Thursday, Aug 21, 2008
The proverbial "rats" are leaving the sinking ship
BBC: Migration to the UK falls sharply
The number of Eastern European migrants coming to work in the UK has fallen to its lowest level since EU expansion in 2004, Home Office figures show.
Posted by george monsoon @ 10:41 AM (670 views) Add Comment
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1. matt_the_hat said...
What a load of tosh, who would want to come to this hell hole anyway. They've tried and now they are fleeing in droves, we need tighter boarders to keep them here, and maybe remove some of the lazy natives.
2. brian t said...
What's there to get upset about? By its very nature, economic migration is going to work both ways: it's how people go where the jobs are.
The migration is more in than out, though - 200,000 more. It's just that less of them are from Eastern Europe. Immigrants are also responsible for most of the natural population increase in the UK
The situation in Ireland is similar: population is still growing, since there's been something of a baby boom in the last decade. (http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1014491.shtml)
(I was an economic migrant from the UK to Ireland, after a US IT company offered me a job here, so I can hardly complain! I'm still here, but now at university, where there are no fees yet.)
3. renting2 said...
Wonder what the figures are for indiginous population with loot leaving these shores?
4. matt_the_hat said...
@ renting2
I don't have much loot but it sure feels better to get the hell out of there
5. drewster said...
renting2,
The indigenous population with loot has seen a net outward migration for several years now I believe. See this article:
6. george monsoon said...
Drewster,
How do you embed links directly into a post..
can you put the raw code you used to create post no.5
7. holding out said...
GM, Right click the screen and select view source to see the HTML used to make the page.