The latest immigration figures....

[Zero Liability]

I thought Scotland wanted high immigration? Weren't they bleating on about needing more workers?

Yeah but I think if they did leave the Union they'd be quite keen to keep it so that they only get migrants with the skillsets they want.

[d000hg]

yesss well my conscience is clear but I wonder how many other people are beginning to have regrets?

'A Brighter, more secure future' under Dave Cameron?

Yes it's terrible that after we voted him in, he went back in time and did this.

[BlasterBates]

With migrants flooding the jobs market wages are being pushed downwards.

Migrants causing a glut of skilled workers

[DodgyAgent]

With migrants flooding the jobs market wages are being pushed downwards.

Migrants causing a glut of skilled workers

We are also getting migrants with skills that we do not need

[darmstadt]

With migrants flooding the jobs market wages are being pushed downwards.

Migrants causing a glut of skilled workers

So sayeth the Mail, however it could be that us Brits are just unskilled ****ers: https://fullfact.org/economy/low_pro..._germany-45141

[xoggoth]

But when you look at the unemployment figures, the least productive are not the white British but some ethnic minorities that previous immigration has given us:

http://researchbriefings.files.parli...85/SN06385.pdf

Low productivity is not unrelated to immigration in other ways, as it says in your link, we invest less in infrastructure. The infrastructure requirement, roads, rail, water, power etc is not an absolute but is related to population. As it also says, "Congested roads and crowded railways make commuting unpleasant, and moving goods around the country more expensive". Trains and roads are very congested in the South and that has not been helped by adding 10%+ to the population in many areas, and that is only the foreign born, it does not include their offspring born here.

On a wider note, allowing companies to depend on cheap labour rather than improve efficiency and invest in machinery can hardly be helping either. One example, all the migrant car washes that have been opened in the South East, they are everywhere around here. Meanwhile that expensive automatic car wash your local garage spent so much on is hardly used.

[xoggoth]

oh yes that's due to Labour's lax immigration policy.....oh hang on

In part, yes it is. Look at any country and you will see that migrants prefer to go to the nations and regions within those nations where there is already a significant population of their own countrymen. Had the Labour government adopted the temporary restrictions on Poland and the other countries in 2004 the UK would not be such a draw today.

[lilelvis2000]

We are also getting migrants with skills that we do not need

unemployment keeps going down so somebody is hiring them. With ultra-low productivity cheap labour is the only thing that sustains the UK at the moment...and Cameron knows it.

[darmstadt]

Although Germany which has many more immigrants than the UK still manages to produce more per head....It would be interesting to see how Luxembourg rates as well as that, in recent years, has had a very high rate of immigration

[minestrone]

Although Germany which has many more immigrants than the UK still manages to produce more per head....It would be interesting to see how Luxembourg rates as well as that, in recent years, has had a very high rate of immigration

What counts as low skilled migration in Germany, someone without a degree?