TMP Online

TMP has stumbled upon an interesting window into Tory thoughts on immigration.

Conservativehome.com reports that only 34.4% of Conservative members they polled believed immigration had largely been good for Britain.

Commenting on the poll, the blog editor/manager said,
“The finding that surprised and disappointed me was that only 34.4% of members believed that immigration had largely been good for Britain……We agree with David Cameron that we wouldn’t be half the country we are without immigration.”
Indeed, in 2005, David Cameron said,
“we think immigration is very good for Britain; we think that there are clear benefits in a modern economy from having both emigration and immigration”.

But the blog manager/editor’s comments were swiftly dismissed out of hand by another Tory blogger:
“Why should that disappoint you? There may be some temporary economic benefits from immigration (rapidly turning to disadvantage as immigrants move into their dotage) but all this is substantially outweighed by the threat of ethnic strife and the ruination of our country by overpopulation.”

To read the Tory debate on Conservativehome.com, click here.

Earlier today comments were posted here which were wrongly attributed to James Cleverly in error.  We apologise to Mr Cleverly for any offence caused.