Record immigration levels to UK

[Rebecca Loos]

ok it does say how many leave every year too... still is 223,000 a lot?

Rebecca in scared of getting kicked out mode

[Joe Black]

Oh dear, I think its quite obvious who's leaving:

[stackpole]

ok it does say how many leave every year too... still is 223,000 a lot?

Yes it is. We need two new towns the size of Luton every year to house them. Plus hundreds of miles of new roads.

But this means fu ck all to the ministers responsible, who would just as soon keep building over the whole country - after all, these bast ards coming into the UK are more likely to be New Labour voters, aren't they.

[Rebecca Loos]

I didn't realise there were 2 commonwealths! Old and new? What's the difference between the 2?

[BoredBloke]

The other thing is, the brits leaving will be doing so by selling up and taking their cash overseas and were probably not dependant on the state for anything. Those arriving from certain countries will be doing so potless.

[Rebecca Loos]

yeah but one Abramovich taking his cash to the UK allows the UK to take in 1,000,000 poor immigrants I would have thought.
It's not just skint poles and lithuanians coming from the east!!

[BoredBloke]

Great one mega rich russian who spends cash in this country (and others) but at the same time we loose 200,000 self sufficient brits, only to me replaced by 500,000+ people who often do not have a pot to pi55 in.

Also I would imagine that Abramovich while very rich will have very expensive accountants who would reduce the levels of tax he pays.

[threaded]

Britain gets Abramovich: a football club and its expensive "talent" gets propped up. Such is the dearth of football clubs in the UK I can well see the desperate need for such inward investment.

Denmark gets threaded: and builds an enviable e-government system, whilst the UK languishes, due to loss of talent, with a tax credit system that appears on the face of it to have pushed those most vulnerable into the clutchs of loan sharks.

Yeah, UK immigaration, it's a pile of tulipe isn't it...

[Joe Black]

yeah but one Abramovich taking his cash to the UK allows the UK to take in 1,000,000 poor immigrants I would have thought.
It's not just skint poles and lithuanians coming from the east!!

Becks, didn't Australia used to have some sort of system, besides the points one, where if you went there with $1m you were practically let in straight away and could get citizenship?

Maybe thats what the UK needs, reduce the taxes and let lots and lots of millionaires in, yourself included...just don't ask where the money came from.

[Rebecca Loos]

NZ still has it. If you have more than NZ$200,000 to invest, then you get one point per $100,000 when you apply for a business investor residency visa