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I got this from a link of hers…
Oh my God (aka OMG). This COUNTRY is getting worser and worsterer.
I’ve just HEARD that EVERY immigrant (even the BAD ones) as SOON as they ARRIVE in this COUNTRY are given a SPEEDBOAT, a JUMBO bag of CHIPS and their body weight in DIAMONDS all for FREE!!! I know!!! I didn’t believe it either!!!! But it’s TRUE!! Because someone TOLD ME!!
My poor NAN has to survive on burning her CARDIES to keep warm and eating her MOTHS and bowls of STEAM! It’s WRONG!! And I’m not a RACIST! Share this if you think you’re not racist either, but can’t HELP YOURSELF from posting stuff about IMMIGRANTS that is completely MADE UP because you are TOTALLY DAFT and GULLIBLE.
++++ DO IT NOW!!!++++++ DO IT FOR ME NAN!!!!
I guess i’m daft and gullible for believing Bank Of England then.
And also racist.
Probably throw in islamaphobic too for good measure.
The Bank of England can be mistaken, for sure,
but if you think it’s on a par with the anti-immigrant lies that I’ve seen on Facebook, then you live a sheltered life.
The Bank of England can be mistaken, for sure,
It can, but I think in this case they are right. Increaced competition for jobs lowers wages.
but if you think it’s on a par with the anti-immigrant lies that I’ve seen on Facebook, then you live a sheltered life.
I don’t use Facebook, so I don’t know exactly what is said on there.
It can, but I think in this case they are right. Increaced competition for jobs lowers wages.
I absolutely agree that unskilled mass economic migration in the UK has obviously increased competition in some sectors and also lowered wages, in those sectors and has in real terms, over the last 15 years or so in particular. Has increased demand in the public sector and has also fueled the mother of all housing bubbles, because demand outstrips supply in all three instances. Of course it all began in the 80’s under Thatcher with mass unemployment and the deliberate creation of a surplus labor force in the emerging less regulated, “flexible” market. This monetarist policy was an absolute disaster for the British economy in the 80’s, felt to this very day and corporatism, a total mockery of “capitalism”, is the end result.
I absolutely agree that unskilled mass economic migration in the UK has obviously increased competition in some sectors and also lowered wages, in those sectors and has in real terms, over the last 15 years or so in particular.
This is what Bank Of England said, recent trends of immigration have been mostly unskilled workers, and we have seen a depression in wages in those jobs. I think if we saw large scale skilled imigration the same would happen there.
Has increased demand in the public sector and has also fueled the mother of all housing bubbles, because demand outstrips supply in all three instances
This is one cause, there are also others. One other major cause of this is foreign investors buying houses to rent for profit. This inflates the value of houses, and I think it should be illegal for anyone who doesn’t live in the UK to purchase (residential) property here to combat this problem.
Of course it all began in the 80’s under Thatcher with mass unemployment and the deliberate creation of a surplus labor force in the emerging less regulated, “flexible” market. This monetarist policy was an absolute disaster for the British economy in the 80’s, felt to this very day and corporatism, a total mockery of “capitalism”, is the end result.
I agree with this, unregulated markets isn’t how capitalism is meant to work. I guess you could perhaps call it corporatism instead.
Oh and the current NIMBY liberal class born out of Thatcherism, with their fake “left” credentials, demand access to cheap tomatoes in the supermarket, grown in North Africa by exploited labor who struggle to feed their own families. They demand access to cheap goods and labor. This rapturous, greedy, consumer liberal class, have created exactly the sort of society they deserve.
One other major cause of this is foreign investors buying houses to rent for profit.
I don’t agree in that context, the hugely subsidized sector, the corporate land owning class, is hoovering up vast profit because they are exploiting mass unskilled immigration by deliberately keeping supply low and have for the past 20 years (and longer) and of course investors will jump on that bandwagon. Wealthy Londoners have been snapping up holiday homes in Cornwall etc for decades, pushing up prices. Housing bubbles emerged in the 80’s, a new phenomenon and I would argue long before mass unskilled economic migration. New Labour glibly dismissed the working class as a non consequential newly emerged’ underclass’ and opened the floodgates to mass immigration to continue Thatchers project. A service and banking sector led economy fueled by housing booms.
I didn’t say that demand wasn’t also a problem, lol. It is one, and probably the biggest one. But I don’t think you should ignore the other factors that contribute to it as well. I know that foreign investment is a problem specifically in London, but I think it also happens in other developed areas of the country.
I am not ignoring anything. I just don’t see the point in writing a 2,000 word essay in response to every time someone has a different viewpoint to me. The issue is far more complicated than economic migration and wealthy investors etc. As I suggested quite clearly.
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