Immigrants & Benefits

PaulF81

No but I did a pretty good job of all those trades in my own pad. I do have trade in my family though.

coastline

A piece from todays...Daily Politics show...an interview with Eric Pickles and also the ex prime minister of Bulgaria..2005-2009.
The story covers the possibility of Romanians and Bulgarians moving to the UK in a few years time..
Starts 7 minutes in....the ex PM on around 9mins.15 seconds..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qmrdy/Daily_Politics_07_02_2013/

Sampong

Looks like new data is starting to emerge;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10271855/Number-of-foreign-nationals-on-benefits-soars-to-400000.html

eldaniel

Sampong wrote: »

Looks like new data is starting to emerge;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10271855/Number-of-foreign-nationals-on-benefits-soars-to-400000.html

it took u a while to find something on this topic. On the other hand read this please:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23860811

The-Joker

There will come a time when the uk is not an easy option to move here to claim lots of help, but we are not there yet

Sampong

eldaniel wrote: »

it took u a while to find something on this topic.

It's not that it took me a while to find something on this topic at all. It's the fact that there is new information and data emerging - and it will continue to do so as the problem grows.

eldaniel wrote: »

On the other hand read this please:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23860811

There is another thread on this forum if you want to debate that. Personally, I don't really place more value on outrageous comments made by a celebrity chef than true facts and figures.

Though I do wonder who was working in kitchens before 2004.

eldaniel

Sampong wrote: »

It's not that it took me a while to find something on this topic at all. It's the fact that there is new information and data emerging - and it will continue to do so as the problem grows.




There is another thread on this forum if you want to debate that. Personally, I don't really place more value on outrageous comments made by a celebrity chef than true facts and figures.

Though I do wonder who was working in kitchens before 2004.

some other immigrants. UK was never short of them, but then I believe it started off with colonisation of the world. But that would be a topic for a long debate.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

The-Joker wrote: »

There will come a time when the uk is not an easy option to move here to claim lots of help, but we are not there yet

The vast majority of immigrants move here to work hard and better their lives, not to "claim lots of help".

I'd be prepared to bet if you made immigrants ineligble for benefits tomorrow you'd not see any reduction in immigration at all.

angrypirate

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

The vast majority of immigrants move here to work hard and better their lives, not to "claim lots of help".

I'd be prepared to bet if you made immigrants ineligble for benefits tomorrow you'd not see any reduction in immigration at all.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10271855/Number-of-foreign-nationals-on-benefits-soars-to-400000.html
I reckon theres about 400 000 immigrants who would emmigrate tomorrow were there benefits to stop today. Of course I'm sure Hamish would say this is right wing propaganda.

the_flying_pig

angrypirate wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10271855/Number-of-foreign-nationals-on-benefits-soars-to-400000.html
I reckon theres about 400 000 immigrants who would emmigrate tomorrow were there benefits to stop today. Of course I'm sure Hamish would say this is right wing propaganda.

what the heck is a "non UK national"?

how many of them are there in the UK?

taking a [bold] assumption that they are all of working age, then:

(a) if there are 5m of these people, 400k unemployed equates to an unemployment rate of, I suppose, 8%, i.e. even higher than the UK average [of about 7.5%].

(b) if there are 10m of them then we're talking 4%, i.e. much lower than the UK average.