“This confirms everything that the BNP has been saying about the damaging effects of immigration in general.”
by John Bean
British National Party
Blair’s propagandists have for some time been issuing so-called official figures suggesting that immigrants annually contribute £2.5 billion more to the economy in taxes than they receive in benefits and state services. As we have reported previously in this notebook, Migrationwatch UK has accused Whitehall of using “entirely false” methodology to back up its claims by failing to take full account of the children of immigrants. If this is done then the so-called surplus becomes a deficit of at least £200m a year.
Migrationwatch statistics have been criticised by liberal-leftists in the past because this independent body is “Right-Wing”. Now the London School of Economics, the home of many liberal-left causes, has come out with a devastating report that immigrants are costing council tax payers at least £200m a year. Note: this does not include central governmental costs, provided from our income tax.
The report is entitled Population Mobility and Services Provision. After comment upon it appeared on the www.bnp.org.uk, including describing it as “a damning indictment of the present lunatic immigration system”, the web editor received a complaint from Ms Jessica Winterstein, Press Officer at the LSE, saying that his report was not correct and it should be taken down. It was not taken down. “The report”, she said, “finds that ‘mobility’ is creating costs to councils as opposed to migrants and immigration”. We know we now live in the world of Orwell’s doublespeak, but by their very nature of arriving on our shores and moving around, just a bit, immigrants do tend to be ‘mobile’. Perhaps if they had one foot nailed down the following problems would not arrive.Well, so as not to annoy Ms Winterstein and the compilers of the LSE report, it also said that costs for personal translators for these mobility people (were they Scots, Welsh and Gaelic speakers? And those Geordies take some understanding) are costing council tax payers at least a £1000 per year per immigrant. In London, with an estimated official growth of 100,000 mobility people per year, this equates to costs of tens of millions per year out of council taxes just to teach them how to speak English.
Council tax payers are also paying millions of pounds per year in ‘destitution payments’ to illegal mobility people who have just arrived in the country and are unable to claim benefits because of government rules that require them to follow the legal asylum process.
The report also details that schooling for the indigenous children of the UK is suffering and impacting adversely on the education of British children, that unbearable strain is being put on the housing and health systems, that social cohesion is being damaged by the influx of mobility people (they just won’t keep still). It also admits that the council housing systems are in total crisis and that council taxes will have to rise vastly in coming years to cover the costs of the crisis.
This confirms everything that the BNP has been saying about the damaging effects of immigration in general.