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Originally Posted by papa smurf
Osborne's 3million migrants clanger:
Tory MPs tore into George Osborne last night over a pro-EU dossier that says migration will add three million to the population.
They accused the Chancellor of making ‘unbelievable’ claims that families would be hammered and the nation left permanently poorer by leaving the Brussels club.
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Quelle surprise...
It strikes me as odd that further massive, rapid, population growth doesn't seem to be of concern to these people. Maybe they're not really worried about our already creaking services and infrastructure. Maybe they're not worried about all the people (illegal and not) living in garden sheds, crammed into unsafe and illegal multiple occupancy dwellings. Maybe they're not worried about the black economy many of these people exist within and help to growth. Maybe they're not worried about who these people are at all, what risks they may pose etc.
Anyway I've been listening to some more radio callers today and it seems the younger element prize majorly important stuff like being able to go to Paris without showing their passport. Nice, yes but I haven't yet heard any of them commenting on just what good the EU had done for their young peers in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy etc. who're unemployed in vast numbers. Maybe they ought to consider that but I suppose they feel comforted that when the EU doesn't work, people can at least just go somewhere else to live. What they're maybe overlooking is that those people are coming here in increasingly large numbers there's only so many jobs to go around so when things go bad here again just which countries are our youth planning to take their skills to? Where in the EU are they going to find jobs in large numbers?
If ever the was a policy which embodied 'quantity over quality' this has to be it. Why would successive governments be quite happy to see the UK experience even more rapid population growth than we've already had over the last decade or so when we patently can't cope with what we already have. It seems to me that for those who don't comprise the well off and elite, it's going to be a race to the bottom in terms of jobs, wages, lifestyles, communities, housing, services, social cohesion, the environment and future prospects. Are those people who complain about such things now seriously going to vote to add millions more people to the problem? To my mind the benefits to the ordinary man of EU membership are far outweighed by the evidence before our eyes all across Europe. Focus on that thought before putting your X in the 'IN' box.