Immigration Creates a Demand for Even More Immigration
This report entitled "Immigrants fill more jobs than Britons since Covid", appeared in The Times 12-8-24, p.8.
The above Times article was based upon figures from Neil O'Brien MP's Substack article entitled "The new migration system isn't working".
Since December 2019 to December 2023, he records that there have been 1,481,000 more "employments" (jobs) created in the UK.
Of this number, only 257,000 were taken up by actual UK Citizens!
Of the rest, we're told: "the biggest growth in employments in absolute terms were among nationals of India (+488,000), Nigeria (+279,000), Pakistan (+101,000), and Ghana (+55,000). There were also 175,600 more employments held by people from unspecified other non-EU countries."
Given that the number of UK Citizens is a relatively fixed number – and given that the numbers of potential Indians, Nigerians, Pakistanis, Ghanaians and people from the rest of the world is virtually limitless – then does this really mean that if there had been no immigrants from outside the UK, then we would have had 1,224,000 job shortages?
Or is it really the case that the more immigrants who come in, then the more jobs are created…for the immigrants themselves?
We have written about this before in our article Why we Don't need Immigration to "Fill Vacancies".
We quoted from the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs report on "The Economic Impact of Immigration" from 2008:
104. Rising immigration has not resulted in a decline in vacancies because the number of jobs in an economy is not fixed. Immigration increases both the supply of labour and, over time, the demand for labour, thus creating new vacancies. As William Simpson of the CBI explained, "immigrants do not just plug existing holes in the labour market…they create new demands for products and services which are already available, but also those that cater to the immigration population. So this will, in a dynamic economy, lead to creating new vacancies" as companies seek to recruit more employees to increase production to meet this extra demand. (Q 103) In other words, because immigration expands the overall economy, it cannot be expected to be an effective policy tool for significantly reducing vacancies. Vacancies are, to a certain extent, a sign of a healthy labour market and economy. They cannot be a good reason for encouraging large-scale labour immigration.
IMMIGRATION and ENDLESS "VACANCIES"
The point is: More immigration just leads to more vacancies which leads to more immigration which leads to more vacancies, which leads to more immigration, which leads to more vacancies, which leads to more immigration...because new people create their own demand for more goods and services, ad infinitum.
Therefore, those people who excuse massive levels of immigration by saying "we need immigration to fill vacancies" are avoiding the reality that endless immigration creates endless new demand, which creates even more vacancies, which needs even more immigration.
The "vacancy" argument is not a good reason to promote immigration and, indeed, it makes the demand for immigration even greater.
We addressed this matter in our Show, "Good Evening Britain!" on 14th August 2024:
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