Migrants aren't hurting us then?

Shock/horror.


http://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/uk...ts-contribute-20bn-to-uk-economy-study-finds?

 

Nope I guess UKIP will come out and apologise for all the negativity now...

 

http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/press-release/395


Just for info. Posted without comment

 

an article you will see on page 23 (in small print) of the Daily Mail

 

Thanks for posting that image. I briefly saw it on Twitter but wanted to share it later and lost the link.

 

Interestingly (or not) I produced sone of the research for the UCL report and tried to speak to some folks at Migrant Watch in the initial stages but they didn't want to know.

 

Folk working to their own agendas ? Gerraway.

On a wider note, if we think of migration in mere terms of £'s then what does that say about humans ?

 

I was but a hired hand but I think they kept the remit quite narrow to look whether some of the claims made by the press and the Neo Thatcherite parties were accurate or not. I know that there is a sister report trying to look at the human cost/benefits of migration in development but it's more difficult to quantify objectively.

 

It (migration/immigration) has been stained by Mandelson (?) and his statement about New Labour's attitude to mass immigration - ie done for an idealogical purpose - without ensuring the people at the sharp end (local authorities) had the means and infrastructure to cope with increased demand on services.

That helps those who would de-humanise immigrants - they become numbers, and are then looked on as one entity. Doesn't matter who they are, what their story is - they are all the same.

Politicians playing with people's lives.

 

Only a moron would think that on ballance the people coming here from the EU are not most likely to be working and hence contributing more money than they take out. And that Moron would be Nigel Farage a man who has spent years swimming in the EU gravy train while decrying its existence.

 

Depends who's interpretations of the original report that you believe all papers run the story differently this morning

 

I tend to sit on the side of the fence where humans are humans and judged on their acts rather than their place of birth, religion, skin colour or sexual preference. But yep, tha reight, papers have their own agendas. I just happened to stumble across this particular article. If it had been a Daily Mail article I'm sure the tone/message would have been very different. Ie - ******* ridiculous.

 

Why do we need to rely on those with vested interest to 'interpret' a factuall research paper?

 

Amen.

 

Can't say I give that much of a fack about the topic to go searching for the original report, but I have read the guardian independent mail and mirror today and all 4 reported it differently which is what my point was unless you read the report yourself you could be believing ******** for fact

 

The facts are the financial stuff. Whatever spin the various factions put on it.

 

EU migrants aren't hurting us.

Let's be precise.

 

It's no surprise at all. But we need enough houses to support the influx, so it does actually cost me a lot when I have to buy a home in this country. I know there are other factors affecting the housing situation, but until those are resolved, some control is required.

 

Just because this set of statistics shows that migrants put more in than take out (as a whole) and this is a good thing, it doesn't addtess the problem of economic immigration. If we could stop those that come here just to milk the benefits system the stats would look even better and would limit the damage that focused demonization does. I have no issue with migrants in general but I do have a major issue with those that come here with nothing to offer, take out more than they put in and commit crime. We have enough indigenous scroats as it is without taking more from other countries.