Revelatory news: Migrants contribute

It's funny what you can find in the government's own data when you remove the xenophobic streak.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/05/migration-target-useless-experts

The same report featured in Daily Mail under headline:

"How migrants from outside Europe leave a £100billion hole in the public purse: Amount taken in benefits and services is 14% higher than money put back"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487501/How-migrants-outside-Europe-leave-100billion-hole-public-purse-Amount-taken-benefits-services-14-higher-money-back.html

With added, unrelated "British firms are actively recruiting workers in Bucharest" crap thrown in to muddy the waters.

And buried at the bottom:

Professor Dustmann and his colleagues said: ‘Immigrants arriving since the early 2000s have made substantial net contributions to public finances, a reality that contrasts starkly with the view often maintained in public debate.’

/if you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bullsh*t

The same report featured in Daily Mail under headline:

"How migrants from outside Europe leave a £100billion hole in the public purse: Amount taken in benefits and services is 14% higher than money put back"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487501/How-migrants-outside-Europe-leave-100billion-hole-public-purse-Amount-taken-benefits-services-14-higher-money-back.html

With added, unrelated "British firms are actively recruiting workers in Bucharest" crap thrown in to muddy the waters.

And buried at the bottom:

Professor Dustmann and his colleagues said: ‘Immigrants arriving since the early 2000s have made substantial net contributions to public finances, a reality that contrasts starkly with the view often maintained in public debate.’

/if you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bullsh*t

This is one of those times when I'd really like to take you out for a pint. Because YES, to all that.

I get pretty maudlin after two or three and then start in on peak oil. It's what's going to get us all.