A question about Immigration for the experts.

[blackburn_stevie]

Good evening One and All.

I have seen a statement made on forums, news programmes and the like but, personally, I don't understand it.

The statement runs along the lines of, "Britain is better off, financially, with more immigrants."

I don't think that any stress is made on where the immigrants come from whether it be Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa or any other place on the planet.

So, is anybody able to show me, empirically, how the finance side of things work in this sort of situation. The thing is, I just want to know if it is true or if it is all a lie shoved on us by Blair and his cronies in a fight for votes to keep them in power. I honestly don't know the answer and I would like to be educated in the matter. I'm sure that quite a few folk are in the same position.

[upthecreekyetagain]

The reasoning is very simple Stevie - the wealth and the productivity of a nation essentially is dependent on the proportion of its working population, compared to its non-working population.

The largest sections of the non-working population are the young and the old - the former having the potential to become producers whilst the latter will remain as consumers.  The largest number of producers come from the 25 to 65 age group.

The ratio of immigrants in the 25 to 65 age group is far greater than that in the overall population.

[al**bear]

There's Immigrants and there's immigrants

The people who use that statistic, add up all the money brought in (& then the money earned  off those assets) by Immigrants , thats all those rich (& a lot of Mega-rich taking advantage of Osbornes lax tax laws on them), Arabs, Russians, Europeans, Australians, South Africans, Americans, Brazilians etc who move to London and bring in many many £billions and also drive up the prices of the London housing market .

But most people count immigrants as the less well off, who come in a take the low wage, unskilled Jobs and these numbers have always dwarfed the first kind,

So  statistically, the Country is better off, but you already know what they say about statistics

Immigration figures are very hard to read, because they include Brits returning to the UK ( like the many 1000s who return every year from Spain in recent years) and ALL the foreign students that enter the country