Flawed arguments in Barbara Roche's article on immigration on the Progress website.: http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2013/04/02/the-inconvenient-truth-about-migration/
She makes the incredible statement: "migrants tend to be younger, contributing more in tax revenue than they consume in public services and the majority leave before they get older when they would become more reliant on public services."
The majority leave before they get older?
If she is referring to the waves of migration since the Second World War the majority have demonstrably not left but have become and are continuing to become pensioners.
If she is referring to the eastern European migration over the last five years or so how on earth can she predict what these people will do when they get older? "Getting older" for these people will occur several decades in the future. Unless Barbara Roche is claiming clairvoyant powers, how can she say that the majority will permanent depart before reaching the age of 65?
She also suggests that the demographic change of an ageing population can only be solved by more immigration. I would suggest that demographic change without immigration will result in increased competition for care service personnel (and other services) and a consequent increase in wages and status for this currently under-rewarded sector. This is a good thing - I look forward to the day when care service personnel have the same financial rewards and status as Barbara Roche (and the money will be available to pay for it because pensioners as a sector hold a large amount of the nation's wealth by virtue of being baby boomers in receipt of final salary pensions and also largely being home-owners).
Barbara Roche in this article has produced a blend of asinine economics, deliberate manipulation of the facts, and outright pro-immigration propaganda.
She makes the incredible statement: "migrants tend to be younger, contributing more in tax revenue than they consume in public services and the majority leave before they get older when they would become more reliant on public services."
The majority leave before they get older?
If she is referring to the waves of migration since the Second World War the majority have demonstrably not left but have become and are continuing to become pensioners.
If she is referring to the eastern European migration over the last five years or so how on earth can she predict what these people will do when they get older? "Getting older" for these people will occur several decades in the future. Unless Barbara Roche is claiming clairvoyant powers, how can she say that the majority will permanent depart before reaching the age of 65?
She also suggests that the demographic change of an ageing population can only be solved by more immigration. I would suggest that demographic change without immigration will result in increased competition for care service personnel (and other services) and a consequent increase in wages and status for this currently under-rewarded sector. This is a good thing - I look forward to the day when care service personnel have the same financial rewards and status as Barbara Roche (and the money will be available to pay for it because pensioners as a sector hold a large amount of the nation's wealth by virtue of being baby boomers in receipt of final salary pensions and also largely being home-owners).
Barbara Roche in this article has produced a blend of asinine economics, deliberate manipulation of the facts, and outright pro-immigration propaganda.
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