Good post. I agree. Any analysis of what is wrong with Britain has to start with why living standards have stagnated for many and deteriorated for some.
Any party needs a political framework to tackle this.
Immigration is part of this. Both labour and the tories have relied on mass immigration from uneducated 3rd worlders to generate growth (more people means more economic activity) as their only active economic policy.
But immigration isn't the only issue, planning, investment, infrastructure, energy are all oart of the mix as well.
Another post that ignores the elephant in the room............
Of all the policies that the Western political class has imposed on its electorates in defiance of the electorates’ clearly expressed preferences, the policy of mass immigration is the one that most plainly betrays the deeper logic.
No U.K. electorate, when asked the question in plain terms, has ever voted for the demographic transformation that has occurred. The polls have been consistent for forty years. The governments have proceeded regardless. When pressed, the governments have offered explanations that contradict each other from one decade to the next: the migrants are needed for the economy, the migrants are a humanitarian obligation, the migrants will pay our pensions, the migrants are a tiny minority, the migrants are a great many but they are integrating, the migrants are not integrating but to say so is racist, and so on through the cycle. The contradictions are themselves diagnostic. A policy that requires its proponents to change their reasoning every five years is a policy whose real reasons are not the stated ones.
The real reasons are several, and they reinforce each other in a way that ought to give pause to anyone who has spent their adult life being told that the policy was the unintended outcome of a series of well-meaning errors.
Mass immigration suppresses wages at the bottom of the labour market, which is useful to the corporate sector that hires at that level.
It inflates rental yields, which is useful to the institutional landlords who have spent the last fifteen years hoovering up the British housing stock.
It expands the welfare client base, which is useful to the political party that organises around welfare. It generates a permanent low-level civil tension that the security apparatus then requires expanded powers to manage, which is useful to the security apparatus.
It crushes the host society, which is useful to anyone who would prefer that the host society not be capable of organised political resistance.
It pleases the international institutions that grade Western governments on their commitment to liberal universalism, which is useful to the political class that lives in the milieu of those institutions.
And it provides, on the margin, a reservoir of imported tension that can be activated, through the right news cycle and the right viral provocation, into the kind of disorder that justifies whatever digital identity scheme, biometric border, or social credit pilot was already on the drawing board.............
Well written post Even those of us with savings are feeling the pinch because they just dwindle Its impossible Inflationary theft now is at an all time high two bags of shopping is £50 Easily More if you eat real meat. Then its just one bag, As the previous poster says why have living standards stagnated and deteriorated. The answer is inflation In 2012 the highway code would cost you £1.50 Now it costs £5 Therein lies your answer Things are by all accounts double what they used to cost Has income doubled? No it hasnt and therein lies the problem Those people who saved regularly are now dipping into their savings to make up the shortfall , the rest of us are deteriorating and wondering why the ten pounds in our pocket is only really worth £5 worth of goods ( at 2012 prices ) to put it simply, To achieve the same level of living standards as you did in 2000 you would now need at least double that tax free income. Most people have no way of achieving that unless its by theft or illegal means. This is what several years of Quantitative Easing or as we like to simply call it ( Money Printing) has done for this country Fix the money fix the problems No other way about it.
I agree while immigration is a very serious problem, that must be tackled head on, people's living standards are also of major concern.
A lot of people don't vote because they have given up on our politicians ever actually addressing their real concerns with anything other than warm words and a sticking plaster.
If the people don't DEMAND change nothing ever will. I believe they will react but sadly they need to suffer more, as they will, as things get worse.
These are the reforms the people need to focus on that turn our politicians into our servants instead of being our masters.
Good post. I agree. Any analysis of what is wrong with Britain has to start with why living standards have stagnated for many and deteriorated for some.
Any party needs a political framework to tackle this.
Immigration is part of this. Both labour and the tories have relied on mass immigration from uneducated 3rd worlders to generate growth (more people means more economic activity) as their only active economic policy.
But immigration isn't the only issue, planning, investment, infrastructure, energy are all oart of the mix as well.
Another post that ignores the elephant in the room............
Of all the policies that the Western political class has imposed on its electorates in defiance of the electorates’ clearly expressed preferences, the policy of mass immigration is the one that most plainly betrays the deeper logic.
No U.K. electorate, when asked the question in plain terms, has ever voted for the demographic transformation that has occurred. The polls have been consistent for forty years. The governments have proceeded regardless. When pressed, the governments have offered explanations that contradict each other from one decade to the next: the migrants are needed for the economy, the migrants are a humanitarian obligation, the migrants will pay our pensions, the migrants are a tiny minority, the migrants are a great many but they are integrating, the migrants are not integrating but to say so is racist, and so on through the cycle. The contradictions are themselves diagnostic. A policy that requires its proponents to change their reasoning every five years is a policy whose real reasons are not the stated ones.
The real reasons are several, and they reinforce each other in a way that ought to give pause to anyone who has spent their adult life being told that the policy was the unintended outcome of a series of well-meaning errors.
Mass immigration suppresses wages at the bottom of the labour market, which is useful to the corporate sector that hires at that level.
It inflates rental yields, which is useful to the institutional landlords who have spent the last fifteen years hoovering up the British housing stock.
It expands the welfare client base, which is useful to the political party that organises around welfare. It generates a permanent low-level civil tension that the security apparatus then requires expanded powers to manage, which is useful to the security apparatus.
It crushes the host society, which is useful to anyone who would prefer that the host society not be capable of organised political resistance.
It pleases the international institutions that grade Western governments on their commitment to liberal universalism, which is useful to the political class that lives in the milieu of those institutions.
And it provides, on the margin, a reservoir of imported tension that can be activated, through the right news cycle and the right viral provocation, into the kind of disorder that justifies whatever digital identity scheme, biometric border, or social credit pilot was already on the drawing board.............
Well written post Even those of us with savings are feeling the pinch because they just dwindle Its impossible Inflationary theft now is at an all time high two bags of shopping is £50 Easily More if you eat real meat. Then its just one bag, As the previous poster says why have living standards stagnated and deteriorated. The answer is inflation In 2012 the highway code would cost you £1.50 Now it costs £5 Therein lies your answer Things are by all accounts double what they used to cost Has income doubled? No it hasnt and therein lies the problem Those people who saved regularly are now dipping into their savings to make up the shortfall , the rest of us are deteriorating and wondering why the ten pounds in our pocket is only really worth £5 worth of goods ( at 2012 prices ) to put it simply, To achieve the same level of living standards as you did in 2000 you would now need at least double that tax free income. Most people have no way of achieving that unless its by theft or illegal means. This is what several years of Quantitative Easing or as we like to simply call it ( Money Printing) has done for this country Fix the money fix the problems No other way about it.
I agree while immigration is a very serious problem, that must be tackled head on, people's living standards are also of major concern.
A lot of people don't vote because they have given up on our politicians ever actually addressing their real concerns with anything other than warm words and a sticking plaster.
If the people don't DEMAND change nothing ever will. I believe they will react but sadly they need to suffer more, as they will, as things get worse.
These are the reforms the people need to focus on that turn our politicians into our servants instead of being our masters.
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