Immigration and Trade Figures Updated

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Last week The Daily Telegraph revealed that the UK’s population was continuing to grow by more than 1000 people a day. Foreigners, particularly Islamists, were adding new-born children at more than four per woman, while the indigenous population was still rearing only 1.6 children per woman. Unsustainable if the UK is to remain recognisable.

Europeans were continuing to pour into the UK, four million of them since the EU forced the UK to open its borders. They were free to enter at any time, while migrants from the Commonwealth and the third world had to argue their way in.

Next day, the same newspaper reported that 45,000 Poles had returned to the UK despite our failing economy and higher unemployment. Wages and job prospects in the UK were still better than in Poland.

At the weekend The Spectator pointed out that many of the hundreds leaving the UK every day were high earners or potential high earners. We may be growing by a net 1000 a day, but that was not an accurate reflection of the damage being inflicted on the British economy.

We were powerless to stop an accelerating exchange of skills and experience for destitute migrants seeking a better life and the chance to send money back to whence they came. That was no recipe for economic growth.

Then, on Monday, were learned that – while we were importing vast numbers of poor Eastern Europeans – the EU as a whole was buying less and less of our goods. Exports to the EU fell by 18 percent in the first six months of 2012, while our exports to the rest of the world rose by 28 percent.

So dramatic was this swing in trading patterns that, during May, the entire economic output of the eurozone (including Germany) was overtaken for the first time by the economic output of the British Commonwealth.

Now, today, The Times tells us that Wallace (otherwise known as Ed Miliband) is complaining about the influx of cheap labour from Eastern Europe. What a revelation that is – he’s finally caught up more than ten years late! Trouble is, he appears not to have worked out that we can do nothing to stop it until we leave the EU.

He knows, of course – just terrified of saying it.