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Stirlingsays Flag 05 Dec 23 1.48pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

People who can call actual facts 'lies' should be seen for who they really are.

The left have attempted to lie about the economic cost of non European immigration but the numbers don't lie and anyone saying that it isn't a net loss has an agenda.

While others can make mincemeat of the ridiculous defence of yet more economic madness connected to non European immigration I'll raise and rush a few points as I have stuff to do.

Commitments to reduce numbers are only that. Also, reducing numbers from a level of seven hundred thousand isn't some win....We were promised tens of thousands.....Even Starmer saying that he plans to half immigration figures is only going back to the disastrous increases we had under Blair....which is where these deliberately allowed invasions started happening.

Also, I really have to point out the ridiculousness of saying dependents will work is another statement pulled out of a rear end. Children and old people are part of this equation and will always be a burden on the state...which is many cases is exactly why they are here......While I would never have a situation where children are left without provision on British soil the reality remains that these children and old people shouldn't be here in the first place.

It's a lie to say dependents aren't a burden on the state. It's all dependent upon status and by being here they eventually become part of the system and are fully accepted.

Student visas are a consequence of higher education funding itself via this method and is deliberate government policy.

Again, I'll make the point that immigrants grow old too and this makes zero economic sense and is pure short term neoliberalism will no regard for our future. These people take more than they produce and will make pensions impossible as a practical means of support.

As stated previously the madness of mass immigration is a consequence of what the establishment want. The financial, corporate and business sectors lobby hard for mass immigration because low wages and higher mortgages are in their interests.....The government also gets short term positives in terms of a higher or non failing housing market.

However, the can being kicked down the road causes far far more damage the further it goes.

Edited by Stirlingsays (05 Dec 2023 1.50pm)

 


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Stirlingsays Flag 05 Dec 23 1.53pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

That becomes a problem when the business is say the NHS, or a care home, or a nursery - we can’t afford to just let these functions fail.

The ‘businesses who have survived by employing cheap labour from abroad’ includes nearly all public services.

These sectors didn't rely upon immigration before. This is a question of incentive and pay.

The fact that they do now need foreign workers is governmental and business sector economic policy.

Just as the current situation was manufactured by these institutions so they can be manufactured back to their original state....it's only a question of will.

 


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Stirlingsays Flag 05 Dec 23 1.59pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

Why are you so keen to allow so many foreigners here?

What do you get out of it?

Take that red pill Hrolf and find out.

 


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EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 05 Dec 23 2.04pm Send a Private Message to EverybodyDannsNow Add EverybodyDannsNow as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

These sectors didn't rely upon immigration before. This is a question of incentive and pay.

The fact that they do now need foreign workers is governmental and business sector economic policy.

Just as the current situation was manufactured by these institutions so they can be manufactured back to their original state....it's only a question of will.

And yet many on the right strongly opposed the strikes this year claiming we can’t afford public sector pay rises - I don’t recall your position on the strikes specifically, but there is certainly a big overlap between those who don’t want us to rely on immigration but also don’t want public sector pay rises - that’s a position that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

Can you expand on how things can be manufactured back to how they were? I think you’re making that sound much easier than the reality.

For example, we have nursing shortages in the tens of thousands, an ageing population, and a salary offering which is not remotely attractive versus the investment required to become qualified and indeed versus the rigours of job itself, for most domestic people - regardless of how we ended up here, I don’t see how you square that circle without significant immigration.

 

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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 05 Dec 23 2.12pm Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

That becomes a problem when the business is say the NHS, or a care home, or a nursery - we can’t afford to just let these functions fail.

The ‘businesses who have survived by employing cheap labour from abroad’ includes nearly all public services.

I accept that there would now have to be a concerted effort to train and employ British people while phasing out the dependency on foreign workers in public services.
This is a problem that has been created by short termism and must now be rectified with a commitment to fund better wages for currently low paid workers and training.
The overriding issue is a fall in the birth rate, which is largely about contraception, but also because women with children now have to work along with their husbands in order to maintain a lifestyle that only one breadwinner could attain in the past.


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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 05 Dec 23 2.15pm Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

And yet many on the right strongly opposed the strikes this year claiming we can’t afford public sector pay rises - I don’t recall your position on the strikes specifically, but there is certainly a big overlap between those who don’t want us to rely on immigration but also don’t want public sector pay rises - that’s a position that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

Can you expand on how things can be manufactured back to how they were? I think you’re making that sound much easier than the reality.

For example, we have nursing shortages in the tens of thousands, an ageing population, and a salary offering which is not remotely attractive versus the investment required to become qualified and indeed versus the rigours of job itself, for most domestic people - regardless of how we ended up here, I don’t see how you square that circle without significant immigration.

Most sympathise with nurses, but not junior doctors or Train drivers who earn 60k for a 4 day week and clearly strike for political reasons.

 

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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 05 Dec 23 2.18pm Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Take that red pill Hrolf and find out.

These people are just so short sighted and seem to think that national borders have no purpose.

 

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Stirlingsays Flag 05 Dec 23 2.19pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

And yet many on the right strongly opposed the strikes this year claiming we can’t afford public sector pay rises - I don’t recall your position on the strikes specifically, but there is certainly a big overlap between those who don’t want us to rely on immigration but also don’t want public sector pay rises - that’s a position that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

Can you expand on how things can be manufactured back to how they were? I think you’re making that sound much easier than the reality.

For example, we have nursing shortages in the tens of thousands, an ageing population, and a salary offering which is not remotely attractive versus the investment required to become qualified and indeed versus the rigours of job itself, for most domestic people - regardless of how we ended up here, I don’t see how you square that circle without significant immigration.

I suspect many of those who supported higher pay also supported the covid response that was an economic disaster.

My position in regards to strikes has always been a utilitarian one. If someone isn't happy with their pay they need to change jobs. If the public sector can't staff its provision on current pay/conditions then they need to raise pay or adapt to ensure they can.

As for how you change the current reliance on immigration labour for certain business and public sectors. As I stated this is purely a question of political will (which is why it won't happen).

If we imagine the will was actually there then you can't change it in a couple of years but instead put into place the long term incentives and negatives to ensure that British workers are employed and not imported ones. Obviously different sectors have different needs and policies designed to reflect that.

But in general the policies to do this have long been known but just not implemented.....wage requirements, qualification requirements (from reputable institutions) and I'd go further with other policies you object to even more but proper implementation of just these milk toast ones would change the dynamic straight away.

I haven't even mentioned automation and the changes that produces but boy my posts are long enough as it is.

Edited by Stirlingsays (05 Dec 2023 2.34pm)

 


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Stirlingsays Flag 05 Dec 23 2.27pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

These people are just so short sighted and seem to think that national borders have no purpose.

It would be nice to think it thus.

It is of course not just one factor but several and it differs dependent upon the ideological beliefs of that individual. A white middle class progressive will have the same position as a minority but not for quite the same motivations.

Someone like Wisbech isn't stupid, there is far more to it than national borders but you're right that ultimately it is an emotional response.

The majority of minorities obviously work against the host ethnicity because they view that as in their interests....not because they are against an ethnicity being dominant just not the host one.....Some of course from a certain ethnicity fear 'Hitler'.

Progressives are essentially holding onto utopianism and other middle class fantasies because fundamentally they think that human nature is malleable, the old flaws always remain.

In the case of our particular poster from Cornwall of course. Well he always has somewhere else he could run away too.....though if he's honest about his age that would be moot.

Edited by Stirlingsays (05 Dec 2023 3.33pm)

 


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Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 05 Dec 23 2.43pm Send a Private Message to Forest Hillbilly Add Forest Hillbilly as a friend

contaminated blood donations. Shouldn't really be a political football, much like the shambolic delay finding the truth over Hillsborough.
I recall seeing infected blood donations (principally with AIDS/HIV) being a BBC news item in November 1984.

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Here we are in 2023 (nearly 2024) still dithering over compensation. Many of the victims died ages ago, and I see this as another political football (Kicked off by Thatcher's Government, and kicked into the long grass by successive Governments) until we reach now.
Most of the victims had a shortened life and few are still around to get anything worthwhile.
The whole investigation and deciding compensation lasted over 40 years is just a sick joke. Rishi Sunak wanted to delay it further, but was defeated in a vote.

 


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Badger11 Flag Beckenham 05 Dec 23 3.19pm Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly

contaminated blood donations. Shouldn't really be a political football, much like the shambolic delay finding the truth over Hillsborough.
I recall seeing infected blood donations (principally with AIDS/HIV) being a BBC news item in November 1984.

[Link]

Here we are in 2023 (nearly 2024) still dithering over compensation. Many of the victims died ages ago, and I see this as another political football (Kicked off by Thatcher's Government, and kicked into the long grass by successive Governments) until we reach now.
Most of the victims had a shortened life and few are still around to get anything worthwhile.
The whole investigation and deciding compensation lasted over 40 years is just a sick joke. Rishi Sunak wanted to delay it further, but was defeated in a vote.

I do not understand the policial mileage in opposing paying the victims now.

Parliament knows that they have been treated disgracefully by both Tory and Labour governments and that it is time to to pay up hence the cross party support.

What Sunak is playing at god only knows.

 


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steeleye20 Flag Croydon 05 Dec 23 3.20pm Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

Rwanda is the most ridiculous pointless scheme I can recall.

To have it as some kind of tory flagship policy, why it's bonkers, it cannot possibly make any difference to the record figure of around 745,000, much of it created by Sunak himself.

The cost, now 155 millions still looks like nobody will actually go there, an amazing episode of tory incompetence to cap all the others.

Sunak acting like the spoilt brat he is, toys out of the pram and the country has to pay for it.

 

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