At last there has been some good news on the immigration front…
At the start of 2014, Bulgarians and Romanians will gain the right to come and live in the UK, but according to a report commissioned by the Foreign office, they will mostly head to Spain, Italy or Germany.
The report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research claims that those who do come to the UK are unlikely to exploit benefits systems and public services. Right!
It says “The main destination countries for Romanian and Bulgarian migrants are Spain and Italy, and to a lesser extent Germany. These choices reflect restrictions and freedoms on the right of Romanians and Bulgarians to work across the EU, employment opportunities and similarities in language.”
The report was immediately rejected as a “whitewash” by Migration Watch chairman Sir Andrew Green.
Home affairs committee chair Keith Vaz criticised lack of estimates for precisely how many people would be coming and demanded a full government study.
The honest answer is that nobody how many will come here. There are apparently already 26,000 Bulgarians and 80,000 Romanians here working mainly in hospitality, cleaning and construction. So the report may be right – as there are one hell of a lot of them here already despite so-called restrictions. Maybe there just aren’t that many left to come?
But anyone who believes this pile of horse shit must be living on a different planet to the one I’m on…
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[…..report commissioned by the Foreign office, they will mostly head to Spain….]
I'm just back from Spain. I asked my Spanish hosts if they were worried about the coming deluge of
immigrants. They smiled and shook their heads.
Why would they come to Spain? (26% unemployment and all that) My Spanish friends confidently predicted the immigration wave was firmly en-route for the UK.
I wonder if they guy who spread this foreign office spin is the same one who predicted that the number of Polish immigrants would never exceeed 14500?