Ex-UK minister admits mistake in allowing mass immigratioin

[Dreamer1]

There is a big difference. The UK allowed the scum of Europe into their borders. On the other hand, Singapore is attracting the cream of the Indian subcontinent, the most enterprising from Mainland China and the most talented and hardworking from the Philippines.

The arrival of foreigners in Singapore has boosted the economy many fold.

Boss Sam,you are definitely wrong,I do not know who UK allow into,but I am very sure(more than 200%) that the most enterprising from Mainland China and the most talented and hardworking from the Philippines do not wish to come to this red dot,and it is also not very difficult to guess where do they want to go,only when they could not,they will end up in Spore which is much better than China and the Ph,in their views.

 

[AdmiralAckbar]

Let me say this before someone says it..wish USA drop atomic bomb into smelly kelingland..aftermath will be even smellier until the ashes subsides and buried.

The stench will be worse.

 

[Vermin]

Jack Straw admits Labour made a 'spectacular mistake' on EU immigration

JACK Straw, the former Home Secretary, has admitted it was a “spectacular mistake” to open Britain’s borders to EU migrants.

Published: Tue, November 12, 2013

Jack Straw has admitted that Tony Blair 039 s government should not have given EU migrants a free reign Jack Straw has admitted that Tony Blair's government should not have given EU migrants a free reign [PA]

The MP for Blackburn has finally laid bare the Tony Blair government’s failure to get a grip on immigration, calling it “well-intentioned policy we messed up”.

In his column for his local paper, the Lancashire Telegraph, Mr Straw referred to Labour’s 2004 forecasts as “worthless”.

He said: “One spectacular mistake in which I participated was in lifting the transitional restrictions on the eastern European states, like Poland and Hungary, which joined the EU in mid-2004.

“Other existing EU members, notably France and Germany, decided to stick to the general rule, which prevented migrants from these new states from working until 2011.

“But we thought that it would be good for Britain.

“Research by the Home Office suggested that the impact of this benevolence would in any event be ‘relatively small’. Events proved these forecasts worthless. Net migration reached close to a quarter of a million at its peak in 2010. Lots of red faces, mine included.”

 

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Jack Straw, migrants from eastern Europe have done a lot for Britain

The Labour politician says the scale of eastern European immigration has been a 'spectacular mistake'. But there is plenty of evidence to show it has brought economic and social benefits

Economic boost: a recruitment sign in both Polish and English. Photograph: Alamy

Jack Straw's admission that it was a "spectacular mistake" to let in migrants from eastern Europe when the EU was enlarged in 2004 has added fresh fuel to that flickering fire. So what has this latest wave of migrants ever done for us?

1 In a report published last week, researchers at University College London found that migrants who came to the UK after 2000 were 45% less likely than the indigenous population to claim benefits or recieve tax credits, and 3% less likely to live in social housing.

2 According to the report, those from the European Economic Area (EU countries, plus Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) made a particularly high contribution to GDP, paying out 34% more in taxes than they received in benefits. Their net contribution was worth about £25bn to the Treasury.

3 Migrants are blamed for clogging up A&E, but figures show hospital admission rates for migrants are half the level of people of the same age in the British-born population.

4 A London School of Economics study earlier this year found that in neighbourhoods that had experienced mass migration from eastern Europe over the past 10 years, crime had fallen significantly. Levels of burglary, vandalism and car theft had all dropped.

5 Migrants from eastern Europe, because they tend to be young, have contributed to a marked increase in the birth rate. That, in turn, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics, has slowed the rate of ageing of the UK population as a whole. Twenty-five years ago, the UK was second only to Sweden as the most aged population. Last year it was down to 15th among EU countries, and is projected to carry on falling down the "most aged" list. That has beneficial effects in terms of sharing the tax burden and helping to care for an ageing British-born population.

6 A study last year by the Office for Budget Responsibility suggested that GDP would grow by 2.3% in a decade under a scenario of high migration, 0.2% higher than if there was zero migration, and said the gap would widen in succeeding decades.

7 The OBR also said that because higher immigration meant a larger working population, migrants would have a beneficial effect on levels of national debt. By 2062, with high migration, debt would be 50% of GDP; with low migration, 90%.

8 Polish is now Britain's third language after English and Welsh, and is much easier to learn than Welsh.