[BBKing]

"You don't believe everything you read in the Guardian do you??"

It's not an opinion piece but a piece of reportage. If and when I find the original report I'll post a link to that under the rule of 'always read the original documents'. Generally if you do this with the Mail or Express you'll find they inverted the meaning, so it's always important to read the original (the tabs will either ignore large sections or find some sentence they can distort to show that We're Being Invaded By Foreigners Who Will Take Our Jobs And Homes While Sponging Off The Taxpayer At The Same Time Because They're So Evil And Foreign). Oh, hang on:

Originally Posted by Daily Heil

Immigrants occupy one in every 15 homes in England, according to an official report.

Foreign nationals live in almost 1.5million homes, of which 310,000 are council houses.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

570,000 own their own homes. If they all sold up to nice British people we'd get 'HOUSE PRICE CRASH' headlines, presumably.

Originally Posted by Der Sturmer

However, the total, which is the first to be produced by Whitehall, does not include migrants who have since been granted British citizenship.
So the true figure of homes taken by those allowed into the country under Government immigration policy will be even higher.

'Figure for foreigners doesn't include British people shock'. Fancy that. Nice to know the Mail doesn't consider you properly British even if you've got British citizenship (like my Dad, for instance). Nasty, small minded paper.

Originally Posted by WHISTLED

I suspect the property crash we keep hearing about is being held at bay by the number of foreign nationals.

I suspect the price of private flat rentals might be being kept up by it, too, so 'BRITISH LANDLORDS CHEER MIGRANT CASH BONANZA' would be another possible Mail headline. In a completely bizarre inverted world, of course.