Interesting article today in the New Statesman (or should that be ON the New Stateman, given I saw it online?) picking apart figures on immigration as provided by MigrationWatch, “an independent, voluntary, non political body which is concerned about the present scale of immigration into the UK.”
The article notes a few recent stats the group have used to back up their claim that immigration costs jobs, comparing several years’ migration figures to one year’s unemployment figures - fatuous in the extreme. Read it. It may make you cry, especially when you consider that this stuff gets presented as news.
It’s not necessarily racist to have concerns about a national immigration policy. It is however pretty fucking despicable if you have to lie in order to back up whatever opinion once crawled into your brain and died there like a rat in an airvent.
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