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Originally Posted by papa smurf
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Somehow you missed this bit showing that Brexit made controlling migration harder. Guilty conscience?
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Brexit to blame for boat crossings
Moving on to the small boats returns agreement that Starmer just announced, Macron again takes aim at Brexit.
He acknowledges that leaving the EU was not the PM's doing, but says that people supporting Brexit argued it would make controlling migration easier - but the opposite was true.
Macron says that leaving the bloc meant there was no way for people to be returned to mainland Europe after people crossed the Channel.
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https://news.sky.com/story/politics-...-king-12593360
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Originally Posted by nomadking
From here. Official Government source.
Even with your figures, my point still stands, about if it was solely down to the crash, then it would've plummeted all by itself. It didn't. If the post-2010 figures were high because of the crash, then were was the austerity?
The Local Housing Allowance rules of 2007, heavily increased the housing benefit bill. Landlords suddenly knew how much rent they could charge housing benefit claimants.
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Economy tanks. Therefore less tax revenue and more benefits to pay out to those not working.
That doesn't mean that the government does not cut spending elsewhere eg defence, councils, infrastructure, etc.