…why is it that so many Democrat / Republicans who think Open Borders / low end immigration think that the Economy for our low skilled workers would fare better? All we keep hearing is that all immigration will be great for our economy – so how come their home countries are basketcases?
MASS immigration has driven down the wages of British-born workers in low-skilled jobs, an official Bank of England report has confirmed.
The influx of EU migrants can lead to pay reductions of nearly two per cent in some industries including catering, hotels and elderly care, the research showed. Campaigners last night seized on the document as official confirmation that EU migration is undermining the living standards of the UK’s least paid workers.
Hmm, lowering of pay doesn’t sound all that great now, does it? So why would Dems and Repubs both hate our poor by increasing our levels of immigration? I always thought that a nation’s leadership was supposed to RAISE living standards, not intentionally lower them! But then again, it seems politicians all over are the King Canutes of economics.
Lord Green of Deddington, the chairman of the pressure group Migration Watch, said: “For many years the immigration lobby have claimed that there is no evidence that immigration has any significant effect on the wages of British workers. This new research by the Bank of England blows their claims out of the water. It has found a significant negative impact on those in the lower skilled services sector in which six million UK born are working. This amounts to nearly a quarter of all British workers.”
…“Net migration at over 300,000 per year is preventing wages rising in line with inflation for native, British workers. “With wages being compressed, this impacts the disposable incomes of many low skilled workers, which in effect, hinders our economy on a local and national scale. “This level of migration is compressing the low skilled jobs sector which is bloated to bursting point.”
The Bank of England report, entitled “The Impact of Immigration on Occupational Wages”, was written by Oxford academic Stephen Nickell, who is a member of the Office for Budget Responsibility, and Bank of England economist Jumana Saleheen.
