RE: Good Old Labour7 Dec 2024 12:34
asimpleinvestor
"in the uk, the immigrant population pays more in taxes than they receive in benefits..."
this is a far too simplistic approach, immigrants from richer countries (western europe and anglosphere countries) earn much more than those immigrants from poorer countries (eastern europe, ****stan, nigeria, bangladesh) and will pay more in taxes, input more into the economy and rely less on benefits. india is an exception to that and are on average high earners.
a large proportion of those coming to the uk have not been net taxpayers and as a result existing residents have faced the downsides on housing and public services without getting the upside of a net tax contribution.
low-paid migrant workers coming to britain in their twenties cost the state more than they contribute in taxes, rising to £150,000 by the time they hit state pension age, research by the government’s spending watchdog, the ons, suggests. this is unsustainable.
for years the uk migration system has been a complete shambles and open to abuse, recently the chief inspector of borders and immigration has revealed that quarter of foreign care workers are abusing uk visa rules by working illegally in other industries.
immigration is, of course, essential but has to be strictly controlled and where there is only an absolute requirement. over the last 5 years non-eu net migration has been off the scale, and yes we can absorb a number on humanity or asylum grounds, but we cannot continue to absorb these high numbers.
another example, between q3 2022 to q2 2023 the uk issue 1,472,062 non-visitor visas, and yet over that same period the uk issued 69,160 skilled worker visas plus 120,292 skilled worker: health & care visas making 189,452 skilled workers in total.
so the 189,452 sponsored skilled worker visas would represent 12.9% of the total entry clearance visas for that period - just over one in eight.
again, totally unsustainable.
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