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Now here is a lesson for the learning. Let us take heed.

Labour’s betrayal of British workers: Nearly every one of 1.67m jobs created since 1997 has gone to a foreigner.

Immigration was at the centre of the election campaign today as it emerged that virtually every extra job created under Labour has gone to a foreign worker. Mr Brown rejected the idea of an immigration quota, which he said would do ‘great damage to British business’.

THE SECRET PLAN

Arguably, the most damaging charge of them all. New Labour’s election manifestos made little or no mention of immigration policy.

But according to a draft report by the Cabinet Office, written in 2000, ministers had a secret plan to ‘maximise the contribution’ of migrants to the Government’s ‘social objectives’.

Former Labour advisor Andrew Neather, who worked on the report, said the aim was to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.’

THE BLACK ECONOMY

For much of the last decade, Britain has been a magnet for illegal immigration and it has never been possible to put a definitive figure on the numbers entering this way.

Migrants mass at the Sangatte refugee camp near Calais, then smuggle themselves into the UK, often hidden in lorries.

The stowaways vanish into a black economy estimated to be worth billions of pounds.

CITIZENSHIP

Handing out passports to foreign nationals is how the Labour Government changed the make-up of society for ever. In 1997 just 37,010 people were given citizenship.

Last year the Home Office approved an all-time record 203,865 applications, an increase of 58 per cent in a year.

In total, Labour has now created 1.5million new British citizens – all with full voting rights.

Ministers have repeatedly promised to toughen citizenship rules, most recently by insisting migrants must earn a passport by doing voluntary work.

ASYLUM REMOVALS

Labour has never recovered from the mayhem which occurred at the start of this century, when a record number of asylum seekers poured into the UK.

Even on conservative estimates, it has left around 285,000 failed claimants living in Britain – but the number being removed is falling.

The Government’s target of concluding 90 per cent of asylum cases within six months by December 2011 has been dismissed as ‘unachievable’ by Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency, John Vine.

Only a third of failed asylum seekers – 7,850 out of the 26,832 served with deportation notices – were actually removed in 2008. Inspectors have recently identified a new backlog of 40,000 cases massing in the asylum system.

PRISONS

Britain’s jails have been turned into what the Tories have called a ‘United Nations of crime’ containing inmates from 160 different countries.

The 11,546 foreign nationals represent one in every seven inmates in our prisons. They range from murderers and rapists to burglars, paedophiles, drug dealers and thieves.

There are only 192 member countries of the United Nations, so all bar 32 are represented in the British prison system.

The vast number of overseas inmates is a major factor behind the overcrowding which has led to the early release of UK criminals.

Figures suggested an extraordinary 98.5 per cent of 1.67million new posts were taken by immigrants.

The Tories seized on the revelation as evidence that the Government has totally failed to deliver its pledge of ‘British jobs for British workers’.

Shadow immigration minister Damian Green revealed unpublished figures showing there are almost 730,000 fewer British-born workers in the private sector than in 1997

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