Immigration "small benefit" to the UK
A new study confirms the same thing I said on this blog months ago:
Record levels of immigration have had "little or no impact" on the economic well-being of Britons, an influential House of Lords committee has said.But it gets even worse:
Instead, competition from immigrants has had a negative impact on the low paid, training for young UK workers and has contributed to high house prices.
The available evidence suggests that immigration has had a small negative impact on the lowest-paid workers in the UK and a small positive impact on the earnings of higher-paid workers.In other words, the poor are getting poorer and the rich richer.
Someone tell me again: why does a small island need an exploding population?
4 comments:
Well, they got away from all that good old-fashioned Irish terrorism and I suppose they decided that they needed some of the Islamic stuff. It's the only possible reason.
I gotta agree with thrill here. You're either a glutton for punishment at this point, or you really crave the action.
Manwhore
Would you care to inform us why you chose to illustrate a post on the economic impact of immigration to the UK with a photo on theft?
To lemmuslemmus: I wasn't really trying to link immigration and crime, although they are linked in many ways. It was just a humorous (to me) sign I saw on my last trip to London, and have been waiting for an excuse to put on the site.
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