To think 335,000 extra people coming to the UK in a year is too high

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Where will they all live? What jobs will they all do? I know it may help GDP, but that is irrelevant as GDP per head is the important thing.

It does seem to be race to the bottom with more part time work , uber type work and the country is borrowing more and more and the national debt is 35k per head now.

From the Migration Statistics Quarterly Report (link up-thread):

"The estimates produced are based on only one of a number of possible samples that could have been drawn at a given point in time. Each of these possible samples would produce an estimated number of migrants. These may be different from the true value that would have been obtained if it were possible to ask everyone passing through about their migration intentions."

In other words, the statistics are unreliable.

"these statistics are reported regularly by the media to assess the government’s progress against its ambition to reduce levels of net migration to sustainable levels."

The statistics up-thread paint a very different picture, i.e. the majority of EU nationals enter the country without pre-arranged employment, the natural assumption being that they therefore live in publicly funded accommodation.

or they will look for work.

I think Sweden has a good system. They allow EU citizens to exercise their FOM in the way it was written i.e. you have to prove employment, independent means or another category.

do they? That's what we are supposed to do too, it's just really hard to enforce. Also, what do you do with people who are working and need HB to live? That's our crazy housing system at work, not FOM.

it IS child protection law that short circuits housing policy

It is, but it is used cynically by the parents who travel by coach from anywhere in the EU and know they will be housed within a short period of time. And of course they make themselves homeless deliberately. You try doing that as a Brit.

EUs arriving with a bunch of children trumps everything. They are first in line. Behind are: English with children, UK family with disabled child, UK family in bad living conditions, etc.

they make themselves homeless deliberately

True.

EU nationals are leaving their homes in the knowledge that they will be provided with publicly funded accommodation on their arrival in the UK.

I don't kow if thedaily express is exaggerating but see the front page about the number of so called 'asylum' seekers still worming into the UK and they'll continue to do so .

don't know why the fucking pm is faffing so much about article watsit.