immigrants are almost universally good for economies: they disproportionately start small businesses which leads to jobs and employment. they work hard because they’re thankful to be in the country they chose to be in
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Wanderer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Houses got more expensive and wages stayed low. Immigration from the third world was a mistake. We should have reinvested in ourselves for the benefit of the people insead of the benefit of businesses and land owners, and also stop being so concerned about a lowing population.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Wanderer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The metrics they just for immigrants are intentionally misleading. They fill jobs that no one else will do because they work for less, that’s not a good thing that is bad for the locals say wages are suppressed. They say we need immigrants because we don’t have people with the skills yo do that job, the reason people don’t have those skills is because we don’t invest in people. So locals now don’t get the higher trained job because its cheaper to give it to someone else. Population is going down so things like houses will get cheaper but that bad for government numbers so immigrant get brought in to keep house prices high. That’s bad for locals.
Immigration is good for GDP yes. But the everday person get less jobs, less training less pay and then has to pay more for rent. Who gives a shit about GDP is disposable income goes down?
Then there is a lot non financial issues also. But they are more subjective and people want to talk about then even less, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 6 months ago
man you really don’t see them as human beings do you?
Wanderer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That’s not it at all.
I love travelling and I love going to see other cultures. But I also love my own country and I love how other countries are also their own.
The question is what do you want for your country. Do you care more about big business, increasing GDP growth, lower wages for more competitive industry? Or do you want that’s best for the people of that country. I care more about the people.
Immigrations isn’t and hasn’t been good for the UK. If you actually travel if you actually move around the country or move around other countries it becomes blindly apparent there are some really unfortunate truths about immigration. I don’t want a Muslim influence in cities I’ve live in, that’s not my culture, I am atheist anyway so I don’t like anything like that. And I have done that. Lived in places where people look at your like you don’t belong because you are white. But if other people want to have that culture they can feel free, but why should I be happy about them coming to my country and changing things about my country that isn’t my country? That’s not to say I’m against immigration but the reason is why? We need to talk clearly about the type of immigration that is good and they type that is bad. Similar cultures like the EU with the back and forth good. Third world immigration where wages are kept low, population increasing and isolated communities that don’t integrate? Not good.
I got nothing against these people I wish them all the best. But I think we should be making a better country for the people, they should work on the same. We haven’t got to set ourselves on fire to keep others warm.
TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 6 months ago
I don’t think the immigrants are to blame. They make a really easy target for politicians to blame, but… I mean, we both saw Boris Johnson campaigning for his fucking life on ‘SAVE THE NHS SAVE THE NHS, JUST LET ME BAN ALL IMMIGRANTS AND RESTRICT HEALTHCARE SO I CAN SAVE THE NHS’ and then he didn’t give the NHS any money or support or investment, he just slipped a an absolutely fat bonus to all his tory friends and big businesses.
We should have invested in ourselves, yes. Just, please don’t be fooled into thinking we invested into immigrants. ‘We’ (the Tories) invested into the offshore bank accounts of the 0.1%.
Emperor@feddit.uk 6 months ago
They’re easy to blame though. No government is going to say “you are suffering because of our policies” and the Tories will always point fingers at some group to spread the blame.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I didn’t say we invested in immigrants. We didn’t invest at all.
It’s a cost saving exercise at the expense of the everday person.