Britain’s supposed “GDP growth” – it’s mostly benefits for immigrants

As you’ll know, the EU is demanding an extra £1.7bn from Britain because of the UK’s supposed “growth”. But let’s look at where this “growth” may be coming from.

In the last 15 years, about 8 million people have moved to the UK. Of these, around 5 million are non-EU and 3 million from the EU. Now let’s look at unemployment amongst these immigrants (click to see more clearly).

Over 35% of non-EU and 25% of EU immigrants don’t work. But what do these people cost us?

1. Non-EU – there are 5 million non-EU immigrants of whom at least 35% (1.75 million) are parasites. Assuming each of these people costs us about £10,000 a year in benefits (unemployment, housing, child credits, council tax support etc) and public services (schooling for their children, healthcare, policing etc) then that’s £17.5bn the Government has to borrow to support the multi-cultural enrichment these people bring to our country

2. EU – there are 3 million EU immigrants of whom at least 25% (750,000) don’t work. Again, taking a cost per person of £10,000, that gives us another £7.5bn the Government has to borrow to pay for benefits and services for these people.

So, adding the £17.5bn for unemployed (and unemployable?) non-EU immigrants and the £7.5bn for unemployed EU immigrants, we get £25bn a year (increasing every year as more immigrants pour in) – and that’s equivalent to 1.5% of our GDP

But we’re not finished yet. A family of four has to earn £35,000 a year to pay more in tax than it takes in benefits and services. How many of the 5.5 million working immigrants earn more than £35,000? I’ve no idea. But let’s be generous and say it’s 10%. That leaves us 4.95 million immigrants who are costing us money.

How much are they costing us in benefits and public services? Maybe £2,000 per year each? That’s another £9.9bn the Government has to borrow each year. With me so far?

OK, there’s a lot of guesswork here. But this “back of a fag packet” calculation suggests that Britain’s 8 million immigrants are costing us at least £34.9bn a year – 2% of GDP

Then you have to add in all the benefits paid to British-born people who can’t get jobs because immigrants have taken them.

Our great Chancellor claims our economy is growing and this has led to the useless EU demanding another £1.7bn from us. But as far as I can see, all this growth has come from the Government borrowing money to give to immigrants.

And, of course, if you look at GDP/capita (rather than GDP), you’ll see we’ve actually been getting poorer since the 2008 economic crash which led to a tsunami of immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe

So, we’re paying an extra £1.7bn to the EU even though there hasn’t actually been any real economic growth for the last 6  years. What a total disaster!