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I'd say the people they interviewed were hardly a representation of the people in the camp.

Of course its worth noting that many of those 'coming' are also working, and only here short term - meaning that they generate more taxation than they cost (bonus for education and the NHS), whilst many will end up working in the Education system and NHS.

I would say that a much higher percentage are unskilled especially if you take immigrants from a third world country, not eveyone that jumps the fence or batters a lorry driver is a brain surgeon, and the assumption that they are is as staggering as it is naive.

Also if I remember rightly, one of the areas that massively benefited from cheap migrant labour was the construction industry in the UK.

It didnt beneift british construction workers, it put many out of business with cheap European Labour under cutting established building companies, one of my mates scaffolding firms went tits up becuase of thses so called benefits as did many other building Companies. The only People it benfited where the big construction companies who employed the migrant workers, they certainly didnt pass on the savings in labour to the housing market did they Jamie ?

I wouldn't necessarily point at the problems and say its the migrants, when you look at the cuts in funding that have affected schools, hospitals and prisons.

I never said it was the migrants fault. I said that letting more people in to the country in it's current state of diss-repair it fcuking mental and will only put more strain on an already stretched to breking point system. And I see nothing in what you have posted to suggest otherwise.

I'd say you see what you want to believe, same as anyone who goes out there to collect the sob stories or vilify.

For example 40% of the population of Syria has had to flee, meaning there are plenty of professionals heading here. Or viewed another way, a million unemployed.

None of this detracts from those ideas and attitudes about the UK that are prevalent inside the camp or anywhere else.

True, but those who aren't legally entitled to work here or aren't valid asylum cases shouldn't be excluded just because they aren't British either by default, nor do I agree with the EU 'right to work anyhwere' policy, as it simply provides access to cheap labour for companies, without ever addressing the problem of unemployment in the UK and artificially pushes down wage demands.

Of course it didn't, the industry benefitted, and profited at the expense of its employees. Same as it always does, but that's capitalism. It isn't about the interests of society, people, or workers, but the production of profit is its driving moral and ethical imperative.

The myth is that supply and demand counter balance each other in real life, towards an ideal that serves a social balance, but it doesn't, because the markets are controlled and influenced towards the interests of production and producers of capital. Hence you can lay off staff to produce a rise in share price, that benefits dividend payments and the company, even if those employees were productive (because you can then replace them with cheaper alternatives).

The problem is though, that state of disrepair is going to continue indefinitely, it has since the 80s, because successive governments have cut public spending in order to cut taxes to win elections. That won't end in any forseeable future. The issue with state infrastructure like the NHS is arguably better off with migration (largely because most migrants will pay in more than they take out, and return to their home nation before they become a 'state burden' in their old age.

Its all smoke and mirrors - Migrants are presented as the problem, because the truth is that the state of disrepair and decay in the UK is the product of government spending polices over the last 40 years