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Poland now largest group of non-UK born residents, surpassing India, but net migration figures fall

Poland has surpassed India as the most common non-UK origin of birth for people living in the UK, Office for National Statistics figures show.

The news comes as net migration (difference between the number of people coming to the UK for at least a year and those leaving) has fallen to 327,000 for the year to March. The ONS figures - for the period before Britain voted to leave the EU - are down slightly on the previous year.

Despite rumours that Poles were all going back to a booming Poland a few years ago, it is now estimated that there are 831,000 Polish-born residents in 2015 - a jump of almost 750,000 since Poland joined the EU along with other seven Eastern European countries (the ‘Accession 8’) in 2004. India and the Republic of Ireland have traditionally been the sources of the UK's largest foreign-born migrants. Irish citizens enjoyed free access to the UK, or the Common Travel Area, long before the EU.

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Figures show a slight decline in the numbers settling in the UK from Poland, but the EU migration figures were offset by a massive increase in net migration from Bulgaria and Romania, which reached record levels of 60,000.

Nicola White, ONS Head of International Migration Statistics, said: "Net migration remains at record levels although the recent trend is broadly flat.

"The influx of Romanians and Bulgarians has also reached a new high, although that's off-set by falls in non-EU immigration and from other central and eastern European countries.

"Work remains the main reason for migration, followed by study which has seen a significant fall in the number of people coming to the UK for education.

"It's important to remember that these figures only go up to the end of March and do not cover the period following the UK's vote to leave the European Union."

She added the UK's population continued to increase between 2014 and 2015, driven by "significant increases in both the non-UK born and non-British national population of the UK".

ONS estimates show that 13.3% - around 1 in 7 - of the usually resident population of the UK were born abroad, compared with 8.9% in 2004.

London is the region with the highest proportion of non-UK born residents.

A quarter – 1 in 4 - of births in England and Wales in 2015 were to foreign women born outside the UK, the highest level on record, according to separate figures.

ONS statistician Elizabeth McLaren said: "The rising percentage of births to women born outside the UK is largely due to foreign born women making up an increasing share of the female population of childbearing age in England and Wales.

"Part of the reason for this is that migrants are more likely to be working-age adults rather than children or older people. Alongside their increasing share of the population, higher fertility among women born outside the UK has also had an impact."

Figures show that EU Immigration has not yet peaked and following the Brexit vote, work permits could be introduced for European migrants.

Some data from recent national insurance number (NI) registrations indicate that EU immigration may have levelled off, although  it will take six months to a year to see the effect of the referendum.

The then Labour government, famously predicted in 2004 that immigration from the new EU countries, who could only freely move to the UK, Sweden and Ireland, would peak at 13,000.

In reality, it is impossible to know how many foreign born people are living in the UK for a number of reasons.

Firstly, there is no counting-in/counting-out system covering all migrants and visitors. The Labour government spent billions on IT systems which were scrapped at the cost to the taxpayer.

Secondly, EU migrants can come and go without registering and many do not apply for an NI number, for instance, the self employed. Croatiannationals, whilst part of the EU, cannot work here or obtain an NI numberwithout permission. Like Romanians and Bulgarians before them, many survive here working in ‘cash in hand’ jobs on the black market. 

Migrants can find work here without permits as child minders (as in the case of Baroness Scotland, the Minister who help draft immigration Rules), waiters, builders and in some areas as mini cab drivers.

Finally, there is an estimated 600,000 – 1,000,000 people here illegally or overstaying their visas. Many have now had children who will eventually acquire British citizenship and will form the basis of an application to regularise the parents stay in the UK on human rights grounds. Even though the government will abolish the Human Rights Act, it is extremely unlikely that the UK will be able to find deport a million overstayers. The think tank, ippr, said it would take 20 years and £5 billion to deport 500,000 illegal immigrants.

Sir David Metcalf, the government's chief adviser on immigration controls, has indicated that Prime Minister Theresa May was considering introducing work permits for low skilled migrants from the EU. An estimated half a million EU migrants could be forced to leave the UK.

Sir David, head of the Migration Advisory Committee, told the Telegraph the scheme would be "pretty straightforward" to run and could be based on a previous work permit system for seasonal agricultural workers.

Lord Green, of the Migration Watch pressure group said: "The Brexit negotiations must achieve a significant reduction of EU migration and very firm action is needed against overstaying students from outside the EU."

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The internet has opened up a whole new world of learning, working, socialising and doing business. We no longer need to go back to school or university to learn new skills. We can work from home, start a business or find a new life partner all from the comfort of our home.

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Immigration Matters: Britain will prosper post Brexit in Europe outside...

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Immigration Matters: Post Brexit update as low pound attracts UK touris...: The fall in the British pound following the vote to leave the EU has attracted even higher levels of tourists to the UK on shopping sprees...

Immigration Matters: UK Human Rights Act is to be abolished

Immigration Matters: UK Human Rights Act is to be abolished: The UK Human Rights Act is to be abolished and replaced by a British Bill of Rights by the new Government, the Justice Secretary, Liz Trus...

Immigration Matters: Post Brexit update as low pound attracts UK touris...

Immigration Matters: Post Brexit update as low pound attracts UK touris...: The fall in the British pound following the vote to leave the EU has attracted even higher levels of tourists to the UK on shopping sprees...

Post Brexit update as low pound attracts UK tourist spending boom

The fall in the British pound following the vote to leave the EU has attracted even higher levels of tourists to the UK on shopping sprees, causing a leap in tax-free spending by overseas visitors, according to figures published in the Guardian.

Leading tax-free shopping company Global Blue said visitors from Asia and the US have been taking advantage of how much further their own currencies will go in the UK since the June referendum. It reported a 7% year-on-year increase in UK international tax-free shopping in July.

Countries such as Japan, Indonesia and the US were the nations that accounted for the biggest increase. Spending by Japanese visitors was up 96% in the UK compared with July 2015, while travellers from Indonesia spent 88% more than last year on tax-free shopping.

Chinese tourists’ spending was up just 6% for July, but the country still accounted for the largest portion of spending overall, with a 32% share.

Big Ben, London

The figures mirror advice by the Office for National Statistics last week that there were signs the fall in the pound since the referendum, which has made holidaying in the UK cheaper for overseas visitors, had attracted tourists on shopping sprees for luxury goods. Sales of watches and jewellery in July were up 16.6% on the same month last year, according to those official figures. The tourism boost combined with better sales of summer clothes to help drive an overall bounce in retail sales in July.

London certainly looks busier than ever as UK tourist’s crowd into attractions such as Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and the British Museum.

Even if the hotels are fully booked, you can book accommodation with AIRBNB, which has been gaining popularity in the UK and keeping the hotel owners on their toes!

Despite predictions of doom and gloom by remain campaigners, the stock market is up, the UK economy is surviving and looks set to thrive outside of the EU.

However, people of Irish decent and clamouring for Irish passports and there has been a surge in the number of people applying to emigrate to Ne Zealand.

Over 10,500 Britons have inquired about emigrating to the country since the Brexit vote, the New Zealand Herald has revealed, more than double the number of the same period last year.

During the 49 days following Britain’s vote to leave the EU, 10,647 people from the UK registered with Immigration New Zealand, compared with 4,599 in 2015. On 24 June, the day immediately following the vote, the website received 998 British registrations, almost 10 times as many as the previous day’s tally of 109.

Registering with the New Zealand migration website allows would-be British émigrés to check whether their skills are in demand and if they meet immigration requirements. On the list of immediate skills shortages, New Zealand has urgent vacancies for poultry farmers, bakers, ski instructors, dentists and upholsterers, and others.

In other Brexit news, the majority of Britons – including those who voted to leave the European Union – want EU nationals living in the UK to be allowed to stay in the country after leaving the EU, according to a new poll.

Even though immigration was the main issue put forward by the Leave campaign, 77% of those who voted for Brexit and 78% of Ukip supporters agreed EU nationals currently here should be allowed to remain living in the UK.

Whilst 62% of those polled wanted to see a reduction in the number of unskilled migrants coming to the UK, a majority did not want to reduce the influx of highly-skilled migrants, such as engineers, as well as nurses and doctors needed to fill shortage occupation job vacancies in the NHS.

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UK Human Rights Act is to be abolished

The UK Human Rights Act is to be abolished and replaced by a British Bill of Rights by the new Government, the Justice Secretary, Liz Truss said.

The British Bill of Rights will be introduced, despite speculation that the Government is planning to shelve the election pledge, Liz Truss told BBC Radio 4’s today programme.

There is speculation that Prime Minister Theresa May is concerned about the proposals as a concession agreed by the previous government that Britain would remain signed up to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Former Prime Minister David Cameron’s government said that the British Bill of Rights would replace the controversial Human Rights Act, which has led to the Home Office being left unable to deport criminals and suspected terrorists, due to appeals to the court on human rights or grounds such as the article 8 ‘right to a family life’ in the UK.

The Bill of Rights was drawn up by Michael Gove, the former justice secretary who lost his job during Mrs May’s reshuffle.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman previously said: “We will set out our proposals for a Bill of Rights in due course. We will consult fully on our proposals.”

The news came as Mrs May has hit back at Jean-Claude Juncker's claim that borders are the "worst invention ever made" by politicians.

UK Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa May

UK Immigration Figures

In total, 630,000 people moved to the UK in the year ending December 2015. Statistically this is a minor increase on 2014.

Net immigration of European Union (EU) citizens is estimated as 184,000 in the YE December 2015. An increase from 2014’s total of 174,000 is largely due to a rise in immigration from Romania and Bulgaria.

The number of migrants from countries outside the EU remained steady at 188,000 over the same period.

Of these, 308,000 people immigrated for work, an increase of 30,000 from the previous year and the highest estimate on record. Of these, 178,000 (58%) had a definite job to go to.

While the true extent of illegal migration to the UK is unknown, the volume of people claiming asylum has reached its highest level for 14 years.

Total applications in the 12 months to March 2016 were 41,563 (including dependents) - up 30% on the year before. This is actually relatively low compared to other EU countries - the UK ranks ninth out of 28.

The highest number were from Iran (4,811), followed by Pakistan (3,511), Iraq (3,374), Eritrea (3,340) and Afghanistan (3,133).

Source: Office for National Statistics, May 2016

The devil will be in the detail when it comes to scrapping the Human Rights Act, introduced by the Blair government in 1998, particularly if the UK remains part of ECHR, which will allow people to lodge appeals against the UK government.

The Human Rights Act 1998, into force in the UK in October 2000, sets out the fundamental rights and freedoms that everyone in the UK is entitled to.

In practice, the Act has three main effects:

1. It incorporates the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into domestic British law. This means that if your human rights have been breached, you can take your case to a British court rather than having to seek justice from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
2. It requires all public bodies (like courts, police, local authorities, hospitals and publicly funded schools) and other bodies carrying out public functions to respect and protect your human rights.
3. In practice, it means that Parliament will nearly always seek to ensure that new laws are compatible with the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights (although ultimately Parliament is sovereign and can pass laws which are incompatible). The courts will also where possible interpret laws in a way which is compatible with Convention rights.

Source: Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Whilst the Human Rights Act guarantees rights for UK citizens, it has become unpopular in the wake of controversial decisions to allow criminals and suspected terrorists to remain in the UK despite attempts to deport them by the Home Office, previously run by Theresa May.

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Immigration Matters: Which country has the best ‘visa-free travel’ pass...

Immigration Matters: Which country has the best ‘visa-free travel’ pass...: The EU referendum could change in how easily British citizens can travel within the rest of Europe without the need for a visa, however, E...

Which country has the best ‘visa-free travel’ passport? It's not UK or USA

The EU referendum could change in how easily British citizens can travel within the rest of Europe without the need for a visa, however, Europeans were freely travelling around France, Spain and Germany for decades.

There has been a surge in Britons applying for Irish passports following the Brexit result in a bid to retain a link with the European Union. But according to a study, Germany has the world’s most powerful passport, with Sweden close behind.

German citizens hold the world’s most flexible and powerful visa-free passport as they can visit 177 countries without applying for a tourist visa, and US tourists can travel to 174. British travellers can currently enter 175, which could change in the next couple of years. 

With a possible score of 218, the visa restriction index by Henley & Partners, a citizenship and planning firm, ranks nations or territories based on the number of countries their citizens can travel to visa-free. The annual report is based on visa restrictions in place on 1 January.

Germany claimed sole possession of first spot this year after three more countries scrapped visa restrictions for Germans, edging Sweden into second place with visa-free access to 176 countries.

After three years in first place, the UK fell to third and was tied with Finland, France, Italy and Spain with a score of 175, up one from 174 last year, while the US shared fourth spot with Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Afghanistan found itself at the bottom of the table with visa-free access to just 25 countries.

Pakistan was in second-last place (29), just behind Iraq (30), Somalia (31) and Syria (32).

In a statement released earlier this year, Henley & Partners, which has offices around the world, including London and Melbourne, said only 21 of the 199 countries listed in this year’s study remained in the same rank as last year.

It said: ‘No country, however, dropped more than three positions, indicating that overall, visa-free access is improving around the world.

‘Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan meanwhile, continue to hold the bottom four positions on the index, and thus have again been labelled the worst passports in the world.’

Timor-Leste, in Southeast Asia, had the biggest leap, climbing 33 spots to 57th place, followed by Colombia and Paula, which jumped 25 and 20 spots, respectively. Hungary is back in the top 10, while Malaysia was squeezed out.

Henley & Partners, which has produced an annual index in co-operation with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) since 2006, said: ‘There continues to be a huge disparity in the levels of travel freedom between countries, despite the world becoming more mobile and interdependent.

‘Generally, visa requirements reflect strongly on each country’s relationships with others, and will take into account diplomatic relationships between the countries, reciprocal visa arrangements, security risks and the risks of visa and immigration rules violations.’ 

The table illustrates the degree of restrictions citizens of poorer nations have when travelling, something we in the West take for granted. Due to the risk of overtsaying, applying for a visa to visit the UK or U.S. can be a monumental task for citizens of third world countries.

There have recently been a number of hoax articles claiming that the UK has given visa-free status to the Philippines and various African countries.

Full list of results countries:

1. Germany - 177

2. Sweden - 176

3. Finland, France, Italy, Spain, UK - 175

4. Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, US - 174

5. Austria, Japan, Singapore - 173 

6. Canada, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Switzerland - 172

7. Greece, New Zealand - 171 

8. Australia - 169

9. Malta - 168

10. Czech Republic, Hungary, Iceland - 167

11. Slovakia - 165

12. Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Slovenia - 164

13. Latvia - 163

14. Estonia, Lithuania - 162

15. Poland - 161

16. Monaco - 160

17. Cyprus - 159

18. San Marino - 156

19. Chile - 155

20. Hong Kong - 154

21. Brazil, Bulgaria, Romania - 153

22. Andorra, Argentina - 152

23. Brunei Darussalam - 151

24. Croatia - 149

25. Israel - 147

26. Barbados - 141

27. Bahamas - 140

28. Mexico - 139

29. Taiwan, Uruguay - 137

30. Antigua and Barbuda, Vatican City - 134

31. Seychelles - 133

32. St. Kitts and Nevis, Venezuela - 132

33. Costa Rica - 131

34. Trinidad and Tobago - 130

35. Mauritius - 128

36. Panama - 127

37. Paraguay, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines - 125

38. United Arab Emirates - 122

39. Grenada - 121

40. Macau - 120

41. Dominica, Honduras - 119

42. Guatemala - 116

43. El Salvador, Serbia - 115

44. Samoa - 112

45. Macedonia - 111

46. Nicaragua, Tonga, Vanuatu - 110

47. Montenegro - 107

48. Russia - 105

49. Palau - 104

50. Colombia - 10

51. Turkey - 102

52. Bosnia Herzegovina, Moldova - 101

53. Albania - 98

54. South Africa - 97  

55. Belize - 94

56. Peru, Solomon Islands - 86

57. Guyana, Kuwait, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu - 82

58. Ecuador, Fiji, Ukraine - 81

59. Maldives, Nauru - 80

60. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Qatar - 79

61. Jamaica - 78

62. Papua New Guinea - 77

63. Micronesia - 75

64. Suriname - 74

65. Bahrain - 73

66. Bolivia, Botswana - 72

67. Oman, Thailand - 71

68. Namibia - 70

69. Lesotho, Saudi Arabia - 69

70. Kenya - 68

71. Belarus, Gambia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Swaziland - 67

72. Tanzania, Tunisia - 65

73. Ghana - 64

74. Zambia - 63

75. Azerbaijan - 62

76. Cape Verde, Philippines - 61

77. Uganda - 60

78. Benin, Cuba, Morocco, Zimbabwe - 59

79. Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan - 58

80. Armenia - 57

81. Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mongolia - 56

82. Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo - 55

83. Dominican Republic, Sao Tome, Principe - 54

84. Tajikistan - 53

85. India, Mali, Uzbekistan - 52

86. Bhutan, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sierra Leone - 51

87. Cambodia, China - 50

88. Chad, Egypt, Gabon, Turkmenistan - 49

89. Algeria, Central African Republic, Haiti, Madagascar, Rwanda - 48

90. Comoros, Jordan, Laos, Vietnam - 47 

91. Guinea - 46

92. Angola, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria - 45

93. Congo (Republic of), Djibouti - 44

94. Liberia - 43

95. Burundi, North Korea, Myanmar - 42

96. Bangladesh, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Lebanon, Sri Lanka - 39

97. Kosovo, South Sudan, Yemen - 38

98. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Nepal, Palestinian Territory, Sudan - 37

99. Libya - 36

100. Syria - 32

101. Somalia - 31

102. Iraq - 30

103. Pakistan - 29

104. Afghanistan - 25 

Source: Henley & Partners.

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Uber challenge new rules to impose English tests on foreign drivers

The largest non-taxi owning firm, Uber, has just launched a legal challenge in London against new rules requiring thousands of cab drivers to pass an English test, the BBC reports.

Transport for London (TfL), which regulates taxis and other transport, wants all private-hire drivers who do not come from English-speaking countries to prove their English language skills from October 2016.

Most passengers as well as drivers should support the exam, which is similar to an IELTS and testing drivers in reading, writing and listening skills.

Despite contact with vulnerable people, the private-hire industry is not as regulated as the care industry. Drivers can obtain licenses in some areas with limited driving experience, a few checks and virtually no immigration checks depending on where they operate.

The sector provides a living for hundreds of thousands of migrants from the EU and non-EU countries.

Uber, which has disrupted taxi sector in London (credit cards, online booking and lower fares), is also challenging new rules requiring the firm to inform TfL of any upcoming changes to its app.

"This legal action is very much a last resort," said Tom Elvidge, general manager of Uber London.

"We're particularly disappointed that, after a lengthy consultation process with Transport for London, the goalposts have moved at the last minute and new rules are now being introduced that will be bad for both drivers and tech companies like Uber."

Uber, which originally supported an English-speaking and listening test, now claims TfL has changed the requirements so that drivers have to provide a certificate showing they have an intermediate level of writing and reading. Uber says the test is unnecessary and costly.

The U.S. giant controls more than 30,000 drivers in London, despite not owning or operating taxis or employing a single driver.

Uber is based in Ireland, which accounts for the fact that the company paid just £22,000 corporation tax in 2014, according to The Guardian. The company is one of many American tech giants which pay little or no tax in the UK while generating billions in profits.

The Uber legal challenge, by a firm which pays hardly any tax here, could cost UK taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds. The lawyers will, of course, be rubbing their hands with glee. 

Uber is also peeved about a ruling that all private-hire companies must have a customer call centre within the London area that passengers are able to ring during a ride.

TfL confirmed it has received a letter from Uber warning of the legal challenge and will defend it.

In a statement, it said: "We responded to Uber's letter and will be robustly defending the legal proceedings brought by them in relation to the changes to private-hire regulations."

What is your experience with UBER or other taxi drivers? Would you prefer a driverless vehicle and would you feel safer late at night.

Driverless vehicles will replace millions of jobs as the digital revolution changes everything

Uber driverless car 

Uber are rolling out plans to allow users to hail self-driving cars, not in the distant science fiction-based future, but within weeks, the company has confirmed.

The launch will take place in Pittsburgh, where it is teaming up with Volvo. Volvo has already been testing self-driving versions of the same vehicle in Sweden as part of its "Drive Me" project, said Alan Stevens at the UK's Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The firm has also trialled the vehicle in Australia and plans to do so in London next year.

This is a brilliant publicity coup for Uber, as the vehicles will initially be supervised by a driver, who can take control if necessary, and an observer, however, it is clear where this is going. Uber eventually hopes to replace its one million drivers, Bloomberg said.

Uber's founder Travis Kalanick has been outlining a world dominating vision of a self-driving fleet for some years and has raised £10 billion dollars to make it happen.

A spokeswoman for the firm told the BBC: "Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon self-driving cars from their phones, crossing an important milestone that no automotive or technology company has yet achieved.

"In Pittsburgh, customers will request cars the normal way, via Uber's app, and will be paired with a driverless car at random. Trips will be free for the time being, rather than the standard local rate of $1.30 [£0.98] per mile."

Over three million people are employed in the transport industry in the U.S. alone. It will be long before most of our goods will be delivered by driverless cars and trucks. Amazon has already started using drones to delivering parcels in America.

Early results from tests show that robot-driven cars are safer than the average human driver – and they don’t drink or get into road rage!

On a more serious point, we are all going to have to adapt to more and more of our jobs being done by computers, robots and  machines. This is happening now across many industries and will remove humans from tens of millions of jobs in the next few years.

The digital revolution is already upon us, so get ready! However, I am convinced that you can work from home and make money online provided you have the right internet training and support and real products of value to market. You need training. If you try tinker at it on your own you will reduce your chances of making enough money to quit your job and living the life you really want. Nearly all businesses use the internet these days, so it's not some obscure idea. The latest internet boom is only just starting, according to the experts, and we can all ride the next wave.

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Immigration Matters: Is this the end of the EU?

Immigration Matters: Is this the end of the EU?: The EU is in turmoil following Brexit vote French and Italian leaders plot against Merkel to force end German austerity measures ...

Is this the end of the EU?

The EU is in turmoil following Brexit vote

French and Italian leaders plot against Merkel to force end German austerity measures

UK could deport 500,000 non-qualifying EU citizen migrants

Could this be the start of a EU meltdown?

Leaders of several EU nations have ‘had  enough’ of Chancellor Angela Merkel and German domination. Could this be the trigger that sets in motion the breakup of the European Union as we know it?

Greek, Spanish, Italian and even French leaders are plotting to take more control of the budget from Germany, the most powerful European nation, in a bid to end tough austerity measures in Southern Europe.

Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy are suffering from poor economies and mass unemployment, which is one of the reasons why the UK had over 180,000 migrants from the EU last year. However, France has been a strong German ally even though its economy has been sluggish for years.

The UK has jobs. For instance, NHS has recruited thousands of Spanish and Portuguese Doctors, Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, and London’s bars and restaurants are full of EU workers. Hospitals are now recruiting non-EU Nurses from the Philippines to fill thousands of NHS vacancies.

European nations, along with the German people, are not happy with Merkel’s open door immigration asylum policy. Merkel’s open invitation caused the mass migration of millions of refugees desperately marching across Europe and dying in rafts on the Mediterranean last year.

The revolt against Germany, coupled with the UK Brexit vote, could lead to a collapse of the current EU format where richer countries prop up ailing economies which mismanage their money and produce little of value other than tourism and agricultural produce.

A new report last week warned that half a million migrants from the EU, could be forced to leave Britain following the Brexit process, sending a shiver of fear down the spines of European and non-EU partner migrants hoping to settle in the UK or exercise free movement rights under EEA regulations.

The immigration Ponzi scheme

The Germans actually need immigrants to boost their low birth-rate population and import younger workers to pay taxes, which support millions of state funded pensioners. In effect, they are mirroring a Ponzi scheme by paying pensions with new money from workers who will also qualify for state pensions in a few years time.

Fraudster Bernie Madoff

A Ponzi scheme is an illegal, fraudulent investment operation where the operator pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to them by new investors, rather than from profit earned from the investments. The scheme, named after the 1920’s fraudster Charles Ponzi, attracts investors by offering high than average returns.

People, it seems have short memories. More recently, the stockbroker Bernie Madoff ran the same Ponzi attracting billions of pounds from the public and celebrity investors before his arrest and subsequent life sentence 2008.   

Other EU countries, including Britain, have similar ‘pension time bombs’ with a falling number of people in work directly funding a growing number of retired people who are living far longer than was expected when state pensions were conceived after the war.

By the time younger taxpayers reach retirement age there will be little left in the pot for them, and private sector employers are no longer providing the blue chip final salary pension schemes the previous generation enjoyed.

Today’s generation will be forced to make their own way in life or work until they drop, and there will be no more ‘jobs for life’. As the famous investor Warren Buffet put it, “If you do not have passive income, you will work until you die”.

People will have to change occupations and retrain several times during their careers, as well as developing a more entrepreneurial mindset. Some may turn to additional part-time work or home-based businesses, such as online marketing, MLM or network marketing to earn extra cash.

Fortunately, the internet has opened up a new world of learning, working, socialising and doing business. We no longer need to go back to school or university to learn new skills. We can work from home, start a business or find a new life partner all from the comfort of our home.

At the click of a mouse, you can now find everything from a short instructional video to a full degree course online. If you would like more information on a free course on how to survive and thrive in the digital economy and discover the truth about how to make money online, click here.

See also:

Half a million EU migrants may be forced to leave UK post Brexit think tank claims

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EU at war as France and Italy gang up on the Germans and UK could deport half a million migrants

French and Italian leaders gang up on Merkel to force end German austerity measures

UK could deport 500,000 non-qualifying EU citizen migrants

Could this be the start of a EU meltdown?

Amid reports today that leaders of several EU nations have ‘had  enough’ of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, could this be the trigger that sets in motion the breakup of the European Union as we know it?

The Sunday Express reports that Greek, Spanish, Italian and even French leaders are planning to take more control of the budget from Germany, the most powerful European nation, in a bid to end tough austerity measures in Southern Europe.

Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy are suffering from poor economies and mass unemployment, which is one of the reasons why the UK had over 180,000 migrants from the EU last year. However, France has been a strong German ally even though its economy has been sluggish for years.

The UK has jobs. For instance, NHS has recruited thousands of Spanish and Portuguese Doctors, Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, and London’s bars and restaurants are full of EU workers. Hospitals are now recruiting non-EU Nurses from the Philippines to fill thousands of NHS vacancies.

European nations, along with the German people, are not happy with Merkel’s open door immigration asylum policy. Merkel’s open invitation caused the mass migration of millions of refugees desperately marching across Europe and dying in rafts on the Mediterranean last year.

The revolt against Germany, coupled with the UK Brexit vote, could lead to a collapse of the current EU format where richer countries prop up ailing economies which mismanage their money and produce little of value other than tourism and agricultural produce.

A new report last week warned that half a million migrants from the EU, could be forced to leave Britain following the Brexit process, sending a shiver of fear down the spines of European and non-EU partner migrants hoping to settle in the UK or exercise free movement rights under EEA regulations.

The immigration Ponzi scheme

The Germans actually need immigrants to boost their low birth-rate population and import younger workers to pay taxes, which support millions of state funded pensioners. In effect, they are mirroring a Ponzi scheme by paying pensions with new money from workers who will also qualify for state pensions in a few years time.

Fraudster Bernie Madoff

A Ponzi scheme is an illegal, fraudulent investment operation where the operator pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to them by new investors, rather than from profit earned from the investments. The scheme, named after the 1920’s fraudster Charles Ponzi, attracts investors by offering high than average returns.

People, it seems have short memories. More recently, the stockbroker Bernie Madoff ran the same Ponzi attracting billions of pounds from the public and celebrity investors before his arrest and subsequent life sentence 2008.   

Other EU countries, including Britain, have similar ‘pension time bombs’ with a falling number of people in work directly funding a growing number of retired people who are living far longer than was expected when state pensions were conceived after the war.

By the time younger taxpayers reach retirement age there will be little left in the pot for them, and private sector employers are no longer providing the blue chip final salary pension schemes the previous generation enjoyed.

Today’s generation will be forced to make their own way in life or work until they drop, and there will be no more ‘jobs for life’. As the famous investor Warren Buffet put it, “If you do not have passive income, you will work until you die”.

People will have to change occupations and retrain several times during their careers, as well as developing a more entrepreneurial mindset. Some may turn to additional part-time work or home-based businesses, such as online marketing, MLM or network marketing to earn extra cash.

Fortunately, the internet has opened up a new world of learning, working, socialising and doing business. We no longer need to go back to school or university to learn new skills. We can work from home, start a business or find a new life partner all from the comfort of our home.

At the click of a mouse, you can now find everything from a short instructional video to a full degree course online. If you would like more information on a free course on how to survive and thrive in the digital economy and discover the truth about how to make money online, click here.

See also:

Half a million EU migrants may be forced to leave UK post Brexit think tank claims

NURSES WHO HAVE TRAINED OVERSEAS AND NOW WORK IN THE UK - I NEED YOUR HELP FOR A RESEARCH PROJECT

Bank of England cuts UK base interest rates to .25% and pumps more money into the economy 

Immigration Matters: Half a million EU migrants may be forced to leave ...

Immigration Matters: Half a million EU migrants may be forced to leave ...: Half a million migrants from the EU, could be forced to leave Britain following the Brexit completion process, according to Laura Hughes, ...

Half a million EU migrants may be forced to leave UK post Brexit think tank claims

Half a million migrants from the EU, could be forced to leave Britain following the Brexit completion process, according to Laura Hughes, Political Correspondent for The Telegraph.

In a study by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) it was revealed that 590,000 EU nationals living in the UK may not meet strict residency requirements in order to automatically qualify for the indefinite leave to remain, assuming Article 50 is triggered next year and Britain leaves the EU by 2019.

There are over 3.5 million EU citizens currently living in the UK – three times the population of Birmingham, Britain’s second largest City and half of London’s population – but more than 80% should retain the right to remain in the UK having resided here for five. 

There are unconfirmed reports of a leap in applications for British Citizenship following the Brexit vote in June, as nervous EU migrants rush to secure their stay in the UK.

Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure to deliver the Brexit will of 17 million voters, and many on the right of the party want EU citizens lose their free movement rights to live in the UK. Mrs May has previously reassured 800,000 Poles living in the UK that she “wants and expects” them to remain in the country after Brexit.

According to SMF figures, 3.55 million EU citizens are resident in the UK, with 1,660,000 coming from the so-called EU14, those countries that were part of the EU before 2004. The remaining 1.5 million come from the eight Eastern European nations that joined 12 years ago.

Many Bulgarians, Romanians and Croatians, who joined after 2007, could miss the cut, having already been subjected to seven year restrictions on working in the UK after becoming EU citizens. Croatia is the newest member of the EU, but its citizens face an uphill struggle to exercise free movement of labour rights in many EU partner countries, including the UK. See Update for Croatians who want to work or study in the UK. 

More clarity will come once the negotiations begin with these countries and the EU as a whole.

Despite the fact that the UK hardly ever features in the top 10 lists of best places to live, everybody seems to want to live here! Half a million EU citizens are not going to leave the UK, unless they have better prospects and living conditions in their own country, even if they do not qualify for a UK passport.

There are an estimated million migrants living in the UK illegally who are not budging despite the best efforts of the Home Office to find and deport them, so the idea that the government is going to have the will to force 500,000 EU citizens to leave is pie in the sky.

Much of the UK's vital services, such as the NHS, could not operate without immigrant workers, although anti-immigration organisations like Migration Watch would argue that we would not need so many nurses and doctors if the migrant population fell.

Millions of UK citizens live in other EU countries, such as France and Spain, most of whom are retired, own their own properties and not dependent on local jobs. 

It is extremely unlikely that even the most arrogant French politician would want to expel hundreds of thousands of Brits, who contribute to their flagging economy and help prop up the French housing market.

Conflicting reports and predictions from so-called experts are emerging about the effects of Brexit on the UK economy. In the meantime, life goes on and the falling pound has attracted more UK visitors and investors.

The Bank of England voted to cut base interest rates from .5 to .25% today, and pump more money into the economy by quantitative easing - printing money to you and me!

If you are still stuck or unable to migrate, have you considered working from home or setting up a home-based business? Anyone can now set up a home based Internet business working from home or selling goods online. Companies like Amazon, eBay and Upwork offer everyone an opportunity to earn a living and even make a fortune working from home and living the laptop lifestyle.

It has never been as easy as it is right now to set up an online business. I work from home. In the past, you needed a lots of technical knowledge and skills to set up websites and marketing ability to work online. Now there are companies which do it all for you.

The internet has opened up a whole new world of learning, working, socialising and doing business. We no longer need to go back to school or university to learn new skills. We can work from home, start a business or find a new life partner all from the comfort of our home.

At the click of a mouse, you can now find everything from a short instructional video to a full degree course online. If you would like more information on a free course on how to survive and thrive in the digital economy revolution and discover the truth about how to make money online, click here.

Immigration Matters: Home Office raid on Byron Burger Bar unleashes soc...

Immigration Matters: Home Office raid on Byron Burger Bar unleashes soc...: You may have read about the recent social media fury over claims that Byron, a UK burger chain with restaurants in London and Scotland, co...

Home Office raid on Byron Burger Bar unleashes social media frenzy as 35 migrant workers deported

You may have read about the recent social media fury over claims that Byron, a UK burger chain with restaurants in London and Scotland, collaborated with the Home Office to have 35 of its staff deported back to countries including Brazil, Nepal, Egypt and Albania. Byrony Gordon, writing for The Telegraph gives an interesting slant on the backlash that followed, which became Byron’s worst media nightmare.

The Home Office announced that 35 people had been arrested for immigration offences at a number of restaurants across London, and added that the operation had been carried out with the "full co-operation" of Byron earlier this month.

The story continues that the business had carried out the correct "right to work" checks on staff, but had been shown false or counterfeit documentation and as they had been able to demonstrate this they did not incur civil penalty action, the Home Office said.

In other words, by “working with” the Home Office, the company was obeying the law by allowing (they would be compelled to do anyway) the Government access to workers who had used fake documentation to obtain jobs, which in effect deprives other people (immigrants included) of work in the UK.

The Telegraph reported that Unions claimed migrant workers were ‘lured to their fates’ under false pretences – a health and safety meeting – as if these staff hadn’t themselves behaved in a similarly underhand fashion. The Unite union complained that the ‘deportees wouldn’t get redundancy’. Byrony gasps: “imagine, defrauding your employers and then not getting a pay-off when they uncover your duplicity!”

What followed after the story broke is incredible. A protest hashtag was unleashed on Twitter: #BoycottByron. Then on Friday, thousands of cockroaches and locusts were released into two of the chain’s restaurants in London.

Virtuous people on social media announced they would not be spending £8 on a burger, to show ‘solidarity’ for the deported workers. A mass protest was arranged over the weekend at the company’s Holborn branch.   

Twitter was deluged with accusations that Byron was happy to “exploit” illegal workers before throwing them to the wolves when it looked like it might get found out.

But it could also be argued that the company was merely fulfilling its legal duty by checking its workers’ documents, which it later found to be bogus. The documents fooled Byron (it is still not that easy to fully verify documents), but were obviously uncovered by the Home Office enforcement team, which has the ultimate responsibility to verify immigration status and deport illegal immigrants and visa overstayers.

If you want to avoid Home Office raids and a painful fine, make sure you follow the correct immigration document checking procedures, which you can find on the Home Office website, audit files regularly and seek advice if you are unsure.

In the meantime, there are also reports that the Cedars detention centre is to b closed by the Home Office, now under the leadership of new Home Secretary Amber Rudd, following negative reports.

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