One Response to “Thought for the Week”

1. Graeme Hoskin
   October 13th, 2006 - 5:05 pm

   Mmmm. Interesting point but probably missing the main issue. If you set asside the issue of illegal imigrants and workers, which I;m sure we’re all against, then immigrant workers contribute significantly more in taxes than they take in services, more so than British workers, and this is not surprising as they are not eligible for much in the way of benefits. This is why the Treasury is all in favour of allowing more foreign worker. The problem is that these foreign workers depress wages and compete with our own workforce. This is likely to lead to higher unemployment amongst the most marginalised in British society, for example black and asian people in London. This is why the CBI are all in favour of allowing more foreign workers into the country. Therefore middle class tax payers gain from increased migration in terms of higher revenues to govt which they don’t have to plug and lower proces whilst the poor and, often, non-white are most likely to lose out in the labour market. The opposite to the BNP argument but true nonetheless.

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