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Originally Posted by Accyexplorer
Really? Most of the financial studies I have read in the beano state that immigrants actual add to the well being of an economy.
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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates
I see that you are reading the Beano again  |
The Beano was much more fun when I was a lad!
If you believe a Beano financial study- well, that says it all.
This thread is about the
Calais migrant crisis and while
controlled immigration does add to our well being, uncontrolled immigration can't do.
I've spent a lot of time with the NHS in the last two years and accept that without the foreign doctors, consultants, nurses, we wouldn't have much of an NHS and most of them were very good(just two exceptions). That's controlled immigration.
It does raise the question- where are all our expensively trained young doctors going? Emigrating for a better life??
When you see the videos of Calais you
don't see women, children, fleeing from persecution and starvation.
You see hundreds of fit young men, chasing lorries, shouting about their 'Human Rights', threatening drivers.
These are, to a man, economic migrants who feel they have a
right to come to Europe and expect, demand even, that we will give them that better life. At our cost.
When asked 'Why England' so many of them say quite openly 'Because in England we get money and a house, in Italy and France we don't'.
I haven't heard any of them say 'Because I'm a doctor, IT consultant, etc. and your country needs me, I can help you'.
As for the poor devils fleeing the Middle East etc- we spend £12 billion on foreign aid, where does it go? Stupid projects which never get finished, don't work, or aren't wanted, Swiss bank accounts, new mansions and Presidential palaces.
Spend that money wisely and directly on those people in their own countries or in making the camps they fled to better places to live until the madness settles and they can go home.
Make it a condition that their Governments spend it wisely and insist we keep strong controls over it, withdraw all aid if misused.
Used wisely £12 billion could go a long way to giving a 'better life' to an awful lot of people.