[Jack_]

Oh this thread is ****ing absurd, put down your copies of the Daily Express and do some research

For starters, a UCL report found that the positive net contribution of EU migrants since 2000 totalled £20bn, compared with a negative figure for native born Brits of £617bn. Moreover, they were 43% less likely than natives to claim benefits and tax credits, and 7% less likely to be living in social housing. Not only that, but they are on average better educated than natives...with...get this, 25% of those pesky recent Eastern European migrants being university graduates compared with only 24% of Brits.

On a separate but related note, unemployment benefits total just 1% of the welfare spending bill, and even if you collate the figures for housing and family support, they still do not exceed the amount we spend on pensions. Why do people always forget this?

Migrants undercutting wages of British workers is the fault of their employers who are illegally underpaying them. The poverty we have in this country is the fault of successive governments failing to build adequate levels of social housing, and the continuing obsession with 'clamping down' on benefit fraud despite the fact that uncollected tax is 30x more of a loss. But no we won't give a **** about any of that because it's not a tangible scenario that we can envisage like Blanka and her family of seventeen kids not working and not speaking English is