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Women will have to “breed for Britain” if immigration is cut, says MP (4 June 2014)

Date: 04/06/2014
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Women will have to “breed for Britain” if immigration is cut, says MP

After generations of women being advised to delay motherhood in favour of study and a career, Labour MP Stella Creasy has said that women in the UK would have to “breed for Britain” if immigration was reduced.

Ms Creasy says that in order to support the growing number of pensioners in Britain, women would be required to “breed” to swell the population and ensure there are enough workers to pay National Insurance to support the State Pension.

Ms Creasy has echoed Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg’s view that without immigration in the UK, the NHS would “fall over”.

In an interview published in the magazine Progress, Ms Creasy says that without immigration or a baby boom, the UK would be unable to sustain its economy, leaving the NHS “in crisis”:

“It’s not just that these guys want to charge you to use the NHS – it’s that their policies will actually mean the NHS will not exist by not being able to have an economy than can support it,” she said.

Ms Creasy went on to say that in the UK there are now more people over the age of 65 than under the age of 16 – and added that unless women had “a lot of children very quickly”, Britain’s ability to sustain its economy and public services would be threatened.

All three main political parties have been turning their focus to the issue of immigration in the UK, after UKIP scored more highly with the electorate than expected in recent local council elections and elections for the European Parliament.

Last week, Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond set an annual immigration target of 24,000 migrant workers every year to plug gaps in the jobs market in Scotland and support the State Pension, if Scotland votes for independence.

However, across Europe, there has been a backlash against immigration, despite the economic benefits migrants bring to a country.

Illegal immigration has also become a focus for governments, as both Libya and Italy call for more help from the EU to tackle the escalating number of refugees from war zones in Africa and the Middle East, who are making their way to Italy’s shores via Libya.

Britain’s Home Office estimates that one-fifth of illegal migrants make their way to the UK, with many crossing the Channel from Calais.

This week, local authorities in Calais have started to clear makeshift migrant camps, after an outbreak of scabies among migrants waiting to cross to the UK in the backs of lorries at the port.

Spain has also just received 10 million euros from the EU to help tackle the problem of illegal immigrants from Spain’s North African territories, Ceuta and Melilla on the borders of Morocco.

The Telegraph reports that the Spanish government will receive EU emergency funding immediately, to help address the number of refugees from sub-Saharan Africa crossing into Europe at Spain’s borders. The money will be used to strengthen border fences, as well as returning illegal immigrants voluntarily to their homelands and improving conditions at government-run migrant centres in Spain.

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