Mass migration: Cultural vandalism and economic decline

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With the possible exception of those appearing on Big Brother in the mid noughties, there has never been a group of people who look more ridiculous than the prophets of mass migration and its resultant infliction of multiculturalism.

As the Roma community rioted in Leeds, the streets of London played stage to calls for intifada and gangs of second-generation south Asians assaulted Rochdale police station. It would take an act of obstinate political moralizing to suggest that Britain is enjoying a social or cultural renaissance thanks to mass migration.

Indeed, the half-hearted assertions make by Polly Toynbee or JoePolitics that the proliferation of sushi restaurants, and Turkish barbers, is more desirable than the feats achieved by British culture over the last 1,600 years now seem parodical to all but the most dogmatic observer.

As such, the more tactful regiments of the open border lobby have instead looked to annihilate the social fabric of Britain through economic arguments; claiming that we must let a million people enter our country each year if we wish to stave off an economic Armageddon.

And its an argument that has many disciples. Both the Labour and Tory party have, to varying gradations, drank the KoolAid, supplied to them at a discount price by the myriad of Blairite quangos that now dictate Britain’s immigration policy.

The Office for Budget Responsibility heads up this cartel and, under Chancellor Rachel Reeves, now has effective control over the UK’s fiscal policy. Yet its modelling assumptions on the economic virtues of mass migration are ridiculous. Afterall, this is a body which cannot even forecast how many people are going to enter the country, let alone forecast the economic growth that these future flows would bring.

This is why even the most cursory analysis of the body’s economic and fiscal outlooks will find errors and overestimates that run into the billions of pounds. This includes a huge overstatement of the average salary earned by skilled migrant workers, and the assumption that foreign students who are also working in the UK work a 40-hour week – something they are legally prohibited from doing.

Similarly, the Migration Advisory Committee has a lot to answer for. It has allowed itself to become nothing more than a receptacle for corporate demands for laxer border controls. Those who lobby the group do so with the sole intent of making it easier for them to recruit overseas workers and undercut the British workforce. All this takes place under the guise of ‘business consultation’.

We’ve got the economics of immigration so off kilter that it’s only a matter of time before our country capsizes. The fact is that last year at least 70% of those entering the UK for work reasons were not “breaking even” and were costing the Exchequer more than they were bringing in. Their use of our public services, schools, hospitals, and amenities far outweigh their tax contributions. Of course, this says nothing of the hundreds of thousands of dependants, family members, students, and irregular migrants that are also entering each year.

This is Home Office data yet no-one, anywhere, is highlighting these figures.

A government report found in 2018 that non-EEA migrants need to be earning at least £38,000 a year if they’re going to not be a net drain on the British economy. Thanks to the complete hash made by the previous Conservative government of our post-Brexit border system ended freedom of movement with Europe, but then extended it to Africa and South Asia instead. The two regions now make up over three quarters of those awarded entry grant visas last year.

Again, the data is there to show the economic malaise that awaits us (if it is not already here) if we continue down this path. In 2018 a government commissioned report showed that the annual cohort of non-EEA migrants imposed a £9bn cost on the Treasury. Owing to the huge spike in non-EEA migrants in the UK, any update to this study to take account of the 2022 or 2023 cohorts would show an even more dire financial position. But British officialdom chooses to go nowhere near these findings and the report has been all but buried

Britain deserves so much better than this. A lack of courage from politicians have meant we continue to drift, mindlessly, down the river doing all we can to ignore the deafening roar of the cascades that await us. The time for action was yesterday.