Immigrants & Benefits

homelessskilledworker

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Wow, you still think people have to be at home on their PC-s when they're posting?

You should really try one of these.....









And there we have it folks.....

Game, Set and Match to McTavish. :rotfl:

To have a culture or national identity is racist?

Tell us more Hamish, I have to hear this.

homelessskilledworker

Sampong wrote: »

You truly are deluded.

Next time you come across a Burns night just shout it down for the bigoted racist clap trap it is, and he seriously was not even a good poet anyway.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

tesuhoha wrote: »

Tell me then, how immigration is going to repay our trillions of pounds of debt?

The debt burden is measured as a percentage of GDP for a reason.

The bigger the GDP, the easier it is to pay back debt.

Immigrants spur economic growth, they are a net financial benefit to society, they don't displace British workers, and they keep the dependency ratio within balance.

The arguments against immigration are so weak you have to be pretty ignorant to believe them at all.

tesuhoha

So Hamish personally doesn't want to live in Boston but he thinks other people should put up with it.

tesuhoha

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

The debt burden is measured as a percentage of GDP for a reason.

The bigger the GDP, the easier it is to pay back debt.

Immigrants spur economic growth, they are a net financial benefit to society, they don't displace British workers, and they keep the dependency ratio within balance.

The arguments against immigration are so weak you have to be pretty ignorant to believe them at all.

So why do you say that they don't displace British workers?

Graham_Devon

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Unsurprisingly, threads about immigration attract racists, bigots and xenophobes.

It seems they attract all out lies, fabrication, twisting and hysteria too.

homelessskilledworker

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

The debt burden is measured as a percentage of GDP for a reason.

The bigger the GDP, the easier it is to pay back debt.

Immigrants spur economic growth, they are a net financial benefit to society, they don't displace British workers, and they keep the dependency ratio within balance.

The arguments against immigration are so weak you have to be pretty ignorant to believe them at all.

So your great immigration plan would mean the forever increasing of immigration to meet our GDP needs, is there ever an end to immigration then?

MS1950

tesuhoha wrote: »

People who talk like you usually live in nice quiet middle class areas. Why don't you move to Boston and live there and prove the strength of your convictions.

Good sense usually keeps me well clear of commenting in threads on this particular sub-forum, but here goes.

I broadly agree with Hamish – I don’t live in Boston but I live in East London (Newham); which for those few who don’t know probably has one of the highest proportion of ‘immigrants’ in the country.

The majority of posts on this thread are nasty and ill-informed – but what saddens me is that they seem to have swallowed hook line and sinker the political confidence tricks of this present government (aided by allies in certain sections of the press) – which is to deflect peoples’ attention from the real sources of their problems and the impact of austerity, by offering a parade of scapegoats – the unemployed, people on disability benefits, public sector workers, ‘immigrants’ etc – all of whom it is suggested are getting ‘something for nothing’ at the expense of hard-working ‘strivers’.

ILW

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

The debt burden is measured as a percentage of GDP for a reason.

The bigger the GDP, the easier it is to pay back debt.

Immigrants spur economic growth, they are a net financial benefit to society, they don't displace British workers, and they keep the dependency ratio within balance.

The arguments against immigration are so weak you have to be pretty ignorant to believe them at all.

Don't think anyone is arguing to stop all immigration. Just to make it more beneficial to the UK by controlling who and how many are allowed to enter. What is the problem with that?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

tesuhoha wrote: »

So Hamish personally doesn't want to live in Boston but he thinks other people should put up with it.

I wouldn't live anywhere in England, not just Boston.

But if you have some spare immigrants, by all means send them up here. We can't get the lazy, work shy, native born to fill all our job vacancies round my way.