According to research released, a record number of immigrants residing in Britain are unemployed, costing taxpayers an estimated £8 billion.
Official figures show that 1,689,000 non-UK nationals are either unemployed or classed as economically inactive because they are not looking for a job.
The figure for the second quarter of 2024 surpasses the previous high of 1,676,000 recorded at the start of the year, and the 1,628,000 from early in 2012, according to analysis of Office for National Statistics data.
It covers people aged between 16 and 64 born overseas and have the right to live in the UK but excludes students and asylum-seekers.
Researchers at the Centre for Migration Control think-tank put the cost to taxpayers of record levels of migrant worklessness at as much as £8.5 billion a year.
They calculate that the total amount of public money attributed to workless migrants – including health, education, transport and housing costs, and welfare – could be as high as £20.3 billion.
It will put pressure on the Government to further crackdown on legal migration after measures by the previous Tory administration to stop foreign students and care workers from bringing family members with them to the UK led to a 35 per cent drop in visa applications in the first half of this year.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has paused the Conservatives’ plan to increase the income needed to bring a foreign partner to the UK from £29,000 to £38,700, and her main new policy is to reduce employers’ reliance on overseas workers by improving the skills of homegrown staff.
Robert Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control, said last night: ‘For all the talk of a fiscal ‘black hole’, the Labour Government seem to be missing the glaringly obvious fact that mass migration is causing economic pandemonium.
‘There is no reason for us to continue handing out so many long-term visas when we are currently having to bail out over a million migrants who are already in Britain but not working. This is the very definition of a Ponzi scheme, and we will only compound the problem if we do not change course soon.’
Mr Bates added: ‘Our elderly are facing a potentially deadly winter as Keir Starmer cancels the lifeline of the winter fuel allowance, but at the same time he is doing nothing to clamp down on workless migrants.’
Why hasn’t the Australian method been implemented by the UK government? Granting visas only to those who possess a trade or practical qualification that would support the economy of the UK.
Both governments could have sorted this problem out years ago, but it’s all part of a plan. What they don’t realise is, that it will all probably end in civil war.
In the UK, we have a very incompetent administration that has no regard for the nation or its citizens.
Illegals trying to enter our country should be sent away unless they have a trade and they can support themselves. Our government needs to adopt this attitude, but instead, they’re just rolling out the red carpet for them.
Our government clearly lacks intelligence, and no common sense. They don’t understand the consequences, and there is no logical thinking. I’m afraid it’s a leftie trait, and I fear for our safety.
Only those having a contract of work and skills, as well as proof that they can sustain themselves financially to pay for housing, private medical treatment, and their dependents’ education, should be permitted to join our nation.
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