"No limits" immigration contributes to housing shortage

[BobTheCrate]

Careful Dodgy. In these precarious times you could end up amongst a batch of the non voluntary deportees. Carefully selected by a professional Jobseekers advisor newly arrived from ... say ... Hungary or Poland.

Wouldn't that be a poetic irony !

[DodgyAgent]

Careful Dodgy. In these precarious times you could end up amongst a batch of the non voluntary deportees. Carefully selected by a professional Jobseekers advisor newly arrived from ... say ... Hungary or Poland.

Wouldn't that be a poetic irony !

I forgot to add "except unemployed recruitment consultants who should be sent to Bermuda"

[Fungus]

The unemployment figure is jobseekers allowance, this is only a fraction of the unemployed. It won't include those on income support looking for work.
People can come off income support and into work and this will have no effect on the unemployment rate. So yet it is possible for both to rise without any additional migrant workers.

Moreover, If you look at the annual trend you can see over the year
unemployment is negatively correlated to employment.

If your hypothesis were true then both plots would behave in exactly the same way, which they don't.

What happens to the 350K immigrants that have entered the country over th last two years, according to official figures? How do they earn a living? Where do they live. Answers on a postcard to the usual address.

[Fungus]

The unemployed should be sent to Poland where the cost of keeping them out of work is far less than it is here. This would also free up necessary housing.

Good idea. And while we are at it, since our prisons are nearly full to capacity, and their prisons will be half empty, we can send our prisoners to Poland.

[wendigo100]

What happens to the 350K immigrants that have entered the country over th last two years, according to official figures? How do they earn a living? Where do they live?

You forgot: What do they drink and bath in? What do they use for heat and light? What roads do they drive their vehicles on?

[Fungus]

You forgot: What do they drink and bath in? What do they use for heat and light? What roads do they drive their vehicles on?

I know which Sainsbury's they shop in.

[mcquiggd]

I know which Tescos they work in.