"Few people realise that the intellectual justification for massive migrations is racism by the far left in politics."
The unemployment rate amongst Black and Asian Britons is now over 13% (almost twice the figure for whites) and amongst 18-24 year old Blacks and Asians it is over 30% compared with about 17% for whites.
"Black workers are bearing the brunt of Britain’s jobs crisis. It’s a truly desperate situation, with the unemployment rate for workers from ethnic minority backgrounds almost twice the level for white workers.” TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber 2011, TUC Black Workers Conference: A bleak future for black and ethnic minority workers.
Britain has a highly diverse population, in 2004 over 8% of the workforce were from an ethnic minority (over 10% in England). Ethnic minorities accounted for 27.2 % of employment in London in 2004.
It is obvious that where immigration is a small percentage of the population (10% or less) then immigration will have little effect on employment or wages in the long run (see Note 2). It is economically pointless to have further immigration - it just overcrowds us and brings no net benefit. So immigration does not, in a growing economy, cause unemployment in the long run. But what about massive immigration? What of the short run with massive immigration and a major recession? What happens if we reach our resource limits?
Immigration has exceeded 500,000 a year in recent years of whom over 80,000 go into employment immediately (see Note 1). This rate of influx has continued up to 2010.
Who are these newcomers going to displace from the workforce? Between 1971 and 1991, a period of overall economic growth, it was found that every 100,000 immigrant workers produced about 20,000 unemployed amongst the population already in the country (see Note 3). In London the effect was greater although the authors of government reports are very coy about stating the scale of the effect. Looking at the data from the Home Office report referred to in Notes 2&3 it can be guessed that in London nearly 30% of the jobs taken by immigrants in times that are not recessions are taken from the previously resident population. (20% displacement of jobs was called "very mild" by the report's authors).
In good times about 20-30% of jobs taken by immigrants are taken from residents, in a serious recession, when no new jobs are being created the figure must be between 30% and a 100%. At the present time this will amount to about 30-100,000 jobs per annum. This might account for about 20-30% of the increase in unemployment over the past 5 years (see BBC: UK unemployment increases to 2.62 million). Whose jobs are being taken by the new immigrants? The new immigrants largely take jobs in the low skilled sector that are already held by ethnic minorities. The ethnic minorities moved into those low skilled, healthcare, cleaning, transport and other jobs when they were recent immigrants.
It is difficult to get a figure for just how much unemployment is being generated amongst British ethnic minorities by migration but it must be high. Just looking around London it is obvious that care, transport, cleaning and other jobs of this type are being taken by immigrants, nowadays often white immigrants, and these are displacing the largely ethnic minority staff who used to have these jobs. The figures show that in the year to September 2011 the number of non UK nationals in employment rose by 147,000 and the number of UK nationals in employment fell by 280,000 (ONS Labour Market Statistics: November 2011).
Few people realise that the intellectual justification for massive migrations is deliberate racism by the far left in politics.
The free movement of labour means we are supplying jobs to foreigners at the expense of our children. All of our best efforts to create employment are undermined. We must stand up for our fellow countrymen. Not only must the media stop being racist by favouring immigration but upper middle class British Asians must make a stand for their own children in preference to foreigners (especially Asian doctors, work in the NHS being a major destination for immigrants).
Incidentally, the real figures for working immigrants may be much higher than 80000:
About 1.5 million National Insurance Numbers are issued annually and almost half of these are issued to foreigners (about 700,0000) which is ten times the rate of work permit issue. OK, suppose foreigners bring a wife and two children with them, we are still looking at about 175,000 jobs per annum rather than 80,000, immigrants would need to bring almost 9 dependents with them to be consistent with the work permit data. The National Insurance Numbers also show how huge numbers of immigrants are now arriving from the EU, displacing the ethnic minorities in the UK from work.
See also:
A ranking of social evils
Illiteracy in England
Childhood poverty in the UK
The benefits of immigration to the UK economy
Against racism
The UK Housing Crisis
Should universities and colleges act as immigration agencies?
Note 1: Changing Patterns of Employment by Ethnic Group and for Migrant Workers. National Report. A. Green, D. Owen and R. Wilson. November 2005
Note 2: "More specifically, if the economy is characterised by a large and heterogenous traded goods sector, employment and wages may be insensitive to immigration, at least in the long run. In such a case, the long run effect of immigration is absorbed by changes in the output mix. If, on the other hand, there is little flexibility in the output mix of traded goods, then it may in fact seem more reasonable to expect long run effects of immigration on both wages and employment." The local labour market effects of immigration in the UK. Christian Dustmann, Francesca Fabbri, Ian Preston, Jonathan Wadsworth. Home Office online report.
Note 3: "The estimated coefficients suggest a very mild effect of immigration on unemployment. According to these estimates, an increase in the immigrant population by one percent of the existing population is associated with an increase in the percentage of the population unemployed of about 0.17 (for the within groups estimator) or 0.22 (for the difference estimator)." ibid.
The unemployment rate amongst Black and Asian Britons is now over 13% (almost twice the figure for whites) and amongst 18-24 year old Blacks and Asians it is over 30% compared with about 17% for whites.
"Black workers are bearing the brunt of Britain’s jobs crisis. It’s a truly desperate situation, with the unemployment rate for workers from ethnic minority backgrounds almost twice the level for white workers.” TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber 2011, TUC Black Workers Conference: A bleak future for black and ethnic minority workers.
Britain has a highly diverse population, in 2004 over 8% of the workforce were from an ethnic minority (over 10% in England). Ethnic minorities accounted for 27.2 % of employment in London in 2004.
It is obvious that where immigration is a small percentage of the population (10% or less) then immigration will have little effect on employment or wages in the long run (see Note 2). It is economically pointless to have further immigration - it just overcrowds us and brings no net benefit. So immigration does not, in a growing economy, cause unemployment in the long run. But what about massive immigration? What of the short run with massive immigration and a major recession? What happens if we reach our resource limits?
Immigration has exceeded 500,000 a year in recent years of whom over 80,000 go into employment immediately (see Note 1). This rate of influx has continued up to 2010.
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| See note 1 for source. |
Who are these newcomers going to displace from the workforce? Between 1971 and 1991, a period of overall economic growth, it was found that every 100,000 immigrant workers produced about 20,000 unemployed amongst the population already in the country (see Note 3). In London the effect was greater although the authors of government reports are very coy about stating the scale of the effect. Looking at the data from the Home Office report referred to in Notes 2&3 it can be guessed that in London nearly 30% of the jobs taken by immigrants in times that are not recessions are taken from the previously resident population. (20% displacement of jobs was called "very mild" by the report's authors).
In good times about 20-30% of jobs taken by immigrants are taken from residents, in a serious recession, when no new jobs are being created the figure must be between 30% and a 100%. At the present time this will amount to about 30-100,000 jobs per annum. This might account for about 20-30% of the increase in unemployment over the past 5 years (see BBC: UK unemployment increases to 2.62 million). Whose jobs are being taken by the new immigrants? The new immigrants largely take jobs in the low skilled sector that are already held by ethnic minorities. The ethnic minorities moved into those low skilled, healthcare, cleaning, transport and other jobs when they were recent immigrants.
It is difficult to get a figure for just how much unemployment is being generated amongst British ethnic minorities by migration but it must be high. Just looking around London it is obvious that care, transport, cleaning and other jobs of this type are being taken by immigrants, nowadays often white immigrants, and these are displacing the largely ethnic minority staff who used to have these jobs. The figures show that in the year to September 2011 the number of non UK nationals in employment rose by 147,000 and the number of UK nationals in employment fell by 280,000 (ONS Labour Market Statistics: November 2011).
Few people realise that the intellectual justification for massive migrations is deliberate racism by the far left in politics.
The free movement of labour means we are supplying jobs to foreigners at the expense of our children. All of our best efforts to create employment are undermined. We must stand up for our fellow countrymen. Not only must the media stop being racist by favouring immigration but upper middle class British Asians must make a stand for their own children in preference to foreigners (especially Asian doctors, work in the NHS being a major destination for immigrants).
Incidentally, the real figures for working immigrants may be much higher than 80000:
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| From Parliamentary Questions 9th May 2008 |
See also:
A ranking of social evils
Illiteracy in England
Childhood poverty in the UK
The benefits of immigration to the UK economy
Against racism
The UK Housing Crisis
Should universities and colleges act as immigration agencies?
Note 1: Changing Patterns of Employment by Ethnic Group and for Migrant Workers. National Report. A. Green, D. Owen and R. Wilson. November 2005
Note 2: "More specifically, if the economy is characterised by a large and heterogenous traded goods sector, employment and wages may be insensitive to immigration, at least in the long run. In such a case, the long run effect of immigration is absorbed by changes in the output mix. If, on the other hand, there is little flexibility in the output mix of traded goods, then it may in fact seem more reasonable to expect long run effects of immigration on both wages and employment." The local labour market effects of immigration in the UK. Christian Dustmann, Francesca Fabbri, Ian Preston, Jonathan Wadsworth. Home Office online report.
Note 3: "The estimated coefficients suggest a very mild effect of immigration on unemployment. According to these estimates, an increase in the immigrant population by one percent of the existing population is associated with an increase in the percentage of the population unemployed of about 0.17 (for the within groups estimator) or 0.22 (for the difference estimator)." ibid.
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