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THE HOUSE FILLED UP FOR THE CLOSING SPEECHES AND THERE WERE ABOUT 300 MEMBERS PRESENT BY THE TIME MR RAISON ROSE TO HIS FEET. MR. TILLEY, A SHADOW HOME AFFAIRS SPOKESMAN, MADE HIS MAIDEN SPEECH AS A SHADOW JUNIOR MINISTER. IT CONSISTED VERY LARGELY OF A. VEHEMENT ATTACK ON WHAT HE DESCRIBED AS A SHABBY LITTLE IMMIGRATION BILL' WHICH WAS LIKELY TO DO MUCH TO DAMAGE RACE RELATIONS IN THE UK. HE CONTINUED ALONG THESE LINES USING VARIOUS ARCUMENTS AND EXAMPLES TO DEMONSTRATE THE RACIALIST NATURE · OF THE PROPOSALS.
TOWARDS THE END, MR TILLEY MADE SOME SUBSTANTIVE POINTS, AMONGST THEM THAT THE OPPOSITION WOULD SUPPORT SEPERATE CITIZENSHIP FOR EACH DEPENDENT TERRITORY, FULL UK CITIZENSHIP FOR GIBRALTAR, A CHANGE IN THE PROPOSALS FOR CITIZENSHIP BY DESCENT TO ENSURE THAT BLACKS WERE TREATED. THE SAME AS WHITES, THAT THERE SHOULD BE AN APPEALS PROCEDURE IN NATURALISATION CASES AND THAT THERE SHOULD BE OBJECTIVE RATHER THAN SUBJECTIVE TESTS OF GOOD CHARACTER. HE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THAT THE RACIALIST PROPOSALS CONTAINED IN THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT'S ORIGINAL GREEN PAPER WOULD HAVE BEEN DROPPED IN THE FINAL BILL TO PARLIAMENT BY A. LABOUR GOVERNMENT.
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MR TILLEY TOTALLY OPPOSED THE CONCEPT OF BRITISH OVERSEAS CITIZENSHIP WHICH, HE SAID, WAS THE OLD CONCEPT OF STATELESSNESS WRIT LARGE. THE GOVERNMENT WAS SIMPLY CASTING ADRIFT THE EMBARRASSING FLOTSAM OF EMPIRE. THE ONLY POSITIVE SUGGESTION · FROM OUR POINT OF VIEW WAS HIS STRONG RECCOMMENDATION THAT THERE SHOULD BE FURTHER LENGTHY DISCUSSION WITH THE DEPENDENCIES AND WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH AND THAT AT THE COMMITTEE STAGES GREAT CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN IN CONSIDERING THE BILL.
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