Captain Haddock wrote:Further proof of the Exodus of EU workers fleeing the United Kingdom leaving acres of crops rotting and coffees going cold due to lack of waiters etc.
Interesting that the "tens of thousand" strap line that the Tories have been stating ad infinitum is far from borne out in the ONS figures. 1997-to-2010 broadly shows a rise of 600,000 EU nationals coming to work in the UK. The 2010-2017 figures suggest 1,300,000 extra EU nationals.
I get that any UK government, whilst under the auspices of the EU, could not curtail these (im)migrations and, furthermore, that the EU has grown in population (particularly in member state increases) but that is a startling rise in just 7 years.
