Sunday 16 November 2014

Migration Myths

It is interesting to see how misrepresented the immigration issue is. Under EU rules a migrant can only stay in another another EU country for 3 months without fulfilling various criteria - of which there are 4
1) You are in work - i.e. paying in to the system not taking out of it. The majority of British people have repeatedly said that they have no objection to migrants who work and contribute. It is also the reason why migration boosts UK GDP
2) You can support yourself privately - and not 'be a burden' on the host countries benefits system. This is why Angela Merkel won her EU Court of Justice court case to prevent paying German benefits to a Romanian migrant - and why 'benefit tourism' does not exists - and is a fiction created by UKIP and some parts of the media.
3) You are student. Students contribute millions to the UK economy
4) You are a relative of one of the other and they support you
The true problem is not migration - it benefits the UK and migrants contribute to our nations prosperity. It is the failure of Cameron to properly enforce these rules.
Of course there are those who object to EU citizens working here - but the number of such people here almost matches the number of Brits who are in other EU states - that is a load of nonsense too.
Support for EU membership continues to rise - thanks to UKIP and people seeing through their ludicrous claims, and also because no credible business organisation or major political party wants to leave the EU.

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