Benefits Quote by Theresa May

Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages to drop…

— Guy Standing

Because so many employers refuse to pay their workers a wage on which they can live - most Britons languishing below the poverty line…

— Owen Jones

For too long the U.S. immigration system has focused on accepting low-skilled immigrants. Basic economics tells us that the surge of low-skilled workers depresses…

— Mercedes Schlapp

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

— Charles Kennedy

David Cameron set impossible targets and relentlessly portrayed immigration as a social burden while pursuing an economic strategy that suppressed wages. It did not…

— Owen Jones

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress…

— Mark Krikorian

By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any…

— Paul Samuelson

The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has…

— Peter Hitchens

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

— David Miliband

Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good…

— James Surowiecki

Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.

— Marine Le Pen

Britain has a long and proud record of welcoming migrants. They have made many positive contributions to our economy. But the impact of uncontrolled…

— Priti Patel