Anarchy in the UK

• Author: admin
• Filed under: .Uk Visa Guide
• Date: Nov 12,2009

11.11.09

Recently on  blog a UK immigration amnesty was called for from the director of Global Visas, Liam Clifford, today we learn of a raid on a warehouse where 21 arrests were made in Manchester. It is clear that people in this country are working illegally and the point made concerning lost revenue for the country is a valid one.

If you are in a country illegally you cannot claim any sort of government handouts, fact, and the notion that there are people working in the country that could be supporting the economy, like the rest of us, is frustrating to say the least. The figure quoted by Mr Clifford of 400,000 adds up to a lot of revenue slipping through the hands of the chancellor, in fact I would put the amount of people in this country working illegally as much higher.

The argument for a UK immigration amnesty seems a little futile, however, the principle remains when you consider there are unscrupulous people benefiting from this unregulated labour market. Added to that is the endless list of services being used but not paid for in taxes. Who is winning out of all of this?

The life of an illegal immigrant is not a very pleasant existence; the people arrested today are probably scared out of their wits with anticipation of what will happen to them. The same month a human trafficking awareness campaign is kicked off in the US, we see the end result of the process in the UK. The people arrested yesterday are not the real criminals, if the government want to blame anyone they should look at the people traffickers and the people that use this cheap form of labour to their advantage.

You could blame the macro-economics of the society we live in today, for pushing down the prices of everything we buy, from chickens and milk, to sweatshirts from Primark. The western world is pushing this ideology of throw-away goods, think of all the food wastage we as a nation are guilty of-2 for the price of 1 anyone? Why not make the labour force from the same mould, it costs peanuts and is easy to replace.

Until the country and government sit up and actually take notice of what is important in our society, instead of jumping from policy to policy, with no real interest or intent of fully solving the problem, the country will remain in the over-stimulated and over-burdened state it is at the moment.

This month it is a furore over comments made about horse-riding and the dangers of drugs, the next something entirely new, a common thread however persists. The systems in place for some of the most crucial elements of society are not working, look at the amount of benefit fraud this country currently has a yeat, 4billion at the last count, why is the system not catching these people? The prison system, constantly in the news but not adequately managed. The list could go on and turn into a very depressing appraisal, however, the facts remain that systems are not working and solutions are not forthcoming.

How long does it take to make sure one aspect of society is functioning at an optimum level and depressing mistakes are not constant? The subject of immigration is of course massively vast, but to think that 21 arrests are only the tip of the iceberg and the problem goes a long way further, a solution or plan needs to happen. I think considering the current chaos and lack of initiative in solving such an issue an immigration amnesty in the UK seems an extremely plausible remedy.

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