Many people stayed at home or switched to Reform in protest at the big surge in legal migration. Reform had highlighted the numbers of illegals but like the other parties said little about the far bigger numbers of legal.
People were right in seeing difficulties from allowing so many visas to be granted. The country is short of homes, short of water and sewage pipes, short of electricity generation, short of GPs, short of school places. Inviting  in so many people is not fair on them without the homes and services they will need, nor fair on people already here facing high prices for homes and scarce services.
The Treasury backed by most parties and many MPs thought more inward migration welcome to fill poorly paid job vacancies and to add to growth of output. Very few MPs in the last Parliament were willing and able to argue we need higher out per head, not higher output from more low income jobs. It needs investment in more mechanical and digital backup to help people be more productive and to earn better wages.
Every extra migrant adds to the need for more infrastructure, more public service and more highly trained staff like doctors and teachers. So why cannot the parties see what people can see? Why canât  there more concentration on the need to get numbers well down? Will more make the case for a higher wage higher productivity economy and stand up to interest groups that think the answer to their woes is more cheap Labour from abroad? A large increase in low pay migration means large increases in public spending to provide them with homes and services.
July 23, 2024
“So why cannot the parties see what people can see?”
You raise other pertinent questions too – but maybe you can partly answer this one?
I assume in terms of pressure on housing, GP & school accessibility, one reason that nothing changes is that most MPs are wealthy enough to own nice houses, use private medicine and private schools. They may not “see” the problem or they may recognise it but treat it as a somewhat academic issue, as they haven’t felt the adverse consequences to anything like the extent he rest of us (on median wage, crammed into a rented home etc) have?
From your long experience in Parliament and perspective, is that a fair assessment?
Reply No. A lot of MPs rely on the NHS and state schools, and those who do go private spend a lot of time dealing with public service problems for the many who cannot afford private services.
July 23, 2024
To reply:- Indeed a lot of MPs do indeed rely on state schools and the NHS. But they do know that they could pay if they ever needed too, unlike many others who know they cannot not. They usually buy their way into the better state schools by moving to catchment areas or using tutoring or religion. Blair for example used the highly selective Catholic state school near Harrods and Tutors. A state school in the same way that No. 10 Downing St. is an ordinary council house as Peter Hitchens put it. His latest book âA Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education Systemâ is good.
Lots of the state sector workers also get private medical and dental care cover benefits and excellent pensions. The Bank of England for example. Paid for by very high taxes on people with no chance of such benefits and often with very poor pensions too.
July 23, 2024
Diane Abbott, in an act of gross hypocrisy, sent her own son to the elite City of London School. Many other Labour politicians also used private schools for their children or got round the system in other ways. Rather like the private jet, King Charles, Sunak, Emma Thompsom Climate Change hypocrisy. Do as we say not as we do you pathetic plebs
Emily Thornberry also used selective schools when Labour opposed selective schools.
July 23, 2024
Exactly. Ruth Kelly was Labourâs Secretary of State for Education (England) and sent her kids to private school because she obviously had no faith in the department she was actually in charge of. The one thing these socialists are good at is rank hypocrisy.
July 23, 2024
Indeed. They even have two inflation rates a higher one for certain MPs etc. pension increases and a lower one for plebs that they use for pay increases etc. Kier Starmer even has a special act of parliament to protect his large pension. A pension that will be paid for by taxes on people often with nothing but the state pension to rely on.
July 23, 2024
Ruth Kelly was one of the better Labour ministers.
She had professional advice that her child, with dyslexia/special needs, would do better in a private school and paid the fees herself.
July 23, 2024
@ Peter – well good luck to her and her children but do not be a blatant hypocrite. In my view nearly all schools should be private and children should get education vouchers they can use as they wish and top up. The schools thus competing in various areas, academic, practical skills, builders, plumbers, music, science, sport…
July 23, 2024
JR,
A good summary by Farage in parliament today answering several of your questioning blogs.
Labour announces closure of Bibby Stockholmâs barges today at cost of ÂŁ22 million to taxpayer! Why not use them as open prisons if space is so short? Where will French criminals be housed? Amnesty perhaps?
Farage in parliament highlighting an EU rejoiner parliament, cancelling ECHR as it is of no purpose in todays society while Tory and Labour remain silent!
Come JR, you are wasted. Get in Reform and join the fight.
July 23, 2024
I heard on the local news this lunch time, that West Berkshire Council have decided to cut la special needs school budget by almost half a million Pounds. Problem is, the extra money was raised by the parents, staff and pupils by fund raising events. The LibDems are in effect punishing the school by “stealing” their hard work self raised funds. What kind of message does this action send out to the youngsters? The school is called The Downs School.
July 23, 2024
The tories needed to be punished, so much, due to brexit, wokeness and net-zero, that a traditional tory voter wouldâve rather voted for Emily Thornberry than any tory candidate âŠ.and the tories still don’t get it
July 23, 2024
Emily (I hate patriotic white van men) Thornberry or “Lady Nugee”. The one who thinks we get wave power even when the wind does not blow and so should use that for backup! What does she think causes the waves I wonder?
July 23, 2024
The origin of oceanic swell is not local.
July 23, 2024
So Wes Streeting (Health Sec. & one of the few relatively sensible Ministers) is meeting with the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee today to try to end their long-running dispute with the Government over pay and conditions.
Can I help him a little. A junior doctor with typically circa ÂŁ100k of student debt will need gross pay of an additional ÂŁ21,000 PA for 15 years just to repay this debt and interest! This on top of the salary they need for rent, commuting, council tax and living costs. They start, even in London on just circa ÂŁ34k gross which is simply not enough to live on and rent a small room. They do not get cheap parking, do not get a proper canteen, are moved around the country at will, do not even get professional fees or phones provided or refunded. Their peers in law and the city earn about 3 times as much, with far less debt and only three years of study rather than six. Plus they are treated rather better and often can work from home too.
July 23, 2024
Vested interests can make a case for pay increases for any job.
You have a vested interest in junior doctor pay.
July 23, 2024
With the student debt interest taken off they are paid less than the minimum wage. If you do the sums they really do not have enough to live on and to rent a small room in a shared flat in London. They would normally get help with the rent and council tax but they do not as the interest on the student loan is not taken account so they cannot even claim any assistance. He is left with ÂŁ10 a day net after rent on a small room and commuting costs. So ÂŁ10 a day for food, drink, light, council tax, electricity, gas, shopping, dental, prescriptions, clothing, fun, holidays in London. A Coffee is ÂŁ3! Negative disposable income less than a boat person gets or someone on benefits!
Yes it would be nice if I could stop having to subsidise him – seven years of it so far. His flat mates earn three times as much and with lower student debts as only three years at uni. I will have to help him buy a property too. But that is hard as they more them about for the career.
July 24, 2024
Nip down to your local foodbank and you will find similar stories (and many chancers).
You would object to many of those receiving food parcels from getting a pay rise but you are close to the junior doctors so support it.
I would not give them a pay rise but I would remove the need to repay the student loan while they work for the NHS.
July 24, 2024
I also have a vested interest in that my son after six years at Cambridge and three as a Junior Doctor in London, has now left the profession for a better paid job in the city for the reasons LL says. He loved medicine but could not afford to carry on working as a Doctor and live in London. Sunak did his best to try and turn the public against Junior Doctors rather than resolve the problem. What the general public do not realise is that because morale is so low, pay poor, hours long, many of my sonâs cohorts from Cambridge have also left the profession or moved to Australia. What a waste. What the politicians and the media donât tell you is they are leaving in their droves. My vested interest and worry is who is going to treat us all in the future should we fall ill especially with the ballooning immigrant population the Con?Lab?Lib parties are determined to foist on us.
July 23, 2024
Interesting. In Australia most people have private health insurance and the public and private systems are well integrated so people can choose the service they want from either sector. “A total of 14.7 million Australians hold private health insurance cover and accessed more than A$23.5 billion in health and medical benefits paid by insurers in 2023. A total of 14.7 million Australians hold private health insurance cover and accessed more than $23.5 billion in health and medical benefits paid by insurers in 2023. The Albanese Government will provide $7.3 billion this year to Australian policyholders through the private health insurance rebate, while also acting on the drivers of higher costs, by reducing the cost of medical devices used in the private health sector, streamlining access to new medical devices, and improving transparency of out-of-pocket costs for specialist medical services.” (Aus Dept of Health)
The total spend on health by government is much the same – about 10% of GDP in Aus, 11% in UK. But the outcomes and patient satisfaction are orders of magnitude higher in Australia and so is morale in the health services.
July 23, 2024
Indeed and the doctors are paid properly there nearly double the UK rates.
July 23, 2024
Wanderer gets to the nub of the question. You say any MPs are aware of the pressures on schools, GPs, water supply, housing, etc – and let’s be honest they would need to be hermits not to be aware. So why do they support (or at nest not condemn) mass legal migration?
I suspect they all fall for the “economic need” line where business and the NHS and others say they cannot function without more “skilled” staff. However when there is a skills shortage capitalism tends to resolve the problem without government intervention. Lorry drivers get trained, farmers mechanise crop picking, AI helps medical diagnosis…
July 23, 2024
Mass migration increases GDP and because it increases demand on things controlled or managed by the state it increases the size of the state and hence GDP again, and because it is also a net burden on the state it increases the demand for taxes, whcih can be increased only through politics. All that’s good for careerist MPs especially those of a liberal or socialist leaning. They don’t see any of this as wrong, just a challenge to which they can and must rise. if they don’t nobody will. It’s important to them. But to most people it is an enormous problem we don’t need and of which could most easily be rid by removing the root cause.
July 23, 2024
Reply to reply.
‘and those who do go private spend a lot of time dealing with public service problems for the many who cannot afford private services.’
Considering the dire state of the public services, that is a lot of expensive MP time wasted!
July 23, 2024
Indeed I have a few examples where the existence of the NHS did more harms than good. One elderly relative of mine needed a back operation for a trapped nerve. The NHS told him there was a long wait but wrongly that a Cortisone injection was sufficient. In pain and sitting in awkward positions he developed a blood clot and then could not have the operation until that was dealt with which took many months. He could easily afforded the op had they merely advised him he needed it.
Another relative needed a new knee but was given an arthroscopy op. to get him off the waiting list it seems. Giving him a pointless operation with some risks and no benefits at all surely totally immoral. The other surgeon said he needed the full op. and the arthroscopy was pointless. Doctors often seem to lie perhaps just to cover up for the delays and manipulate the waiting lists in the NHS.
July 23, 2024
Lifelogic
Was advised the same for my knee when I had a problem, some 5 years ago.
My Private Physio said it looks like a damaged meniscus disc, My GP practice thought the same. the Hospital said it was arthritis after an X Ray, and I may need a new knee, in the meantime I was prescribed physio, I said it’s not arthritis it’s not that sort of pain, went through HNS Physio as advised and knee broke down, back to the hospital twice more, but they still said it was arthritis.
Eventually after 9 months as I was pushed further down the Hospital order I saw a more junior Consultant, who actually listened to me, I showed him exactly where the pain was once more, he said that looks like a meniscus disc problem, so we both agreed on an MRI scan to try and see exactly what was going on. I reported back after Scan which showed a major tear in the meniscus disc, the Consultant showed me the scan, I was offered an arthroscopy but advised that usually only 50% success rate. I asked if I could manage it with a knee brace (which I had already purchased myself) Natural supplements and Acupuncture, again all paid for by myself, was advised it would do no harm. After a couple of months of being careful, no pain at all, for the last 4 years been using as normal, and walking 5 miles not a problem.
Wasted 9 months and in constant debilitating pain due to a miss diagnosis, when they were advised of the possible cause on the very first day.
What a waste of time effort and money for the NHS, all at my eventual personal cost in time, pain, and treatment.
July 23, 2024
Politicians see Immigration as the ultimate virtue signalling. Imposing third world practices on the native population is seen as a method of subduing the natives.
It is obvious to all right minded people the damage it is doing to the very fabric of our society but as it’s decreed by the UN and WEF we have to comply.
Coupled with recent illegal military excursions destabilising various countries the migration problem is 100% Politician created.
Many countries are rebelling against it and soon we will follow.
July 23, 2024
+1
July 23, 2024
Indeed but I thought the Net Zero insanity was the ultimate virtue signaling or the woke rainbow crossings agenda and worship of diversity appointments like Kamala Harris Vice President of the United States and shortly her must be a “white male” it seems running mate will be too!
July 23, 2024
Wanderer, Why?
Probably because for 40 years our Mp’s had little control over what our Country could and could not do, that was down to the EU.
Thus many of our MPs had forgotten, or were frightened to Govern when some of them wanted Brexit, so they voted against that as well, because then there would be nobody else to blame but themselves.
For 40 years our Mp’s had the luxury of being able to blame somebody else whilst pretending to be responsible people, they had the luxury of pontificating from on high without any of the responsibility, “well we would if we could, but we can’t”.
Now we are partly out of the EU the skill of government that was learn’t over many centuries now has to be slowly learn’t again, but unfortunately we have many Mp’s who have forgotten how to govern in the Public interest, or have few management skills of any sort.
Thus it is easier to simply put up taxes, rather than sort out a problem.
They will need a long learning curve and in the meantime we will be paying the price.
July 23, 2024
For 40 years the Civil Service has done the Eu’s bidding, their thought process has during those 40 years has changed, no longer does the UK come first, no longer did they need to take much notice of our own elected Parliament, Brussels was the master, not our own Mp’s, and those traits are still firmly in place in some quarters, the Civil Service have become the effective means of Government, and they know it, without a mind change by the Civil Service, our own Mp’s will be frustrated and denied by those who hide behind closed doors who still hold the EU mindset.
July 23, 2024
Reply – – ‘many who cannot afford’ I had to laugh …..numbers on NHS waiting list + those NHS treated vs those treated privately? guess 100,000 to one?
How many who spent their remaining savings since retirement going private to overcome distressing limitations, pain and lack of mobility… formerly would have been dealt with on NHS?
July 24, 2024
The worst problem is the brain drain (500k a year of qualified people – useless people can’t emigrate) which is hidden by the mass immigration figures.
July 23, 2024
Indeed a low paid worker will pay far less in taxes than they get back in housing benefits, other benefits, schools, healthcare, social services, policing, roads, university loans⊠plus low paid workers depress others wages so they too pay less in taxes. How is a builder or plumber going to compete (and keep his home and family happy) against competitive imported low wage workers.
They also of course as we know from countries (which unlike the UK do not hide dishonestly broken down crime figures) commit far more crime, rapes and other violent crimes and take up more prison space. Google for example – Immigrant-groups-by-relative-order-of-crime-rates-in-Norway-and-Finland.
Plus we get large cleavages in society and voting by religion. These cleavages further encouraged by our very selective and totally immoral plastic policing.
July 23, 2024
Mother of jailed Just Stop Oil campaigner complains daughter will miss brother’s wedding after she blocked M25.
Well her actions imprisoned over 100,000 innocent people in their cars for hours missing all sorts of important things funerals, weddings, work, flights and prob. caused accidents⊠a total of about a 20 year sentence for them plus large cost for them too.
The sentence is needed to deter other people, it was long overdue. Though doubtless she will only serve about a year of it in the end. But the real blame lies with those who conned these just stop oil people into their climate delusions. May, Miliband, the BBC, Sunak, Boris, Gummer, StarmerâŠalso who funds Just Stop Oil and what funds from the Crony ârenewableâ industries fund the political parties to buy tax payer subsidies etc. See also the two tier policing here. Have a cup of tea while you block the roads dear.
July 23, 2024
The conviction, I understand was based on a new Public Order Act 2023.
This makes a crime of Conspiracy to Cause Public Nuisance.
I wonder just how widely that will be interpreted?
Laws were already in place to deal with such things.
Before PC the cops used to haul trouble makers off in white vans.
July 23, 2024
Conspiracy to Cause Public Nuisance is that not what Kahn does endlessly in London with ULEZ etc. and indeed it is what most politicians and many state sector workers do. Can we bring some prosecutions.
July 23, 2024
You make a very good point.
Mind you, the sentences would more than likely be slashed?
July 23, 2024
Do you know, Iâm not sure I want to Google that. I have visions of being in the police station being interrogated for my âviewsâ.
July 23, 2024
Try Googling unexplained deaths in children up 350% since 2021 then – so as to compound the crime!
It seems painting over rainbow crossing is a “hate” crime. Surely it is just “vandalism” encouraged by annoyance at the waste of public money on such absurd indoctrination agendas? Best not to google that either I suspect.
July 23, 2024
I would like to see a legal requirement to vote like Austraila with a abstain box on the paper
July 23, 2024
If the vote counts people will vote no need to force them as we saw with the EU referendum.
Forcing people to vote is just another tax on their time. I live overseas so my vote would be in Hampstead the last place I was registered. The seat has been strongly Labour since 1992 Glenda Jackson who was OK ish and then the dire Tulip Siddiq . My vote here now is not even worth the postage.
People should perfectly entitled not to vote if they choose not to. This especially as the voting system means most votes in the UK are worth nothing at all. Furthermore as we saw with the last five Tory manifestos Tory government do almost the complete reverse of what they promised once elected – even if they do win power with good majorities.
July 23, 2024
Do you favour PR – as you say so many votes donât count?
July 23, 2024
Well I certainly think transferable votes is an big improvement as otherwise you cannot even vote as you wish without wasting you vote. If say you want to stop Labour winning you might vote Reform 1, then Tory 2, then SNP 3, then Libdem 4 etc. With FPTP you have to guess who is best to stop say Labour. So is it Reform, Tories or Libdems! No easy to tell often. So not only were reform cheated out of seats per vote but cheated out of votes cast too.
PR gives too much power to the parties and has many other problems. Also Reform were cheated out of MSM coverage and will be next time too as it is based on seats not votes!
Having the London Mayor as FPST post as they want back to it is totally absurd. You should vote order of preference and votes transfer as they drop out until someone get 50%+
July 24, 2024
Rodney
“None of the above” would be better, as it actually describes your views.
Abstain means many things, cannot be bothered, do not agree, but do not object.
July 23, 2024
Group think and people like Hunt thinking the public only have a choice of the two pro EU socialist parties.
It was not just immigration. High tax, lawlessness, rubbish public services, forced alien cultures, woke trans rot and equality terrorism to force us into silence against our way of life and everything common sense tells us what the foundation of our country should be. We voted leave EU, not the utter betrayal Tory and Labour Party are trying to force upon us. Like Little disgraceful Usurper Sunak has done to force DUP to accept betrayal and gave away, yes gave away, N.Ireland to EU control! We were promised to leave together as one nation, what part did Snake Sunak not understand? There should be consequences for MPs who betrayed our country and what we witnessed in parliament. People like May and Sunak, Benn, Cooper, Starmer and Lammy should be banned from any public office.
July 23, 2024
The U.K. for decades has been structurally inefficient relying on its services sector, devaluing the pound and claiming increase in the value of housing stock as growth. Equally especially in the state sector it has chronically under invested.
During that time we have also had the cliches about skills development, red tape reduction blah blah.
We also have the culture of living off benefits, hundreds of thousands signed off for dubious (impossible to prove) medical conditions.
Turning round that âfailingâ supertanker has/is proving impossible therefore it makes economic sense to crowbar in âcheapâ labour.
Your assessment is as ever spot on but blame needs to be apportioned to government over decades and that means mainly the one you have loyally supported.
The disease short termism. The cure. Unknown.
July 23, 2024
Much truth here, but not sure you could really ban these people – dire though they clearly are. More and binding referendums are needed. Referendums the public can demand and are enforceable. But MPs will never give us such a system they like their power far too much.
July 23, 2024
LL,
Of course you can, if we has proper right to recall they should be banned. Teachers are banned from teaching, doctors banned from practising, nurses banned from nursing, why not MPs? We have both MPs and Lords with criminal convictions making law FFS!
We currently have a recently selected support Gaza MP who was being watched for being part of an extreme terror group! Do you think that is right!
In 2009 we were promised by all main parties they would raise standards, they did the opposite and deliberately tried to undermine democracy putting the interests of the EU above our country, that is treason!
July 23, 2024
Hunt in his BBC interview on Sunday with Laura (a what would you like to say next the Great, Mr Right Honourable Jeremy Hunt interview) was still boasting about growth under the Conservative since 2010. No real growth in living standards per cap at all Hunt in 14 years. And now your moronic party wants to force them to buy EV cars, expensive renewable energy, fit heat pumps and live in 15 minute cities.
He made the usual excuses about lockdowns, Putinâs war, the economy they inherited. No real questions about why they locked down at all and for so long, why they forced net harm Covid Vaccines & ineffective into people even people with no need for them, why they wasted such vast sums of money doing huge net harm, why they increase government debt by circa ÂŁ30,000 per UK home, why they pushed for net zero – rendering the UK so uncompetitive, why they depressed others wages with so many low skilled migrants, why he raised taxes so much⊠Kunessberg even fell for the âTruss wrecked the economy in a few days lunacyâ. It was Sunak as Chancellor who did that Laura. Truss just tripped on the time bomb he had left for her.
July 23, 2024
Still watching the BBC? Why do you bother, LL, when you know what they and their invitees will be saying?
July 23, 2024
Just to see how absurdly biased it is, how daft their lefty presenters usually are and to keep my blood pressure up!
July 23, 2024
RG,
LL doesn’t have to pay a licence fee as he now lives abroad in Freedonia. So he is not funding their output.
July 23, 2024
Yes, Ref EV cars, I’ve noticed a number of large manufacturers now only, or near so, offer EVs. And this at a time when many of us are buying with our common-sense and saying ‘no thanks’. There’s trouble ahead in the car industry, and look out for ‘Charging point rage’!
July 24, 2024
Peter, already happening, and charging cable theft, even though they are supposed to be locked in positionwhen charging.
July 23, 2024
So Trump a circa 63% chance and Kamala 33% indicated by the betting odds. Michelle Obama is most of the other circa 4% ) at 33/1 – so perhaps the best bet? I do not think I will be betting on it myself – not this time I thing the odd are about right. Obama perhaps has a bit more chance than the odds suggest?
July 23, 2024
Why not bet on Trump? Looks like easy money.
July 23, 2024
Odds are too low even another attempt on his life is not out of the question or illness or other event. But I do think he will v. likely win!
July 23, 2024
LL,
Hunt was blamed by the covid inquiry for failing to prepare the nation for the pandemic, that is gross incompetence costing lives and billions of taxpayer money. This should have resulted in him being banned from public office.
July 23, 2024
Oh, BTW, banning from public office is better than what would have happened before, they would have paid with their lives! In modern times do you think Huntâs beloved China would let him off Scot free? Russia would see him in Serbia!
July 24, 2024
Hope
The exact words spoken were, “They planned for the wrong Pandemic”, but even they with hindsight, and all of the investigation, could not tell us what to plan for next !
Yes agree very many mistakes but Hindsight is Wonderful, we are all then experts.
July 23, 2024
You set the scene and explain why the voting public to the right of centre voted Reform or stayed at home. Contributors to this diary are all too aware of this as they are largely of this centre right group.
Further facts from ONS statistics shed some more light.
1. The unemployment rate in the Uk is 4.4%
2. Among people of Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnicity the unemployment rate is 9%
3. Among the people of Black and Asian ethnicity the unemployment rate is 7%.
4. Among the White population the unempliyment rate is 3%.
5. Apparently among all those unemployed, some 9.2% are not even looking for work.
I conclude that in the UK it is far too easy not to work, as government hand outs are far too high for the lazy. Possibly reaching wage levels they might earn were they in work. All this largesse puts an impossibly higher burdon on all tax payers, while at the same time failing to look after those unfortunates in real need in an adequate manner. Solution, cut unemployment payouts and benefits drastically.
Industry has been allowed if not encouraged to employ cheap labour from abroad rather than being compelled to train UK personnel via apprentiships and the education system. In fairness this does not apply to all industry. Solution, force industry to adequately train those they employ.
The medical profession has been allowed to restrict, with government compliance, the number of qualified students entering the profession. Their unions being complicit, just as the printers union of old held the newspapers to ransom . Solution, open entry to the professions, and there are many, to all adequately qualified from school.
Finally, stop legal migration to everyone bar those highly qualified, or put another way, bring it down to less than 100,000 PA. Nett migration needs to be a minus for the next fifty years.
In general terms we need well thought out solutions to the problems which we are all. too aware of. That is one of the great strengths of Nigel Farage, he offers diagnosis and resolution, rather than an endless list of symptoms.
July 23, 2024
Trumpâs deputy JD Vance:- UK will be the first Islamist country with nuclear weapons
Well we shall see, but then surely we have Pakistan already?
July 23, 2024
LL,
US administration called London Londistan under Obama! The world can see what the Labour and Tory party have done to destroy our country, way of life and culture. So it is not just Republican by Democrats as well. It was also Obama who weaponised departments of state against political opponents ie IRS to go after Republicans. Obama who punatively targeted BP, it took Slimy Cameron to make an official complaint to stop him- even though the two stupid posh boys flew on airforce one to watch a basket ball game while telling us about green husky crap! Again, Cameron another who should be banned from Lords and any public office over Libya and betrayal of country to EU!
July 23, 2024
London had been called Londonistan by the French in 1995 after the Paris and Lyon summer and autumnâ95 bombings by the GIA (Armed Islamic Group) so 15 years before Obama.
French security services had tracked down many phone calls coming from phones in the UK, even had names, and had asked the UK âto do something about itâ. Nothing was done on the British side. Eight people were killed and a total of 190 injured.
It was shown at the time by French and Belgian investigations that here in Britain money had been raised, members had been recruited, and militant messages had been circulated without much action happening from the British security services.
July 23, 2024
Good post, very interesting.
I guess no point sharing intelligence if no action is taken.
July 23, 2024
@ Agricola.
See also the crime figures largely kept hidden in the UK (like the Covid Vaccines Harm figures they try to hide in the UK) but crime breakdowns are clear from Noway, Sweden, FinlandâŠ
July 23, 2024
Is it not the case that most crimes are committed by poor people? Solution? Send the abroad? Give them some money?
July 23, 2024
or why not give poor people money who haven’t yet committed crimes?
Just a thought….daft I know.
July 23, 2024
Australia long ago adopted the commonsense solution of wacking employers importing labour with a hefty premium fo rthe visa which is paid into the Skilling Australians Fund. It also made employers demonstrate that the skills they need were not available from Australians. Also immigrants have to demonstrate they will not be a burden on the state. Australia’s GDP per capita is around 15% higher than UK’s on a purchasing power parity basis.
All very obvious.
July 23, 2024
My son tells me that a visa to work here (for the workers they bring over from Europe) costs his employer ÂŁ12k.
July 23, 2024
John still cannot bring himself to state on a public forum the real reason for mass immigration. Some call it a conspiracy theory but then they would. Since 1997 Neather and Blair endorsed by the Tory party has caused deliberate and irreversible damage to the fabric of British society. The real damage has yet to reveal itself but it will in time.
Every Tory MP since 1997 should hang their head in shame. They have destroyed a nation because they feared being denounced with the ultimate woke slander.
July 23, 2024
Do you mean scared of being called a waaaycist?
I think that Arthur Miller bloke just about nailed it with âThe Crucibleâ
And I must say I really did believe that our so called civilisation was over all thatâŠat least HERE anyway.
But then of course the play was really about politics and they seem to have become in some cases the most evil, visceral basic instinct.
No wonder folk are hesitant to throw their hat into the ring.
Chessington Zoo chimp enclosure enlightens greatly.
They form gangs and literally rip apart the chosen victim.
Like chickensâŠ.âhen peckedâ âŠto death!
July 23, 2024
Chessington Zoo is long gone, along with the neurotic polar bears pacing from one end of the enclosure to another.
The 65 bus from Ealing Broadway all the way to Chessington Zoo is also no more. It terminates at Kingston and a 71 covers the remainder of the route.
Except after 1am when the 65 night bus travels the full length of the old route. Night buses are one improvement in public transport over the years, although Sad Dick Khan has now cut back on several valued daytime routes.
July 23, 2024
Well âtheyâ were determined to get rid of zoos.
Too colonial I expect.
Actually, whisper itâŠbut I think Iâve got the name wrong!
I just used to watch the tv programme about it. Was it Chester Zoo?
Iâve only ever been to London Zoo, Whipsnade and Bristol.
Your bus descriptions..very evocative.
Nice.
I used to love London.
July 23, 2024
London Zoo/Regents Park used to be affordable for a youngster with a Red Rover bus ticket. No parents required on a day out either.
Very different nowadays though.
Zoos are a bit smelly in hot weather, but rowing boats in various parks were very enjoyable.
âZoo timeâ with Dr. Desmond Morris was the main TV programme about zoos that I remember. That was before he branched out into psychology.
July 23, 2024
Memories eh? Yes the 65 bus out to the sticks!
July 23, 2024
No they didn’t do it through fear of being called waycist. They did it because that’s what “those who pay the Piper demanded.”
July 23, 2024
âUltimate woke slanderâ ?
As per Domâs post.
I queried his meaning.
âEvery Tory MP since 1997 should hang their head in shame. They have destroyed a nation because they feared being denounced with the ultimate woke slander.â
July 23, 2024
Agreed, Donna!
And findings from numerous peopleâs research, invariably, a lot of our initiatives originated in the UN, WHO or WEF policy books.
July 23, 2024
Correct Dom, however you’re in error, the real damage isn’t to come, its happening today …half of the high street, schools, NHS, crime etc etc is in a foreign voice
July 23, 2024
and on public transport ..the number of clearly different tongues I hear!
July 23, 2024
“Reform had highlighted the numbers of illegals but like the other parties said little about the far bigger numbers of legal”.
That’s not true. Reform made it very clear in speeches that their policy was to have net zero migration, so legal+illegal immigration the same number as emigration (which at the moment is around 600k per year) and their manifesto has a whole page of measures to curb legal immigration (eg. Employer’s NI raised to 20% for foreign workers).
July 23, 2024
Correct its on their website and in their contract/manifesto page 3
July 23, 2024
Nigel Farage did call attention to the large rise in legal migration, calling it a “betrayal” of his agreement to stand down candidates to enable Johnson to secure his 80+ majority and why he no longer trusted the Conservative party and refused to do it again in the recent GE.
I assume that part of the reason immigration is encouraged by the political class is declining fertility, to below replacement levels. This is a problem shared by many countries in their industrialisation and post industrialisation phases of development. Japan and Korea are examples in Asia with several countries in Europe, such as Italy, in a similar predicament. It is unclear how they will pay for rapidly ageing populations without acute declines in living standards. As far as I am aware no UK political party has begun to articulate the problem let alone a way through it. Instead we get policies that compound it by increasing energy and other costs, raising taxes on enterprise and increasing state debt to unsustainable levels.
July 23, 2024
Talking of ‘interest groups’ who lobby for migration, you might think that at least the Federation of Small Businesses would not be among them. If so, read the FSB’s December 2023 reaction to the last government’s attempt to curb legal migration, by increasing the minimum salary requirement, and you’ll be disappointed. It worried about a ‘shock to the system’ that the government was causing – the system of importing cheap foreign labour, that is. It wanted a cap on SME immigration fees to make it cheaper to bring in legal migrants, and it wanted the complexity in the work visa system reduced to make it easier. So these ‘interest groups’ lobbying for migration aren’t just the big corporations.
July 23, 2024
I will give you one example of how government and politicians fail to anticipate, recognise, and resolve a problem.
Dentistry has advanced immeasurably in the past fifty years and for those who can afford insurance the result is healthy teeth.
Government has totally failed to react to this by not accepting the range of treatment available, paying dentists for it, or even paying for the limited service the NHS offers at an acceptable rate. Result, NHS dentistry is almost none existent. Just to emphasise government failure they allow the food and drink industry to continue rotting teeth with their products.
This is UK government at work in your neighbourhood, ” Watch out there’s a thief about.” Said because you are over taxed to pay for what you are not getting. If they cannot sort out our dental problem, fat chance of sorting immigration, legal or illegal.
July 23, 2024
‘Dentistry has advanced immeasurably’ hmm. Do you mean the bills have?
I have recently been quoted ÂŁ1200 + preferably seek specialist participation another ÂŁ400. for a root canal service.
Can’t afford it, won’t pay….when agony arrives I’ll seek extraction I suppose, pray its cheaper or find a mate with pliers and confidence?
July 23, 2024
Since 1997 we have admitted millions more migrants than we actually needed and that has become a huge burden for us all (especially the low paid who need opportunities and a reasonable wage more than anyone else). Responsibility for this situation should be attributed to both Labour and Conservative governments as both presided over it. As a solution I believe there should be a prescribed net migration cap, which the Home Office has the flexibility to increase or reduce under extraordinary circumstances contingent on the Home Secretary’s personal authority and signature. A vast number of extra votes are available right there for the party who commits to it.
July 23, 2024
Politicians of all stripes (with just a very few honourable exceptions) love to virtue signal to the world. Especially when doing so doesn’t adversely affect themselves.
Fill the country with immigrants to do the lowly work, or live on benefits. Ignore the millions of economically inactive already living here.
Create housing and services shortages. Politicians aren’t affected living in their mansions (eh! Rishi) Paying for private health care and education. Being chauffeured around the country in a Daimler (when not flying, obviously)
No, you just carry on inviting millions into the country and keep telling the world how wonderful you are.
July 23, 2024
“So why cannot the parties see what people can see?”
They know full well that people want low / lower immigration. It’s why Blair opened the borders with no mandate (because he knew he wouldn’t get it) and said it was to “rub the Right’s nose in diversity.” And it’s why the Not-a-Conservative-Party specifically “promised” lower immigration for 14 years, but delivered the opposite.
The question is why don’t they do what they know the people want?
In the case of Labour, it’s ideology. They are Globalist-Socialists and want a one-world Government. In the case of the Not-a-Conservative-Party, they are in hoc to Big Business and their paymasters demand cheap foreign labour.
It’s a consequence of UN objectives and the WEF’s agenda. They are dismantling nation states.
July 23, 2024
Donna, our MPs have already forgot about Leeds and our news media didn’t fully report the riots in Whitechaple East London last week
July 23, 2024
Donna +1
July 23, 2024
I doesnât matter anymore. The Labour Party appear to be legislating to support and enhance irresponsibility in the individual in all walks of life. Illegal migrants, donât worry, you will be fine. Donât worry about paying the rent, we can persecute the landlord if they try anything. Have as many babies as you like we will pay, donât worry. Then demand two houses knocked together, donât you worry. Donât worry about committing a crime. We will shower you with legal aid and release you early, maybe with compensation because of a nasty guard person. Donât worry.
If you are a terrorist, donât worry at all. You will get legal aid as well. And of course an eventual amnesty. We will even look after your family whilst your lawyers milk it. It seems the only people who are not allowed amnesty are our own soldiers. You need to worry, along with all those responsible people in the country who have tried to do something for themselves. We are coming for you.
July 23, 2024
All very true, and I blame the tories for being cowards and letting it happen …labour didn’t win, the Tories lost
July 23, 2024
Thank goodness. Where would we be without foreign phds?
There’s a shortage of British students bright enough to take a doctorate in gender studies. And they need mummy and daddy to help remind then about gender.
July 23, 2024
Why don’t MP have more common sense ?
July 23, 2024
Is âmodernâ really the best description of the parties we labour under?
I believe I could think of othersâŠ
But then, I supposeâŠwould they be printable?
July 23, 2024
@Everhopeful +1
July 23, 2024
I do not know the breakdown of legal immigration but do know that students and their families form a large part of it. Why? If Universities have grown so much that they need this income then universities can provide the infrastructure (including family homes) on campus that their incomers need. If they can’t afford to do that then their business model is being subsidised (even more than the taxpayer write offs of student loans will require). Maybe it is time to rationalise universities to deliver courses that are worthwhile and make the rest technical colleges for Brits That would probably cost the same amount overall but there would be an output.
That is investment.
July 23, 2024
Agree
July 23, 2024
Quite simply, no immigrant should qualify for benefits. There is a case that they shouldn’t be able to use schools and the NHS for free. If you can’t earn enough to pay your own way you shouldn’t come here.
The argument against this approach is that they would have to resort to crime if they didn’t get benefits. Do we want to import people who raise the crime stats?
July 23, 2024
A relative was working in the USA for 4 years, he wasnât allowed to receive any government funded benefit of any kind âŠ.and had to prove medical insurance and finances annually for work visa
July 23, 2024
I worked two years in the USA and two years in Canada. In both cases my health insurance was paid by my employers and even before I had arrived they had provided the adequate forms defining my salary to the local âHome Officesâ and tax offices so I could get the relevant work visas.
The only âbenefitâ I got in these two countries was a proper Social Security Number, something essential for opening a bank account, renting a place or buying a car. Together with a credit card it might also have helped if I had needed to go to a hospital.
I would think thatâs what most expats (aka UK migrants) going to work abroad get from (or have to arrange with) their local or UK employer.
I am also pretty sure thatâs also what legal migrants to the UK coming with a defined job promise have to go through.
July 23, 2024
My son worked in US for two years as well, he paid for his medical insurance with HR advising what level of cover to take. There agreements between US and UK tax offices for deductions and/or free periods when at and when returned to UK.
Health tourists pay nothing, Hunt failed to deliver so did his party for 14 years so we have a free international health service. Tory party failed to prevent Chinese and EU visitors entering our country even without testing! That cost us a fortune. Illegal and legal immigrants; the former pays nothing and sometimes that latter pays a token amount to overwhelm our international health service. I do not think you are pretty sure or even factually accurate. 2/10 must try harder. Add translation services (written and verbal) to the tab that we UK taxpayers fund for good measure as well.
July 24, 2024
Job immigrants to the UK do not have to provide health insurance, the visa gives them access to the NHS.
All immigrants with a long term visa get access to a doctor (if they can register) and access to health care.
This really should not happen
July 23, 2024
It is good to see that the brilliant idea to stop foreign students bringing all their families with then has resulted in some of the dodgy universities going up the creek. They are even having to make staff redundant as they have no applicants for degrees like gender studies. Let’s hope that labour’s efforts to bung them more borrowed money doesn’t work out.
July 23, 2024
They can still bring their families if they are studying post-grad courses ie Masters, Phd, and government sponsored courses âŠ.so just about everyone
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tough-government-action-on-student-visas-comes-into-effect
July 23, 2024
Thank goodness. Where would we be without foreign phds?
There’s a shortage of British students bright enough to take a doctorate in gender studies. And they need mummy and daddy to help remind then about gender.
July 24, 2024
+1
July 23, 2024
It still beats me as to WHY the âelitesâ are so keen on this plan.
I have heard a lot of theories like Kalergi, who got his way over Europe, even down to the anthem!
I hear that the rich get cheap Nannieâs etc.
(Very few fencers or gardeners to be had though and certainly not cheap!)
I understand that more people = higher GDP but canât see the point of that at all. Who wants to live in a ruined shell of a country?
I know our leaders hate the English and want to dilute usâŠbut then it is happening in so many other placesâŠit isnât just the English.
All explanations seem so unlikely including the final one I remember that it is all done to disorient and dismay us in order to impose communism worldwide.
However, surely up to a certain point of wealth what the rich elites are doing is demolishing their own homes and handing them over brick by expensive brick?
Not to mention their Rolexes.
July 23, 2024
The more a settled nation has hordes of “diverse” and culturally-incompatible people foisted on it, the more new rules and laws are needed to “police” and control it.
We’ve seen that process accelerate over the last 50 years with the Race Relations Ac 1965, the Race Relations Act 1968, the Race Relations Act 1971, the Race Relations Act 1976, the Race Relations Act 1992, the Race Relations Act 2001, Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, Equality Act 2010, so-called Hate Speech Laws
At the same time as creating all these new societal-control laws, they have silenced the settled population by branding them bigots and racists if they dare complain. Who can forget Gordon Brown calling a Labour voter a bigot for even questioning why her town had so many immigrants.
It’s about control.
July 23, 2024
YesâŠI agree.
But at an individual level have they really thought it through?
Talk about fairy gold.
Sic transit etc.
July 23, 2024
It may be safe to restrict comments on migration to economic factors but in the long run, far more important are the cutlural implications. The Liberal elites of UK’s institutions preach and academia teaches that everything British is bad and everything brought in by migration from the developing, predominantly Muslim, parts of the world is good. And we wonder why assimiliation of these immigrants is so poor, why Muslim ghettoes form in the cities and why support for Hamas is so virulent and why anti-Semitism is at dangerously high levels.
What does this hold for the future? Never mind the economics. It is existential. It heralds communalism and it will result exactly as it did in India with appalling violence, where partition was the only practical solution and in Turkey where it was solved by AttaTurk enforcing mass migration in and out of Turkey after WW1.
The economy is a second order problem. And come to that, so is Putin’s war in Ukraine. This existential war’s frontline is in Israel.
July 23, 2024
Someone please explain to me this.
The Conservative Party put it into their manifesto they would reduce immigration to the tens of thousands. Aside from EU migration which they had no control over whilst we were in the EU, immigration was in the hundreds of thousands. This was immigration they had control over with visa policy.
When challenged about this, every Conservative spokesman I saw told us about EU immigration which they had no control over, and avoided the question about non EU immigration.
Why did they promise to do something it was in their power to do, and then do the opposite?
July 23, 2024
Sir John
âmore inward migration welcome to fill poorly paid job vacanciesâ A contradiction in that thinking, poorly paid? Minimum UK wage stands at ÂŁ11.44 per hour approx. 24K per year. UK standard basic pension is ÂŁ8,814 per year.
So, by that reckoning ÂŁ8,814 is more than enough to live on, so close on 3 times that must be heaven.
Having the State suppress workplace earnings also means industry doesnât have to adapt, that means the State the Government is stopping progress. Things will need to change, if not today but at sometime or the country falls behind even further. The UK has a poor reputation on productivity, but there is no reason to change as the State the Government fights it.
Legal immigration is always controllable, that is just a political thing. Illegal immigration is theft, if not just stealing taxpayersâ money they are also stealing positions that should be offered to those really fleeing oppression. At best illegal immigration is criminal gangs moving possibly criminals into the UK without checks being possible.
Reply Most people on state retirement pension also have private pension or get benefit or subsidised housing top ups.
July 23, 2024
âSo why cannot the parties see what people can see?â
Of course they can see it, theyâre not stupid. But theyâre following the UNâs world DIE policy. PM May signed us up to the UNâs Global Compact for Migration.
If we import the third world we become the third world.
It can only be stopped through a referendum.
BTW, in addition to list of shortages needs to be added police and prisons.
July 23, 2024
…and we import the worst of the 3rd world …those that don’t want to see nor help their own country develop, they want and get freebies
July 23, 2024
Sir John
Letâs turn things on their head for a moment. National Insurance (NI) came in as a compulsory imposition as some in society did not plan for tomorrow, no insurance provision â the government forced them to pay for it. The whole idea being there was something to fall back on should the need arise. Expecting the taxpayer to bail you out when you couldnât be bothered and you thought were just entitled to things other had bought and paid for appears to be the rot that has set into society.
Yes, it never quite fulfilled the contrived promises of health, pension and redundancy fallback position as intended, that was government neglect, not concept failure, with the government organizing an illegal Ponzi scheme instead of an insurance scheme. That aside, if the systems (proper NI) in place only supported those that contributed, the pressure created buy those that seem to be benefit tourists wouldnât be there. Now we face the consequence of political failure that has caused the countries decline.
How many Countries can a UK Citizen turn up in, get full health cover, or an instant pension along with unemployment benefits and accommodation?
July 23, 2024
Nick Robinson did an interview with Robert Jenrick on political thinking last week
When he was immigration minister and there was a cabinet meeting about immigration he was the ONLY one who said it was too high
They seemed to not care
Of course he resigned over the issue as Rishi Sunack refused to do anything about it
I will vote for him for leader of Conservative Party if I get the opportunity
July 23, 2024
Whether its illegal or legal immigration all the traditional parties of parliament are all TALK âŠ.there are hundreds upon hundreds of treaties & administrative reasons blocking the will of the people, old politics no longer work âforâ the people
July 23, 2024
The frustration with modern parties is simple. They don’t listen to and do what the voters elected them to do.
July 23, 2024
For decades our government(s) have had opportunities to restrict immigration
#Under international law return boats to their save home port
#Stop relatives following international students
#Donât allow international student to work
#International students must return home after courses
#International students not allow benefits and must have health insurance
#Work sponsors to bond and hold health insurance
âŠ..I could go on, there have been many opportunities to decrease the number of legal immigration, but our politicians have chosen to increase the numbers, all against the voting desire of the people
July 23, 2024
âReform had highlighted the numbers of illegals but like the other parties said little about the far bigger numbers of legal.â
I don’t think you’re right about this Reform had many good policies in their contract to reduce legal migration:
Freeze Non-Essential Immigration,
Immediate Deportation for Foreign Criminals,
Bar Student Dependents,
Stop Health Tourism and Immediate Access to Benefits,
introduce an employer Immigration Tax The National Insurance rate will be raised to 20% for foreign workers.
July 23, 2024
Correct
July 23, 2024
Sir John
Sadiq Khan is now demanding a jaw-dropping ÂŁ25 billion from the new Labour government to cover the promises he made to secure his re-election.
Is it rot or ego that has destroyed UK Politics?
The main problem it is not the Labour Government money it is the UK Taxpayers money. All UK Taxpayers that is.
Where is Racheal Reeves new OBR assessment restriction on spending?
âThe new law will mean the Office for Budget Responsibility â the independent watchdog for public finances – will be given the power to make an independent assessment of any single major tax and spending announcement,â – Politicians removed from spending approvals â yet that is exactly what Labour is no doing.
I can guess it is hidden along with the ÂŁ83 Billion given to GB Energy for the Milliband to give away as he pleases
July 23, 2024
I suppose we all have the power to make an independent assessment of each tax and spending decision. We may not have quite the same degree of access to data to support our analysis, and certainly won’t be on the BBC Rolodex for comment to broadcast. Our ultimate sanction is our vote.
The question really is how much power is being granted to design or veto policy.
July 23, 2024
Why do we need net immigration of 600k+ people every year? Where do these people go if these jobs need refilling every year? I donât think enough research has been done into the longer-term movement of migrants into this country. Are they moving into better paid jobs or living off the benefit system? The government must fix the perverse incentive only to work 16 hours per week. This has been going on for decades and is wrong.
July 23, 2024
Last year I did a bit a teaching at a university, half of my students where foreign with a few refugees, they apply for a student visa, work full-time (black & white economy) life 5 to room and attend the bear minimum in first year âŠ.its easier than getting a work visa âŠthen theyâre lost in the system (and the course feeâs are paid for by whoever employees them, and they can even apply for grants & loans)
July 23, 2024
Everyone at the university knew what was going on ….and our government knows whats going on
July 23, 2024
A Graduate visa gives you permission to stay in the UK for at least 2 years after successfully completing a course in the UK. https://www.gov.uk/graduate-visa
July 23, 2024
317, 414, 228 & 114 illegal economic /criminals arrived in the past 4 days from the safe country of France
July 23, 2024
It wasn’t just because of migration that so many people stayed at home or switched to Reform – There were many other reasons that contributed to the downfall of the Tories.
– Deceit and misinformation played a big part;
– Management of covid and lockdowns were abysmal – HMG took far too much power unto itself. It wasted so much money;
– None of us like the way that so much money is sent abroad for ill-defined reasons while many in Britain were suffering from HMG instituted problems;
– Management and provision of energy was bordering on treachery. It was done to force us to use metering, another way to make us cope with the low availability of energy when there is certainly no shortage;
– Netzero is the biggest deceit of all. It is being used to impose a rigid set of rules on us all for no good reason.
– So much money has been wasted by HMG while Britain is falling apart. If used wisely that money could have meant a thriving UK, with no potholes, a vigorous economy and a real lift in our standard of living. But no, the globalists wanted something different.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg but the irony is that labour will be no different. Labour supported every suppressive new law, and in power will do exactly what the Tories were doing, but with a bitter twist.
July 23, 2024
@bryan Harris
Well put!
July 23, 2024
Sir J.,
To what extent does the political class really not understand the difference between a work visa and the right to settle permanently? I usually get the feeling that the two are conflated on purpose.
July 23, 2024
Politicians seem to treat migration like the House of Lords: bring in more people and they will vote for you in return.
July 23, 2024
âSo why cannot the parties see what people can see?â
Indeed.
Since a country is its people, why do the parties wish for our country to eventually look like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Sudan etc ?
Whilst it is the men from these countries who are coming here to seek asylum (we are told) it is the women in these countries who actually need it.
July 23, 2024
The birth rate in the UK has dropped to just below 1.5, well below the replacement rate of 2.1. Migration is the solution to plug that gap as successive governments in recent times have failed to find or deliver any other.
The retirement age population continues to grow. Where will the tax to fund the triple-lock pensions, health and social care come from if the working age population that provides the primary tax base to fund those doesn’t continue to expand at a similar rate?
If the solution isn’t migration, then what is it? I’ve neither heard nor seen any viable or workable alternatives.
The previous Conservative government decided that a 2-child cap is a good policy, despite the fact that the basic maths of the 2.1 replacement rate requiring a certain number of families to have 3+ children to sustain the population from those who are already here. If government wants to encourage a more self-sustaining population, such caps need to either be scrapped, or at least raised.
Furthermore, housing completion figures show that the UK has under-built for decades, and primarily in the area of social housing (private sector completions are not much different to where they were in the 60s and 70s). That was/is a political choice taken by government starting in the 80s by selling off the stock and not replacing it, a decision that people are paying the price for today.
Reply Bringing in more people to low paid jobs imposes extra costs on taxpayers. The 2 child cap doesnât stop anyone having more children, it just stops them claiming extra benefit. Most parents pay for their children out of their earned income
July 23, 2024
I’d not give benefits to people under 25 (other than the severely incapable, but I know plenty of less able-bodied people who work productively all their lives. They just find work they can do), Including people who have children. Once those children are aged one, I would use them in nursery settings doing learning on the job and in care homes that have nurseries attached to them.
One of the country’s biggest failures, in my opinion, is in careers and employment advice and job centres being closed, local newspaper circulation dropping through the floor for job vacancy advertisements and the Indeed website where you just get 20 not interested applicants who just need to click a certain number of jobs to show some interest without turning up for interviews or bothering to fill in application form properly.
July 23, 2024
The minimum salary for a skilled worker visa is currently ÂŁ38,700, which is above median earnings. Maybe ÂŁ38,700 is a low paid job to some, but it certainly is not to many.
I also don’t see an answer to my point about how having a 2-child cap which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 helps maintain a self-sustaining population, and thus reduces the need for immigration. The current policy, by its nature, feeds the need for immigration to the UK to plug the gap in the birth rate.
reply They have only recently raised the pY level . It was considerably lower. There is no ban on having 3 children
July 24, 2024
Do you think we should carry on importing poverty Peter, more families arriving with nothing and unable to earn a salary not to rely on benefits here in the UK?
July 23, 2024
We have a large number of migrants working on the side such as scrap collector’s paying no tax claiming benefits sending the money to build nice houses in their own countries claiming child benefits for children that are not in the country
There are market stall sellers at markets selling goods paying no tax into the system
Making good money but still using the NHS schools and other services
There are thousands of corner shops not paying paying their correct taxes just go to the wholesalers they pay in cash hundreds or thousands of pounds at a time this is a way of avoiding paying tax
Thank you sir John
July 25, 2024
I’ve just had a pensionable-age employee resign because his tax is too high, he thought he wouldn’t pay tax on his State pension! He’s going to go ‘cash in hand’. I said there is no ‘cash in hand’; as a self-employed person, he will be responsible for his tax declaration on his earnings. Someone has convinced him that once he offsets all his vehicle costs, fuel inc personal use, and a home office, he will pay a lot less tax.
July 23, 2024
OFT, the media today is flooded with stories around Sunak moving on in 100days and a leader of the opposition will be required
Independent Polling has – Robert Jenrick (55%), Tom Tugendhat (52%), Kemi Badenoch (52%), Priti Patel (47%), Suella Braverman (45%)
With 30% saying they are undecided.
All those named are part of the problem, and were responsible for the situation the Conservative Party finds itself in today. If you like they are all standing as the continuity candidate, nothing is wrong and they didnât fail the people of the UK. They are not going to be the Opposition the country needs.
Unfortunately, more of the same, a Socialist UniParty, rejoin the EU, is not what is needed. The all allowed the immigration situation to grow and fester. The all disregard the economy. The all supported massive uncontrolled spending and borrowing, that the tried to mitigate with a 70 year high in taxation. They all accepted the collective responsibility of punishment and control.
A fresh view, a real fresh view, someone that truly gets what it means to be a Conservative is simply all that is required â we donât need more lip service. We donât need the subterfuge of false promises and lies those named have been responsible for foisting on the country over the last 14 years.
July 23, 2024
âA large increase in low pay migration means large increases in public spending to provide them with homes and services.â
Except there wonât be any extra money available for increases in public spending as Net Zero requires that we de-growth, de-industrialise, use less energy, import more and grow less food.
So as the population increases the GDP decreases.
July 23, 2024
I understand from the news media that Labour are selling off a cheap barge …if anyone’s interested
July 23, 2024
Disturbing scenes coming out of Ireland on the importation issue. Nation states and their ancient identities under attack from the Globalist parasites
July 23, 2024
DOM – The people need to be aware of the Trojan Horse that is slowly and deliberately being manouvered into position. Many are still asleep.
July 24, 2024
We need to ensure the common travel area is retained for Irish nationals only or it will just be a holding area to forward them all into the UK.
July 23, 2024
Dear Sir John,
Any MP coming into the Government will be confronted by two political facts:
1) The National Health Service, the largest employer in democratic Europe, has long depended critically on a continuing flow of (mostly trained) immigrants.
2) The Treasury relies on legal immigration to bolster and expand GDP and Exchequer receipts, providing more money to pay for semi-fixed costs such as the armed forces, embassies abroad and the OBR (as a representative quango).
Only now are politicians beginning to understand that while the short-run marginal costs to public services are low, especially if people come ready-trained, the long-run marginal costs of large-scale immigration are becoming extremely high.
Even so, the new Government’s mantra is still to “grow the economy” ie GDP, rather than to grow incomes and living standards, ie GDP per head.
July 25, 2024
Yes, and those trained immigrants are free movers with worldwide skills and aren’t happy with pay; having no ties to the UK, they have guns to our heads. We should never have ended the training of British children in medicine with local connections and a wish to serve their local community.
July 23, 2024
I think it has been stopped now but who on earth in Government and/or the civil service thought it appropriate to allow students here to study to bring in their families also? And who paid for them? Instead of one immigrant we’ll have four, all will have free access to our own welfare state, at enormous costs to those who pay taxes.
Are there any good bookkeepers within Government? ’cause the maths certainly do not add up.
July 23, 2024
Everyone here complaining about immigration (and I agree). But no ideas about how to reduce it.
Things like Rwanda is sticky plaster (although potentially useful to a degree).
The problem requires surgery.
What is the problem?
The problem is that millions of native British don’t want to work.
Therefore the multinationals have to call on immigrants.
If we have no immigrants, our economy falters / slides.
So what’s the solution? (Recreating the poverty of the Victorian era won’t work as people now have guns and other dangerous weapons and guns – the country would quickly fall into anarchy).
The only solution is for Conservatives to work closer with those in the churches, media, arts and education to get try and instil healthy Conservative cultural values back into the population (same for rest of Western World).
And this isn’t all talk. There are some Conservative-minded people such as Jordan Peterson doing this. And is being about x million times more successful in promoting traditional Conservative values than your average Tory MP. He’s doing something really proactive.
July 25, 2024
Ed M. We need to identify precisely who the “millions of native British donât want to work” are. 10 % of whom have never had a paid job.
I know four benefit mums. One Mum senior had four girls well spaced out to never work in paid employment herself. Three are now benefit mum trainees, too, and the fourth won’t be long behind. They know every way to increase benefits, ADHD, etc., so much so that they had a holiday in Florida, run cars, and have a designer garden. Most other people I know are hard workers.
July 23, 2024
You have started by saying we have too many migrants.I agree.More of anything doesn’t improve services,it doesn’t necessarily improve production and the mistaken perception that immigrants help with low level jobs paid at the lowest rates possible has simply added to our overall public services dilemma.
As far as teaching is concerned many schools are now using alternative staff,who are still well trained and actually do the teaching rather than engage in be autocratic nonsense daily.
As far as GP s are concerned,we need more advanced practitioners who are experienced and understand that general practice is an entirely different type of practice than a younger hospital Dr.
The practitioners have mainly worked on every aspect of primary and secondary health care,have taken extra degrees and know the whole system.This may have taken 20-40 years,so they have seen the changes and updated regularly to keep their registration.The continuing study is at a high level where all staff attend
A rethink is required.A newly qualified GP ,s working knowledge is not on a par with the experienced practitioner.
July 23, 2024
That should be ‘beaurocratic nonsense’.Predictive text did it’s own thing .