I read and quoted what Peter Wilding said.  I take little notice of what the beer-swilling Farage says about anything not least because of his shamefully low attendance and voting record at the European Parliament.  I have read that in 2014 he predicted there would be 5,000 a week coming in from those countries, but that didn't happen.

 

It's blinding obvious that 29 million wouldn't come, even over several years - that would increase our population of 65 million by almost a half again. There would be no space for them let alone work for that huge number of people so it wouldn't happen.  I also seriously doubt that if that ridiculous number of people did want to come here that the EU could make us take them as it is clearly unfeasible for a country of our size.

 

Regardless of could or would (and ignoring the unnecessary insult), in my opinion that UKIP poster was clearly designed to prey on people's fears about runaway immigration.  Deliberate scaremongering IMO for political gain, and it is misleading saying will allow rather than could allow.

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Suzie, with one breath you say its blindingly obvious that 29 million would not come... and then say its a disgrace to prey on peoples fears of 29 million coming ???

I'm afraid you cannot argue with the fact that.....     29 million could come if they chose to!

Then the quote you gave...  not your fault it was actually a lie that Peter Wilding had told! You were easily mislead as were many others who I could say, were disgracefully mislead by a liar!  But you'd rather accept a liar than someone who gave you a fact?

I don't particularly like Nigel Farage, I don't like Michael Gove and I think Boris is a great laugh! However despite my reservations they don't tell me obvious lies! (watch someone come up with one now!) Farage has not been wrong about the influx of migrants - infact I got my figures wrong earlier...

I should have said the number of Bulgarian and Roumanian migrants was 44,000 and 170,000 respectively in 2015 an increase from 22,000 and 63,000 in 2014 - so the numbers of Roumanian and Bulgarian migrants coming after 2014 more than doubled! So Farage was not wrong was he? They did come and are continuing to come! If we stay in the EU Turkey is on the horizon and coming soon to a centre near you... and me!