Quote Originally Posted by Tel 911S View Post
The item was picked up by many other news companies & interested organisations .
The main context was that the BBC were lying [ by omission ] about a report by an independent organisation which proved that overall immigration was costing this country an enormous amount of money .
Of course Migration Watch jumped on it , but it was not their original study , & many other non left wing media reports highlighted it .

So it would seem that the socialists are still trying to claim that immigration is good for the UK, despite overwhelming public condemnation .
BBC poll [ is immigration good for the UK ] 95% no . Not the result they wanted so they are now trying to hide the figures .
The report originally from UCL was misinterpreted by Migrationwatch who simply guessed a lot of the figures to try and prove their point and has been blasted by academics.
http://www.cream-migration.org/comme...cle.php?blog=8

The inconvenient truth is that Britain has an ageing population with people of a pension age growing faster than the working age population. The only options to address this in the sort term are:

a) make people work longer
b) reduce the state pension
c) increase the working age population (immigrants of a working age)

This isn't some sort of socialist agenda and I understand why it is unpopular with many people, but it is simple economics and demographics.