Suggest you think of a new word. That is easier to sell. Re migration while clear turns people off. How about removing subsidies for economically unproductive migrant communities. Okay. That is 7 words. But you get the idea.
Yes. Currently if you come here on a "family" visa you have to pay an NHS surcharge and you can work while having no access to benefits. No access to benefits needs to be expanded.
I can't disagree with what you write but, and it is a big but, you have nothing to say about credible alternatives - in a democratic sense - for those of us who desperately want change. You endlessly demean and denigrate Reform - and I understand that they may not be the answer to all of our problems - yet they are the only political party whose members are 'brave' enough to at least raise the issues which confront the country in questions to ministers in parliament. It is Reform who has challenged the narrative on immigration, on DEI initiatives and policies, on gender ideology and more besides. Yet still they are your 'bete noir' of choice.
Should we all abstain at the next election? And by 'we' I mean all those of us who are sick fed-up to the back teeth with the Conservatives and Labour and could never in a million years even consider voting for the sycophantic toadies which are the Lib Dems or the Greens. Because, and forgive me for being blunt, I don't see the Homeland Party being a force for change anytime soon. So what exactly, pray, is our meaningful alternative?
Thank you for such a thought-provoking article. Some comments as a former English as a foreign language teacher: English is the language of the world, so learning English doesn't necesarily indicate a liking for British culture just a desire to earn/travel/influence.
I spoke to Arabs in Edgware Rd trying to sell English classes 10 years ago. One man in a shop told me his wife didn't need to speak English. One woman in a hairdresser's dismissively asked me if the classes were for Muslims. I said yes, they're for everybody. No-one came to the classes.
I complained about regularly being stared out by groups of Arab/black men when I used to return home in this area. A woke family member said, well, you have chosen to live in a very multicultural area. We earned little and worked in central London - it wasn't much of a choice.
Driving taxis or running restaurants are industries which lend themselves to only having colleagues of your own group, and people in customer facing jobs frequently complain about customers.
good and thoughtful piece - you're of course right about the Tories, they are ungovernable and finished. Too far gone.
As far as remigration goes we have a paradox in play here I feel - one of the great problems is that for too long we haven't made 'fixing the economy' and prosperity anything like the #1 priority it historically has been and should be. One way of dealing with the immigration issue would basically be to make the Uk a much less attractive place to come, but getting our economy fixed is going to make us an immigrant magnet. In fact until we solve our skills crisis fixing the economy will actually generate a need for further migration.
You're right that it's the Boriswave who transformed this conversation, a lot of people who used to be quite 'chilled' about immigration are at least thinking again.
Couldn't agree with you more, Pete. But remigration to where? Some of these immigrants destroy their documents, some will have even been issued with British passports. There's not much you can do other than put them in a plane with parachutes and throw them out when flying over 'their' countries. It's never, never going to happen. I am inconsolable about it.
Remigration is a slow process although much of it what you say I agree with. Historically, the Nazis tried it on their unwanted communities and it didn’t work, especially as Jews had no homeland at the time. It is a useful start but it has to be unfair, ruthless and determined or it has no chance. Evil counts on goodness to be weak to triumph over it, which is why evil so often wins.
The remigrants, in all fairness must be allowed to take their money and the value of their property if it is legally earned, which again they can delay on if deadlines aren’t imposed.
Suggest you think of a new word. That is easier to sell. Re migration while clear turns people off. How about removing subsidies for economically unproductive migrant communities. Okay. That is 7 words. But you get the idea.
Yes. Currently if you come here on a "family" visa you have to pay an NHS surcharge and you can work while having no access to benefits. No access to benefits needs to be expanded.
I can't disagree with what you write but, and it is a big but, you have nothing to say about credible alternatives - in a democratic sense - for those of us who desperately want change. You endlessly demean and denigrate Reform - and I understand that they may not be the answer to all of our problems - yet they are the only political party whose members are 'brave' enough to at least raise the issues which confront the country in questions to ministers in parliament. It is Reform who has challenged the narrative on immigration, on DEI initiatives and policies, on gender ideology and more besides. Yet still they are your 'bete noir' of choice.
Should we all abstain at the next election? And by 'we' I mean all those of us who are sick fed-up to the back teeth with the Conservatives and Labour and could never in a million years even consider voting for the sycophantic toadies which are the Lib Dems or the Greens. Because, and forgive me for being blunt, I don't see the Homeland Party being a force for change anytime soon. So what exactly, pray, is our meaningful alternative?
Thank you for such a thought-provoking article. Some comments as a former English as a foreign language teacher: English is the language of the world, so learning English doesn't necesarily indicate a liking for British culture just a desire to earn/travel/influence.
I spoke to Arabs in Edgware Rd trying to sell English classes 10 years ago. One man in a shop told me his wife didn't need to speak English. One woman in a hairdresser's dismissively asked me if the classes were for Muslims. I said yes, they're for everybody. No-one came to the classes.
I complained about regularly being stared out by groups of Arab/black men when I used to return home in this area. A woke family member said, well, you have chosen to live in a very multicultural area. We earned little and worked in central London - it wasn't much of a choice.
Driving taxis or running restaurants are industries which lend themselves to only having colleagues of your own group, and people in customer facing jobs frequently complain about customers.
Some remigration? No, 10 million remigration.
good and thoughtful piece - you're of course right about the Tories, they are ungovernable and finished. Too far gone.
As far as remigration goes we have a paradox in play here I feel - one of the great problems is that for too long we haven't made 'fixing the economy' and prosperity anything like the #1 priority it historically has been and should be. One way of dealing with the immigration issue would basically be to make the Uk a much less attractive place to come, but getting our economy fixed is going to make us an immigrant magnet. In fact until we solve our skills crisis fixing the economy will actually generate a need for further migration.
You're right that it's the Boriswave who transformed this conversation, a lot of people who used to be quite 'chilled' about immigration are at least thinking again.
A few stats might help understand the ‘need’ for migration.
1 in 40 migrants actually work in the NHS.
UK efficiency is 50% of Singapore’s.
25% of working age people don’t work.
Of the 75% of people who actually work - 8.5% of them work part time.
AI will make matters worse as the UK is poor at innovation.
But don’t worry about migrants not speaking English - AI will allow non speakers to communicate - though not integrate.
Parties cannot be regarded as serious either unless there is a move towards *their* integration into an electable coalition.
Couldn't agree with you more, Pete. But remigration to where? Some of these immigrants destroy their documents, some will have even been issued with British passports. There's not much you can do other than put them in a plane with parachutes and throw them out when flying over 'their' countries. It's never, never going to happen. I am inconsolable about it.
Remigration is a slow process although much of it what you say I agree with. Historically, the Nazis tried it on their unwanted communities and it didn’t work, especially as Jews had no homeland at the time. It is a useful start but it has to be unfair, ruthless and determined or it has no chance. Evil counts on goodness to be weak to triumph over it, which is why evil so often wins.
The remigrants, in all fairness must be allowed to take their money and the value of their property if it is legally earned, which again they can delay on if deadlines aren’t imposed.