Staying in the EU would hit the poor the hardest says Iain Duncan Smith
The Brexit campaigner warns that mass migration has driven down wages and fuelled the housing crisis.
Iain Duncan Smith condemned the ‘dysfunctional, declining, high unemployment EU’ stating that Brussels has “become a force for social injustice”. He said that a Brexit vote would allow the UK to protect the poor who are the ones suffering the most from the effects of mass migration.
The former Tory leader said immigration from the EU had pushed wages down, put unsustainable pressure on public services and fuelled the housing crisis
He added: “The downward pressure on wages is a trend that will only get worse if we continue to have open borders with the EU – and would get most difficult in a recession.”
Mr. Duncan Smith went on to accuse pro-Brussels campaigners of neglecting to mention the fact that Turkey, Albania, Montenegro, and Serbia are all in the process of joining the EU, meaning that free movement would escalate numbers of migrants to another 88 million.
He also cautioned that mass immigration was ruining young people’s dreams of owning their own homes. He said two-thirds of additional households in the UK were now headed by a person who was born abroad – and he warned that the UK will have to build 240 homes every day just to cater for demand from new migrants.
He said: “This vote is happening at a time of enormous global economic upheaval. We are at a point where, if we are not careful, we are going to see an explosion of have-nots. We are going to see increasing divides between people who have a home of their own and those who are, to coin a phrase, at the back of a queue, a lengthening queue, to ever get on the housing ladder.”