Then why are the Conservatives way ahead in the polls?
I said from my point of view, it is entirely possible other people who want Brexit support Boris and the Tories. A mistake in my view.
Non-EU migration did, yes, as Full Fact show. It's also to be expected in economic booms- we saw a similar swing in the 1980s boom under Thatcher (but that was hidden by starting from a position of significant net emigration). These weren't low-skill migrants, though; the law didn't allow that. They came here as our economy boomed, especially in finance; a significant chunk of our financial sector is staffed by people from abroad.
These people have caused the London property boom and population increase, yes. We can have a conversation about that (and would highlight Labour's Crossrail).
But what they've got to do with someone in Stoke not finding work is less clear. And even less clear what they have to do with Brexit.
Still,
, is a nice dog whistle. Labour loves those dirty forrins, not like us Tory Brexitists.
I note you don't attach such nefarious aims to Thatcher's 150,000 net swing in immigration...
I have also said on numerous occasions I am not talking solely of EU immigration. Most people wont really see were immigration is from, they just see the end results. The point I am making is that it is easy for people who don't have the full picture to blame the EU (the system or whatever) for something they see as not working for them.
Just to be clear here I have never said immigration is bad and am not a Tory Brexitist although I am not a Labour change direction every time the wind changesist either. I have said successive governments have failed to deal with immigration properly hence the result we have and people voting Brexit once they have built a perception of the situation. It increased largely under the Labour government which ever way you look at it. It was actively encouraged, I think Blair even admitted as much.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...-did-not-realise-many-migrants-would-come-uk/
Also admits a failure of multiculturalism
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...s-migrants-must-integrate-to-combat-far-right
Once again I'm amazed by the ingenuity of migrants managing to simultaneously take all the jobs and be a drain on public finances/resources.
Ah I forgot of course these extra people don't need houses, school places, hospitals, they don't drive, use trains. Again its a UK government problem but we simply don't have enough housing, we are struggling to build enough to meet demand hence the stupid cost of housing. We don't have enough infrastructure roads are jammed, trains are full, schools have huge class sizes, hospitals are full, the emergency services are stretch.
The solution is a honest government that tell us the issues and tell us we all need to pay more. Not just a ideological agenda against someone you are jealous of.
Proof please, no anecdotes thank you, hard evidence, links, actual quotes, news articles where he's been caught lying.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...stinian-terrorists-antisemitism-a8489731.html
There are many more. The guy is a pathological liar.
Those quota reductions are EU wide, not just affecting the UK, and it's to ensure that the likes of mine and your Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren have something called a fish to eat, instead of clearing the oceans and consigning them to the history books
So Labour's hospital and school rebuilding plans (however flawed they were by the use of PFI's), which often increased the size of these buildings (I worked at Sunderland Royal for 2 years and their rebuild/ extension almost doubled the amount of beds that were available)
That's a UK government failure, nothing to do with the EU
Most of the large scale fishing in British Waters was by European fleets. The British/Icelandic/Norwegian fishermen managed stocks quite well before the Common Fishing Policy.
I agree it is a UK government failure over many years, but if you are going to encourage immigration you should plan properly for it or you are in the danger of people making their own incorrect judgements.
Stoke also had a new PFI hospital and PFI schools for the future (replacing many schools that could have been refurbished for half the cost). Some of the buildings were smaller, the quality of the builds was poor. New schools and hospitals replacing existing, other major infrastructure projects were needed.
We are left in a situation now where the billion pound hospital isn't really big enough because whoever planned it didn't plan properly. Some of the schools are having to rent space in other buildings because there new buildings were not built to a large enough spec.
), I grew up used to having Eastern Europeans living in our community. It didn't seem to upset people anything like as much as it does today, we just took it for granted. Yes there were a few bigots about, but generally people were able to just get on with life. Fast forward to today, we still have some Polish & Lithuanian neighbours, but these guys feel far less welcome than our neighbours did in the 1970s, fuelled in part by the increasingly nasty rhetoric emanating from the further reaches of the right wing political groups & media.
Good lord. I at no point said that they didn't contribute to any of these things.
