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Following this week’s, rather good, BBC 2 programme broadcast on Monday 11 November, we thought you would welcome a word from our President and co-founder (with Professor David Coleman), Lord Andrew Green. If you weren’t able to watch, it can be found on The BBC iPlayer: Immigration. How British Politics Failed, episode 1. Here’s what Lord Green wrote:
“After more than 20 years on the case I found its coverage of Migration Watch truly remarkable, indeed it quoted me 21 times! In doing so it provided an informed and balanced account of immigration to the UK in the first ten years of this century. Indeed, most of the numbers quoted were taken from our material. Nigel Farage quoted it in his interventions as did Jeremy Paxman when interviewing David Blunkett, the Labour Home Secretary at the time. David Cameron himself referred to a private meeting with me and said that MW had brought rigour into the debate. Our suggestion of a cap on net migration set at 100,000 a year was given some prominence.
Looking ahead, the need for Migration Watch to set the pace in this critical debate is now even greater after the total failure of the Conservative government to get a grip on the inflow of migrants. It is clearer by the day that the whole nature of our country is being changed by the sheer scale of net migration. Indeed, on current projections the majority community in our country could well become a minority within some 40 years. If that seems a long time ahead remember that the political influence of immigrant communities is also growing rapidly as some political parties seek their votes.
It is against this background that I now make this appeal to you to help finance a major effort by Migration Watch. £10 a month or more, if you can manage it, from thousands of our supporters would provide the resources we need. I realise, of course, that you will have many other financial commitments, but this is a really critical period for the future of the country that we have inherited and which has shaped us as individuals. We surely owe it to our children and grandchildren to make a major effort to preserve it.”
Thank you, Andrew. As the good Lord says, we owe it to our children and grandchildren. And in Remembrance Sunday week, we surely also owe it to the hundreds of thousands of young men who gave their lives serving our country and the cause of freedom, our freedom.
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