I wonder how many people here recommending that we send refugees back to the war zones or allow them to perish at sea are also the same people who insist we are a Christian country.
A good re-read of the parable of The Good Samaritan might be in order here, even for atheists like me: 1. because that might guide so-called Christians to offer help to those who are suffering and 2. because the parable is a timely reminder that the hated Samaritans were also capable of great humanity.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Kinda inevitable given the below.
Simple supply and demand. Although I'm sure the more politically correct will either try and deny it or say it's a necessary price to pay for cultural enrichment and essential for some kind of ponzi scheme theory of how to run an economy.
Property owners will I'm sure be happy also. Between government wheezes to prop prices up and ongoing importation of demand for housing alongside home factors alongside housebuilding being heavily down to a private sector that will obviously not fulfil demand as it'd be less profitable to they should be fine for a while longer.
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The undercutting of wages can be stopped overnight if the government actually enforced the existing minimum wage and its proposed 'living wage'.
It is obvious why local workers won't take the 'less than minimum wage' jobs. It doesn't pay enough to keep a family at the level they are accustomed to. For European migrants it is a different matter. Initially at least, they are mostly youngsters prepared to live in crowded conditionals with minimum overheads. This is still better than they might be used to back home and the jobs are vacant.
Properly enforce the minimum wage with determined detection and punitive fines and we might find that local workers fill the jobs instead. Migration of the sort we are discussing will slump rapidly.
I have a theory on this Igi.
I believe that the government has systematically avoided anything that really decreases immigration because it relies upon mass immigration to rescue us from recession. It is no mistake that immigration is unsustainable high. Immigration boosts demand, business start ups and the revenue stream. It is not austerity that has rescued our economy, even with lower corporation tax. It is immigration.
Of course this is unsustainable because the effects upon our society. even though most immigrant families integrate by the second or third generation. Too many too fast is damaging. Also the new, young and vigorous immigrants will eventually have families and will age. They will eventually contribute no more than the indigenous population. The Tories care not a jot about that. All they are concerned about is the next election and their economic credentials. They will sustain the lie about austerity as long as they can and will continue to lie about their dependence on high migration.
What I find so sickening is that the government has declined to invest its increased tax receipts in the services of those areas under most pressure from immigration. Some families have immigrated too, not all immigrants are youngsters, and of course the NHS and other services are really stretched already.