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  After a week of misinformation,manipulation by Cabinet Ministers,Media and bandwagon passengers we have...............
  
  by Courtesy of Independent......Leading Article....( precis )
  
  A shamefull spinning of the facts on immigration.
  
  The only surprising thing about the number of immigrants claiming benefit is that the figure is so low.Even more cheering that a mere 2 % of the claims are illegal.
  
  Out of `the` 370,000 recipients fewer than 7,500 are bogus.......hardly more than a distant statistical murmur in the `context` of the 5.5 million people supported by the state.
  
  The more shocking is the misrepresentation both by Cabinet Ministers and the Media.
  
  More than half of the foreign nationals have taken up citizenship,worked,paid taxes and come here legally but to listen to the Employment Minister one would be forgiven for concluding otherwise.
  
  Grayling by releasing his crunched figures and giving such prominance to so tiny problem is scaremongering.
  
  Mr.Grayling should be ashamed of such disingenuousness.
  
  Government must,ofcourse, apply statistical rigour to immigration and wefare numbers and clap down on benefit fraud but to skew reporting of so proportionately negligible a number for the roar of applause from Britains overdeveloped anti-immigration lobby is inexcusable...............there is more evidence of inflaming extremism.............
  
  Damian Green has caused anxiety by planning to slash immigration when British companies need to fill jobs Britons are unwilling to fill.
  
  Apart from Vince Cable broadside on this issue the Lib/Dems hae been almost entirely quiet.
  
  Without decent opposition the unashamedly xenophobic anti-immigration lobby will continue its own over-simplified terminology.

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