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)
85 Responses to “Next time someone claims that immigrants are destroying Britain, show them this”
Paul Oliver
I meant ‘descendants’. It’s good to know that you tolerate the occasional typo. Yes, I do speak English. i’ve been speaking it for the last 40-odd years.
BlessPapaBenny
No amount of sugar coating is going to hide the facts.
The policy of mass immigration and FORCED assimilation we are seeing in the UK and all White countries is a state sponsored policy of racial GENOCIDE.
Might be worth watching this video of Nicolae Ceaușescu if you want to see what happens when the people wake up and realise it. Enjoy anti-Whites!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-XNTVgDW0
LB
So what you are saying is that the NHS is 500% more expensive that in should be.
If you can get the health care for 400, why are we being charged nearly 2,000.
It’s a rip off. On top, they are killing 40,000 a year plus in avoidable deaths.
Why do you keep pushing the Non EU?
Of course non EU can bring dependents. I sit next to lots of such migrants who have bought their children with them. And before you jump to the wrong conclusion, I know what they are paid, and they are net contributors.
Why push the dependent parents bit? Lots come in from India and Bangladesh for example. Lots bring kids. They are dependents. They are expense.
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The reason that 25 years with no recourse to public funds is that migrants would refuse to pay tax if there was no possibility of getting anything back.
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No. They would get defense, the police, their insurance as part of the NHS albeit overcharged 5 fold. That’s half the deficit solved. We cut the spend on the NHS to zero, and go to your insurer and buy 63 million insurance policies. It’s cheaper.
On the tax and nothing back, what about the rich and the middle class? Ah yes, the rich have already decided, all the tax and a fu attitude from politicians particulary on the left, and they have moved their assets.
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The UK Border Agency reckons that a household with an income of £18,600 for a couple is unable to claim any benefits and therefore they judge that at that income threshold they cannot be a burden on the UK Taxpayer.
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Except that is not a valid test. The state provides way more than benefits. Even on 18,600 you can get tax credits as a benefit. Add in a couple of kids, and that 6,000 each for schooling, 8,000 for the family of 4 for health care. Oh dear, we are already above their pre tax income. That’s before we get onto the other costs. They are net consumers rather than net contributers.
Pippi de Kok
This woman is seriously retarded.
plaintruthforidiots
For David McKendrick:
Immigrants `not working` figures by country of origin
Institute for Public Policy Research 2007
Somalia 81% (muslims)
Turkey 59% (muslims – EU membership endorsed by Labour)
Bangladesh 56% (muslims)
Pakistan 55% (muslims)
Iran 48% (muslims)
Cyprus 32% (EU)
Jamaica 31%
China 31%
Portugal 30% (EU)
India 29%
Poland 15% (EU)
Austrailia 11%
Council/social housing taken by immigrants
Somalia 80%
Turkey 49%
Bangladesh 41%
Portugal 40%
Jamaica 35%
Iran 33%
Zimbabwe 20%
Cyprus 16%
Pakistan 15%
China 9%
Poland 8%
Australia 5%