A British parlimentary committee of experts came to the conclusion that many British subjects had already reached: there is no justification for mass immigration into the U.K.
And, there's no benefits gained by the country from it.
The panel of experts' report, called a "landmark study--the most authoritative carried out by a parliamentary committee", demanded that a cap be instituted on new arrivals into the British Isles.
The report is sure to spread dismay among Euro-elites and multiculturalists worldwide. Among its blunt findings:
•Dismiss Ministers' "preposterous" assertion that migrants boost the economy by £6billion a year;
•Reject Government claims that foreigners will help to defuse the pensions timebomb;
•Demolish the "fundamentally flawed" Downing Street argument that migrants fill vacancies in the economy;
•And warn that migrants will force up house prices by 10 per cent in the next two decades.
The House of Lords committee didn't mince words.
The Lords economic affairs committee, which includes former Chancellors Nigel Lawson and Norman Lamont, economists and captains of industry, said immigration had "little or no positive impact" on the living standards of the existing population.
In fact, the big winners were the migrants themselves who earn higher wages than in their homeland and can also send money home.
Some British workers were even seeing their incomes fall, while up to 100,000 youngsters have been unable to find work.
And, by pushing up house prices, migrants will keep young families off the housing ladder, the committee found.
Britain has seen migration balloon its population by 190,00 per year and the Labour Party, like the Democrat Party and RINOs in the U.S., has been stressing the economic benefits of mass migration.
Euro-weenies like to cite the need to import workers to keep generous government pension systems financially solvent. But that argument, according to the peers, didn't "hold up to scrutiny" because the immigrants will grow older and claim pensions of their own one day.
The committee has among its ranks Labour and Liberal Democrat members with impeccable economic and business credentials. Many of them were the most trenchant in their remarks.
Downing Street's claim that migrants fill job vacancies in the economy was ruthlessly exposed.
The peers said that despite the influx of more than 700,000 workers from eastern Europe since May 2004, the number of vacancies has remained at between 600,000 and 700,000.
Allowing more and more migrants into the country created the need for ever more jobs because the new arrivals consume as well as provide services, the study found.
It called on the Government to set an "explicit target range" for immigration and set the rules to keep within that limit - effectively a cap.
A cap has been fought by the Labour Party Ministers who say it will harm the economy.
Sounds like the Ministers have either been reading the Wall Street Journal or the Democrat Party platform.
But committee member Lord Layard, a Labour peer and globally-respected economist, said the population would increase by around 190,000 a year for the next 50 years without a limit.
He warned: "We will have permanent pressure of people to move in our direction. Britain has an extra resource, which is the English language, for attracting people here.
"There is no doubt whatever that the pressure will remain for half a century or more.
"We are suggesting that the Government should set a target range for net immigration and then the rules should depend on the target range, rather than the numbers following from the rules as at pre-sent."
It's about time that a debate was started over the mindless shredding of borders. Instead of sensibly asking about the skills and background of immigrants, the "debate" has many times boiled down to a name-calling contest.
The discussion among the British political elites is the same one common British workingmen have been having for some time.
Better late than never.
by Mondoreb
images: daily mail
Sources:
* 'Preposterous' claims by Labour in favour of mass migration rubbished by experts
* British Study: Immigration Has No Benefits
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