Illegal cap on immigration.

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/35f59ek

Was the Home Secretary wrong to try and put a cap on immigration?

/// Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls said: ‘The Government’s immigration policy is in a state of chaos.///

That's rich coming from member of the party that created this mass-immigration mess.

Labour Asylum and Immigration Policy

http://tinyurl.com/3xu58dc

[rov1200]

With all these failed cases against stemming the flow of immigrants one can only put the blame on ministers and their advisers. Why do the opponents organisations seem smarter than our rulers? They are MPs... they should know they can't just make any old decision before consulting the house. Now the temporary cap has been thrown out imagine the number applying to get in before April next year.

The sensible thing to do is to add those getting in before the deadline to those of next years figures so we dont have a large bulge.

[anotheoldgit]

agree

[New Judge]

For once this ruling has not been made on Human Rights grounds. It has been made because the matter was not put before Parliament. And I’m quite in agreement with anything that curbs the powers of the executive.

Strangely, the decision to allow untold numbers of people into the country (arguably a far more damaging course of action) was similarly not put before Parliament and neither was it challenged in court.

So no, Mrs May was not wrong to take the course of action she did. But hopefully she will realise that Parliament needs to be consulted on such matters.

[jake-the-peg]

I seem to remember the Tories getting very shirty when the Labour government tried to do things by bypassing parliamentry authority.

Seems it must be different when you're the ones behind the big desks.

I dare say governments have and will always tried to bypass parliament and oppositions have always tried to stop them.

I guess that's what an opposition, any opposition is there for.

[anotheoldgit]

/// Strangely, the decision to allow untold numbers of people into the country (arguably a far more damaging course of action) was similarly not put before Parliament and neither was it challenged in court. ///

What an excellent point, I wonder why this hasn't been asked before?

Perhaps some of the wealthy Solicitors, Barristers and judiciary, who are in a similar mind, could put together and form a society to fight the concerns of the common man?

[TTG]

The "cap" won't stop any illegal immigrants.