125Forever
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Not exactly a flood, is it?
Enough of a flood that we have to divert funds towards looking after them, which is unfair on the people in the UK who are then put to the back of the queue for things such as housing welfare. It is disgusting that councils can suddenly find room for migrants (which is a human right and I won't decry that) yet they won't find room for people already here of all races. I have a Jamaican friend who has been waiting two years to be rehoused with her young son, and all the council tells her is 'sorry but we have to put the migrants first - you'll just have to wait.'
Why don't they? What's stopping them from working hard? I do it, everyone in my family does it. We all provide for our families and feel that we belong to our communities.
Nothing is stopping them from working, but you are probably earning a good wage. Don't forget that some people mainly from the working class areas may not be wholly literate or numerate amongst other things (a lot of them lack confidence as well). If they could be helped then I am sure they'd work for a good wage (which is another thing - when migrant workers are being paid less to do a job, then it undercuts the job market). As was said in a previous post of yours 'let's put faith in our young people' - if we don't give them a chance, we betray not only them but subsequent generations.
There's a difference between saying 'you, the Government, are not doing enough to help people like me' and saying 'all the foreigners in this country means my life is rubbish' and the latter is what UKIP and Trump play on.
If we have no more immigration from tomorrow, not one person that is non-UK born enters the country, what will change?
Well, now we are Brexiting the Government of the day will have no excuses (the age old 'it's the EU fault' cannot be used anymore). As for what would change, well I would hope that the population-infrastructure-jobs ratios would start to work out better. We can't have more population, no change on infrastructure and less jobs.
Enough of a flood that we have to divert funds towards looking after them, which is unfair on the people in the UK who are then put to the back of the queue for things such as housing welfare. It is disgusting that councils can suddenly find room for migrants (which is a human right and I won't decry that) yet they won't find room for people already here of all races. I have a Jamaican friend who has been waiting two years to be rehoused with her young son, and all the council tells her is 'sorry but we have to put the migrants first - you'll just have to wait.'
Why don't they? What's stopping them from working hard? I do it, everyone in my family does it. We all provide for our families and feel that we belong to our communities.
Nothing is stopping them from working, but you are probably earning a good wage. Don't forget that some people mainly from the working class areas may not be wholly literate or numerate amongst other things (a lot of them lack confidence as well). If they could be helped then I am sure they'd work for a good wage (which is another thing - when migrant workers are being paid less to do a job, then it undercuts the job market). As was said in a previous post of yours 'let's put faith in our young people' - if we don't give them a chance, we betray not only them but subsequent generations.
There's a difference between saying 'you, the Government, are not doing enough to help people like me' and saying 'all the foreigners in this country means my life is rubbish' and the latter is what UKIP and Trump play on.
If we have no more immigration from tomorrow, not one person that is non-UK born enters the country, what will change?
Well, now we are Brexiting the Government of the day will have no excuses (the age old 'it's the EU fault' cannot be used anymore). As for what would change, well I would hope that the population-infrastructure-jobs ratios would start to work out better. We can't have more population, no change on infrastructure and less jobs.