Making the news today....

[Richard 1234]

Yes I will trash it because the report is trash....

 

 

 

The report claims EEA migrants have contributed £25 billion more in tax than they paid in over 13 years. If we take that at face value what does it actually mean to the average Brit?

 

 

 

It means EEA migrants have contributed a net £2 billion a year to the taxpayer. There are 60 million brits in the UK. That means each Brit gets another £30 a year from the contribution EEA migrants make... That's about 60 pence a week... So the marvellous contribution EEA migrants make to the average Brit is the price of a Mars bar each week...

 

 

 

However the report doesn't include some of the costs that the EEA migrants will cost us. It doesn't include the cost of reduced wages of Brits, it doesn't include the Brits that lose their jobs to migrants, it doesn't include the cost of congestion, it doesn't include the cost of additional prison places, it doesn't include the umpteen other costs that an enlarged population costs the taxpayer.

 

 

 

That report also said that non EU migration had cost the taxpayer £90 billion in the same period. Why did you fail to mention that?

 

 

I think you would like North Korea [emoji1188]

A nicely closed country where you can be sure there won't be much immigration [emoji16]

 

 

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[matelot]

Wildly discredited by whom? You? BNP? UKIP?

 

The report was discredited by a colleague of the authors at UCL....

 

The person that discredited it was a Professor Emeritus in statistics called Mervyn Stone. He said the report contained "schoolboy errors".

 

So to sum up, a couple of academics produce reports that have previously been proved entirely wrong. They produce a report that "shows" immigration is good for the UK. This report is widely criticised by fellow academics and by anyone that looks at it that has half a brain.

 

Yet the BBC and media use this report repeatedly to show that immigartion is good for the UK...

[skyhuck]

I'd rather believe

 

I would still rather believe it .

 

This is the thing, people chose to believe what suits their narrative.

[Mull]

This is the thing, people chose to believe what suits their narrative.

 

 

..and hence the argument will never end, well, not on this type of platform anyway.

But I suppose it passes the time.

 

 

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[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I'd rather believe what I read in the guardian and BBC than anything you write. Sorry but that's the way it is. We will all find out over the next few years.

I would be interested to know what you think the economy will be like in say 3 years time. How do you think the average Brit will be? Better off, worse off or much the same? Put your money where your mouth is and make a few predictions.

 

"rather believe" what you'd rather believe. We all do that and we're all frankly clueless. Absolutely freakin clueless I can tell you.

 

I'll make a prediction. You'll be worse off financially but better off in other ways.

[eggsarascal]

"rather believe" what you'd rather believe. We all do that and we're all frankly clueless. Absolutely freakin clueless I can tell you.

 

I'll make a prediction. You'll be worse off financially but better off in other ways.

 

If we are all frankly clueless how can you tell people we are clueless?

[Mull]

If we are all frankly clueless how can you tell people we are clueless?

 

 

Coz it doesn't matter what you say when you are in fact, clueless!!

 

 

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[Mull]

"rather believe" what you'd rather believe. We all do that and we're all frankly clueless. Absolutely freakin clueless I can tell you.

 

 

 

I'll make a prediction. You'll be worse off financially but better off in other ways.

 

 

In what ways will I be better off TCD

 

 

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[TimberCutterDartmoor]

In what ways will I be better off TCD

 

 

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Well, you won't be if your only measure of happiness is £££££££

[eggsarascal]

Coz it doesn't matter what you say when you are in fact, clueless!!

 

 

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There's no need for personal attacks on me Mull.

 

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