the Government was doing a poor job on immigration
And nearly two thirds of respondents thought that Britain would lose its unique identity if immigration continues at its present rate
More than half of those surveyed believed that immigration posed a threat to UK jobs, but 46% felt that without immigrants coming to the UK the economy would ultimately suffer.
The poll suggested that David Cameron and the Conservative party inspired marginally the greater confidence in the British public to do the "best job" at handling the issue of immigration with 29% of the vote, compared to Gordon Brown and the Labour party on 26%.
Read the public comments here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2007/11/the_big_immigration_debate.html
Read the Immigration Survey here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/TABLESv3.pdf
As part of an Immigration Special, Newsnight and Radio 5 Live commissioned a poll to discover people's views, and the results were fascinating.
The study found that 72% of the 1,026 adults questioned felt that the Government was doing a poor job on immigration
And nearly two thirds of respondents thought that Britain would lose its unique identity if immigration continues at its present rate
More than half of those surveyed believed that immigration posed a threat to UK jobs, but 46% felt that without immigrants coming to the UK the economy would ultimately suffer.
The poll suggested that David Cameron and the Conservative party inspired marginally the greater confidence in the British public to do the "best job" at handling the issue of immigration with 29% of the vote, compared to Gordon Brown and the Labour party on 26%.
Read the public comments here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2007/11/the_big_immigration_debate.html
Read the Immigration Survey here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/TABLESv3.pdf