Asylum
News that ayslum APPLICATIONS fell by 41% in 2003, to just over 60,000 will probably do little to appease the usual suspects, but .for most, decent, British people it will probably confirm their suspcisions this was a crisis whipped up by the tabloid press.Of course opinion polls show that the British public tend to overestimate the number of first generation immigrants in this country (including asylum seekers) by about four times, thinking they constitute 23% of the population rather than about 6%. It would be nice to see the answer to an opinion poll question 'and would you consider immigration/asylum an issue if the numbers were 25% lower, 50% lower, or 75% lower?'.
Clearly however this represents an opportunity for the government to set the record straight.
posted by Matthew @ 2/24/2004 09:07:00 AM
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