Who Do You Believe?

Gordon Brown or The House Of Lords?

Compare:

The Lords Economic Affairs Committee, whose members include two ex-chancellors and other Cabinet members, took eight months to consider government immigration policies.

Inquiry chairman Lord Wakeham said: "Looking to the future, if you have got that increase in numbers and you haven't got any economic benefit from it, you have got to ask yourself, is that a wise thing to do?

"That is why we want the government to look at it."

And contrast:

Gordon Brown says immigration is good for the UK and has rejected suggestions that an annual limit is needed. He said migration had added £6bn to the economy and was a "substantial income".

Didn't seem to help head off the recession though, did it Gordon? You arse.

The report claims that if net immigration of 190,000 people per year continued over the next 20 years, it would contribute to a 10% increase in house prices. Which we need like a hole in the head.

Sir Andrew Green, of pressure group Migrationwatch, said the report had "torn to shreds the government's economic case for the massive levels of immigration which they have actively encouraged".

And shadow home secretary David Davis said the peers had shown "unequivocally that the benefits of the current immigration policy to ordinary UK citizens are largely non-existent". "We are delighted they say there should be an explicit target range for immigration through controls on non-EU applicants," he said. "This is a policy that we have been arguing for, for years and which the government has consistently rejected."