Brexit Leave campaign kills old website full of old promises

I can understand (if not agree with or approve of) the scare quotes around ‘refugees’, but ‘migrants’? ‘Migrants’ is at best a neutral term, sometimes a derogatory one (though ‘immigrants’ usually plays that role); I can’t think of any circumstances in which it’s been used so positively that someone feels compelled to say, in effect, “Oh, sure they’re migrants </sarc>.”

Edited to add: in 2014, the employment rate for male migrants in the UK was slightly higher than that for UK-born men (source). So not only are they coming here with no intention of working, they’re also stealing our jobs.

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