Eastland Cup Online: Monumental Mistake Makes Monumental Masses of Migrants in Britain,

in David Cameron’s opinion

Soon, that means from 2014, Bulgarians and Romanians will gain the right to live and work unrestricted in Britain where 1m people from central and eastern Europe are now living already. That is an alarm situation for the UK PM, David Cameron. In his words: “Since 2004, we have witnessed the biggest migration in Europe outside wartime.” Cameron announced changes in GB immigration policy in the Financial Times on wednesday, the 27th November 2013

photo: Zoltán Bálint

London is nowadays also called as the 2nd biggest hungarian city, by Hungarian themselves. But undoubtedly largest central-eastern-european migrant population is from Poland. Since 2004, Britain knew an increasing flood of central-eastern-european migrants from 8 EU countries: Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. There are currently approximately 10 times more migrant from this 8 countries than in 2004 (first eastern enlargement of EU) and 20 times more than in 2000 in Great Britain.

Though 55% of Britain's migrant is still coming from outside the EU, non-EEA labour migration increased over the 1990s and early 2000s but has declined since a peak in 2004-2006. Meanwhile EEA migration is continuously growing. According to the Migration Observatory latest statistic from 2011, EU citizens (not including British) accounted for 31% of inflows and British citizens for 14% of inflows.

photo: Zoltán Bálint

Blaming Labour Party and its immigration policy for obvious signs of British population increasing hostility towards EU migration, like strengthening of the support for right-wing populist parties such as the UK Independence party*. David Cameron said that failing to negotiate a more restrictive deal in 2004 and 2007 was a “monumental mistake”.
UK Independence party (Ukip) raised his share with an impressive 11% , according to the Telegraph Politics Vote 2015 results forecaster, from 3% in 2010 to 14% predicted for 2015. It seems that mainly Liberal Democrats lost their position. (share decreased from 23,5% in 2010 to only 10% for 2015).
According to announced measures, “EU nationals will have to wait three months before claiming any benefits, then only be able to claim for six months. After that, they must prove they have a realistic chance of employment.” -wrote the Telegraph- begging or sleeping rough will be forbidden, for newcomers from EU, and penalized by barring from returning for a year, unless they have a job.
Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, has said, that “David Cameron does not have the “guts” to restrict European migrants as he is the “biggest cheerleader” for the EU expanding”.
However, according to Jonathan Todd, spokesman for László Andor, Hungarian economist, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion in the European Commission, the big majority of migrants from the EU pays regularly his taxes and charges to the British social welfare system, running up incomes more that they use from it.
László Andor told to BBC today that "We would need a more accurate presentation of the reality, not under pressure, not under hysteria, as sometimes happens in the UK... I would insist on presenting the truth, not false assumptions."adding that the prime minister's recent suggestions risked "presenting the UK as a kind of nasty country in the European Union".