Immigration isn’t a topic much discussed nowadays, because it’s one where
the Tories and Lib Dems don’t agree. That’s a shame. Because there’s an urgent problem to be fixed in the British labour market: that every time the economy grows, it sucks in
immigrant workers. If this dysfunction continues, it will finish Cameron. The News of the World (where yours truly is a
columnist (£)) has today looked at the latest figures for this. I reprint them for CoffeeHousers below. They show that during that disastrous fourth quarter in 2010, where the economy
shrank by 0.5 percent, the number of employed British-born people fell by 110,000. As grim as you’d expect. But the number of foreign-born workers actually rose – by 7,000. This fits a
trend. David Cameron and IDS rightly lambast the last government for the fact that almost all of the jobs created in the boom years can be accounted for by higher immigration.

British jobs for whom?

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