charlie away from the gun cabinet.
Spot on M. Although it amuses me the way that the EU is always labelled as the whipping boy for immigration.
Estimated non-EU net migration is 205,000 a year—the highest level recorded since 2011. It has been almost consistently higher than EU migration for decades.
These are the people that arrive, largely unskilled, and prove culturally the most difficult, and costly, to assimilate to our society.
Last edited by 7sisters; 07-12-2018 at 01:03 PM.
Now, why do, say, Romanians come to the UK for work when their domestic rate of unemployment is 4.6%
The UK has unemployment levels of 4.5% and that is typically described as 'almost full employment' (I think you need a certaim amount of unemployment for economics to work properly).
Whereas, EU states with the highest levels of unemployment (Italy, Greece, Spain) you hardly see any immigrants coming to the UK.
So, in short, a lot of EU nationals come to this country for work which they could easily find at home.
Do the UK pay more? ie is our National Living Wage more than a Polish or Latvian worker would get? If so, how does a fúcking common market actually work?
Is it free healthcare in the UK that draws them?
Is it the UK's benefit system?
Who knows?
The only thing I know is . . . it ain't the fúcking weather.
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