Spain: Falangists march through Madrid on anniversary of Franco and Jose Antonio's death 

Stumbling to War With Russia?

Friday - November 27, 2015 at 12:21 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan


Turkey’s decision to shoot down a Russian warplane was a provocative and portentous act.
That Sukhoi Su-24, which the Turks say intruded into their air space, crashed and burned — in Syria. One of the Russian pilots was executed while parachuting to safety. A Russian rescue helicopter was destroyed by rebels using a U.S. TOW missile. A Russian marine was killed.
“A stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists,” said Vladimir Putin of the first downing of a Russian warplane by a NATO nation in half a century. Putin has a point, as the Russians are bombing rebels in northwest Syria, some of which are linked to al-Qaida.
As it is impossible to believe Turkish F-16 pilots would fire missiles at a Russian plane without authorization from President Tayyip Recep Erdogan, we must ask: Why did the Turkish autocrat do it?
Why is he risking a clash with Russia?
Answer: Erdogan is probably less outraged by intrusions into his air space than by Putin’s success in securing the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad, whom Erdogan detests, and by relentless Russian air strikes on Turkmen rebels seeking to overthrow Assad.
Imperiled strategic goals and ethnicity may explain Erdogan. But what does the Turkish president see down at the end of this road?
And what about us? Was the U.S. government aware Turkey might attack Russian planes? Did we give Erdogan a green light to shoot them down?
These are not insignificant questions.
For Turkey is a NATO ally. And if Russia strikes back, there is a possibility Ankara will invoke Article V of NATO and demand that we come in on their side in any fight with Russia.
And Putin was not at all cowed. Twenty-four hours after that plane went down, his planes, ships and artillery were firing on those same Turkmen rebels and their jihadist allies.
Politically, the Turkish attack on the Sukhoi Su-24 has probably aborted plans to have Russia join France and the U.S. in targeting ISIS, a diplomatic reversal of the first order.
Indeed, it now seems clear that in Syria’s civil war, Turkey is on the rebel-jihadist side, with Russia, Iran and Hezbollah on the side of the Syrian regime.
But whose side are we on?
As for what strategy and solution President Obama offers, and how exactly he plans to achieve it, it remains an enigma.
Nor is this the end of the alarming news.
According to The Times of Israel, Damascus reports that, on Monday, Israel launched four strikes, killing five Syrian soldiers and eight Hezbollah fighters, and wounding others.
Should Assad or Hezbollah retaliate, this could bring Israel more openly into the Syrian civil war.
And if Israel is attacked, the pressure on Washington to join her in attacking the Syrian regime and Hezbollah would become intense.
Yet, should we accede to that pressure, it could bring us into direct conflict with Russia, which is now the fighting ally of the Assad regime.
Something U.S. presidents conscientiously avoided through 45 years of Cold War — a military clash with Moscow — could become a real possibility. Does the White House see what is unfolding here?
Elsewhere, yet another Russia-NATO clash may be brewing.
In southern Ukraine, pylons supporting the power lines that deliver electricity to Crimea have been sabotaged, blown up, reportedly by nationalists, shutting off much of the electric power to the peninsula.
Repair crews have been prevented from fixing the pylons by Crimean Tatars, angry at the treatment of their kinfolk in Crimea.
In solidarity with the Tatars, Kiev has declared that trucks carrying goods to Crimea will not be allowed to cross the border.
A state of emergency has been declared in Crimea.
Russia is retaliating, saying it will not buy produce from Ukraine, and may start cutting off gas and coal as winter begins to set in.
Ukraine is as dependent upon Russia for fossil fuels as Crimea is upon Ukraine for electricity. Crimea receives 85 percent of its water and 80 percent of its electricity from Ukraine.
Moreover, Moscow’s hopes for a lifting of U.S. and EU sanctions, imposed after the annexation of Crimea, appear to be fading.
Are these events coordinated? Has the U.S. government given a go-ahead to Erdogan to shoot down Russian planes? Has Obama authorized a Ukrainian economic quarantine of Crimea?
For Vladimir Putin is not without options. The Russian Army and pro-Russian rebels in southeast Ukraine could occupy Mariupol on the Black Sea and establish a land bridge to Crimea in two weeks.
In Syria, the Russians, with 4,000 troops, could escalate far more rapidly than either us or our French allies.
As of today, Putin supports U.S.-French attacks on ISIS. But if we follow the Turks and begin aiding the rebels who are attacking the Syrian army, we could find ourselves eyeball to eyeball in a confrontation with Russia, where our NATO allies will be nowhere to be found.
Has anyone thought this through?
http://buchanan.org/blog/stumbling-to-war-with-russia-124334

Protestant Churches criticise loyalist anti-refugee parade

Justin Kouame, chairperson of the Northern Ireland Communnity of Refugees & Asylum Seekers. Picture by Matt Bohill

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Demo to oppose loyalist anti-refugee protest

Loyalist group calls for refugees to be 'hunted out'

Anti-fascist group to hold refugee counter protest

Presbyterian Moderator Dr Ian McNie

THE two largest Protestant Churches have criticised loyalists for plans to stage an anti-immigration rally in central Belfast.
The controversial Protestant Coalition wants to march the length of Royal Avenue and Donegall Place on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, calling for refugees to be barred from entering the north.
The group, which emerged during the loyalist flag protests, has urged all sections to join the rally "against the influx of refugees/terrorists coming to the shores of NI/Ireland".
The Ulster Unionist Party has also hit out at rally organisers saying they “are deliberately trying to conflate refugees with terrorists”.
“This is dangerously misleading and completely ignores the fact that the refugee crisis gripping Europe is about people fleeing from those jihadi terrorists known as ISIS," a spokesman said.
Organisers claim up to 500 participants will take part in the parade along Royal Avenue before a rally is held at Belfast city hall.
Both events will take place just yards from where Christmas shoppers will be gathering at the Continental market in the grounds of city hall.
The protest was arranged after 130 people were killed by Isis during a series of gun and suicide bomb attacks in Paris earlier this month and claims that some attackers used the refugee crisis to sneak into Europe.
A Belfast-based organisation which helps refugees and asylum seekers had urged Church leaders and unionist politicians to speak out about the planned parade and protest.
Justin Kouame from the Northern Ireland Community of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (NICRAS) said refugees pose no threat and that the rally should be called off.
“They are using the opportunity to blame the refugees for what happened and put forward their own agenda,” he said.
“There are refugees here for many years and nothing happened.”
He added that Protestant community leaders needed to oppose the planned events.
“They need to come out and say something, for me this is very important,” he said.
Up to 100 refugees are expected to arrive in the north before Christmas as part of a scheme organised by Stormont ministers.
In response senior Presbyterian and Church of Ireland figures spoke out on Thursday night about the need to welcome refugees.
Presbyterian Church moderator Dr Ian McNie, said “the teaching of scripture is absolutely clear - all Christians are called to welcome the stranger and to love our neighbour”.
“Out of heartfelt concern we need to pray for those living in troubled parts of our world and for those fleeing conflict,” he said.
“And when such people come among us, they need to be welcomed with a generosity of spirit that reflects the love that we ourselves have come to know in Jesus Christ.
“To do anything else dishonours the name of our Lord and Saviour.”
Rev Adrian Dorrian, chair of the Church of Ireland’s Church and Society Commission, said the planned parade and rally is “not helpful” adding “nor does it resonate with the Christian understanding that each member of the human race is made in the image and likeness of God”.
“One of the core principles held to be true by the founding fathers of what would become Protestantism across the world is an understanding of grace - giving with no expectation of reward.”
A post on the Protestant Coalition Facebook page confirmed that it had met the Parades Commission earlier this week.
Belfast anti-Fascists have said they will hold a counter-demonstration during the rally.
Earlier this year the Protestant Coalition called off a similar protest in Belfast.
http://www.irishnews.com/news/2015/11/27/news/concerns-over-anti-refugee-parade-in-belfast-335114/?param=ds12rif76F

German Politician Openly Brags About Replacing the German People

NWN: There can be only one punishment for bitches like this !

"Joyous Celebration" during 9/11 World Trade Center Attack

"...five (5) Israeli nationals, detained in conjunction with the TWINBOMB investigation, had videotaped the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and may have possessed foreknowledge of the same..."

Documents

On September 11, 2001 five employees of a moving van company called "Urban Moving Systems" were apprehended hours after the twin towers were struck. An eyewitness saw them celebrating the attacks on the World Trade Center from the window of her apartment building.They emerged from a white van, jumped up and down, and high-fived each other with apparent glee. The eyewitness observed them in New Jersey overlooking the Hudson River with an unobstructed view of the burning towers. The eyewitness contacted the police. What follows are FBI reports obtained under the Freedom of Information Act regarding their detention, questioning and apparent deception during polygraphs about affiliation with Israeli intelligence agencies.

FBI File	Contents
FOIA Release Letter	January 16, 2013 release of 183 pages from a 215 page file. Withholdings under the National Security Act of 1947, and other exemptions.
1169683-001 --- 303A-NY-C237934-Serial 325 --- Section 1 (1037758).PDF	On September 11, 2001, members of the FBI-NK, acting upon information received from a complainant, stopped and arrested five (5) Israeli nationals purported to have witnessed the initial explosion of the World Trade Center and were seen to be celebrating the event...With the timing of the complaint sighting coupled with the joyous celebration of the individuals, members of the FBI-NK arrested the five individuals after a possible "hit" was received by a law enforcement bomb squad canine.
1169683-001 --- 303A-NY-C237934-Serial 326 --- Section 1 (1037759).PDF	"...there was a considerable criminal venture associated Urban Moving Systems. Along with the reported employees, these companies utilize Israeli nationals in the U.S. on B-2 Visas (tourist/business). This being done to willingly circumvent U.S. Labor, Tax and Immigrantion laws."
1169683-001 --- 303A-NY-C237934-Serial 337 --- Section 1 (1038683).PDF	FBI interviews detained Israeli former soldier on November 16, 2001
1169683-001 --- 303A-NY-C237934-Serial 338 --- Section 1 (1037761).PDF	Former Jewish Agency security guard interviewed on November 20, 2001 in conjunction with 9/11 attack. Illegal activities, visa overstay.
1169683-001 --- 303A-NY-C237934-Serial 339 --- Section 1 (1037762).PDF	November 28, 2001 reports on interviews and polygraphs of Israelis detained on 9/11. "Preliminary results of the polygraph have shown [redacted] not have prior knowledge regarding the terrorist attacks on 09 11 2001. However, [redacted] showed deception when asked about [redacted]. It was evident to the interviewing agents that [redacted] had liked on two previous interviews and was withholding information during the present interview/polygraph. It is unclear to the interviewing agents as to the exact nature and reason for[redacted] deception.
1169683-001 --- 303A-NY-C237934-Serial 368 --- Section 1 (1037763).PDF	January 3, 2001 New York Polygraph Unit/A-1 "responses to relevant questions relating to the issue of Intelligence affiliation were indicative of deception."
1169683-001 --- 303A-NY-C237934-Serial 459 --- Section 1 (1037765).PDF	June 4, 2002 redacted report from National Security Division
1169683-001 --- 303C-PH-C91946-Serial 2 --- Section 1 (1037749).PDF	Two additional detained Israelis "were associated with 5 Israeli Nationals who were being detained in the New York city area for possibly having prior knowledge of the captioned terrorist attacks." Inconclusive polygraph results.
1169683-001 --- 303C-PH-C91946-Serial 3 --- Section 1 (1037750).pdf	September 21, 2001 Newark Squad C-9 report on detention of two Urban Moving Systems workers.
1169683-001 --- 303C-PH-C91946-Serial 10 --- Section 1 (1037752).pdf	October 31, 2001 FBI report to Kansas City, Newark and New York "To summarize interviews with 7 Israeli Nationals employed by various moving companies who were detained by INS for visa violations."
1169683-001 --- 303C-PH-C91946-Serial 18 --- Section 1 (1037776).pdf	January 24, 2002 FBI Suspicious Activities report. " FBI Newark informed FBI Philadelphia that there were two Israelis who had been detained in York, Pennsylvania, by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for violating their Visa status. These two Israelis worked for a moving company, Urban Moving Systems in Weewauken, New Jersey. FBI Newark had detained 5 other employees of Urban Moving Systems after they were observed on September 11, 2001, on the roof of their business building in Weehauken, NJ, taking pictures of the World Trade Center attacks. One report stated that these individuals were on the roof prior to either airplane crashing into the World Trade Center towers, suggesting there may have been prior knowledge on their part. As such, they were detained by local police, and identified. They were Israeli males which were in violation of their Visa status. FBI Newark had interviewed and conducted polygraphs of these individuals..."Zoomcopter" kiosks manned by Israelis suddenly abandoned.  "suspicious activity, and in turn, notified FBI Philadelphia. It was determined they were Israelis. After receiving this information, FBI Philadelphia inquired about the kiosks in the local malls and learned that all had been abandoned in a similar fashion that same day. Further investigation revealed that the same day, toy helicopter kiosks in malls located in Washington, D.C., Hickory, North Carolina, Arlington, Texas and in all the malls in the local Philadelphia area hadbeen abandoned within the same two hour period...It was evident that an extremely well-organized and effective communication system existed between these Israelis nationwide."
1169683-001 --- 303C-PH-C91946-Serial 33 --- Section 1 (1037754).pdf	August 13, 2002 FBI report on interviews "Related to PENTBOMB" "...the Mossad may be active in the United States when a specific target or mission has been identified...the Mossad has an interest in Detroit, Michigan...Israel has an agency comparable to the FBI of the United States which is known as the Shabak/orShin Bet, the Israeli Security Service.
1169683-001 --- 303C-PH-C91946-Serial 357 --- Section 1 (1037756).pdf	September 21, 2001 FBI from Philadelphia on arrival dates of Israelis.
1169683-001 --- 303C-PH-C91946-Serial 33 --- Section 1 (1037754).pdf	September 21, 2001 FBI report that "provides the investigative resuts and analytical findings of...investigation to date."  Redacted.
1169683-001 --- 303D-NY-C282820-Serial 221 --- Section 1 (1037768).pdf	May 3, 2012 file copy of Wayne Madsen report on "The Israeli Art Students and Movers Story"

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Jews at “Forefront of Welcoming” Invasion

November 11, 2015 by TNO Staff— in Europe · 8 Comments

 

European Jews are “on the forefront of welcoming the influx of largely Muslim migrants and refugees,” one of Europe’s leading Jewish historians, Dr. Diana Pinto has claimed.

Speaking at a Jewish Community Center’s world conference in Jerusalem last week, Pinto, a Senior Fellow and a board member of the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research, described how “European Jewry, remembering its own postwar refugee status, is on the forefront of welcoming the influx of largely Muslim migrants and refugees—one of the greatest wagers of the coming decade.”

According to coverage of her speech printed in the Jerusalem-based Times of Israel, Pinto, who is also a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, said that “in this interface with peoples holding historically laden identities, European Jewry is saying, ‘It doesn’t matter where you come from, what matters is where you’re going.’”

Pinto’s comments were confirmed by an article in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency of September 8, 2015 (“European Jews, mindful of risks, urge aid to refugees”), which told of several instances of Jews pushing for aid for the invading nonwhite hordes even though they were well aware that many of the incoming Arabs were “anti-Semitic.”

The JTA quoted Ron van der Wieken, chairman of the Central Jewish Organization of the Netherlands, as saying that while he was “aware that some Middle Eastern refugees harbor very negative feelings toward Jews … Jews cannot withdraw support from those in need and fleeing serious violence,” and urged Holland to devise a “charitable” refugee policy.

Zoltan Radnoti, the newly elected chairman of the rabbinical board of the Mazsihisz umbrella group of Hungarian Jewish communities, was then quoted as saying, “I help the refugees with fear that I am helping send danger to other Jews in Europe. I know some of the refugees may have fired on our [Israeli] soldiers. Others would have done so in a heartbeat. I know. But I am duty bound to help.”

Mazsihisz has set up collection depots in Budapest Jewish institutions from which it delivers food, clothes, diapers, medicine, water, and other necessities to the invaders.

In Italy, the JTA reported, the Jewish community of Milan threw open the doors of its Holocaust museum to accommodate homeless invaders from the Middle East and Africa.

In Brussels, the JTA continued, one Menachen Margolin, a Chabad rabbi and director of the European Jewish Association lobby, led a delegation of rabbis to deliver food and nonperishables to the invaders.

The Times of Israel reported earlier (“5 things you can do to help the refugee crisis,” September 17, 2015), that an emergency meeting of the Board of Deputies of British Jews was held in September to “coordinate over 20 UK Jewish organizations’ responses to the refugee and migrant crisis.”

The Board of Deputies of British Jews has even set up a special website called “Support Refugees,” supported by all major Jewish synagogues and organizations in the UK, to “be a one-stop shop for those who want to get involved in supporting refugees and asylum seekers both in the UK and abroad.”

Jews in Britain demand more nonwhite invaders be allowed into the UK–but not into Israel….

The Times of Israel went on to detail different ways its readers could help the invaders in Europe. Firstly, the article told its readers not to send food or clothing, but only money—because, as Shachar Zahavi, from the Israeli NGO IsraAid, was quoted as saying, “We prefer to purchase relief items on the ground [in Greece].”

What was really needed, Zahavi said, was “baby carriers to be distributed in Greece to those families that are still on the move and crossing borders.” In addition, IsraAid was organizing Jewish doctors to set up clinics in Greece and Serbia.

The Times of Israel also reported that the US-based Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) had announced that it has hundreds of staff on the ground in twelve countries where it provides refugees with legal assistance, trauma counseling, and training in sustainable livelihoods.

Of course, in typical Jewish Supremacist hypocritical fashion, these Jews and their organizations are all in favor of the nonwhite invaders pouring into Europe—but at the same time, all support Israel, which has flatly refused to accept one “refugee” from anywhere, never mind Syria.

As detailed in the LA Times of September 6, 2015 (“One country that won’t be taking Syrian refugees: Israel”), Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s “lack of demographic and geographic depth” required controlling its borders against both “illegal migrants and terrorism.”

This “lack of demographic depth” to which he referred is of course the fact that immigration into Israel is strictly controlled and is racially-based: no one who is not Jewish can immigrate to that state.

This racial exclusivity is what is meant by the oft-heard calls for the maintenance of Israel as “a Jewish and democratic state”—the Jewish propagandists always throw in the “democratic” part of that cry in order to divert attention away from the fact that what they really want is a racial Jewish state, for Jews only.

While it is of course the right of every race and people to have their own state, it seems that the international Jewish lobby only wants to reserve this right for themselves, and deny it to everyone else.

Hence the international Jewish lobby, through direct political action and their controlled mass media outlets, is always “at the forefront” of promoting the nonwhite invasion of European nations—but at the same time fanatically supports Israel’s closed border policy and that state’s racially based immigration policies.

http://newobserveronline.com/jews-at-forefront-of-welcoming-invasion/ 

Net migration hits a record high of 336,000 as government warns 'uncontrollable wave' of people could push Britain to leave EU

• 636,000 people arrived in the UK in the year to June but only 300,000 left
• Net migration from the rest of Europe hits record high of 180,000
• Romania is now in the top five of countries for immigration for first time 
• Britain could leave EU over fears of an 'uncontrollable wave of migration'
• See more news on the migrant crisis at www.dailymail.co.uk/migrantcrisis 

David Cameron's promise to curb the numbers of people coming to Britain was dealt a devastating blow today as new figures showed net migration running at a record high.

Some 336,000 more people arrived in the UK than left in the last year, more than treble the Prime Minister's target of cutting net migration to under 100,000.

The damning figures emerged as Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned Britain could vote to leave the European Union over fears of an 'uncontrollable wave of migration'. 

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Some 336,000 more people arrived in the UK than left in the last year, more than treble the Prime Minister's target of cutting net migration to under 100,000

Researchers said the latest rise was down to a 'statistically significant' increase in the numbers of people arriving in the UK, with immigration at 636,000 - up 62,000 on the same period last year.

The surge is driven in part by a major jump in the number of Bulgarians and Romanians coming to the UK, up 61 per cent in a year. 

Mr Cameron has repeatedly refused to 'cave in' on his promise to cut net migration to the tens of thousands, despite the figure leaping to its highest annual total records dating back four decades.

Across the board the latest data from the Office for National Statistics makes for grim reading for the Prime Minister.

Net migration - the difference between new arrivals and those leaving - is up a third to 336,000 in the year to June.

It comes after the number of people settling in the UK leapt by 62,000 to 636,000 while the number who left in 12 months dropped by 20,000 to 300,000.

Mr Cameron has promised his planned changes on benefits for migrants would limit the numbers coming from the EU.

Latest figures show that net migration of EU citizens increased by 42,000 to 180,000 in a year. 

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David Cameron, pictured leaving Number 10 today, has repeatedly refused to 'cave in' on his promise to cut net migration to the tens of thousands, despite the figure leaping to its highest annual total records dating back four decades

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Romania is now in the top five of countries where those coming to Britain last lived for the first time, accounting for 6% of all immigration

ROMANIA IN THE TOP 5 COUNTRIES FOR IMMIGRATION FOR FIRST TIME

A major jump in the number of Bulgarians and Romanians coming to the UK has been revealed in the latest immigration data.

Statistics showed 50,000 citizens from the two countries arrived in Britain to live in the year to June.

This was a jump of 19,000 or 61 per cent compared to the 12 months to June last year and means that Bulgarians and Romanians now account for more than a fifth (21 per cent) of total immigration from the EU.

In addition, estimates suggest that net migration - the difference between the number of people arriving and leaving - from the countries has jumped by more than 70 per cent from 27,000 for the year to June 2014 to 46,000 in the following 12 months.

Restrictions on those from the nations - known as the EU2 countries - were lifted on January 1 last year.

This prompted suggestions that a major influx would follow but the first sets of statistics following the change appeared to contradict the claims.

The latest data show the estimated number of EU2 citizens immigrating to the UK has more than doubled compared to 23,000 in 2013 - the last annual period before the limits were scrapped.

Of the 50,000 who came to the UK, the majority - 84 per cent - came for work reasons, the ONS data showed.

Romania is now in the top five countries where those coming to Britain last lived for the first time, accounting for 6 per cent of all immigration. 

Some 294,000 people came to Britain in search of work in the year to June, up from 241,000 in 2014. Of these, just under two thirds - 187,000 - actually had a job to go to.

More than 160,000 of those coming for work related reasons were from the EU Of those coming with a definite job, 101,000 were EU citizens, a statistically significant increase of 22,000.

The number of Romanians and Bulgarians coming to the UK has soared since migration curbs were lifted.

Some 50,000 people from the two countries arrived in the UK - more than double the 19,000 who came in the same period last year.

The number of EU nationals working in the UK topped 2million in the three months to September, up by 324,000 on the same quarter in 2014.

By contrast, levels of employment among non-EU nationals remained broadly largely unchanged at 1.2 million. 

In May, just weeks after the general election, Mr Cameron ordered every minister in the government to step up efforts to tackle immigration, including access to benefits, housing and the NHS.

In a speech today at the Home Office today announced plans for foreign criminals who face being kicked out of the country to be tagged and tracked by GPS satellites.

He argued that people in the UK illegally should be deported first and only allowed to appeal against the decision once they have left the UK in non-asylum cases.

It is an attempt to address public concern about the levels of immigration, and the threat posed by low-skilled migrants taking jobs which could go to Britons.

In 2010 Mr Cameron promised 'no ifs, no buts' to cut net migration - the number of people entering the country minus the number leaving - to the tens of thousands.

But today's figures show how he has spectacularly failed to meet the pledge. 

A number of measures to reduce net migration have been implemented in recent years and a bill currently going through Parliament includes new sanctions for illegal workers and restrictions on access to bank accounts and driving licences for those in the country unlawfully.

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Net migration from the EU has risen sharply in recent years to reach record levels, piling pressure on the government

VOTERS FEAR UNCONTROLLABLE MIGRANT WAVE, SAYS HAMMOND

Britain could vote to leave the European Union over fears of an 'uncontrollable wave of migration', Philip Hammond warned

Britain could vote to leave the European Union over fears of an 'uncontrollable wave of migration', Philip Hammond warned.

The Foreign Secretary said the public mood had shifted in the wake of the migrant crisis spreading across Europe.

In a speech in Rome, he added: Since the migration crisis began earlier this summer, the poll numbers have changed and the most recent poll published yesterday showed that by a small margin a majority are now in favour of leaving the EU.

'I am pretty clear from talking to my own constituents this reflects the effect of the migration crisis and fear of the future and fear that Europe is losing control of the situation.'

David Cameron has demanded curbs on benefits for migrants, include a ban until their have been in the UK for four years - something other EU leaders are resisting. 

But Mr Hammond said: 'That is non-negotiable if we want to get agreement that Britain's future is in the European Union.' 

An expert suggested economic factors are having a greater bearing on the current trend than government policy.

Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said: 'Most of the measures introduced over the last parliament to reduce net migration of workers, students and family members have now been in place for some years.

'At this point, changes in net migration are mainly being driven by economic factors like the success of the UK economy rather than by new policies.'

Immigration Minister James Brokenshire admitted the latest figures 'underline the challenge we face to reduce net migration to sustainable levels'.

He said: 'We remain committed to reforms across the whole of government to deliver the controlled migration system which is in the best interests of our country.'

Student fraud has been slashed and access to welfare toughened, he claimed, but added: 'With over 90,000 more non-EU students arriving than departing the UK, and too many British employers still overly reliant on foreign workers, there is much more to do.

'As the Prime Minister has said, in the past it has been too easy for some businesses to bring in workers from overseas rather than to take the decision to train our workforce here at home.

'That is why our long-term economic plan, which will see many more young Britons given the training and skills they need to fill the jobs our growing economy is creating, is so important.'

He said the new immigration bill will address illegal working and the 'pull factors' that draw migrants to Britain, adding: 'The last two set of figures show record levels of EU immigration which show why the PM is right to negotiate with the EU to reform welfare to reduce the financial incentives that attract EU migrants to the UK.' 

Ukip leader Nigel Farage said: 'These record high figures represent a continuation of the government's complete failure to control immigration. David Cameron's 'tens of thousands' pledge is now in tatters.

'It is clear that only by voting to Leave the European Union in the forthcoming referendum can we have a system of controlled immigration at sensible levels.' 

HOW DAVID CAMERON'S 'TENS OF THOUSANDS' PLEDGE UNRAVELLED

'We would like to see net immigration in the tens of thousands rather than the hundreds of thousands.' David Cameron, Jan 2010

'Levels of immigration can return to where they were in the 1980s and 90s. Net migration to this country will be in the order of tens of thousands each year. No ifs. No buts. That's a promise we made to the British people.' David Cameron, April 2011

'When we made that comment ... we were very clear that was what we wanted to do. It remains the objective towards which the Prime Minister and others are working.' Theresa May, Nov 2014

'I think we will keep the target. It is important because it is about not just dealing with those coming into the system but also about making sure that those people who shouldn't live here actually leave.' Theresa May, March 2015

'Our action has not been enough to cut annual net migration to the tens of thousands. That ambition remains the right one.' Conservative party manifesto, April 2015 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3334745/Crisis-Cameron-net-migration-hits-new-record-high-336-000-despite-pledge-cut-tens-thousands.html