BNP on Question Time
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- lowimpakt0
i don't have the answer either but the amount of people on benefits and unemployed will always go up and down and I would caution againt bringing in discriminatory and retrograde policies that target people because of wider macro-economic problems.
i.e. I don't think we can treat immigration/migration like a tap.
I think that "people" display similar characteristics to market forces. For example, Ireland (my home) experienced massive immigration from Poland and places like that over the last 10 years as the economy boomed. The inflow of immigrants is reducing now that the economy is in the shit.
The problem there is that the messed up economy wasn't caused by immigrants (in fact they contributed to the boom) and now the problem is that as Ireland tries to rebuild the economy the very people it will depend on (hard working people) are heading back home and shifting the sands of economic development.
does that make any sense?