Comment on Foreign Investors Economic Impact by SEO Dave.

UK Foreign Direct Investment Hey Foreign Millionaire, although I disagree with you BS stance on what I wrote, I’m also becoming increasingly concerned at the anti-foreigner (anti-immigrant) attitude I’m seeing in the UK!

It’s not racism though, it’s British people trying to protect their way of life and jobs. For the majority of British people race doesn’t come into it.

The average person in the street doesn’t understand that there’s a BIG difference between a migrant worker looking for work in the UK (theoretically taking a job that could be filled by an unemployed British person) and a foreign investor looking to make money in the UK by bringing cash to the country (and potentially creating jobs while making themselves money: good for the investor and our economy).

I like the later group of people a LOT and the more foreign investors we can get coming to our country the better. With the former group it’s a mixed blessing, businesses have a flexible workforce willing to move to where the work is, which means Britain is a desirable place to setup some types of businesses. However, it will inevitably take jobs from people born in the country, though without the migrant workforce there wouldn’t be so many businesses hiring in Britain since they’d be in other countries where there is a flexible workforce.

My understanding is financially the benefits of migrant workers out weighs the costs.

I own https://general-election-2010.co.uk/ (very popular site) and it was inundated with right-wing supporters of the political party the BNP (the party has elements of racism and fascism). If you went on the number of right-wing anti-immigration comments on the above site you’d think over half the country was right-wing!!! Despite the BNP gaining a lot more mainstream media time recently (they got 2 MEPs last year) I’m very happy to report in the general election yesterday they gained ZERO MPs and lost many of their local councilors (their support has died). The majority of British people are not racist, they just don’t understand the importance of migrant workers.

It’s a real shame we have political groups like the BNP attacking immigrant workers in the media etc…, it gives our country a bad name. The problem has been with a lack of control on immigration in particular over the last 10 years or so. IMO it’s not so much the numbers per se (it’s not that many compared to other EU countries), but they tend to be concentrated in specific areas like London and this gives the long term residents of those areas the perception of immigration is completely out of control and allows right-wing groups to wrongly state immigrants are taking over!

Many British people aren’t happy with their perception of immigration: much of that perception is wrong like migrant workers don’t work and claim benefits and take social housing when the reality is the opposite, the vast majority of migrant workers are hard workers looking to get on in life and they pay their way, but the odd dramatic case in the news turns into what is perceived as the norm!

This has resulted in a hardening of our immigration laws, some I agree with like trying to only bring in skilled workers we need unless a business can’t find local workers, this makes economic sense as it gets more British people in work = less benefits paid out. But it will inevitably mean business will find it harder to find workers fast and that could drive some investment away to other countries without a hangup about immigration!

With the recession and slow Growth in Britain many migrant workers will have gone home when work dried up. I’m hoping it will become a non-issue again like it used to be, give the current settlers time to integrate and they’ll no longer be seen as ‘bloody foreigners taking our jobs’!

I am surprised to hear we are turning investors away! I see from your IP address you are from India, what business are you in?

David Law