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Tories demand limit on migrants from Europe
The Conservatives are to call for strict quotas on the number of workers allowed into Britain from Bulgaria and Romania when the countries join the European Union in January. Damian Green, the Tory immigration spokesman, said the Government should learn the lesson from the "unprecedented numbers" who came to the United Kingdom - particularly from Poland - when the EU expanded in 2004.
I don't recall any Romanian splodydopes, Polish car bombers or Bulgarian spittle-spewers, do you?
The move lays down a direct challenge to ministers and represents a hardening of the Tory position on immigration under David Cameron. The party has avoided addressing the issue after being bruised by the reaction to its hardline policy under Michael Howard at the last election. But the Conservatives will use Bulgarian and Romanian membership to demand "controlled immigration". They want ministers to impose restrictions on workers from the two countries similar to the controls brought in by other EU countries two years ago, when Germany kept its total of newcomers to below 10,000.

Britain imposed no restrictions and saw up to 600,000 arrive from Eastern Europe. The Government estimated that only 13,000 would come in. Last month unemployment climbed to 1.68 million amid claims that migration from Poland had swollen the total.
Posted by: lotp 2006-08-20
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