Cable calls Cameron’s approach towards cutting net immigration as ‘impractical’

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Business Secretary Vince Cable has called Prime Minister David Cameron’s approach towards reducing the net migration to the “tens of thousands” by the general election 2015 is ‘impractical’ to be met.

Mr. Cable, a Liberal Democrat, has told that it is impossible that the said target by the government would be achieved in the given time span.

The business secretary has said: “Setting an arbitrary cap is not helpful. It almost certainly won’t achieve the below 100,000 level the Conservatives have set, so let’s be practical about it.

“The idea it should come down to 100,000 is something the Liberal Democrats have never signed up to because we simply regard it as impractical.”

Mr. Cameron has promised to limit net migration to the tens of thousands by next election suffered a severe criticism as the released official statistics are evident that number of net immigrants climbed to 182,000 in the year to June, from 167,000 the previous year.

Statisticians blamed a “significant” surge in citizens arriving for work from crisis-hit EU countries such as Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain.

Meanwhile, a survey that deals with the social attitudes has revealed that despite viewing immigration as economically and culturally good, almost 75 percent Britons want a reduction in immigration.

U.K. Independence party (UKIP) leader, Nigel Farage has discouraged the rise in immigration and highlighted that social consequences of migration were more important than its economic effects.

Mr. Farage has asked to adopt a practical approach by admitting the temporary workers should be encouraged to come to Britain to do specific jobs as he has said: “Let’s be flexible on work permits; let’s recognise that we do have some skills shortages in the British economy, which is very much a failure I’m afraid to say of our education system.”

“But in terms of immigration, in terms of people coming to settle, I would suggest that for up to a five-year period we don’t have people coming to settle until we sort out the mess.”

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