'Almost 600,000' new EU migrants since 2004

[BobTheCrate]

"Filling the skills shortage".

A typical New Lie statement which leaves out yet another caveat, "for the minimum wage".

[NoddY]

"Filling the skills shortage".

A typical New Lie statement which leaves out yet another caveat, "for the minimum wage".

Many Poles move to Britain not only because of umemployment but because those who are working at home have seen their real wages decrease.

Low paid British workers are also seeing their real wages decrease - where do they go?

[BobTheCrate]

Low paid British workers are also seeing their real wages decrease - where do they go?

Into the arena of justified resentment I suspect.

[oraclesmith]

If wages are low, then property must be cheap out there. Why don't we all club together and buy a village ?

[hyperD]

If wages are low, then property must be cheap out there. Why don't we all club together and buy a village ?

You are Scott Alexander and I claim my free Bulgarian village called hyperD-ski.

[oraclesmith]

....damn......

[Hart-floot]

Low paid British workers are also seeing their real wages decrease - where do they go?

Check the unemployment statistics. Supposedly growing economy yet unemployment rises by 350,000

I guess it had to happen, Gordon Brown starts by shafting the contractor/free lance community with IR35 and ends up shafting New Labour's low paid core voters

Next on the hit list - making teachers and nurses redundant

[Troll]

"Filling the skills shortage".

A typical New Lie statement which leaves out yet another caveat, "for the minimum wage".

Here are the top 20 occupations in which registered workers from EU accession countries were employed between July 2004 and June 2006:
Factory worker - 95,865 registered workers

Warehouse Operative - 25,215

Packer - 24,130

Kitchen and catering assistants - 24,090

Cleaner, domestic staff - 20,430

Farm worker/ Farm hand - 18,105

Waiter, waitress - 15,840

Maid / Room attendant (hotel) - 13,835

Care assistants and home carers - 12,610

Sales and retail assistants - 10,535

Labourer, building - 10,525

Crop harvester - 8,020

Food processing operative (fruit / veg) - 6,295

Bar staff - 6,030

Food processing operative (meat) - 5,030

Chef, other - 4,845

Driver, HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle) - 3,620

Administrator, general - 3,600

Fruit picker (farming) - 3,580

Driver, delivery van - 2,695

TOTAL TOP 20 - 314,880

Other occupations/not stated - 73,385

[GreenerGrass]

Prostitute - 97,020

[hyperD]

The Fiscal Contribution of Migrants. (Revised)

I see Andrew Green has been busy - this just out:

A Home Office report in 2002 claimed that migrants contributed £2.5 billion more in taxes in 1999/2000 than they received in benefits and State services.This claim has been continually repeated to support the assertion that the government’s policy of large-scale immigration is economically beneficial for the country. This claim, central to their case for massive levels of immigration, is now disproved.

http://www.migrationwatch.co.uk/Brie...nts_Aug_06.asp