There is a constant barrage of negativity levelled at immigrants and more specifically non-English native speaking foreigners i.e. not American, Canadian or Australian, by the media, government and much of the general public. Any debate on immigration by politicians focuses on a competition to see who can exclude the most brownies, blackies and Polish. (I once read a reader comment in the Metro saying 'all Polish women are dogs', I also read an article in The Sun which purported that due to the allegedly high incidence of HIV in Poland, meant that Britain was going to be on the receiving end of an HIV epidemic; for your information, both allegations remain unfounded).
So it was no surprise to hear on BBC radio last week that a so-called study had found a link between youth unemployment and Eastern European immigrants, when is the last time you saw a British 18-24 year old waiteressing or hauling tourists around Central London on bikes?? There was also a headline in the Metro today reading 'One 'British' job is lost for every four immigrants'. This was according to government immigration advisers, the Migration Advisory Committee. They say there were 23 fewer jobs for every 100 migrants who came from outside the EU.
Does this take into consideration all the British expats around the world? No.
Will it publish that the proportion of Brits who live in Spain is the same proportion of Mexicans that live in the US? No.
But that is not what this study was designed to prove now was it? Britain appears to act like a petulant child who happily shares other kids' toys in the nursery but God forbid anyone tries to share Britain's toys. Bitch fit ensues!... Wake up!! Our economy is crap because of our and the world's financial systems, not because of immigrants! Governments always fail to mention the positivity of immigration, Tesco and Google were invented by immigrants, anybody find these two companies useful?
So what makes my leftist/ 2nd generation brownie immigrant/ pro-immigration/ living in the real world stance less biased than a study by government immigration advisers? Nothing, yet this same government report goes on to say that immigrants are less of a burden on health services than us beer guzzlers because they are young and tend to be in good health. They cost Joe taxpayer on average £2,216 in education, £2,450 in healthcare and £708 in social services per year. Notwithstanding how crap 'average' figures always are, this in effect establishes that immigrants pay MORE in taxes than they cost in state services. Tell that to any member of the group BNP/ EDL/ uneducated zenophobe; (who each have about four teeth on average,) that immigrants contribute more than the average BRIT, they are 'net contributors'.
Additionally the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said this week that immigrants had little to no effect on unemployment. Although according to the Metro that is a 'claim' and not a matter of fact. Other positives to emerge from the government report are that immigrants are more likely to use public transport than drive, walking and cycling, so immigrants contribute less to our pollution too! Another conclusion was that immigrants love Britain more than white Britons! 'expressing a higher sense of belonging to Britain than the average British-born individual without any migrant heritage'. I think that calls for a Pow Pow! In spite of the pandering to the anti-immigration squad headline even a government source has shown immigrants are not to blame for criminality, unemployment, HIV, the state of our state services, lack of social mobility or anything else they want to blame on Johny foreigner. The headline should have read 'Britain. All our problems are our own fucking fault'.
See http://www.paulvallely.com/?p=1437 and http://anbarrockny.blogspot.com/
