On Immigration: Feed the Rich, Starve Everyone Else
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by Louis Newton
It’s true. Uncontrolled immigration has been a bane for Britain. That was government policy – right or wrong – and it can be changed for the future, if not undone for the past. I’m not sure this has all that much to do with infrastructure.
It will have cultural consequences, in that large numbers of immigrants to a small country can have far-reaching consequences for the daily life of that country, especially if the immigrants form a large enough body to become a block of people who can exist without necessarily being assimilated into the already existing culture.
It might help to remember that Great Britain is roughly the size of the state of Oregon with a bit of southern Washington State thrown in. Import several million Poles or Greeks or ANY fairly cohesive social group into a small area and there may be assimilation problems.
The US has not had that particular problem, at least not to the same extent, except in the matter of Spanish speakers who, because of their sheer bulk in certain areas, may not feel so great a need for learning English as a smaller group of immigrants might. (We’ll pass over the awkward fact that in some areas Spanish speakers might have been in the area before any influx of English speakers. [cough])
On the other hand, Britain’s infrastructure – as opposed to cultural – problems are the result of governmental decisions about economic priorities. They have a history of idiotic privatizations that have wrecked previously stable institutions (just ask a Brit what he or she thinks of the current British rail operations), and of criminal under-funding of others (the National Health Service. . .”You want sheets on your bed, love? Sorry, you’ll have to go private for that).
They have the same tax problems that we currently have; i.e., the rich are exempted, healthy corporations are fattened with exemptions, and the poor are made poorer by “austerity measures” for the supposed good of the country, all which will require “sacrifice” (if only from the poor) and a “stiff upper lip” (not surprisingly also on the part of the poor).
They also have an inflated notion of their world importance left over from their imperial past and the more recent World War II era when they did, indeed, stand virtually alone against Hitler.
All that is over and, no, it doesn’t really matter all that much to world peace whether Britain spends millions or billions on nuclear submarines… .yet they feel they must in order to be a “world power.”
So, immigration is indeed a problem in Britain because huge numbers of people have been – sometimes deliberately (yes) – imported into an already cramped space, so huge a number that the pressure of assimilation no longer need to apply as previously, and who are now easily able to bring pressure onto the host country to change its ways to fit the beliefs and customs of the new-comers.
This very real problem certainly will have an impact on infrastructure in general (say, in housing because more is needed), but that problem is brutally exacerbated by governmental policies (such as selling off low-rent council properties to private buyers without replacing those former properties, and then not expanding the low-rent opportunities in general).
Britain’s policies in the immediate past (the iniquitous Thatcher and her successors, including Blair) and still now in the present, are all too similar to those which control US policy, both towards the world at large (the continuous War Machine, though on a smaller scale in Britain) and towards the common people (feed the rich, starve everyone else).
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I don’t know what he/she is talking about not exactly clear just sounds like another Norman/Neil trying to spread the scare story again.
Preemptive comment for someone that knows who they are, don’t you fuckin dare bring your usual shit to Cheryl, I’m watching and will call your ass on it.
signed, Mz Aggressive USA 2018
Who are they? I’m dyin’ over here!
That Mbates person who has taken a liking to our Neil and thinks s/he is in with a chance at him loving him/her. Go look at Neil’s last post about democracy under threat and you’ll see. I warned him/her it would not end well if I get involved with them and I meant it 🙂
I’ll…I’ll duck 😀
You don’t need to, it is not your fault you have crazy stalkers ;). H/She pulled you into this shit by thinking you were some kind of brain damaged dolt, that could not take criticism.
I am not brain damaged!…dolt maybe 😉
I did see that comment, Jess. Was quite proud of you actually 🙂 Thought that might be who you were talking about.
😂😂😂😉
The article was so good Neil I thought you had written it, I know immigration is a pet subject of yours. Immigrants never used to bother me, but after reading your articles and comments, I now see the dangers. All these years I’ve been unaware of people stealing our country and taking jobs from Americans. I’m a believer Neil.
So you see the dangers with immigrants in the United Kingdom taking jobs from Americans do ya? That has to be the stupidest comment on the internet today and I have been sitting in front of it all damn day today and have seen some stupid shit. You never even read Louis’s article did ya? You could have at least given him the courtesy of reading it but I am of the impression you might have had to cut some holes in the sheets you wear to see properly. This is about immigration in Britain you dumb bastard.
LOL! Yep. I was right. It was Mr/Mrs/Ms. Bates who was warned alright. You were warned there Mr/Mrs/Ms. Bates 🙂
H/she is either an idiot, or someone who is taking Poe’s law to the extreme and Admiral Ackbar’s trap warning flew right over my head. Either way I get practice at coming up with new and exciting insults 🙂
I know the article is from a British perspective, but Neil has opened my eyes and I now examine my own environment with sharper and more intense focus. I feel Neil and I are on the same page, I am so grateful for his insight.
You are not even in the same book as him, never mind the same page.
Been repeating it ad nauseum….too many immigrants in Britain. It isn’t their fault in any way shape or form but say it and you’re racist and/or xenophobic.
I disagree Cheryl74, albeit I do understand your anger and frustration and, indeed, some immigrants do indeed behave that way but many don’t. Many are a boon to our country and economy.
It’s the one’s who do behave as you say that, frankly, shouldn’t be here.
That’s were the numbers cause the problem. Had we had sensible controls then only immigrants who would benefit Britain and be prepared to assimilate would have been allowed in. The significant numbers who do neither wouldn’t have got through the door.
As for politicians. Does anyone have the naivety to trust any of them anymore?
Excellent article Louis
Bollocks Neil/Norman. I been following you over here for years. You feel EXACTLY like I do and every bugger knows it. Don’t know why you can’t just be you.
LOL! Someone knows you there old bean.
I just said how I feel.
Controlled immigration would have been fine – one of the fundamentals being ‘if you settle in Britain YOU adapt to Britain’. It is a one way street in my view.
I will never accept any other culture being intrusive on my country and, yes, it is my country not the immigrants.
THEY adapt I do not.
That’s my belief end of.
However, I do not, and have never, blamed the immigrants whether ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
We are in a very bad place right now and, I suspect, without a political party capable of winning and governing whilst accepting that mass immigration has been a disaster and being prepared to take serious action to rectify the situation we, the British, are frankly screwed.
I have to agree with you here Neil. I’ve no issues with immigrants, provided they obey the laws of their host country and make an effort to assimilate. When some start complaining about people walking those “filthy” dogs I get angry and understand that others would as well.
We’ve immigrants on every bloody corner over here Mr. Newton. Where’ve you been? Not in London I don’t expect, because the buggers are everywhere, and they don’t give a happy shite about us. They’ll walk over you, spit at you, and call you names. If you’re walking a dog in what they consider they’re “neighbourhood” they’ll bloody throw rocks at you. Now I care nowt about what colour they are, but I care when they treat US like dirt under their feet. The pols have a lot to do with the numbers, but how these buggers act is on them. Send them all home and make our lives better.
I have the same thing where I live in the Bay Area of California Cheryl, lot of immigrants in certain areas and not one time have I ever been accosted by them, the way I have by white people, mainly older men, when I have the nerve, the nerve I say… to walk outside and go about my business. Tell me, how would your life be better if someone else was gone and who decides what ones go back home, providing they are foreign born. No really not being an asshole, I am curious.
Cheryl74: You obviously didn’t read – or understand – what I wrote if you think I don’t care. Try again.
Not taking the piss love, just making words. You wrote a bloody good article, just wanted to make sure readers knew what was happening in London.
Cheryl74 you said that immigrants throw rocks at you if you walk your dog in their neighborhood? I thought London was a modern city, but if there are rocks lying everywhere, obviously my idea of London is totally wrong.
America is built on immigrants, from the bottom up. Our president, however, is trying to undo all the progress that has been made toward assimilation, which, in some places in the country, has been complete for generations.
dolt45 needs to find him a history book to show him many of the people from those same “shitholes” were rounded up, put in chains and brought to other places against their will. I fuckin hate this guy with the heat of a thousand suns.
I hate him as well. I thought I hated Dubya, but in comparison to the Big Pig, I only mildly disliked him.