Whatever the spin on the other statistics (and none of them are good for either of our leading political parties), the reality is that GDP per head is currently falling, and over the last year, it has been flat. Nothing else matters in all this data. The aggregates make no sense when people know that, at best, they are no better off now than they were a year ago (when things also felt pretty grim) and may be worse off.
So, err, why not stop the migration? Large numbers of those coming are, after all, just costs, they’re not even working. So, per capita things are bound to be worse as a result, more costs, no more output.
It’s interesting that Lefties tend to describe themselves with the names they apply to themselves. So Spud thinks of himself as a “progressive” and calls our political parties “either”.
We stodgy retards wonder if the are more or less…
The Left have three and the centre has one vestigial group that are trying to become a political party.
I’m thinking also of the “Democrats” in the USA and of course there was the GDR.
That migration must surely be boosting the all important policing and legal sectors though. And the social services departments are surely going gangbusters.
If we don’t pay them, then they won’t come.
a) no benefits if you’re not a British citizen (if you’re an asylum seeker please apply to a charity for living costs).
b) if you’re not a British citizen you need to be a net taxpayer or your family needs to be to become one.
It’s even better Tim
In the same post:
Good luck with managing the fallout from this Keir Starner, because with Trump in Washington, there is no sign that any growth is coming the way of the UK anytime soon, and whilst climate change and continuing conflicts guarantee that the small boats will keep coming until you do the right thing and allow refugees a legal right of access to this country as required by international law that issue is also not going to be solved.
Apparently if we allow the following who want access to the UK welfare state:
100 million Chinese
100 million indians
1.1 billion from the rest of the world.
We have a ‘legal right as required by international law’ to accommodate them??
I know there’s a house in Ely with some spare rooms although one has been set up to churn out Youtube videos perhaps the Home Office could send someone over to check?
Under our unwritten constitution no government can bind its successors.
So International Law be damned.
“They’re not even working”
They have no intention of working…
@ Dave Ward
no, no, NO.
Most of them want to work, far harder than the average Brit wants to work – because they are accustomed to expecting that they need to work harder than the average Brit does work just in order to survive – and lots of them will work at the level a Brit works for median wage and accept less than the minimum wage for it.
If we had any brutal, greedy capitalists left in the UK they would be hiring journalists to propagandise for unlimited immigration
Simple solution. Reintroduce slavery.
All illegals are automatically enslaved. And driven by the lash to do the dirtiest and most unpleasant jobs.
Anyone interested may volunteer to wield the whip!!!
@ john77 – There’s a huge difference between Eastern European immigrants who most definitely DO want to work and the mostly African “Boat People” who’ve travelled through plenty of safe countries to get here, spurred on by the knowledge that they’ll get free money, accommodation & food. There’s little doubt the crossings would stop overnight if our “government” grew a f***ing spine, withdrew from the ECHR, and stopped all the taxpayer funded handouts…