Widely understood that immigrants are net contributors to the economy by about 20%
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Check out more detailed Migration Watch research on this.
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Oh, cos they're not biased at all are they?
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I think you'll find their figures have never been wrong.
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That's utter nonsense. Just ask
@jdportes, who I'm sure has proven them wrong countless times himself - e.g.:https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/setting-record-straight-factchecking-uk-press … -
Indeed. Both the Mail and the Telegraph accepted that Migration Watch's figures were entirely fictitious, and corrected them.
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Separately, Migration Watch figures on fiscal impacts assumes no migrants -even those here 20 years- own shares or have pensions. Laughable
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As you can see here. Nobody could possibly take Migration Watch seriously on this.https://twitter.com/jdportes/status/732476865965752320 …
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Net contributers but go on...
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Only from some countries. And that doesn't tackle the social issues
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You mean culturally then?
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All aspects
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But not financial cost because they are net contributers. So you mean culturally? I can't think what else you'd mean.
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Common sense dictates that only skilled workers who can command reasonable salaries are net contributors.
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No it doesn't.
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It does and the analysis shows this.
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As long as we continue taking unemployables from impoverished Asian and African countries, we'll get poorer. The majority will never work
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Leaving the EU won't change that
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The EU is a conduit for peoples from Africa.
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A year ago people would say the Brexit vote wasn't about immigration blah blah blah, now it's the only argument used to know justify it.
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No it isn't, it's about national sovereignty
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You need to be able to sack those in power e.g. Heath, Callaghan, Major, Brown. You cannot sack EU Commission. Economic factors secondary.
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