Immigration and jobs

As many of us suspected:

"In the period Apr-Jun 97 there were 18.1m UK-born people working in the private sector. In Apr-Jun 07, it had actually fallen - to 18.0 million. So strip away immigration and state sector expansion and there are fewer British jobs, not more. The data for the respective period in 2008 is not out yet, but in the current environment it won’t be upwards."

"France, for example, saw immigrants as a share of its workforce slip from 11% to 10% between 1997 and 2006 according to figures which Eurostat sent me. The UK figures went from 7% to 11%. Others: Denmark (from 4% to 6%) Finland (2% to 3%) Sweden (6% to 13%)"

For more detail see The Spectator.