Excluding asylum seekers and other immigrants could seriously damage our economic health?
Posted on September 18th, 2009 by admin
I have put this as a question but it is a statement which I’ve read in Reader’s Digest. It also says that in 1999/2000 immigrants (not including asylum seekers working illegally) contributed an estimated £2.5 billion into the British economy, in the form of productivity, taxes and consumption of goods and services – which is over 3 times more than the Government paid out to asylum seekers in the following year.
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September 18th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
I normally don’t seek out asylums, they are normally filled with liberals.
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September 18th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
It could but the impression the media are giving about migrant workers is that it is costing the tax payer more,we are not benefiting from them been here now.
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September 18th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Amazing, since the Government have not got any idea of how many immigrants [legal or illegal] there are out their I’d like to know how they worked that out
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September 18th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
No excuses for illegals please, if the legal and other foreign worker’s contributions were deleted from the £2.5 billion you have quoted, you would then have a true figure of illegal cost. Also, what about the unemployment benefits having to be paid to legal workers who have lost their jobs to the illegals, and add the benefits mysteriously paid out (through incompetence) to the families of illegals.
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September 18th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
its guesstimated figures. who knows whats true or not . even slimey gordon brown says you shouldnt believe what you read in the papers and im sure that includes magazines. they all print what they want you to read. they manipulate the truth.
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September 18th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
When they work and pay taxes…..but send their money out of your country to another and use the freebies to compensate….it hurts the economy. You can’t look at just 1 part of the picture and declare it all good without considering the whole picture.
I laugh when they say our economy is good….as long as you don’t count food, energy and housing. The un-employment rate is great since Ag, Construction, Restaurant and some medical isn’t counted. I’d be rich if I just left out food, housing, medical and energy expenses……..
I’d be young…. if you’d just forget my birth date, ignore the wrinkles and not ask me any history questions.
Heck I could be a genious as long as you didn’t ask math questions…or science…or anything of relevance.
I’m rich if you compare my house to a hut in Africa…as long as you forget I’d be in jail for living that way and my children would be taken.
I could be a Dr. coz I want it and I’m good at it….just forget I don’t have the education to back it.
You can’t get a clear picture when you aren’t allowed to see the see it all.
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September 18th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
" It also says that in 1999/2000 immigrants (not including asylum seekers working illegally) contributed an estimated £2.5 billion into the British economy, in the form of productivity, taxes and consumption of goods and services"
Yes and how much of that £2.5 billion did they take back in their use of NHS services, schools, tax credits, child benefit, etc etc?
I’m not anti-immigration. I’m anti-the current EU situation where people from poorer EU countries are seeing this country as a gold mine and coming here to make money quickly. That has a negative effect on the living standards of the average British woker, with a mortgage to pay and a family to support. Wages are being driven down due to increased competition for even menial work and bosses are taking advantage of the ready pool of labour to deny their employees their rights (who needs to care about their staff when there are plenty of people willing to step into their jobs?) Companies are laying off their British workers to take on Eastern EU agency workers on temp contracts at minimum wage. It suits them as these workers are only coming here to make money for a short while but it can leave a family man with a mortgage to pay out in the cold. Unskilled and manual British workers are struggling to find and keep their jobs!
These economic migrants then send a large portion of their money out of the country, which takes it out of the UK economy, so the benefit of the larger workforce becomes negligable. What they pay in taxes they pretty much consume with their use of public services, tax credits, child benefit etc.
I beleive immigration should be controlled with a points system similar to Australia. We should also shut the gate to Eastern EU immigration in the same way that some other European countries have done. We should take only the highly skilled and those who can prove they have sufficient funds to not need recourse to any public assistance.
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September 18th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Yes and the immigrants are being paid child tax credits and child benefits for children that are not even in UK.
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Headline news yesterday.
September 18th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Statistics taken in 1999/2000 by Readers Digest is Flawed because they never go out to the people. They rely on a hope that some people will voluntarily give them answers to compile a statistic. Statistics taken in this manner is prone to being misused as you do not get a proper cross section of replies. Reader Digest Readers only? Filling up a questions Page ? The cost of Administering to The Kinds of Peoples coming in ,is relatively high in comparison to our own Peoples. Our own Values are being sidestepped further by the large number of Government Officials who are alien to British Values. Sometimes even Hostile. When will they ever Learn.
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September 18th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
The pressure put on infrastructure is what the British people feel,Not necessarily the economic costs,
most people who come into contact with any of the feral Hoodie type youngsters think they are predominately black,
they think the white versions come from the EU country’s
most of those involved in the 26 murders in the news were black,both victims and assailants, Its not good press and they are all rightly or wrongly bundled together and accused of every crime since Adam bit on the apple that immigrant Eve stole from Gods supermarket.
If these Immigrants asylum seekers?call them what you like, cannot, will not do, not on religious grounds or for any other reason, make the effort to live along side the British people
I don’t want or expect them to integrate, that’s not the point
live along side us, obey our laws, pay what we pay, stop treating us like sh-te, respect the British way of life, you chose to come into our country be part of Britain or bugger off
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September 19th, 2009 at 12:01 am
The government has not paid out, we have, the government does NOT have any money it is our money. Ask how much money they have shipped back to their homelands. You read the "Readers Digest" I suggest you read "Hansard" or some factual publications. Read my lips…… We, the tax payer, should not be paying for asylum seekers, they have a duty to seek refuge in the first "safe" country they reach, why are we even processing these people? They have crossed continents to reach the cushiest country in the world. Sure we have bone idle benefit cheats, it is up to this goverment to deal with them and get them back to work. Stop hoodwinking the electorate by telling them the immigrants will do the jobs they won’t. What they mean is the immigrant will do the job for much less whilst claiming every "low" wage benefit under the sun. How else could they live here and send money back? We are subsidising them to the hilt. I cannot quote the figures now, (wish I had printed them off) but the O.N.S. showed that the levels of money being shipped out of this country by immigrants was astronomical. That did not include cash, given that many eastern europeans do not have bank accounts.
Bollix to our economic health, only the wealthy and the capitalists benefit from this influx, we managed quite well before, what about the health of the nation, our culture, our identity, our sense of "fair play" our ethos of equality? What strain is it putting on our essential services eg housing, education and health? I suggest, with respect, that you have a major re-think, we do not have a "labour" shortage such as existed in the 50s, au contraire, we now have a labour surplus that is driving down the wage bill and making benefits more appealing and more justified to those who opt for it as a life choice. Get your own home in order before you invite the neighbours in.
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September 19th, 2009 at 12:17 am
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September 19th, 2009 at 12:53 am
You must be one of the people you can fool all the time. Their are lies, damn lies and government statistics!
What Brown and his ilk fail to include in their statistics is that while immigrants are doing the jobs an equivalent number of UK citizens are being paid benefits and are not paying tax – a double whammy for the rest of us who do.
It is not just about money. This country is an island, we are already overpopulated and we need to reduce, not increase, the number of people here. If you don’t believe this ask any politician what number of people this island can mathematically support comfortably? They will not give you an answer because they know that point was passed long ago.
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