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Finally, someone admits what we all know…
“Surge in immigration risks ‘pushing down wages’ for low-paid Britons”.
Writing for the Telegraph, Eir Nolsoe reports on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest research that shows “rapid rises in immigration can depress wages for low-paid locals in countries like Britain”. She also notes that this “will raise alarm bells in Britain, after the UK experienced an unprecedented rise in net immigration. A surge in new arrivals added 2.3m people to the population in the three years to June 2024.”
Of course, the IMF’s findings should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.
This is something we have been warning about for over a decade. A briefing paper we released in 2016 showed that “there is broad agreement that immigration has harmed the earnings of the most poorly-paid UK-born members of the labour force as well as those in the semi-unskilled service sector.”
As far back as 2009, we noted that “immigration has had a negative effect on wages at the lower end of the UK labour market. The effect is small but the evidence now seems consistent. There is also developing evidence of a negative impact on the employment of the UK born workers.” This was when annual net immigration was 196,000; given that 2023 saw net immigration of one million, this matter has become even more urgent.
If the government was serious about protecting the most vulnerable, it would start by tackling a serious threat to their own livelihoods: the uncontrolled arrivals of hundreds of thousands – indeed, nearly a million – annually on these shores, many of whom compete with the native population, and are very often subsidised to do so with free accommodation, schooling, welfare, and so on.
No Brit has ever voted for mass immigration, and now it is becoming increasingly impossible to defend its economic benefits. Indeed, it is becoming impossible to deny its negative economic effects, as native workers are forced to compete for lower wages and the welfare bill rises. £4.2bn was spent on refugees alone in 2023.
Write to your MP today, and help put pressure on the government to cut down these unsustainable numbers.
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