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Originally Posted by STEED
There is one fact, those who have been let in ship millions back home which dose not help the our economy much.
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I think that is a bit of a red herring if I'm honest, hardly any of those I know (and I have met many Eastern Europeans) directly send the money home, they prefer to save it up in order to pay for university tuition fees back home which, when scaled vis a vis average wage, are about as expensive as those in our country. If you were to look at the top recipient countries for remittances you might be in for a bit of a surprise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remitta...ient_countries
More money is sent home to France and Germany than it is to Poland or the Czech Republic.
http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/...tion.do?dvsc=9
Furthermore remittance payments, when they do occur, are a stable financial diet for the economy in uncertain economic times. The UK benefits from remittance payments from places like Dubai and the UAE, but the most money that goes out from the UK goes to India rather than the East of Europe.
