Channel tunnel to close on Brexit?

[VectraMan]

600K people may come here, but that ignores the fact that some of them are British, more than half are non-EU citizens, and half as many leave at the same time.

According to:

Migration Watch UK | Statistics-net-migration-statistics

617,000 people arrived.

87,000 of them were British. 273,000 of them were non EU, leaving 257,000 from the EU.

85,000 of them left, meaning the net migration from the EU was actually 172,000.

172K is the figure you should be getting hysterical about. How ludicrous is it that you count British citizens amongst immigrants?

[seanraaron]

Why are emigrants allowed back in? You could interpret austerity as a way to force people to choose between poverty and leaving the country. Nowhere to send them too though...

"United Kingdom, love it or leave it!"

[darmstadt]

This entire internal Tory squabble is a bit dull. It's a shame the Tories got to form a government so now it's something the entire country has to pay attention to. The referendum cannot come and go soon enough. Maybe after losing the sceptics will all eff off to Australia or something...

Nah, would never get through their immigration policy

[sasguru]

yeah he was 5% low I can see how that would lose him all credibility with a cretin like you.

600K people may come here, but that ignores the fact that some of them are British, more than half are non-EU citizens, and half as many leave at the same time.

According to:

Migration Watch UK | Statistics-net-migration-statistics

617,000 people arrived.

87,000 of them were British. 273,000 of them were non EU, leaving 257,000 from the EU.

85,000 of them left, meaning the net migration from the EU was actually 172,000.

172K is the figure you should be getting hysterical about. How ludicrous is it that you count British citizens amongst immigrants?

Of course in the context of this debate net EU migration is the figure that matters, since that is the bit that could be changed by Brexit.
You see vetran, with such innumeracy as yours and Equalizers, is it any wonder that employers support immigration?
Why don't you do your bit against immigration and attend some evening classes in basic arithmetic so that you can take some numerate job that an immigrant is currently doing?

[vetran]

600K people may come here, but that ignores the fact that some of them are British, more than half are non-EU citizens, and half as many leave at the same time.

According to:

Migration Watch UK | Statistics-net-migration-statistics

617,000 people arrived.

87,000 of them were British. 273,000 of them were non EU, leaving 257,000 from the EU.

85,000 of them left, meaning the net migration from the EU was actually 172,000.

172K is the figure you should be getting hysterical about. How ludicrous is it that you count British citizens amongst immigrants?

because they are immigrants, if you count them as emigrants you have to count them as immigrants

Net migration is a valuable figure though I would suggest the EU migration figures are low considering the number of aging balding brits marrying gorgeous Eastern Europeans.

[sasguru]

because they are immigrants, if you count them as emigrants you have to count them as immigrants

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Jeez, how boneheaded are you?

Having said all of which I'm willing to concede that a net migration of, say, 200K EU workers a year is too much, long term, particularly if they are unskilled. Will they come now that they can't get benefits for 4 years?

[BlasterBates]

Up until 2010 EU immigrants were balanced by British emigrants to the EU, from official government statistics.

https://euobserver.com/social/123066

This perception of being swamped by EU immigrants is grossly exaggerated :

[vetran]

Jeez, how boneheaded are you?

Having said all of which I'm willing to concede that a net migration of, say, 200K EU workers a year is too much, long term, particularly if they are unskilled.

OK simple explanation for you.

If a person resigns from a job and 2 years later returns and is rehired they are still counted as a new hire, your headcount goes up by one. They may count as a previous employee but when they left last time your headcount went down by one.

[I just need to test it]

Did anyone see last night's UKIP political broadcast? They'd lined up some obese women with loads of kids who were complaining about the number of immigrants jumping ahead of them on the housing list.

"My kids ask me [SOB] 'Mum, when are we going to have a garden?' [WAIL]".

Was that really the best UKIP could do?

[vetran]

Up until 2010 EU immigrants were balanced by British emigrants to the EU, from official government statistics.

https://euobserver.com/social/123066

This perception of being swamped by EU immigrants is grossly exaggerated :

I think the issue is that the swamping was all round the south east. This is probably the same as half of London being Ethnic minorities. Our tramps now talk Polish, I think its their first language from their accent.