Another Labour lie – Migrant workers aren’t going home.
A GROWING number of migrant workers no longer think of themselves as ‘migrants’ and are planning to stay permanently in Britain.
That’s according to a study by the Centre for Cities think tank which found that immigrants from Eastern Europe felt it was easier to find a job in Britain, even during the recession, than in their own countries, so had decided to stay on in the UK.
Based on a study of job markets in Bristol and Hull, the Centre for Cities found no evidence to support the Government’s claim that Eastern European migrant workers were leaving Britain.
In fact, it found that the opposite that was true, with national insurance number allocations revealing record numbers of Eastern European workers in Bristol (9,500) and Hull (6,700).
In Bristol, the immigrants have settled into established, mostly Polish communities, with many sending for their partner and children to come and join them. In Hull, the immigrants are predominantly employed in factory work, initially channelled there through agencies, but with the recession now taking hold they were in direct competition with the local workforce for a dwindling number of jobs.
But probably the most worrying aspect of the Centre for Cities study was that it found that the majority of migrant workers no longer regarded themselves as transient short term labour and had indicated that they had no intention of returning to their own countries.
