'In the last seven years the number of UK-born people in employment has fallen by about a million, whereas the number of foreign-born people at work here has risen by over a million. That jump in the number of foreigners in employment must have included a large element of East European workers who could participate in our labour market (and compete with our own people) only because we belonged to the EU. The figures invite the conclusion that “EU membership allowed foreign workers to take away jobs from British workers”, even if they do not prove that conclusion. Certainly, the notion that “EU membership creates jobs” is bunkum. (I suspect the theft of UK jobs by lower-paid immigrants is part of the explanation for the Bradford West by-election result. Let me make clear that I loathe George Galloway.)'
