The proposals the government are making today are a combination
of gimmicks and some small steps in the right direction
, but it is nothing like radical enough to get
control of our country's borders. We need to come
out of the ECHR. We need to make sure
that every single illegal immigrant is deported within a week
of arrival with no asylum. allowed and we need
to make sure that foreign citizens in this country are
not eligible for taxpayer funded benefits. That is a
tough and radical package that the Conservatives proposed at our
conference a few weeks ago, and what the Labor
government is proposing today is nothing like enough to fix
the mess they're currently presiding over.