MIGRANTS BOOST BRITAIN? IT S ANOTHER LABOUR LIE LABOUR S claim that letting in record numbers of migrants benefits Britain is demolished today by a report damning it as a Government-sponsored myth . UK Express (01-Jun-2009) Economy losing £4.9m a day - because immigrants send it home to relatives The economy is losing £4.9million every day because of the huge sums immigrants send home to their relatives, official figures show. Analysis by the Office for National Statistics found that... Daily Mail (01-Jun-2009) Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Wicked mothers-in-law destroy lives This abomination surely calls for a new abolitionist movement led by Asian... The Independent (01-Jun-2009) Immigrants send £11m home each day Immigrants working in Britain send the equivalent of a record £11 million a day back home, research by a think tank... Telegraph.co.uk (31-May-2009) CHURCH DEMAND ON OUR VOTING CHOICE IS ARROGANT Five days from now we shall have voted, or more likely according to the opinion polls not have voted, in the European elections and the ecclesiastical establishment is getting its gaiters in a twist over its fear that we shall do something... Daily Express (31-May-2009) New research (Briefing Paper 1.23) published today shows that immigrants are now sending home a record £4 billion a year – almost doubling over the last decade – that is almost £11 million a day. This figure is nearly two thirds the amount that the UK Government spends on overseas aid - £6.3 billion in 2008. In comparison, £4 billion is approximately the cost of the two new aircraft carriers planned for the Royal Navy. Furthermore, even this sum is likely to be an underestimate as it does not include money sent from the UK by unofficial banking channels. ‘We are not suggesting that remittances should be stopped, they are an important source of revenue for many families across the world, but claims that there are only positive economic benefits from mass immigration are clearly untrue and factors such as we describe here clearly point in the opposite direction,’ said Sir Andrew Green, chairman of think tank Migrationwatch who produced the report. This research joins a growing body of work that has highlighted the economic ‘benefits’ claimed by supporters of record immigration levels are at best illusory For example last year the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs found “no evidence” that net immigration generates significant economic benefits for the existing UK population. The Government’s own evidence showed that the benefit of immigration is marginal – annual extra production equivalent to just 62p per head a week. Said Sir Andrew: ‘For years we have been told that immigration can only benefit the economy. But when the evidence is examined, that claim falls apart. As employment of foreign born workers has risen, employment of UK born workers has fallen. And now we find that remittances have shot up as immigrants have sent savings home. So much for the benefits of uncontrolled immigration.’ For the full text of this article see the Press Release. See Briefing Paper 11.12 for source referencesused in Migrationwatch's assessments. The three main parties are once again ignoring widespread public concern about the number of immigrants allowed into the UK in their manifestos for next week's European elections. An analysis of the parties' manifestos on this highly sensitive issue - consistently rated among the top three concerns of the public for a number of years - finds no hint of any desire for an open and frank discussion, let alone any meaningful commitment to bring down the highest immigration levels in our history. The analysis was prepared by think tank Migrationwatch... For the full text of this article see the Press Release. See Briefing Paper 11.12 for source references used in Migrationwatch's assessments. Research published by the Balanced Migration group today shows that 92% of immigration has been to England and 95% of population growth will be in England.
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Immigrants send £4 billion a year home. Remittances rise to £11m a day.
June 1, 2009Major Parties Help Fringe Groups With Their Silence on Immigration Immigration largely ignored in main manifestos
May 28, 2009Over 90% of immigration is to England
May 27, 2009
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