Yes, but letting them in resulted - on all economic measures - in them creating new jobs through their own economic activity. The unemployed lot stayed unemployed and unemployable in some cases.
Totally agree. Now explain how bad the reverse effect will be. A tax-paying hard working workforce with no family or historic ties with this rain sodden island will be faced with a recession. They'll be on the first easyJet to either Home or somewhere not so rain sodden and not in recession.
Leaving the disability scroungers still scrounging and the remaining tax payers bearing a greater burden whilst being unable to find a decent plumber again.
It will be worse this time.
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