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Comment on the Office for Budgetary Responsibility report
18th July, 2013

Commenting on the report released by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said:

“Once again the OBR has given only part of the story. It is true that, in the medium term, migration provides a larger pool of working age people which increases tax revenues. But, of course, migrants also get old so to maintain the same ratio of working age people to older people would require an ever increasing number of migrants each year.

On their immigration assumption of 140,000 a year we would add 14 million to the UK population in their 50 year time scale which is nearly a quarter of our present population.

All studies of the pension problem have concluded that the only way to tackle it is to increase the pension age as expectation of life increases. Furthermore the public have made it perfectly clear that the social and environmental consequences of continued mass immigration are unacceptable to them.

It is time that economists understood this.”

A selection of recent media reports

Australia sending new migrants to Papua New Guinea
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says all refugees who arrive in Australia b
The Guardian (19-Jul-2013)

Australia announces Papua New Guinea asylum deal
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BBC News South Asia (19-Jul-2013)

In! Out! OBR shakes it all about on immigration
Does Britain need more immigrants? 
The Independent (18-Jul-2013)

Migrants 'needed to keep down debt'
Britain needs seven million migrants over the next 50 years to help keep down national debt levels, according to the officia
Express & Star (18-Jul-2013)

OBR says timebomb is ticking for ageing UK
THE SPIRALLING cost of pensions, health and social care for the elderly mean the UK faces tens of billions of pounds in s
City A.M. (18-Jul-2013)

UK Needs Seven Million More Migrants Over Next 50 Years To Keep Down Debt
Britain needs seven million migrants over the next 50 years to help keep down national debt leve
The Huffington Post (United Kingdom) (18-Jul-2013)

Ageing Britain 'needs an extra 7m immigrants'
BRITAIN will have to let in around seven million immigrants over the next 50 years to pay for its ageing popu\u00ADlation, th
Express.co.uk (18-Jul-2013)