Alan Johnson thinks the problem is that the voters are an ignorant bunch who just won’t listen to what the ‘elite’ tell them to do. Sounds as if he has been taking the BBC college of journalism course in political analysis.
Never mind, Aunty is here to make it better and improve our minds…in the shape of Mishal Husain. I saw that she has a programme on immigration tonight on BBC2 at 9pm that will give us the facts on immigration. If like me you laughed out loud on reading that and can’t bare to watch such a programme you will be delighted to know that Mishal has conveniently written up her project for our easy consumption on the website….all your ‘prejudices’ about such a programme, your very low expectations, will be confirmed absolutely.
Her opening statement is an exercise in self-delusion…
How can it be that one of the biggest concerns for British voters is something that British politicians often find difficult to talk about, let alone address?
That has traditionally been the case as far as immigration is concerned, but ahead of the referendum, immigration from the European Union has come to the fore.
Politicians find it difficult to talk about immigration because the BBC et al immediately vilify and denounce them as racists and link them to the Nazis if they dare to raise the issue. The BBC, instead of encouraging and facilitating debate, has crushed and suppressed it….just look what it did to the completely innocent UKIP councillor, Rozanne Duncan, whom the BBC publicly crucified as a racist as part of their campaign against UKIP in the run up to the election.
Husain has a Leaver and a Remainer on to tell us why they will vote as they will….the Remain voter is…a Polish immigrant who has now got British citizenship…so no real surprise which way she is voting….and which rather confirms the believe that part of Labour’s ploy to open the borders to EU citizens was in the knowledge that should a referendum on EU membership take place by the time it does happen many of the immigrants would have taken out citizenship and have the ability to vote…and the likelihood is that they would vote to stay in the EU. In other words Labour loaded the dice and rigged the referendum long ago. I have yet to hear the BBC raise such a possibility and that the flood of immigrants was deliberate rather than just a mistake.
Husain herself is an immigrant so are we likely to get a balanced and genuinely informative programme? Not judging by the web write up…and it is patently obvious that a Polish immigrant is not the right person to have on to talk about voting on immigration…she has an intense personal interest in a pro-immigration outcome, an affinity for ‘Europe’ and little attachment to ‘Britain’, its culture, history, self-image and place in the world.
In summary, Husain feeds us what is pure Remain propaganda as her conclusions….immigrants don’t really use the NHS, they fill the gaps in the jobs market as ‘aspirational’ young Brits move up the ladder, immigrants pay far more in tax than they take out in benefits, migrants are forced to live in damp squalor (because they are so low paid…er…how do they pay so much tax then?) and they have health problems as a result (er…so they use the NHS then?) …oh, but without migrant workers the health sector would collapse. The Polish voter also loves our diversity…it’s so healthy and of course it is the EU that has stopped all war…
And for them, the EU also represents an ideal. Grazyna’s own mother was deported by the Soviets from eastern Poland to Central Asia after World War Two, and she does not take life in a time of peace and stability for granted. On 23 June, she’ll be voting Remain.
From Migration Watch which suggests that once the correct figures are used the benefits are close to zero…..
‘Immigration provides great economic benefit?’
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, reporting in April 2008, said that what mattered was GDP per head. They concluded that:
We have found no evidence for the argument, made by the government, business and many others, that net immigration generates significant economic benefits for the existing UK population.
In January 2012 the Migration Advisory Committee went further. They said that even GDP per head exaggerated the benefit of immigration because:
It is the immigrants themselves rather than the extant residents who are the main gainers.
‘Immigrants are not a problem as they work hard and pay tax?’
Some of the limited research in this area had found that there might be a small positive fiscal impact to immigration. Nonetheless, according to the House of Lords Economic Committee “the fiscal impact (of immigration) is small compared to GDP and cannot be used to justify large-scale immigration”.
However, the presumption of even a small fiscal benefit has been comprehensively overturned by a UCL study published in 2014 which found the fiscal impact of migrants in the UK between 1995 and 2011 was in fact a net cost of between £115 and £160 billion that is between £19 and £26 million per day.
The same study claimed that East European migrants contributed £5 billion to the Exchequer between 2001 and 2011. However that calculation was based on the assumption that they paid, from the moment of their arrival, corporate and business taxes at the same rate as lifelong UK residents. Correcting for this brought the contribution close to zero.
‘Migrants are less likely to claim benefits?’
Figures from the DWP show that migrants to the UK are less likely to claim out-of-work benefits. But large amounts of the total benefits bill are paid to people in work, in particular tax credits and housing benefit. Research shows that some migrant groups are much more likely to be claiming these key benefits than the general population.
And obviously there are the invisible, non-cash benefits that migrants get…schools, the NHS, the use of State services…police, fire, ambulance etc and not least the pressure on the roads, and environment, from all the extra cars.
Husain does her best to separate out and hide the reality that mass immigration puts huge pressure on infrastructure and on society itself…the cultural friction and conflicts that arise are ignored by her….what for instance is the likely outcome of millions of Muslims entering Europe and being able to enter the UK as well…and that’s before Turkey is allowed to enter by the backdoor as special arrangements are made to speed up its entry?
And what of this?…This is the real question that the BBC should be asking…what happens if we vote to stay in? The EU economy is on the rocks, immigrants are flooding into Europe in massive numbers and will destabilise the continent, the EU itself is pushing for ever-closer union…will the UK be forced to join? You bet. But the BBC doesn’t want you to know that…or any of this…..