Ukip immigration pledge WE MUST END THE MADNESS

NIGEL Farage has vowed to stamp out the flood of unskilled migrants coming to Britain in a pre-election battlecry.

The Ukip leader pledged to ban them from the UK for five years to ease pressure on schools, the health service and housing.

He wants an Aussie-style points based system to control who comes to the UK, with only those with useful skills allowed in.

Under the radical plan, Mr Farage claimed just 27,000 people would have been granted entry into Britain last year.

Any immigrants let in would be banned from claiming benefits for five years – and booted out if they commit a crime. Unveiling the party’s immigration policy at a speech in central London, he said he promised to control the “quantity and quality” of immigration.

Mr Farage said: “We as a party hold no prejudice against anyone on the grounds of their nationality, their religion or their race. But we are calling for a return to sanity. Britain needs to take back control of her borders and control of her immigration policy, and let us turn what has become a negative in our society into a positive.”

He ruled out imposing an annual cap on net migration – despite earlier pledges by the party that it would set it at 50,000.

Under their plans Ukip would create a migration control commission to oversee the influx and would abolish rules discriminating between EU and non-EU nationals.

It comes after figures show Prime Minister David Cameron has failed in his promise to cut the figure with 298,000 coming here in the year to September.