The Daily Express confirms what I said on this blog six days ago

BRITAIN TO BUILD 2 MILLION HOMES FOR MIGRANTS

Almost two million new homes will have to be built just to cope with the immigrant influx, peers will be told tomorrow.It means 263 houses must go up every day until 2026 – the equivalent of five cities the size of Birmingham during the next 18 years.Four in 10 of all new homes will go to new migrants, a report by Migrationwatch UK claims. Chairman Sir Andrew Green said immigration levels “are 25 times higher than at any time in nearly a thousand years of our history”.He added: “The economic ‘benefits’ are trumpeted by the Government at every opportunity.“But very little is ever heard of the costs, such as the huge addition to infrastructure requirements in order to build the millions of homes required for new immigrants.” The extra pressure on schools, transport and health services “will have massive ramifications for everyone living in this country for decades to come”, he added.Migration into England will grow from 130,000 a year now to 171,500 in 2026, according to the Government’s own projections.Sir Andrew said the country is already very nearly the most crowded in Europe. “We cannot allow this to continue. Our objective now must be a broad balance between immigration and emigration,” he added.The growth of the annual influx will see the number of new immigrant households rise from 73,000 now to 96,000 in 2026.It means 263 new homes will be needed just for migrants every day – or more than 1.8million over the next 18 years. New households overall will rise from 223,000 a year to 246,000. New migrant homes will account for 39 per cent of those.The report concludes: “The overall economic benefit of migration is small and heavily outweighed by the implications of adding 18million to our population in the next 50 years.”The think-tank will present its findings tomorrow to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, which is examining the impact of immigration, after evidence from Immigration Minister Liam Byrne.Houses are allocated on a need basis, meaning immigrants are often more likely to be given a property as they are frequently newly arrived in the country with nowhere to live. In 2006 immigrants were handed 10,000 council homes worth £1.3billion, with the Government paying almost half that amount. The remainder was funded by housing associations and developers.The Government’s equality chief Trevor Phillips recently said the fear that migrants are jumping council queues for homes is fuelling tensions.The Migrationwatch report also attacks what it calls the Government’s “four favourite fibs” on the benefits of immigration. It dismisses claims that migrants are needed to fill 600,000 job vacancies – because around 900,000 people have come since 2001 but the vacancies remain the same.It rejects suggestions that immigrants account for eight per cent of the workforce but contribute 10 per cent of gross domestic product, and attacks claims that immigrant earnings are 13 per cent higher than those of indigenous workers. And claims that our pensions depend on immigrants were rejected by the Lords committee five years ago, it says.The report comes as around a million migrants gather on the coast of Libya planning a sea crossing to Europe, some hoping to head for the UK.Of up to two million migrants living there, about half are using it simply as a staging post to get to Europe, the International Organisation for Migration will claim in BBC1’s Panorama tonight.Of the 30,000 migrants who made it from Africa to Europe last year, about two-thirds used the Libyan route.There are growing fears that Labour’s open-door policy is putting an increasing strain on already overstretched resources.Britain’s population could virtually double in a lifetime due to soaring immigration and rising birth rates, figures showed last year. Numbers could top 110million by 2081, the Government Actuary’s Department said.The number of children born to Eastern Europeans in Britain has soared 100 times faster than those born to British mothers, figures showed in November.The Daily Express told last week how one in eight pupils does not speak English as a first language after the number of non-English-speaking new pupils soared 50 per cent in just two years.English is now the minority language in one in 17 schools. Daily Express

263 new homes built every day for the next eighteen years just to house migrants – a price worth paying? Let us see if Gordon & Co put it to the British people in a referendum – but don’t hold your breath waiting!
Tameside Citizen