02-10-2007, 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Britannist
The Health Protection Agency said that it was costing the UK NHS over £60 million a year to treat people for diseases from outside europe.
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No offence intended, but I thought people might see it like that. If I remember correctly, the above figure was the cost of treating foreigners infected with TB and HIV (my housemate adds malaria, but I don't recall this) arriving in the UK last year alone.
I would estimate the real cost of treating all HIV and TB patients born abroad would be seven or eight times that. I think it was stated that 70% of HIV patients living in the UK are born abroad, plus there's the possibilty of other people being infected and thus requiring treatment.
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Immigation drains Britain, says Left think tank
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are a drain on Britain and its economy, not a benefit, says a Left-leaning think tank.
Migrants from many developing nations fail to pay their way, while those from wealthy countries, such as the United States and Australia, provide a boost for the economy.
The report, published today by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), sets out to reveal which nationalities are "a debit on Britain's balance sheet".
It found that fewer than half of Britain's 650,000 Somalis, Bangladeshis, Turks and Pakistanis, have jobs and the four communities have the highest levels of benefit dependency.
Britain's fastest-growing migrant group, the Poles, score above-average for employment, but have the lowest hourly pay and make a below-average tax contribution.
Channel 4 commissioned the report for a Dispatches documentary, Immigrants: the Inconvenient Truth, to be shown tomorrow night.
The IPPR, which has close links to Labour, insisted that its report "is not an attempt to cast immigrant communities in a bad or good light". However, its findings will be seized on by those campaigning for tighter immigration controls.
New government statistics predict a two million rise in population over the next decade due to immigration, more than previous projections.
Liam Byrne, the immigration minister, said last week that the forecast "underlines the need for swift and sweeping changes to the immigration system".
This newspaper revealed last week that one in five crimes in London is now committed by foreign nationals, with Poles, Jamaicans, Irish and Somalis at the top of the list.
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Immigation drains Britain, says Left think tank - Telegraph
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"The English gave their name to England and have lived there ever since. People who have since come to England and merged into the English population and are indistinguishable from the English and claim no identity other than English and are accepted by the English as being one of their own, are English."
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