PM May says wants to reduce migration into UK to 'tens of thousands'
Source: Reuters
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she wanted to reduce yearly net migration into Britain to the "tens of thousands", a level she said was sustainable.
She told a news conference in Berlin that the British government had always sought to reduce migration into Britain to "sustainable" levels. "I believe those sustainable levels are in the tens of thousands," she added.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-may-migration-idUSKCN1002E3
Short article, very short -- that's its entirety.
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If I were to ask which country was the most corrupt in the world, you might say Afghanistan, Nigeria or Russia – maybe Mexico. I would say, the United Kingdom. True, the latest report from Transparency International, in 2015, put the UK in the top 10 cleanest countries in the world. Yet corruption has crept in, in the form of investments, many of which are the profits of illegal activity.
Another 2015 report, this time from the Tax Justice Network, which ranks countries according to the secrecy and scale of their offshore financial activities, had Switzerland at number one out of 100 countries; the UK was 15. However, British crown dependencies and offshore tax havens were ranked separately. A footnote in the report stated: “If Britain’s network had been assessed together, it would be at the top.”
Non-government organisations including Transparency, writers such as Nicholas Shaxson in his book Treasure Islands, and the National Crime Agency have all drawn attention to this issue. Recently activists from ActionAid UK, Oxfam and Christian Aid covered part of Trafalgar Square with sand, palm trees and deck chairs to draw attention to London’s role as one of the tax havens through which illegal profits are moved. But we are a long way from the public outrage one might expect.
The members of the tax haven club share certain guarantees: they ensure banking clients’ total secrecy, they release no information to other countries’ tax authorities, and they offer a low- or zero-level tax rate for people who are non-domiciled. Opening companies in tax havens is completely legal. The problem is the ends for which these companies are used.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/23/real-threat-britain-borders-flow-dirty-money-eu
And from 2011:
On 7 October 2002, an Anglican priest, William Campbell-Taylor, and an English-Jewish academic, Maurice Glasman, came to the law lords to challenge a parliamentary bill. It was the start of an episode that anyone worried about tax avoidance - or, for that matter, about the fate of the NHS, about economic inequality, about student loans, about capital flight from Africa, about global financial deregulation or about the political might of the financial sector - ought to know about. Yet there was little media interest.
The bill concerned the City of London Corporation, the local-government authority for the 1.2-square-mile slab of prime real estate in central London that is the City of London. The corporation is an ancient, semi-alien entity lodged inside the British nation state; a "prehistoric monster which had mysteriously survived into the modern world", as a 19th-century would-be City reformer put it. The words remain apt today. Few people care that London has a mayor and a lord mayor - but they should: the corporation is an offshore island inside Britain, a tax haven in its own right.
The term "tax haven" is a bit of a misnomer, because such places aren't just about tax. What they sell is escape: from the laws, rules and taxes of jurisdictions elsewhere, usually with secrecy as their prime offering. The notion of elsewhere (hence the term "offshore"is central. The Cayman Islands' tax and secrecy laws are not designed for the benefit of the 50,000-odd Caymanians, but help wealthy people and corporations, mostly in the US and Europe, get around the rules of their own democratic societies. The outcome is one set of rules for a rich elite and another for the rest of us.
http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporation-city
So, take that UK suckers, you are stuck on your little island! 
Yet the conservative nativism in evidence in the UK is not present in Ireland.
The right needs to send Trump, Johnson and Farage to Ireland, Sweden and elsewhere to stir up fear of OTHERS. That fear is sorely lacking in Ireland, Sweden and other progressive countries.
(Most of them already have far-right, anti-immigration parties (like our tea party zealots) but TJF can give them a boost.
Donald can build a wall in the English Channel to solve the UK's 'immigration problem'. 
