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”
Blueberry123566678
The rich ones are welcome ,NOT the ones who came to get free benefits !!!!
Gogogirlgirl
SHE’S NOT BRITISH !!! She is probably polish or Bulgarian !!! Worthless to comment …
robert
The real thing that annoys me is this, people are brought in on the pretence that we have a shortage of qualified experienced skills. Why is this? simple deprive our youth of real skills and allow a yob culture to develop. Lets be honest most business are making a fortune out of this scam by offering low wages which are rejected by our people and then taking by immigrants. Once in they are here to stay and soon you will be working for them as they take all jobs politicians included, like millband etc and straw before and other dodgy names like leon britian.This country is screwed thanks to greedy business.
vermilion J
What a load of fucking bollocks.
fearburnus
I am a Skilled professional , and increasing over the years my job market has become ever more volatile, and unsure, nearly 90% of the employees in places iv worked have been EU immigrants,most barley able to speak English, I’ve been bullied and intimidated a couple of occasions by these no Brits,I imagine because i’m highly skilled, and fluent in English, and they have seen me as a direct threat, further from this, budgets cuts to the nhs have directly effected my employ, as i worked in good job related the the NHS, which folded due to budget cuts, its a pretty desperate time for indigenous Brits as i know i’m not the only one in the same situation, i hope and pray i can secure full time employment so i can look after my family , but the situation looks pretty grim , best i could hope for is temporary employ in a job i’m not suited, thanks to the inability of agencies which have taken over the jobs market to suitability place me in a role, when i could apply direct to employers ive never had a problem securing employment, but now its just impossible, 200 applications later , nothing, the way the current tory party has made of a scapegoat of the working class also smacks of a similar situation in Germany called the rise of fascism, truth is allowing eu migrants into uk has destroyed indigenous Brits future, and only further strengthened the governments ability to make choices patently not in the interest of Britain, but corporations (fracking anyone), I don’t like farage i think he’s a idiot, but at the moment for indigenous brits his policies make sense, and for someone brought up in a free liberal society, himself married to a ex migrant, is a sad comment on the times. get real smell the coffee come to the bottom of the pile and see , its bleak here.