I remember talking to a bigot in a pub a few years ago who ranted about kin immigrants and those kin Poles coming over here and how he was pissed off with the country ,foriegners taking the jobs etc .Next thing he says he wants to go to Spain and open a bar. The irony of this was totally lost on him …..!!!
..but I doubt many of them are living on state benefits. Which is what a lot of people complain about. Actually, how many UK immigrants live on benefits? Is that a Daily Mail myth?
For some reason the TV was on ITV last night while we waited for Indiana Jones to start.
It was hilarious, they actually had reporters at the airports at both ends waiting to report on the “wave of migrants”. They managed to catch one slightly confused/hungover looking bloke who had just got off the plane.
..but I doubt many of them are living on state benefits.
Dunno, there was a fuss a while back here in Spain about elderly Brits using a disproportionate amount of local health care – not exactly living on state benefits, but a similar issue.
..but I doubt many of them are living on state benefits.
Well I wouldn’t want to return to the UK to live on benefits, they are crap compared to what I would get in Germany.
Published by TUC so it must be true.
Maybe you could provide a better source of statistics then. The TUC have nothing to directly gain on this issue other than exposing a big political lie.
I can believe that 1 in 10 British citizens live abroad (and I am one) as most will not want to relinquish their passports, possibly because either because they are working in Europe where this is not an issue or in countries that allow dual citizenship.
..but I doubt many of them are living on state benefits.
An old mate of mine married an Austrian girl and moved out there where he lived on the rather generous state benefits* while he learnt the language and tried to find a job!
*He was receiving the equivalent of his previous salary for the first few months!
Lies, lies and statistics. The attention grabbing headline numbers are ‘Numbers of British Emigrants’ vs ‘Number of Foreign Workers in England and Wales‘, which is impressively smaller but leaves out Scotland and Northern Ireland so it’s not an accurate comparison. Yuck, did I really just make a point in favour of the scaremongering idiots?!?!
Maybe you could provide a better source of statistics then. The TUC have nothing to directly gain on this issue other than exposing a big political lie making a political point.
FTFY
As shermer says, statistics can be interpreted to suit anyones politics.
“Almost 1 in 10 British Citizens live abroad” = More than 9 in 10 British Citizens live in Britain. Same info, different emphasis.
My step dad is anti immigration, he lives in france and doesn’t speak french. My mum was recently moaning about not getting the winter fuel allowance as she needs it more than most, what with living in a 500 year old drafty farm house. In france.
So 4.2 million foreign nationals in the UK with population 62 million is about 6%
5.5million British overseas with a global population of 7.2 Billion is less than 0.1%
??
The TUC poster makes the statement:
“5.5 million British abroad compared to 4.2 million foreign nationals in England and Wales”
But comparing numbers in this like for like way is not indicative of anything. 4.2 million people in the UK is a significant proportion of the population. 5.5 million Britons outside the UK is a spit in the ocean.
Australia has a large number of British residents due to the history of Australia.
Well it is comparing migration inwards with migration outwards, it is clearly fair to compare the two like for like, especially against the backdrop of fearmongering.
Why is our population increasing if we are all buggering off?
Since I left school its gone up 4 million.
I can’t imagine its due to indigenous people breeding more.
How will the couriers deliver to the space station? We tried to deliver this afternoon but you weren’t in , haveleft your parcel on the moon. Daily Wail would have a field day.
The quoted figures do appear to show that there’s only a small net gain in population from immigration. In my job I work alongside immigrants from several countries none of whom are on benefits.
