Wednesday, 2 April 2008
Mass Immigration IS Worthless
The government has finally admitted that immigration is worthless in a late memo sent to the Home Office.
It undermines even further Labour's argument that mass immigration has enormous economic benefits for the UK - a claim Gordon Brown was still repeating yesterday when rejecting demands for a cap on new arrivals.
Ministers have been focusing on the so-called £6billion boost delivered to the economy each year by immigrants. But a landmark report by the authoritative Lords Economic Affairs Committee yesterday dismissed the argument as "irrelevant and misleading". The committee, which includes two ex-Chancellors and a Labour economist, said the figure gave no indication of the impact of unprecedented migration on each member of the UK population - who receive "little or no" benefit.
Now it has emerged that Home Office officials did compile a figure of the annual benefit of migration to the native population, which is also known as Gross Domestic Product Per Capita. A memo quietly passed to peers says the total is only £30 a year, or a paltry 58p a week in 2006. Read More
It undermines even further Labour's argument that mass immigration has enormous economic benefits for the UK - a claim Gordon Brown was still repeating yesterday when rejecting demands for a cap on new arrivals.
Ministers have been focusing on the so-called £6billion boost delivered to the economy each year by immigrants. But a landmark report by the authoritative Lords Economic Affairs Committee yesterday dismissed the argument as "irrelevant and misleading". The committee, which includes two ex-Chancellors and a Labour economist, said the figure gave no indication of the impact of unprecedented migration on each member of the UK population - who receive "little or no" benefit.
Now it has emerged that Home Office officials did compile a figure of the annual benefit of migration to the native population, which is also known as Gross Domestic Product Per Capita. A memo quietly passed to peers says the total is only £30 a year, or a paltry 58p a week in 2006. Read More
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