Anecodtal arguments are harder to disprove.
I know you feel the need to stick up for your son and Polish daughter-in-law, but let's try to have a sensible debate about the actual issues eh?
There's no doubt that social cost is hard to pin down and measure, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist though. It's things like pressure on housing, schools, hospitals, changes in culture of an area, increases in people sleeping rough on the streets, and yes I know people don't want to hear it but the negative impact on pay and conditions that comes from a huge increase in the supply of labour.
My lad is a native born Englishman and I feel no need to defend my daughter-in-law but it does give me something a lot of people here may not have and that's the view from the migrant community.
The housing problem has been endemic since Thatcher with Governments failing to meet building targets. Hospitals, again mismanagement of the NHS has been an issue for quite some time, with the managerial heavy slant. As for cultural changes, well that has happened throughout the history of Britain. Not always good as there are certainly some areas where cultures don't integrate but these don't tend to be European.
Again, using my experience with those from Eastern Europe (I know Poles, Latvians, & Hungarians) they have all integrated into the local society and that society has benefited culturally.
