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11:40am Thursday 31st July 2008
Housing minister Caroline Flint has urged opponents of the proposed Weston-on-the-Green eco-town to continue to engage with developers.
Mrs Flint spoke during a visit to a social housing development in Rose Hill, Oxford, today.
She said if planned eco-town south of Bicester went ahead, it would provide thousands of affordable homes for people who wanted to commute into Oxford.
She said: "I understand people's concerns, but we have to recognise we haven't built enough homes over the last 30 years and Oxford is one of the most expensive cities in the country.
"We need to have an informed debate about the proposed eco-town and we will listen to people's concerns."
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DanOxford, says...
2:32pm Thu 31 Jul 08
70% of population growth in the next few years will be due DIRECTLY to immigration, with much of the remainder taken up by recent arrivals having larger families.
There are an estimated 285,000 illegal immigrants in the UK- roughly double the population of Oxford.
We hear the same old guff about people living longer, there being more single people etc etc- but never the REAL elephant in the room, which is that we are concreting over our Country to house foreigners.
You don't build an extension over half your garden so your kids can have a bedroom each then invite the neighbours to live in it.
Housing will never be 'affordable' when many former family homes are snapped up by (often foreign) landlords and rented out to several economic immigrants or offered as 'emergency accomodation' to social services who have a statutory duty to house asylum seekers and will therefore pay through the nose with the taxpayer's money.
How many scams like the one involving Mohammed Faruq are going on?
Mohammed Faruq is a social housing landlord in Oxford
The leader of an immigration scam that cost the taxpayer more than £500,000 has been jailed for four years.
Mohammed Faruq, 56, was at the head of a scam to bring over Pakistani relatives who then changed their names and applied for asylum and benefits.
He pleaded guilty to harbouring illegal immigrants and conspiracy to defraud.
Sixteen people have been convicted over false asylum claims and false benefit claims amounting to £611,000 in Oxford between 2000 and 2004.
According to council officials who investigated the case, Faruq - a well-known member of the East Oxford community and a social housing landlord - would provide them with emergency accommodation costing up to £235 a night then claimed rent back from the county council's social services
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80% of the UK's population (regardless of race) are against mass immigration, but NuLabour want to cling on to power by undermining the country with immigrants who, traditionally, are more likely to vote for them.
We need LIMITED numbers of skilled workers- not the situation we have now where low skilled immigrants are coming in and record numbers of skilled, educated Britons are leaving for Canada, Australia and other destinations.
Record immigration is fuelling the biggest rise in the population for almost 50 years, official figures show.
ONS report on national population projections
Sir Andrew Green: We must cut back numbers now
Your view: How can Britain cope with the population surge?
Ten years from now, there will be 65 million people in the UK - an increase of five million - and by 2031, the population will be over 70 million, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
Within a generation, immigration will add the equivalent of a city the size of London to the population.
This is the fastest growth rate since the post-war baby boom - and is far more rapid than the Government forecast just three years ago.
One campaign group accused the Government of conducting a ''vast unplanned experiment with the countrys well-being.
Statisticians said at least 70 per cent of the population rise over the next 20 years will be attributable directly to immigration.
The rest will be babies born to British mothers - many of whom are second-generation immigrants.
http://www.telegraph
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