70 million because of migrants?

This BBC headline caught my eye: MPs urge ‘70m population cap’ in party manifestos.
Turns out the piece isn’t about plans to introduce compulsory sterilisation when the British population nears 70 million, but rather outrage at non European immigration.
Using some rather alarmist language from the Balanced Migration Group, the piece asserts that Britain has: ‘lost control [...]

Immigration tough talk has begun

You know its nearing election time when the political parties start spouting off on immigration.
Gordon Brown fired the starting gun by claiming that his government will introduce tougher restrictions soon.
These restrictions, of course, will only apply to people from those parts of the world that mostly speak the same language as us, have the same [...]