And so it goes on.... immigration and Alice in Wonderland....
And so it goes on.
1. The government has recently admitted that the number of asylum seekers of unknown whereabouts is now 400,000+ as opposed to the 200,000 stated previously which itself was an increase of suggestions that it was less than 100,000. So we can probably say that its likely to be north of 1m when we are finished estimations.
2. Figures just snuck out of the Treasury identify that last year 660,000 (yes 2/3 million) of new NI numbers were given to foreign nationals. This is 2.3% of the working population of this country in one year. That equals THE ENTIRE GROWTH IN GDP.
3. While unemployment count is now steadily increasing, the Treasury (currently) denies that this is anything to do with immigration (although at last the question is actually being asked). Why, one asks, when the economy is growing so well is unemployment rising at all? Perhaps actually the underlying economic performance is actually flat but all we are seeing is the effect of a surge in foreign workers. Gordon Browns economy is actually now like stagnant Germany + immigration.
4. Well, can you believe it. In a leaked document, Junior Labour minister identifies that immigration is depressing low-income wages and that this may lead to "social problems". Who would have thought that! Can the laws of supply and demand really be true! When did the low-income voters vote for a clearly expressed policy of 2/3m new workers per annum. Err - they didn’t. And now Gordon is stuck. He can't turn the immigration tap off because his economic growth would collapse so that even the economically illiterate British Media would spot that we have a problem. He will struggle to contain public spending because 2.3% increase in (largely low income) workers drives huge leveraged increases in social spending (housing, education, policing etc).
And so this great social experiment continues - with some similarity to the now bankrupt experiment of throwing huge funds at the public NHS and Education systems.
RJ
1. The government has recently admitted that the number of asylum seekers of unknown whereabouts is now 400,000+ as opposed to the 200,000 stated previously which itself was an increase of suggestions that it was less than 100,000. So we can probably say that its likely to be north of 1m when we are finished estimations.
2. Figures just snuck out of the Treasury identify that last year 660,000 (yes 2/3 million) of new NI numbers were given to foreign nationals. This is 2.3% of the working population of this country in one year. That equals THE ENTIRE GROWTH IN GDP.
3. While unemployment count is now steadily increasing, the Treasury (currently) denies that this is anything to do with immigration (although at last the question is actually being asked). Why, one asks, when the economy is growing so well is unemployment rising at all? Perhaps actually the underlying economic performance is actually flat but all we are seeing is the effect of a surge in foreign workers. Gordon Browns economy is actually now like stagnant Germany + immigration.
4. Well, can you believe it. In a leaked document, Junior Labour minister identifies that immigration is depressing low-income wages and that this may lead to "social problems". Who would have thought that! Can the laws of supply and demand really be true! When did the low-income voters vote for a clearly expressed policy of 2/3m new workers per annum. Err - they didn’t. And now Gordon is stuck. He can't turn the immigration tap off because his economic growth would collapse so that even the economically illiterate British Media would spot that we have a problem. He will struggle to contain public spending because 2.3% increase in (largely low income) workers drives huge leveraged increases in social spending (housing, education, policing etc).
And so this great social experiment continues - with some similarity to the now bankrupt experiment of throwing huge funds at the public NHS and Education systems.
RJ
posted by Richard John | 4:38 pm
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