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Monday 7 April 2008

Immigration and jobs

The Labour Government's incessant lying about job creation and immigration has just been holed below the water-line again. Today The Telegraph reports that "Mass immigration has been accompanied by a fall in the number of Britons with jobs, official figures show. Since 2004, when citizens of eight central and eastern European countries were given the right to work in Britain, the number of UK-born people working here has fallen by 500,000, from 24.4 million to 23.9 million. Over the period, the number of migrants in work, including people born abroad but now naturalised as British citizens, rose by 1.1 million - to 3.3 million. They now make up one in eight of the workforce.

The figures, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), provide the strongest evidence yet that Britons have lost their jobs to immigrants, says a leading expert on immigration."


Immigration has lead to big business making larger profits as they have had a workforce willing to work for low wages whilst a larger and larger number of Britain's population are happy to sit and collect benefits for not working rather than take a low paid job. The Labour government win as inflation stays lower than it might and they can import more Labour voters as well as ensure that the ever increasing "non working" population will vote Labour, the immigrants get higher paid work than they could in their own countries and big business get all the benefits of low wages which feed through into increased profits. Who loses out? The economies of the immigrants Countries of origin lose dynamic members of their economies and the British taxpayer really loses...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Don't quite see how the inflation argument from the government works, seeing as we have a minimum wage that no-one is supposed to work below - so how can immigrants push inflation down without their employers paying them less than the minimum wage?