Observations

The effect on the United Kingdom of millions of EU migrants

The issue of the EU’s infamous ‘Freedom of Movement’ edict was an important reason amongst the many reasons why the majority of British people voted to leave the EU back in 2016. To this day there are Remain campaigners both inside and outside of Parliament who wish to continue Free Movement in some form.

To those EU citizens who already decided to make their homes in the United Kingdom, readers naturally wish to make them feel welcome. They arrived perfectly legally. That said, this should not prevent any discussion of the effects of such a dramatic population shift from the EU to the UK.

The UK absorbed over 5 million EU migrants – but at what cost?

Below are just some of the consequences of the EU’s policy of Free Movement, which allowed millions of EU citizens to enter the UK in recent years. These are all issues which have been raised by readers in correspondence with us over time, and the list is not exhaustive.

• Deflating wages, particularly low-paid people, because of plentiful cheap EU labour
• Pressure on housing – availability, rents
• Pressure on health services – no increase in doctors, hospitals, midwifery in areas worst affected
• Pressure on schools – class sizes, costs of employing translator-assistants in high immigrant areas
• The increased pressure on all local services
• Pressure on transport services and traffic
• Lack of training of British people, and EU immigrants with lower but supposedly comparable standards being recruited instead
• Lack of investment in new technologies and no increase in productivity, due to plentiful supply of cheap labour
• “It doesn’t feel like my town/village any more” – places with more EU shops than British ones, English not common language

One of the problems has been that when anyone tried to complain about any of the above, a common criticism was to describe them as in some way racist. The reality is that people have merely been pointing out what was simple common sense. Had more in the Westminster bubble actually left it and spent time in the rest of the UK, they might perhaps have been less surprised when the majority of the electorate voted Leave.

Of course, the Facts4EU.Org team are just uneducated and unintelligent, so what do we know....?

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