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Originally Posted by Damien

Which countries would have them? And Blair sent a letter inquiring about the matter,, but unlike howard he just enquired about the issue but didnt keep ranting on about to gain votes. Now if he sent the letter but nothings been done, maybe there are not any countrys. Also you said it would be easy to find a country, as £1 goes a long way. What exactly kind of countries do you think we could put them in? I dont care if the conservatives are not in power they should research and see if countries are available, they said themselves they wont 'make promises they cant keep'

What part of being in opposition and therefore unable to approach other goverments don't you understand?

Originally Posted by Damien

First of all he cannot withdraw from the convention without some difficulty, look at the article. Next, you cannot put a limit of asylum seekers, so what happens what the 20,001 asylum seeker arrives? What happens if there is a humanitarian disaster

Perhaps you try and get a copy of the ITV program again and this time actually listen to what he said.
Howard made it perfectly clear that in the event of any humanitarian disasters we would accept as many as needed.
What he is trying to do is force the UN to do it's job in allocating asylum seekers to countries in such number that they can culturaly, socially, and economically cope with.

Originally Posted by Damien

They supported it up until recently then they rejected the same bill they previously supported, Howard even tried to introduce them when he was in government.

As the details became more clear that the goverment didn't have a clue how to impliment it properly, are you suprised they didn't back it?
Why back something which is a waste of money and isn't going to do the things that you want it to do?
Just because the tories wanted to impliment ID cards themselves doesn't mean they should automatically support any plan to bring in ID cards!

Originally Posted by Damien

Also Labour are having the points system with the ability to speak english. I would like to point out however that economic immigrants usually talk english in the first place. Also the CBI boss rejected the idea of the quota, unless the BBC are lying

Here is his quote from radio 4 again, provided by the BBC: He told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight: "If we have a cap of any sort it will tie businesses' hands from the flexibility which is, after all, the hallmark of the British labour market. So we are not in favour of a cap. That was the same program! But here he is rejecting the cap not supporting it

That wasn't the program I was listening to.

Originally Posted by Damien

Blair has! Just because he didnt bleat on about it day after day doesn't mean he didnt discuss it

Could you please give me details of when BLiar and labour have addressed the subjects of immigration and asylum and what they proposed to do to improve the situation, because I certainly can't remember labour saying much about it!