Okay so this accounts for jobs and joblessness.
What about added pressure on public services and quality of life for people in areas seeing high immigration?
This is addressed in the report:
"EU immigrants pay more in taxes than they take out in welfare and the use of public services. They therefore help reduce the budget deficit. Immigrants do not have a negative effect on local services such as crime, education, health, or social housing."
While on paper this is all very credible it doesn't take away from the fact you're competing with more people than you could be for the same job, ethic aside.
I get what you're saying, but they are coming to work, which means generating income, which boosts the economy, which creates growth. This creates jobs.
I also see mentioned a lot is that migrants pay in more tax than they use in services. This is true for the majority of the country . So what? This is what is expected. How ever they always seem to ignore to mention that most migrant workers are in low skilled or the lowest paying positions, doing jobs 'brits don't want to do', so they're not contributing a massive amount. They always fail to mention too that if they don't pass the tax threshold (work 6 months here, 6 months on the continent) they pay no tax at all. And some people do play the system like this.
Bolding mine. Not true, as most are better educated:
"EU immigrants are on average more educated than the UK-born (Table 1) – almost twice as many of them have some form of higher education (43% compared with 23% UK-born). Only 15% of EU immigrants left school at 16 compared with 44% of the UK-born."
Both quotes from the link in previous post.
Another thing I'd like to mention and this isn't strictly regarding the EU but the way the fabric of society is changing over time; I'm not sure if what were once standard household given values and rules of respect have pretty much now been eroded? I can only help but think it's to do with an increase of people with different ideas whatever the reason being. I'll take my own guess.
Edit: bit of a tangent at the end there but not to worry. Lol.
Its OK to be concerned about these things.
What we have to remember is that change happens all the time. Most of our culture is a product of us as a society accepting ideas from outside.
Although if anyone has made efforts to maintain our culture, its the EU, with its regional limits on certain products, to maintain local identity.
Also remember of course, that the UK Government chose to not impose EU immigration rules that could have further limited EU migrants. So if you are concerned about immigration, blame our Government.