Imigration Report
November 20, 2008 by Ken
Filed under EU Ministry for Propaganda
A European Commission report released today claims that contrary to common widespread fears, the two EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 have not led to a massive influx of central and eastern European workers to the “old” member states.
EU immigrant workers have not caused “serious disturbances” on labour markets, and workers from the ‘new’ EU member states have also contributed to the economic growth by bringing more workers where they were most needed, and have had “little or no negative impact” on wages and unemployment levels.
Of course even without looking at the report, is it clear to anyone who thinks about it a little bit that they can only have arrived at this conclusion by massaging the figures.
What they have done is to ignore the fact that with the exception of
Britain, Ireland and Sweden, workers from the new EU member states were not allowed into the old member states in the first place, so there was no massive influx of central and eastern European workers into the other twelve old member states because they were not allowed. So then taking the results from all of the old member states, 12 of which did not open their doors, they have watered-down the results for the three which did.
There “was” a massive influx into Britain and Ireland and although the British government have tried to present this as a bonus to our economy, they have only been able to do so by ignoring all of the costs involved, a devastating cross-party House of Lords report drove a very large horse and cart through the government spinning of the figures.
Since 2004, a record 1.8 million foreign workers have come to Britain, including an estimated 700,000 from Eastern Europe. The report demised as “preposterous” that migrants boost the economy by £6 billion a year and in another report David Coleman, an Oxford University academic, says the wider costs of immigration are almost £8.8billion a year.
In fact migrants have put pressure on the NHS by using casualty departments as GP surgeries. TB rates are also up and the cost of translators in hospitals to deal with foreign patients can be crippling for health authorities. There are nearly 12,000 foreign nationals in Britain’s jails more prison places than anticipated and exacerbating the overcrowding crisis. The principal reason for the shortage of housing is the break up of families. But that accounts for only two thirds of the requirement. The other million are needed for immigrants. They have also swelled council housing waiting lists and police complain their resources are stretched because they need more staff to deal with migrants involved in crime.
These are just some of the problems that the British government and the EU Commission would like us to ignore.
Now is could be argued that had all the other states opened their doors at the same time the whole problem would have been watered down, but as that did not happen the problems were magnified in Britain. The Commission is now watering down the results of mass immigration, by introducing results from states that have no problem because they had no immigration.
The odd thing is the EU Commission is using their report to try to get the other member states to finally remove their restrictions on immigrants.
