Young, Wired and Angry
A Revised Portrait of Hungary's Right-Wing Extremists
By Keno Verseck
REUTERSThough largely ignored by the national media, Hungary's right-wing extremist Jobbik party operates within a surprisingly well-developed and self-sustained online universe. What's more, recent studies have found that the party's supporters aren't the "losers" that many experts thought they were.
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The leader of Hungary's right-wing extremists rarely expresses himself so clearly. Speaking before a crowd of a few thousand supporters in Budapest's Sportmax complex on Saturday, Jan. 21, Gábor Vona announced the end of liberal democracy in the world. In the speech traditionally delivered before party members in January, the 33-year-old politician demanded "no compromising" either with or as part of the ruling political system, calling instead for "fighting, fighting and still more fighting." "We are not communists, fascists or National Socialists," Vona said. "But -- and this is important for everyone to understand very clearly -- we are also not democrats!"
Vona's words were met with highly enthusiastic applause. It was the first time that the head of the right-wing Jobbik party ("The Better") -- which received just under 17 percent of the vote during elections in April 2010 -- had made such a crystal-clear rejection of democracy. The speech was only given slender and primarily disinterested coverage in the Hungarian media. Elöd Novák, a deputy chairman of the party, claimed that this probably had more to do with organizational priorities rather than a conscious effort to boycott reporting on the event. "We are the second-strongest party in Hungary," he said, "but we hardly play any role in the traditional media."
Although Novák talks of "exclusion," he in no way intends it to be accusatory. Granted -- even though it backs Hungary's exit from the European Union, the party recently sent a letter of complaint to Neelie Kroes, the EU commissioner for digital agenda, alleging that it receives too little coverage from the Hungarian media. But the fact is that the party fondly fosters its image of being a media outcast. What's more, in reality, they have absolutely no need for the traditional media.
Surprisingly Modern and Well-Networked
When Jobbik wants to communicate with its supporters and voters, it takes a different tack. Party politicians speak at so-called "resident forums" almost every day and listen to people in the smallest villages voice their concerns. Still, by far their most-used vehicle for disseminating their ideology is an extremely well-organized network made up of hundreds of right-wing extremist websites interlinked via platforms like Facebook or iWiW, a Hungarian social-networking service.
This was also the case with Vona's speech on Jan. 21. Barikad.hu, the website of Jobbik's weekly magazine bar!kád, broadcast the speech live. Likewise, right after the event wrapped up, other news portals operated by Hungarian right-wing extremists presented complete multimedia reports on the event, part of which eventually made its way onto Facebook.
This approach has long since become a matter of routine. For years, Hungary's right-wing extremists have very effectively utilized the Internet to reach their goals. They use it to disseminate their messages and to organize demonstrations and campaigns -- many of which also involve hate speech and incitement. "The Internet has been and remains very important to us," says Márton Gyöngyösi, a Jobbik member of parliament. He explains that this is "not only on account of our limited access to the traditional media, but also because a major part of our supporters and voters are young people who we can best reach via new media."
Experts have been observing this trend for some time now. "During the 2010 election campaign, the Internet played a key role for Jobbik," says Áron Buzogány, a German-Hungarian political scientist who studies social movements in Eastern Europe. "When compared with the other parties, Jobbik had the most up-to-date Internet presence based on Web 2.0 (tools). People visiting these (web)pages could take an active role in helping shape them, thereby becoming part of the campaign themselves."
Budapest-based political scientist József Jeskó, who has been studying the online activities of Hungary's right-wing extremists for years, reaches a similar conclusion. "Jobbik is the first party in the history of Hungary to have effectively used the Internet's advantages for its own purposes," he says. Jeskó emphasizes, however, that Jobbik neither built up nor controls the online network of Hungarian right-wing extremists itself. Instead, he says, "Small groups with similar convictions, but many different interests, have made contact with the help of the Internet and jointly created a virtual world for themselves."
Modern, well-networked right-wing extremism in Hungary was born in the fall of 2006. At the time, there was rioting in the streets of Budapest. Among other things, demonstrators stormed the building of MTV, the national broadcasting company, and crippled its transmission abilities. One of the things that sparked the riots was the secretly taped "speech of lies" delivered by socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány in May of that year. Although the speech was made during what was supposed to be a closed-door meeting of his party, it was secretly taped -- and broadcast. In it, he openly admitted to lying to voters.
Online Launching Pads for Violence
One of the things that helped spark the violent protests was the appearance a few months earlier of the website kuruc.info, which has come to be the central and most-visited online platform of Hungary's far-right extremist scene. The website disseminates extremely aggressive anti-Semitic, anti-Gypsy, chauvinistic and homophobic content. What's more, under the rubric "collection point for genetic garbage," it periodically organizes what boils down to be witch hunts against certain individuals that can sometimes have horrific consequences. For example, in December 2007, the former socialist politician Csintalan Sándor was attacked and severely mistreated. For months during the run-up to the attack, the website had hosted a campaign against what it called the "Jewish rat." Those suspected of carrying out the attack, including Hungarian neo-Nazi leader György Budaházy, were arrested in 2009 and are currently standing trial on charges of committing terrorist crimes.
For years, law-enforcement officials in Hungary have also been trying to get the website, which is registered in the United States, shut down and to have the people suspected of running it arrested. But, so far, their efforts have failed. Rumor holds that one of its writers is none other than Jobbik deputy chairman Elöd Novák, though he naturally denies the accusation. "If I admitted that, I would obviously go to jail," Novák says. "But, it's true that I maintain good relations with the editorial staff," he admits before brazenly adding: "Sometimes I use my cell phone to send them material straight out of parliamentary meetings."
A World unto Itself
Oft-visited websites like kuruc.info also serve as hubs for the online network of Hungarian right-wing extremists. Visitors can follow links from these sites to other right-wing extremist websites, to the Jobbik party website, to local right-wing extremist organizations, to the web-based radio station szentkoronaradio.com and to "nationalist-feeling" folk or Rock groups -- all of which link back to each other. But that's not all. There are also ads for and links to "nationalist" stores and companies offering almost the whole range of everyday needs, including food, beverages, clothes, furniture, travel agencies, lawyers and financial advisers. Indeed, there are even websites for finding "nationalist-Christian partners" and ordering "nationalist taxis" online.
Political scientist József Jeskó describes this right-wing extremist network as an "almost completely self-contained virtual system" that gives its users an "unbelievably strong identity and a comprehensive worldview, their own complete way of living that only allows means or information to penetrate from outside with extreme difficulty." For Jobbik, Jeskó adds, this network offers a "huge amount of informal capital" through which it can "transmit an illustrated worldview to its voters free of charge" and shape their opinions. "Via the traditional media," he says, "the party would have not attained that to any degree."
Not the Party of 'Losers'
What makes the network even more valuable for Jobbik is the fact that its users are not people who are poor and socially frowned upon. Many political scientists initially viewed Jobbik as a party of "losers." But new studies provide a different picture, finding that the typical Jobbik voter is male, under 35, rarely unemployed and the holder of either a trade or secondary-school degree. Early last week, the British think tank Demos and the Budapest-based Political Capital Institute released a study based on the results of a survey of over 2,200 Facebook fans of the Jobbik party. The survey found that the typical respondent has "very low levels of trust in all major social and political institutions" and is "more likely to think that violence is justified if it leads to the right outcome." Likewise, the Internet-based service index.hu, Hungary's best-read online news website, summed up the average Jobbik voter as: "Very young, very Hungarian, very ill-tempered."
For political scientist Áron Buzogány, this shows that Jobbik's popularity is the tragic result of Hungary's failed political evolution. "For a long time, the country has been split into left and right to an extraordinarily deep degree, which is becoming an increasingly large social problem," he says. "An entire stratum of young people has grown up in the context of this division and has now found a home in the right-wing extremist micro-universe."
ASSIM TÊM UM GRANDE FUTURO PELA FRENTE:CUIDAR DA AFRICANIDADE QUE EXPULSOU OS PAPÁS , TRATAREM COM MUITO CARINHO A CIGANADA ROMENA...TEREM A ADRENALINA ALTA DAS DROGAS E DA CAÇA A QUE SÃO SUJEITOS...ISTO PARA ALÉM CLARO DE ALIMENTAREM OS "CÉREBROS" INTERNACIONALISTAS DO HOMEM NOVO E MULATO POR NOSSA CONTA...SEMPRE PAGOS ACIMA DA MÉDIA!
Saturday, February 4, 2012
POR CÁ A "CENSURA" AGORA É BOA PORQUE APAGA DA FOTOGRAFIA OS "MAUS" IMIGRANTES DE COR...
Un sondage UMP indigne SOS Racisme
L'association de lutte contre le racisme SOS Racisme a dénoncé samedi matin un sondage diffusé sur le site internet de l'UMP faisant un lien entre immigration et délinquance.
Après vérification par l'AFP, cette "question de la semaine" figurait toujours en ligne. Cette question est ainsi formulée: "Pour lutter plus efficacement contre les actes de délinquance commis par une frange de la population qui a fait de la violation de la loi pénale son mode habituel de vie, doit-on expulser les étrangers auteurs de tels faits?".
"En faisant très clairement le lien entre délinquance et immigration, cette question est de celles qui participent de la stigmatisation des étrangers", déplore SOS Racisme. "Nous espérons que l'UMP ne se lance pas, en tant que parti, dans cette course folle vers une démagogie haineuse et que cette question n'est qu’un "loupé" qui ne se reproduira pas", a mis en garde l'association.
NADA CONTRA O HOMEM NOVO E MULATO ,TUDO A BEM DO HOMEM NOVO E MULATO.NO DAR "A OUTRA FACE" É QUE ESTÁ O PROGRESSISMO.POR NOSSA CONTA É CLARO...
L'association de lutte contre le racisme SOS Racisme a dénoncé samedi matin un sondage diffusé sur le site internet de l'UMP faisant un lien entre immigration et délinquance.
Après vérification par l'AFP, cette "question de la semaine" figurait toujours en ligne. Cette question est ainsi formulée: "Pour lutter plus efficacement contre les actes de délinquance commis par une frange de la population qui a fait de la violation de la loi pénale son mode habituel de vie, doit-on expulser les étrangers auteurs de tels faits?".
"En faisant très clairement le lien entre délinquance et immigration, cette question est de celles qui participent de la stigmatisation des étrangers", déplore SOS Racisme. "Nous espérons que l'UMP ne se lance pas, en tant que parti, dans cette course folle vers une démagogie haineuse et que cette question n'est qu’un "loupé" qui ne se reproduira pas", a mis en garde l'association.
NADA CONTRA O HOMEM NOVO E MULATO ,TUDO A BEM DO HOMEM NOVO E MULATO.NO DAR "A OUTRA FACE" É QUE ESTÁ O PROGRESSISMO.POR NOSSA CONTA É CLARO...
Friday, February 3, 2012
OI UK A MALTA PASSA POR AQUI NACIONALIZA-SE E PRONTOS LÁ TÊM MAIS UM "PORTUGUÊS"...
REINO UNIDO | La medida afecta a los extracomunitarios
Londres aceptará sólo a inmigrantes con una renta mínima de 37.000 euros al año
El ministro Damian Green anuncia una drástica reducción de visados
Declara la guerra a las bodas de conveniencia y a los 'falsos estudiantes'
El Gobierno liberal-conservador británico quiere que entren en el país solamente los "inmigrantes buenos": trabajadores y estudiantes cualificados que "pueden aumentar la calidad de vida" en el Reino Unido y que disponen de una sólida renta anual.
Así lo afirmó este jueves el titular de la cartera de Inmigración, Damian Green. El ministro aseguró que su país tiene que atraer a profesionales que aporten un valor añadido al país, así como jóvenes que han empezado actividades empresariales durante sus estudios universitarios en el Reino Unido y quieren quedarse para desarrollar sus ideas.
EL Gobierno del 'premier' David Cameron se ha comprometido a limitar el flujo migratorio extracomunitario a "pocas decenas de miles de personas" de aquí a 2015. El objetivo es reducir la cuota hasta llegar al 20% de la de 2010, cuando entraron en el país unos 242.000 inmigrantes con visado regular.
Para lograrlo, el Ejecutivo ha declarado la guerra a las bodas de conveniencia y a los "falsos estudiantes", después de que un informe destapara que por cada 100 extracomunitarios que llegan al Reino Unido desaparecen 23 puestos de trabajo ocupados por británicos.
Así, el ministro Green ha anunciado que los candidatos a instalarse en el país tendrán que disponer de una renta superior a las 31.000 libras anuales, unos 37.000 euros. Además, las parejas extracomunitarias de ciudadanos británicos tendrán que someterse a una prueba de idioma obligatoria y "probar" que pueden vivir de forma independiente.
EM PORTUGAL A INDÚSTRIA MAIS VIÇOSA É A DO PASSAPORTE.O PLANETA SERIA O NOSSO DESTINO.INFELIZMENTE DEIXARAM DE EMPRESTAR...
MAS O EX-CGTP VAI ESTUDAR O ASSUNTO LÁ NO CES QUE SÃO OS NOSSOS PLANEADORES DO 1º SOBADO DA EUROPA, DEPOIS DE TEREM TRATADO DE CORRER TODOS OS PORTUGUESES DE ÁFRICA E SEM BENS...
É QUE AFINAL OS GAJOS ATÉ GOSTAM DE IMPÉRIOS.DESDE SEJAM ELES(UI,UI) A PAGÁ-LO...
Londres aceptará sólo a inmigrantes con una renta mínima de 37.000 euros al año
El ministro Damian Green anuncia una drástica reducción de visados
Declara la guerra a las bodas de conveniencia y a los 'falsos estudiantes'
El Gobierno liberal-conservador británico quiere que entren en el país solamente los "inmigrantes buenos": trabajadores y estudiantes cualificados que "pueden aumentar la calidad de vida" en el Reino Unido y que disponen de una sólida renta anual.
Así lo afirmó este jueves el titular de la cartera de Inmigración, Damian Green. El ministro aseguró que su país tiene que atraer a profesionales que aporten un valor añadido al país, así como jóvenes que han empezado actividades empresariales durante sus estudios universitarios en el Reino Unido y quieren quedarse para desarrollar sus ideas.
EL Gobierno del 'premier' David Cameron se ha comprometido a limitar el flujo migratorio extracomunitario a "pocas decenas de miles de personas" de aquí a 2015. El objetivo es reducir la cuota hasta llegar al 20% de la de 2010, cuando entraron en el país unos 242.000 inmigrantes con visado regular.
Para lograrlo, el Ejecutivo ha declarado la guerra a las bodas de conveniencia y a los "falsos estudiantes", después de que un informe destapara que por cada 100 extracomunitarios que llegan al Reino Unido desaparecen 23 puestos de trabajo ocupados por británicos.
Así, el ministro Green ha anunciado que los candidatos a instalarse en el país tendrán que disponer de una renta superior a las 31.000 libras anuales, unos 37.000 euros. Además, las parejas extracomunitarias de ciudadanos británicos tendrán que someterse a una prueba de idioma obligatoria y "probar" que pueden vivir de forma independiente.
EM PORTUGAL A INDÚSTRIA MAIS VIÇOSA É A DO PASSAPORTE.O PLANETA SERIA O NOSSO DESTINO.INFELIZMENTE DEIXARAM DE EMPRESTAR...
MAS O EX-CGTP VAI ESTUDAR O ASSUNTO LÁ NO CES QUE SÃO OS NOSSOS PLANEADORES DO 1º SOBADO DA EUROPA, DEPOIS DE TEREM TRATADO DE CORRER TODOS OS PORTUGUESES DE ÁFRICA E SEM BENS...
É QUE AFINAL OS GAJOS ATÉ GOSTAM DE IMPÉRIOS.DESDE SEJAM ELES(UI,UI) A PAGÁ-LO...
E O PGR NÃO SE PREOCUPA COM 5,3 MIL MILHÕES QUE ACABARÃO POR SER ESBULHADOS AOS CONTRIBUINTES...
Há leis mas elas só servem para enfeitar. Nunca se resolve, com celeridade e eficácia, os problemas da sociedade. Os problemas arrastam-se até ao esquecimento. Teme-se por isso mesmo que o grande mistério do BPN (tal como, noutra dimensão, o do BPP) nunca sejam cabalmente esclarecidos e tudo fique esquecido após a acção do Estado que foi despejando toneladas de dinheiro em cima de um problema criado por ausentes em parte incerta. O problema é que o BPN representa muito do regime constituído depois do 25 de Abril, onde as cumplicidades subterrâneas acabaram por fazer do Estado um clube de interesses bem distribuídos política e economicamente. Numa altura de crise do país é evidente que uma coisa destas não deveria passar em claro. Mas parece que o dinheiro dos contribuintes esbulhados à força serve sobretudo para isso: para pagar os benefícios privados de alguns.
http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/home.php?template=SHOWNEWS_V2&id=535801&pn=1
CORRUPÇÃO?ONDE?JÁ PASSARAM TODOS NA PGR E SÃO UNS ANJINHOS PORRA!ATESTADO PELO PRÓPRIO!
LUCROS PRIVADOS PERDAS PÚBLICAS!MILAGRES DO SOBADO...
http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/home.php?template=SHOWNEWS_V2&id=535801&pn=1
CORRUPÇÃO?ONDE?JÁ PASSARAM TODOS NA PGR E SÃO UNS ANJINHOS PORRA!ATESTADO PELO PRÓPRIO!
LUCROS PRIVADOS PERDAS PÚBLICAS!MILAGRES DO SOBADO...
O GOVERNO ANDA A VIOLAR DEMASIADO O ACORDO COM A TROIKA...
Governo volta a furar prazo da troika para reduzir rendas fixas das empresas de energia
PARA ALÉM DESTA ÁREA A DO "EUCALIPTAL ELEITO" QUE SÓ POR SI SECA TODO O PORTUGAL.NÃO SÓ PELO NÚMERO MAS TAMBÉM PELAS REGALIAS DE "NOMEAR" ASSESSORES...SEMPRE PAGOS AO NÍVEL DE "GENERAL"...
DEPOIS NA ÁREA DA NACIONALIZAÇÃO DOS POBRES DOS OUTROS E DO SALVAMENTO DO MUNDO POR NOSSA CONTA- IMIGRAÇÃO- CONTINUA A SER UM VERDADEIRO MILAGRE!
MAS ENFIM COMO O PGR DIZ QUE EXISTE POUCA OU NENHUMA CORRUPÇÃO DEVO FICAR DESCANSADO?
PARA ALÉM DESTA ÁREA A DO "EUCALIPTAL ELEITO" QUE SÓ POR SI SECA TODO O PORTUGAL.NÃO SÓ PELO NÚMERO MAS TAMBÉM PELAS REGALIAS DE "NOMEAR" ASSESSORES...SEMPRE PAGOS AO NÍVEL DE "GENERAL"...
DEPOIS NA ÁREA DA NACIONALIZAÇÃO DOS POBRES DOS OUTROS E DO SALVAMENTO DO MUNDO POR NOSSA CONTA- IMIGRAÇÃO- CONTINUA A SER UM VERDADEIRO MILAGRE!
MAS ENFIM COMO O PGR DIZ QUE EXISTE POUCA OU NENHUMA CORRUPÇÃO DEVO FICAR DESCANSADO?
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Ó GASPAR COM O NAVIO A AFUNDAR POR EXCESSO DE CARGA NA SEGURANÇA SOCIAL...
“Temos tradição de ser bons marinheiros”
Vítor Gaspar,
ministro das Finanças
QUALQUER BOM CAPITÃO LANÇARIA PARTE DA CARGA AO MAR...
MAS NÓS SABEMOS QUE GOSTAM DE MILAGRES.SALVAR O PLANETA INTEIRO...
ENQUANTO HOUVER QUEM GANHE MAIS PARA ARRASTAREM PARA OS QUE GANHAM MENOS...
Vítor Gaspar,
ministro das Finanças
QUALQUER BOM CAPITÃO LANÇARIA PARTE DA CARGA AO MAR...
MAS NÓS SABEMOS QUE GOSTAM DE MILAGRES.SALVAR O PLANETA INTEIRO...
ENQUANTO HOUVER QUEM GANHE MAIS PARA ARRASTAREM PARA OS QUE GANHAM MENOS...
ENTÃO NINGUÉM REFORMA NESTA ÁREA?QUEREM ACABAR COM OS POBRES E AS DESIGUALDADES DA ÁFRICA TODA?
New immigration policy favours the wealthy, say criticsImmigration minister to signal more selective policy under which only the right kind of migrants are allowed to enter Britain
The Guardian, Thursday 2 February 2012 Article history
Damian Green: 'We need to know not just that the right numbers of people are coming here but that the right people are coming here.' Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
Critics have accused the government of paving the way for a selective immigration policy whereby only the wealthy will be able to marry who they want from abroad, and only migrants earning more than £31,000 a year will be able to settle in Britain.
The immigration minister, Damian Green, will confirm on Thursday that ministers want to move to a more highly selective policy under which only the right kind of migrants are allowed to enter Britain.
"We need to know not just that the right numbers of people are coming here but that the right people are coming here. People who will benefit Britain, not just those who benefit by Britain," Green will argue in a speech to the Policy Exchange thinktank.
Green also wants to move the immigration debate on from the single issue of numbers that has dominated for the past decade and instead focus on the benefit to Britain of allowing only the "brightest and the best" into the UK.
He says the pressure to reduce net migration numbers to "tens of thousands" will continue as it has since the general election.
His desire to "raise the tone of the debate" follows the latest figures showing net migration to Britain reaching a record 252,000 in 2010. Green insists there are "the first small signs" that numbers have been falling since then.
"What we need is a national consensus on how we can make immigration work for Britain. We are evidently a long way from such a consensus but I want to start to build it … the legitimate question in today's world is how we can benefit from immigration," he will say.
Green will promise that by May – the second anniversary of the coalition – the government will have announced or implemented changes to all the main routes of immigration and broken the link between migration and staying permanently in Britain.
He will confirm that major changes in family visas are about to be announced which will mean that husbands, wives or fiancés who cannot speak English and are likely to be dependent on benefits will be barred: "Importing economic dependency on the state is unacceptable," the immigration minister will say. "Bringing people to this country who can play no role in the life of this country is equally unacceptable."
Critics say a proposal to ban any British resident from bringing an overseas-born spouse into the country unless they have a minimum household income of £25,700 a year will cover half the UK's working population.
Green will also confirm that he is considering setting a minimum income threshold of between £31,000 and £49,000 a year, below which migrants who legally come to work in Britain will lose the right to apply to stay permanently after five years.
"We will end the assumption that settlement is an option for all those who come to work. Instead, we will accord it to the brightest and the best," Green will say, adding that pay levels will be used to define who fits into that category. The minister will hint that he intends to replace the "post-study work route" for graduates with a new more limited "graduate entrepreneur" specialist category.
He will also acknowledge recent recurrent visa problems for visiting artists, entertainers and business people that have discouraged even world-class performers from coming to Britain: "I am aware that this has been a sore point for some time, and we are taking action. The system does work well for most people," he insists.
Matt Cavanagh, associate director of the Institute for Public Policy Research, said it made sense to give some priority to wealthy migrants and to ask whether someone on benefits should be able to bring in a spouse.
He said: "But the government is going much further: essentially their approach is, if you're a wealthy migrant, you can come, you can stay as long as you like; if you're a wealthy resident, you can marry whoever you like; but for everyone else, it is going to get much more difficult.
"And we're not talking about people who are destitute or living on benefits, we are talking about people who are working and getting an average wage. Migrants will still be invited to come and work at these wages [between £20,000 and £30,000] to fill jobs where we lack the skills or nobody else wants to do the work, but after five years they will be asked to leave, regardless of the contribution they have made or could make in the future.
"Likewise, not just people living on benefits but almost half the British population, could lose the right to marry and live with someone from abroad."
Habib Rahman of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said it was very worried about Green's plans on family reunion visas.
"The rights of British people to live with their loved ones here, and the splitting of families in the coalition government's reckless pursuit of lower net immigration figures are the human cost of this insane numbers game, the Home Office is playing," he said.
QUE O LOUÇÃ SE INDIGNE!QUE O JERÓNIMO ORDENE LUTAS DA CGTP!FIM AO IMPÉRIO CÁ DE DENTRO!DESCOLONIZAÇÃO DE PORTUGAL!(NEM É PRECISO FAZER O CONFISCO)...
The Guardian, Thursday 2 February 2012 Article history
Damian Green: 'We need to know not just that the right numbers of people are coming here but that the right people are coming here.' Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
Critics have accused the government of paving the way for a selective immigration policy whereby only the wealthy will be able to marry who they want from abroad, and only migrants earning more than £31,000 a year will be able to settle in Britain.
The immigration minister, Damian Green, will confirm on Thursday that ministers want to move to a more highly selective policy under which only the right kind of migrants are allowed to enter Britain.
"We need to know not just that the right numbers of people are coming here but that the right people are coming here. People who will benefit Britain, not just those who benefit by Britain," Green will argue in a speech to the Policy Exchange thinktank.
Green also wants to move the immigration debate on from the single issue of numbers that has dominated for the past decade and instead focus on the benefit to Britain of allowing only the "brightest and the best" into the UK.
He says the pressure to reduce net migration numbers to "tens of thousands" will continue as it has since the general election.
His desire to "raise the tone of the debate" follows the latest figures showing net migration to Britain reaching a record 252,000 in 2010. Green insists there are "the first small signs" that numbers have been falling since then.
"What we need is a national consensus on how we can make immigration work for Britain. We are evidently a long way from such a consensus but I want to start to build it … the legitimate question in today's world is how we can benefit from immigration," he will say.
Green will promise that by May – the second anniversary of the coalition – the government will have announced or implemented changes to all the main routes of immigration and broken the link between migration and staying permanently in Britain.
He will confirm that major changes in family visas are about to be announced which will mean that husbands, wives or fiancés who cannot speak English and are likely to be dependent on benefits will be barred: "Importing economic dependency on the state is unacceptable," the immigration minister will say. "Bringing people to this country who can play no role in the life of this country is equally unacceptable."
Critics say a proposal to ban any British resident from bringing an overseas-born spouse into the country unless they have a minimum household income of £25,700 a year will cover half the UK's working population.
Green will also confirm that he is considering setting a minimum income threshold of between £31,000 and £49,000 a year, below which migrants who legally come to work in Britain will lose the right to apply to stay permanently after five years.
"We will end the assumption that settlement is an option for all those who come to work. Instead, we will accord it to the brightest and the best," Green will say, adding that pay levels will be used to define who fits into that category. The minister will hint that he intends to replace the "post-study work route" for graduates with a new more limited "graduate entrepreneur" specialist category.
He will also acknowledge recent recurrent visa problems for visiting artists, entertainers and business people that have discouraged even world-class performers from coming to Britain: "I am aware that this has been a sore point for some time, and we are taking action. The system does work well for most people," he insists.
Matt Cavanagh, associate director of the Institute for Public Policy Research, said it made sense to give some priority to wealthy migrants and to ask whether someone on benefits should be able to bring in a spouse.
He said: "But the government is going much further: essentially their approach is, if you're a wealthy migrant, you can come, you can stay as long as you like; if you're a wealthy resident, you can marry whoever you like; but for everyone else, it is going to get much more difficult.
"And we're not talking about people who are destitute or living on benefits, we are talking about people who are working and getting an average wage. Migrants will still be invited to come and work at these wages [between £20,000 and £30,000] to fill jobs where we lack the skills or nobody else wants to do the work, but after five years they will be asked to leave, regardless of the contribution they have made or could make in the future.
"Likewise, not just people living on benefits but almost half the British population, could lose the right to marry and live with someone from abroad."
Habib Rahman of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said it was very worried about Green's plans on family reunion visas.
"The rights of British people to live with their loved ones here, and the splitting of families in the coalition government's reckless pursuit of lower net immigration figures are the human cost of this insane numbers game, the Home Office is playing," he said.
QUE O LOUÇÃ SE INDIGNE!QUE O JERÓNIMO ORDENE LUTAS DA CGTP!FIM AO IMPÉRIO CÁ DE DENTRO!DESCOLONIZAÇÃO DE PORTUGAL!(NEM É PRECISO FAZER O CONFISCO)...
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