I think I need to start tracking down some actual facts
Here's a start to your collection, and it's one of my favourites:
Last May, when Britain - almost along among the rich European countries - said that people from the new EU countries could come and work here immediately, the Express - arch anti-immigration rag - intoned gravely that 54,000 people would come here and for us to say they didn't "warn" us. Well, in fact, since last May 91,000 people from the former Soviet republics have claimed work permits. And you know what?
This country, with an economy that has been expanding for 12 years, created 99,000 jobs in the last quarter alone.
So. Even when the doom-mongers underestimate the level of immigration ... it's still OK. Despite anything he says, Howard's policy platform is not set upon an economic basis. It is based entirely in narrow-minded cultural concerns.
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Date: 2005-01-24 02:24 am (UTC)Here's a start to your collection, and it's one of my favourites:
Last May, when Britain - almost along among the rich European countries - said that people from the new EU countries could come and work here immediately, the Express - arch anti-immigration rag - intoned gravely that 54,000 people would come here and for us to say they didn't "warn" us. Well, in fact, since last May 91,000 people from the former Soviet republics have claimed work permits. And you know what?
This country, with an economy that has been expanding for 12 years, created 99,000 jobs in the last quarter alone.
So. Even when the doom-mongers underestimate the level of immigration ... it's still OK. Despite anything he says, Howard's policy platform is not set upon an economic basis. It is based entirely in narrow-minded cultural concerns.