Record immigration figures released. Why we should get out !

[wobs]

We live on a densely populated island with a finite infrastructure, I'm pretty certain that house prices due to supply and demand have a direct correlation with the amount of immigration that's taken place.
Just for example if the million or so poles that are here went home there be more houses available house prices would fall and our kids wouldn't be struggling as they are now. Simplistic but true.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat...grationstatisticsquarterlyreport/february2016

As long as we're in the EU anyone in Europe has the right to come here and we can't stop them, 1,000,000 more poles perhaps ?

Who can blame them it's a great country.

The single biggest reason we should get out is to stop the level of Imigration that's occuring.

I bet you're feeling a bit of a berk right now....
Irish minister says (at 10.15 today on news feed on BBC)

The UK is unlikely to secure full access to the EU single market unless it continues to allow free movement of labour, according to Ireland's finance minister.

"From the precedent it doesn't look as if that option is open, but I can see why he is saying it even though the positions are contradictory, that's what he campaigned on," Michael Noonan, above right, told reporters in Dublin earlier this morning.

"The precedent in Norway was that when they got access to the full market, they had to pay the levies that countries pay to the European Union and as well as that they had to give free labour market access."

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-36570120

 

[JohnD]

Gerry has been telling me that nobody believed the 350 claim on the big red bus, or the money for the NHS claim, so presumably he will say next that nobody believed the Free Access To the Single Market claim, or the Stop Foreigners Coming to Our Country claim.

If all the claims were lies, and nobody believed them, it makes you wonder what the Outists were doing during their campaign.

 

[Himaginn]

Gerry has been telling me that nobody believed the 350 claim on the big red bus, or the money for the NHS claim, so presumably he will say next that nobody believed the Free Access To the Single Market claim, or the Stop Foreigners Coming to Our Country claim.

If all the claims were lies, and nobody believed them, it makes you wonder what the Outists were doing during their campaign.

It'll be the old "we were only joking" nonsense!

 

[JP_]

 

[Gerrydelasel]

Ah, the old "immigration was the only reason anyone voted leave" fallacy.
UK citizens voted leave because they don't like statism, and if they have to be bossed around by a government they'd like it at least to be situated here and staffed by other UK citizens, and run along the traditional British philosophy of common law rather than continental Bonapartean civil law. Oh, and ideally they'd like it to end corporate protectionism and maybe give a sh!t about anything outside the south east, if it's not too much trouble, when you have time, thanks sorry

 

[JohnD]

Ah, the old "nobody voted leave because they don't like foreigners" fallacy.

 

[SirGalahad]

Ah, the old "immigration was the only reason anyone voted leave" fallacy

Why did you vote leave?

 

[Ian H]

bigot

 

[Bodd]

My main reason for leaving was immigration and politicians unable to do simple mathematics.

Remain voting London boughs have brought empty office buildings in Harlow to convert into accommodation to house people from their bough.
The town is full The infrastructure is poor what right have these London Councils got off loading their problems into these **** hole refurbs.
because of their bad management skills

 

[noseall]

My main reason for leaving was immigration and politicians unable to do simple mathematics

Please stay. We can work on the politicians math's skills.

 

[Bodd]

Please stay. We can work on the politicians math's skills.

I'll think about it . Your ever so caring

 

[jasonzyx]

350 claim on the big red bus,

Huh! Peanuts.

Brexit uncertainty has cost Britain £600 million a week - Goldman Sachs
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-b...00-million-a-week-goldman-sachs-idUKKCN1RD1T8
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[noseall]

£600 million a week

The low end estimates put it at around £330 million per week so we are still in credit with those huge savings we make from not paying the EU.

You could not make this stuff up. Dumb quitters.

 

[Gerrydelasel]

Huh! Peanuts.

Brexit uncertainty has cost Britain £600 million a week - Goldman Sachs
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-b...00-million-a-week-goldman-sachs-idUKKCN1RD1T8​

What they don't tell you is how much it has cost Britain for being a member of the EU for forty years. Who knows how rich we could have been if we'd embraced global free trade. Without such an (impossible) comparison, that figure above is meaningless. As one shrewd commenter observed, “That’s your bloody GDP. Not ours.”

 

[jasonzyx]

What they don't tell you is how much it has cost Britain for being a member of the EU for forty years.

Noticeably ignoring the obvious, "what about the benefits over that period?"
You can only countenance the costs.

Who knows how rich we could have been if we'd embraced global free trade.

Who knows how poor we would have been?

Without such an (impossible) comparison, that figure above is meaningless.

There is no comparison figure available, so we have to take such statements as "all things being equal".
All things being equal, the statement stands on its own merit.