Low-skilled migrants cost taxpayers £150,000 each...

Low-paid migrant workers are an immediate drain on the public purse, costing taxpayers more than £150,000 each by the time they hit state pension age, according to the Government’s own tax and spending watchdog.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said the average low-earner who came to Britain aged 25 cost the Government more overall than they paid in from the moment they arrived.

The cumulative bill rose to an estimated £151,000 by the time they could claim the state pension at 66, the watchdog said.

This is because low-paid migrants – who the OBR assumes earn half the average wage – put more demand on public services such as the NHS compared to their relatively low-tax payments.

The OBR estimated the cost to the public purse rose to almost £500,000 if they lived to 80, and more than £1m if they lived to 100.

By contrast, the average British-born worker boosts the public finances by £280,000 by the time they reach 66, even adjusting for education and health spending before they start work.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/12/low-skilled-migrants-cost-taxpayers-150000-each/

This is why living standards in every region of the UK have fallen in line with mass immigration and will fall a further 7% over the next two years. Hard pressed British tax payers including pensioners who have paid tax and national insurance for a lifetime, are paying for mass immigration.

But certainly not 'rivers of blood' so you are the stupid person (doofus).

Not that it makes any difference to my post, but what did he actually say?

Not that it makes any difference to my post, but what did he actually say?

When we had free movement between equally prosperous countries there was no problem, it was the expansion of the EU into poorer countries  that changed the dynamics of free movement and that was under Blair. Neighbourhoods changed almost overnight. We managed for many years before Eastern Europe acceded to the EU of course part of the problem was the CAP anyway that favoured all sorts of strange activities and procedures. We could not compete because like Britain we played the game within the rules whilst most others ignored them. There are many anecdotes that tell the tale.

The biggest influx of European migrant workers happened in 2004, when 10 nations joined the EU, mostly Eastern European nations.

Of the 15 existing EU members, none applied the full transitional restrictions, and the rules which allowed people from those 10 nations to come to the UK for work, were the rules which John Major signed up to.

Free Movement of People began with John Major

It was a Conservative government led by Mr Major who signed the Maastricht Treaty allowing for one of the fundamental "Four Freedoms" of the EU, namely freedom of movement of people.

When those who attempt to decieve state that "it was under Blairs government", what they REALLY mean is that the terms as negotiated and signed up to by John Major came into force whilst Tony Blair was Prime Minister.

I do often wonder what the very many factories associated with agriculture and food would have done without the thousands of Eastern Europeans who came to areas such as Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, East Yorkshire and here in North Yorkshire and filled all the thousands of unfilled vaccancies.