Immigration

[Hymie]

It looks like at least one political leader is reading my posts on here – that migrants are absolutely essential to our economy (public services, businesses etc); with an aging population and low fertility rates - it is the only realistic policy if we are not to have our public services/business suffering drastic decline through a lack of workers.

 

[ynnafymmi]

Whats done is done,OG.But i still get the feeling that Brexit has done more harm to our country than without Brexit.My company and a lot of other companies just managed to survive.A lot of other companies didnt survive.But whats done is done.

[Hymie]

Brexiteers promised us the sunlit uplands, instead we got this:-

 

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[ynnafymmi]

All thanks to the Tory nationalists and the SNP nationalists Hymie.

[fiveleaves]

For thousands of years people have moved from one nation to another, and guess what they always win.

Reasons are varied, war, poverty,persecution, famine.

Climate change will increase this to proportions never seen before in human history.

Farage is like a man shouting into a hurricane

[andy-hughes]

You should know fiveleaves - none more qualified on that subject than you!!!

[THECORBYLOON]

YNNAFYMMI, who were the main Remain voters in Scotland?

[Gromit]

Not one area in Scotland voted leave. The whole country was pro  Europe.

[THECORBYLOON]

"There are something like 200,000 16-25 year olds in Scotland currently economically inactive"

I've just read that 54.9% of them are disabled and I've not been able to find a number or a percentage for those in education still.

Whatever the education figure amounts to, it won't leave 200,000 available for work.

[Khandro]

PMs from Blair onwards have ushered in cheap labour while vowing to stop it. That’s why trust has gone.

'Consider that Blair said in 1997 that he would ensure “firm control … properly enforced” — and then presided over an intake of 633,000 between 1998 and 2001. In 2005 he said that “only skilled workers will be allowed to settle long term” and promised “an end to chain migration” — and then net migration reached over quarter of a million despite a deep recession, not least because of movement from the new EU states. The government claimed this would be a trickle of 13,000 migrants a year; it turned out to be 1,500 per cent higher.

But if this was merely deceitful, it is difficult to locate the term for what followed. In 2010, 2015 and 2017 the Tories promised to cut immigration to the tens of thousands. In every manifesto, In ink. What happened? Immigration rose to an average of 300,000 a year over the period, totalling over 1.4 million for 2022-23 — a period in which free movement had ended and a high proportion of the intake were dependants of low-wage workers from non-European nations.'

[THECORBYLOON]

KHANDRO, "Immigration rose to an average of 300,000 a year over the period, totalling over 1.4 million for 2022-23"

How many of the 1.4 million are in the UK still?

 

[Khandro]

^^ All of 'em bar one;  he was paid to go to Rwanda.

[tommy39]

so you think fast food delivery drivers,uber drivers ,and car washers,and the work shy are essential workers,i admit i have seen a few doctors ,nurses but the majority???