The world's population isn't going backwards and neither is the UK's, immigration or no immigration.

Air traffic will increase unless it becomes more unaffordable.

Anyway, you don't believe in all that man-made global warming, harmful-to-the-environment stuff so why suddenly the braided beads and
call me 'Hippy Dippy Hoof' act now?

So insincere but so entertaining. Please carry on

The British have run themselves down by admitting they can't compete and trying to shut out those who are competing by leaving the EU rather than bettering themselves. Using terms such as 'crawl back to your hole where you came from' sums up the level of education and an example of why so many continental Europeans have found it so easy to be successful in the UK. Taking candy from a baby anyone?

Edited by europalace (15 Apr 2017 2.36am)

The British have run themselves down by admitting they can't compete and trying to shut out those who are competing by leaving the EU rather than bettering themselves. Using terms such as 'crawl back to your hole where you came from' sums up the level of education and an example of why so many continental Europeans have found it so easy to be successful in the UK. Taking candy from a baby anyone?

Edited by europalace (15 Apr 2017 2.36am)

I haven't changed my opinions on animal welfare, the environment etc since I was a young kid with a housefull of pets.

Sadly you just seem to be a cynic of everything with no sense of direction these days.

You provide entertainment very rarely these days, but I appreciate those moments as it reminds me of the pleasant chap you used to be on here most of the time.

What happened to you Michael?

Edited by Hoof Hearted (15 Apr 2017 12.10pm)

He's a net drain on resources if his household income is less than ca. £33,000. This is the break-even point between being a net contributor or net beneficiary to the state.

Now. What's the population of Bristol?

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Let's ignore those "economically inactive" ones and concentrate on the 3-million-odd that are in work - "doing the jobs lazy Brit scum won't do". How many of those earn a salary above the threshold above? Many Pret's baristas earn anything near that? Don't bother linking me to the UCL CReAM study, or gleeful reporting of it's derivatives - there's plenty of study and re-analysis about the assumptions put into that EU-funded group's efforts.

What we should be doing is incentivising the British "economically inactive" to take up the jobs these migrants are doing. Yes, it might well still be a net cost to the treasury, but what's the point in importing that cost whilst having a non-zero unemployment rate?

Let me put it in a way you socialists can understand: We have fields and fields of turnips in the ground. Turnip production remains steady, comrade. We only need to import turnips (from other comrade brothers also involved in the struggle, of course) when we will use up all the turnips in our fields.

1.6m Brits are unemployed. There are 3m+ EU employed. So, it is clear we need some migration, where the demand exists beyond what is available in-situ. No one, except the fictional strawmen you lot love to construct, wants to stop all migration, but it needs to come down and we need to mobilise the stagnant human resources currently unused. How do we do that? I'm not the politician - that's their job, but it is their duty to provide the means and mechanisms to get these people working. Have them plant turnips or something if they won't.