Page 1 of 10 123 ... LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 97

Thread: UK Admit immigraton figures are wrong. Are we wrong too?

  1. #1
    Politics.ie Member
    Join Date
    Oct 2007
    Posts
    51

    UK Admit immigraton figures are wrong. Are we wrong too?

    UK Admit Immigration Figures are wrong are we wrong to?

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7068291.stm

  2. #2
    Politics.ie Regular JCSkinner's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    Dublin NSide and Belfast 15
    Posts
    17,517

    Fantastic question, and it's about time our own government revisited their own fatally flawed figures and established a genuine global figure for immigration so at least we could then embark on an informed debate in this country.
    Please sign the petition to establish a national day of celebration in honour of the vision of the United Irishmen!

    To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


    To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


    To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

  3. #3
    Politics.ie Regular Pauli's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2006
    Location
    Pfäffikon, Kanton Schwyz, Switzerland.
    Posts
    7,113

    Of course it is. There is no effective control being exercised by our government over our borders. Any schmuck can get in here and do what he/she likes.
    Fianna Fail - The Loss of Sovereignty Party.

  4. #4
    Politics.ie Regular
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Location
    London
    Posts
    2,403

    Re: UK Admit immigraton figures are wrong. Are we wrong too?

    Quote Originally Posted by zexstream
    Now considering the CSO compile figures in a similar way could Ireland also be under counting the True figures of immigration in Ireland.
    No, that doesnt follow. What the DWP did incorrectly was to inadvertently ommit certain categories from their analysis of the Labour Force Survey datasets. It had nothing to do with methodology or the way figures were collected. Hence there is no reason at all that CSO figures would suffer from the same error.

  5. #5
    Politics.ie Member FutureTaoiseach's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Location
    Dept. of FutureTaoiseach
    Posts
    39,825

    Shows up the propaganda on this issue.

  6. #6
    Politics.ie Regular
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Posts
    14,626

    I'm not sure what the issue is as what the claim is that there are now 1 million foreigners in the UK labour market paying tax.

  7. #7
    Politics.ie Regular
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Location
    London
    Posts
    2,403

    Quote Originally Posted by FutureTaoiseach
    Shows up the propaganda on this issue.
    It does? What propaganda? How is it shown up? You suspect it was something more than a mistake by a middle-ranking statistician / database analyst in the UK civil service?

  8. #8
    Politics.ie Regular Aindriu's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2007
    Location
    Somewhere up in the Wicklow mountains
    Posts
    14,298

    Quote Originally Posted by Pauli
    Of course it is. There is no effective control being exercised by our government over our borders. Any schmuck can get in here and do what he/she likes.
    Especially over the border between the 6 and the 26. At present, anyone who enters the north can just toddle over the border into the south. No controls, no checks, nothing. The same can happen in reverse.
    One of the moderators on here really wrecks my head with his/her power mad ego
    To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

  9. #9
    Politics.ie Regular
    Join Date
    Jun 2004
    Location
    Limbo
    Posts
    408

    Re: UK Admit immigraton figures are wrong. Are we wrong too?

    Quote Originally Posted by zexstream
    The Labour Goverment had been known in the Past to boast about Job creation since it came to power in 1997. It questions on how many of the 2.7m jobs created since Labour came to power in 1997 have gone to British workers.
    If the jobs were created any more than a few months ago, common sense to me would suggest that the jobs are likely to have been passed through a pool of different workers - as people resign, new people get hired etc. Such jobs more than likely at some stage will have been taken up by British workers, evidence from Irish statistics usually do suggest that the higher paid and higher skilled jobs still tend to go to Irish people, while lower paid/skilled work is likely to go to migrant workers (as perceived to be unattractive to the natives, or in the case of Ireland, will result in a lower net income than social welfare).

    So its quite likely that at least some point, most of, if not all, of these jobs were occupied by a British citizen at some point.

    That of course doesn't take into account that many jobs created may have ceased to exist since.

  10. #10
    Politics.ie Regular
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Posts
    9,658

    yes is there anyone who thinks our figures are not wrong?
    What does the Irish President spend their time doing. Work in progress
    To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Page 1 of 10 123 ... LastLast

Similar Threads

  1. Drinking on the job? C&C gets its figures wrong
    By borntorum in forum Economy
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 13th July 2009, 09:12 PM
  2. Replies: 0
    Last Post: 2nd February 2009, 11:30 AM
  3. Future Taoiseach was WRONG WRONG WRONG
    By corelli in forum US Politics
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 5th November 2008, 04:20 AM
  4. ESRI get their figures all wrong!
    By kerrynorth in forum Economy
    Replies: 20
    Last Post: 9th July 2007, 02:35 PM