Brown is still sticking to the ridiculous claim that we are all somehow better off thanks to the tidal wave of East European migrants that has flooded over our borders unchecked. Reported in the Telegraph, Mr Brown said that
...the arrival of foreign workers, increasing the population by around 190,000 every year, had aided important sectors of the economy. He added:"Most people in the City of London know they have benefited very substantially. "Not just from the inward investment from international companies, but the number of key
workers who are coming to join them and are making a huge contribution."
Oh really? So why did the economic affairs select committee find that...
...the influx had delivered no significant economic benefit for UK residents.
The reason is, of course, that Brown's argument is absolute bollocks. Along with 99% of the country, I absolutely reject the idea that mass migration from East Europe is delivering any kind of benefit to this country. Aside from all the arguments about law and order, the strain on the NHS and the cultural impact that migration is having, it simply cannot be true that we are "benefitting substantially" from the Invasion of the Polish Plumbers. Why? because of one simple fact:
Taxation works on a percentage basis.
Let me spell it out for you Mr Brown as you clearly haven't grasped this point: If you earn less, you pay less tax. If you earn less, you buy fewer things and pay less sales tax as a result. The net result is...less money to pay for the services that we all need. Still with me? Let's take the argument one stage further.
Because they work for less money, even the migrants that are working legally and paying taxes - by no means all of them - do so at a lower rate than our native counterparts, thus devaluing the work market. Speak to any plumber or carpenter if you don't believe me. The money they earn is invariably sent back to their home country anyway, so it does little to benefit our economy. Meanwhile, British workers are being priced out of the market. Several tradesmen of your correspondent's acquaintence have decided to throw in the towel and emigrate to the colonies because they can't make a living here anymore.
But despite the lower revenue income from the migrant population, we still have to pay the same money for their healthcare, we still have to educate their children, police them and build the roads for them to drive their uninsured BMW's on and carve up vast tracts of the countryside to build social housing for them. So...even with my shaky grasp of maths, it's quite clear that someone is going to be out of pocket. That someone, dear reader, is of course us.
To be more precise, it is families like us Gitts that have to pay the price. The mehmsahib, bless her, is from outside the EU. And if you are from outside the EU, you'd better have very deep pockets indeed if you want to stay here under a Labour government. We've spent £2,500 in Home Office "fees" in the last 3 years just to keep our family together, despite the fact that we are married. We've been subjected to ever-more ridiculous legislation, means testing, pointless "Life In The UK" tests, forced to pay for useless English lessons that weren't needed and had arseholes from the IND peering into every aspect of our private lives just to keep our family together.
Smith and Brown love to talk about how they are safeguarding or borders: While they steal the headlines with tough talk about immigration, law-abiding and valued contributors to our society are crippled by punitive legislation, subjected to points-based admittance or deported with no good reason. Meanwhile, the tsunami of unskilled East European immigrants continues unchecked.
It's a classic bit of sleight of hand from this government: distract the public with a bit of finger pointing and tough talk, demonise a minority group while completely ignoring the real problem.
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