Spoken word poet Hollie McNish spells out what's wrong with most of the arguments used against immigration. She cites as her inspiration a book by economist Philippe Legrain called Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them.
Spoken word poet Hollie McNish spells out what’s wrong with most of the arguments used against immigration. She cites as her inspiration a book by economist Philippe Legrain called Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them. (Hat tip: Adam Mordecai)
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85 Responses to “Next time someone claims that immigrants are destroying Britain, show them this”
Gavin Rider
Yes, they are significantly less likely to claim benefits because they get the job and the British worker doesn’t, so the British worker has to go on benefits instead. Also, statistics relate to the whole working age population and clearly migrant workers don’t include the old, infirm and disabled who are included in the indigenous population figures.
The situation is not as Mr Portes says in London, though, which is where the largest proportion of immigrants are found – there the proportion of benefits claimants is higher among the migrant community (37% against 34% for the UK-born community).
JSM09
plaintruthforidiots, you are quite clearly a racist how can you continously say WHITE countries, the WHITE people’s countries I’m guessing you class the US as a WHITE country, yet the Native Americans were there first. Also, by saying this you are claiming that all immigrants are non whites, what about the Polish and other Europeans? Its people like you who are destroying society this country can never move forward with bigots like yourself living amongst us you have a lot of research to do.
Gary Amiss
Fair point. Immigration in it’s current form serves no purpose to the UK whatsoever. It’s ridiculous and there’s no argument for it.
It’s hilarious when people try and tell us that immigrants are hard working. Absolute joke. Some are but most aren’t.
Anyway, it’s irrelevant, if they are hard working, let them work hard and benefit their native lands.
You’re right, the UK is finished and there’s no going back.
Gary Amiss
Which country is that then?
Gary Amiss
There’s a shortage of school places, shortage of housing, one million young people unemployed etc. Aren’t there enough people in this tiny country of ours right now?
What benefit will there be to the UK in allowing another 500,000 to settle here next year and the year after and so on? It’s mad.