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Britain tried to grow its economy not by investment in capital and skills (which requires work and deferred gratification) but by increasing the number of workers and consumers through mass immigration (which only requires issuing visas).
This model has been a failure.
@thymetikon
@lukeford
This is nothing. In the 1990's she wrote a book claiming 150,000 American women were dying every year from anorexia. The real number is in the dozens.
Periodic reminder that Emma Barnett's parents ran brothels. They were busted following the police rescue of a woman from Lithuania who was promised cleaning work and forced into prostitution in one of their premises.
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@carolinenokes
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Just heard from an exasperated person at the Office for National Statistics that international students at Swansea and others brought their parents AND grandparents in on dependent visas.
This country is a joke.
The number of Afghans claiming to be interpreters is very suspicious. 48,601 interpreter visas for the USA were given to Afghans between 2007-17. At peak, there were 100,000 US troops there. That’s an “interpreter” to every 2 soldiers. During the withdrawal there were 20,000
There is no point protesting illegal immigration outside hotels with Afghan Interpreters that we rescued during the collapse of Kabul.
They are not illegal immigrants. They risked their lives for us. We owe them, and we will pay that debt.
Immigration is higher than ever, while, GDP per capita, is projected to decline by -0.3% this year.
The UK is definitive proof that immigration does not lead to economic growth.
Today, we've published provisional long-term migration estimates for the UK, year ending June 2023.
▪️ Immigration was 1.2m
▪️ Emigration was 508,000
▪️ Provisional net migration (difference between people arriving and people leaving) was 672,000
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Ironically, the postmen injured by the Suffragettes in their bombing and arson campaign did not have the right to vote. They didn’t meet the wealth bar for the franchise.
Cheering as they burn someone to death because he allegedly said something they didn't like about Islam. This is Pakistan in 2024. There are no words to describe this savagery.
@PauletteHamilto
Those people with learning difficulties that you have kept out of your neighborhood have more humanity and dignity than you will ever attain.
You are a wicked person and a disgrace.
@georgeeaton
Being a better place to live than Pakistan is not a great achievement.
This is a cheeky attempt at reframing the facts of UK immigration. Mass immigration has coincided with economic stagnation and declining living standards.
Ireland's immigration numbers are truly cursed. Something like 3% of the current population have only arrived in the last year, and one in three hotels and B&Bs are used to house migrants.
If this trend continues, Ireland is gone in a single generation.
Oh.
My.
God.
The State takes a hotel from a town to house migrants.
And to appease the locals will now set up a state funded hotel!!
Let the crash come quickly before these utter imbeciles do any more damage.
Do you have to be a certified idiot to be a minister?
Rees-Mogg telling the BBC this is both the result of getting rid of Boris and betraying the party base on immigration.
Reminder that 'based' Boris threw visas around like confetti and ushered in unprecedented demographic change now being felt up and down the country.
When I was involved in right-wing activism, the people at the Adam Smith Institute and IEA would always say privately that they wanted more immigration in order to reduce the social solidarity that made postwar welfare states possible.
Britain does not "stand for" anything. We are not a creedal nation you can join by simply changing your mind. We are not the product of a single revolution or identifiable compact. This is not the USA. Ours is an ancient state. Your pound shop Obama rhetoric has no place here.
It goes against everything we stand for as a nation.
The Govt must now stop playing on people’s fears, treat asylum seekers with dignity, reduce the backlog of asylum claims and work constructively with allies to stop the dangerous people-trafficking gangs.
@Sargon_of_Akkad
Actually, they were very quick to blame the forces of Hate and Division on social media. Very little mention of the killer being a Muslim alien living in social housing by Hampstead Heath.
@ftukpolitics
This is so bad it really requires a community note.
Northern Ireland was not homogenous, but was fought over by two ethnic/religious groups.
Irish progressives try to retcon the Irish Revolution as a struggle for "human rights." In reality all the Irish wanted was a Gaelic, Roman Catholic state. And they were fairly happy with what they won.
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I made the mistake of getting involved in the Conservative Party. It is controlled by women like Nokes. Their 'compassion' and liberalism is really a form of indifference to the real issues and the struggles of ordinary people.
"Every day women will face misogyny and microaggressions... We have to do better,"
Caroline Nokes, Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, tells
@KirstyWark
more needs to be done to change the culture on abusive behaviour towards women.
#Newsnight
Noteworthy that the only man sentenced in the saga of Charlene Downs was her brother, who in a fury punched one of the Arabs who joked about grinding her body into kebab meat.
Never forget the horrors unleashed by mass immigration of Muslims to Britain.
Today is National Grooming Gang Day of Remembrance. Remember all the thousands of young British girls betrayed and sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism by Britain's craven politicians and elites.
The case of Charlene Downs, in particular, is one of the most horrific cases
@LunarPaths
@cafreiman
Exactly. Neoliberalism has only been hegemonic for a short time. Yet it has achieved low growth in the countries most enthusiastic about it. Also wrecked Russia in the 90s, sowed chaos in Iraq, devastated economies in 2008. Why does it still generate an impression of competence?
@mehdirhasan
The descendants of immigrants are entitled to make decisions based on their perception of the national interest, not just their tribal interests.
To say this is impossible places a permanent divide between the descendants of immigrants and the majority community.
I'm amazed this isn't brought up more. The population of London may be off by over 1.5 million people. The NHS Immunisation Management Service estimated there are 9.2 million residents over the age of twelve while the Office for National Statistics were saying it was 7.6 million
Remember when the supposed 3.5m EU citizens in Britain turned in 5.6m unique applications to the EU Settlement Scheme between them?
Seems clear that we do not actually know what the UK's population is with any precision - official figures should be understood as a lower bound.
If you invest in any index fund, you should expect and are expected to be able to take losses from time to time. But when those who borrow to the hilt to get a buy-to-let property can't take a loss for even a short period, it becomes a national crisis. These people are not seen
The 2010s were the peak of "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" Tory types who allowed this to happen, while refusing to take advantage of historically cheap credit to invest in our infrastructure.
The future of the left and right in Britain must be nationalist!
It still beggars belief that Admiralty Arch, the literal entrance into *Buckingham Palace* was sold off for just *60 million* and will soon be luxury hotels. Absolutely criminal. What other country does this?!
My Dad used to say that he was lucky to have known England, when it really was England.
I feel a similar way about Ireland now. I can't claim to have really seen the old Ireland, but I was there just before it became an extension of blue state America. A lost world now.
@ReemAmirIbrahim
Immigrants go to existing areas of opportunity. Their role in building wealth is greatly exaggerated. People don't migrate en masse to disaster zones. And if these immigrants had such magical economic power, why couldn't they make their homelands prosper in the first place?
Over a quarter of working age Middle Easterners in England and Wales are paid to be idle.
The size of the weekly Palestine marches is no surprise, and isn't reflective of some great humanitarian impulse. We are simply subsidising the participants to be here.
Non-European immigrants to the UK are far more likely to be long-term unemployed or economically inactive, especially those from the Middle East, South Asia & North Africa. In England & Wales, 27% of working age immigrants from the Middle East have never worked. That is more than
Irish nationalism has gone in a very strange direction.
The term "seoinín" (an insulting term for an Anglophile) is commonly associated with D.P. Moran, a fiercely patriotic writer who called for a homogeneous Irish-speaking and Roman Catholic Ireland.
The big secret is that Parliament can repeal or amend the pernicious Equality Act tomorrow if it wanted.
But Conservative politicians would rather write op-eds in The Times than legislate.
This is why campaigning against mass immigration is not letting the rich and powerful off the hook.
Yes, many immigrants are poor and pitiful. That doesn't mean they aren't being used by our elites to disenfranchise us.
British Jews like Baddiel and Aaronovitch should be called out for promoting multiculturalism when they complain about the inevitable results.
However, Anglo-Jewry is not American Jewry. After Protestants, Jews were the most likely religious denomination to vote for Brexit.
Plenty of highly-positioned liberal British Jews have ran PR for the demographic project that now serves to imperil them. You can at least surely be in favour of multiculturalism with a robust understanding of its limits. I’ve seen few commentators be honest about this.
UK - Gipton and Harehills in Leeds, has been won by the … erm ….Green Party.
Here the winning candidate makes it clear what his agenda is and it certainly doesn’t sound like it’s the environment “Allahu Akbar”
The media has neglected to show you this council result.
Astounding. There are over seven times as many Sub-Saharan Africans in social housing in London than there are British born people in social housing.
We are subsidising the world's poorest people to live in some of the world's most expensive real estate.
British discourse is broken. Campbell and other progressives claim we are living in a rainy fascist island since 2016, even though immigration is higher than ever, the rainbow flag flies from every building, while Muslim communities openly threaten children who scuff a Koran.
Members of Muslim Brotherhood-style factions have won refugee status here because they are indeed often persecuted in their home countries (for good reason!). This is how the family of the Manchester arena bomber settled in Britain. Oborne is a real dope.
“I’ve talked to a lot of Muslim Brotherhood people. They’re not fanatics - and they really love Britain!”
@OborneTweets
with a perspective you're unlikely to hear anywhere in the mainstream media.
Britain tried to grow its economy not by investments in capital and skills (these require work and deferred gratification) but by increasing the number of workers and consumers through mass immigration (which only requires issuing visas).
This model has been a massive failure
Genuine question, what has the British state actually DONE since 1997? It’s failed to secure our energy and build any infrastructure bar Crossrail. It should be classified as a “migration state” as high levels of inward immigration is about the only significant lasting legacy
This is exactly what happened to us. Britain tried to grow its economy by a kind of human quantitative easing, because it seemed easier than investing in capital and skills. It's like getting through life on Red Bull and energy bars rather than cooking meals. Reality catches up!
Even some of the hardcore free market people I knew from my political activism back in the day have seen what has happened to Britain this last decade and realised that a lot of their assumptions about immigration were wrong.
A whole generation is growing up fully convinced this is the case. I know because I was taught a variant in school.
The shift to a narrative of Britain as a nation of immigrants has been totalising and incredibly effective.
@IanJon407
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@dupplysumand
I was raised on The Economist's endless "lost decades" features on Japan. Then I went there.
There's a lot the stats don't capture. Japan does not look or feel moribund, unlike most of the UK.
It's not a perfect country, but we'd be doing pretty well with their problems.
If our economists were in charge of Japan during the Meiji Restoration, there would have been no industrial revolution there. They would have told Japan to specialise in rice farming in the global trade system, and perhaps import Chinese labourers to make rice production cheaper
British firms are notoriously unwilling to invest in their workforce, but they also simply lack the capital. I don't say any way out of this other than using the state to pick up the slack. If this violates some precious free market principles, so be it.
Since 2019, with a whopping majority and a post-Brexit commitment to Global Britain, the Conservative Party has overseen the largest increase in migration in the UK's history - driven by a huge increase in arrivals from India, Nigeria and Pakistan.
"In multiracial societies, you don't vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion."
— Lee Kuan Yew
Not long ago, the economic case for immigration was considered settled. Even many restrictionists conceded this, and tried to argue on purely cultural grounds.
There were notable exceptions.
Members of Muslim Brotherhood-style factions have won refugee status here because they are indeed often persecuted in their home countries (for good reason!). This is how the family of the Manchester arena bomber settled in Britain. Oborne is a real dope.
If you invest in any index fund, you should expect and are expected to be able to take losses from time to time. But when those who borrow to the hilt to get a buy-to-let property can't take a loss for even a short period, it becomes a national crisis. These people are not seen
Deep down, the Jewish anti-Zionist is a coward. Their position is a refusal to exercise sovereignty, to accept the responsibilities of taking and holding territory. They present this as moral purity. But it is the morality of the ghetto, a parasite. Nothing is more contemptible.
I decided 30 years ago—in the summer of 1993—that I would never support this state, never go or send a child of mine there, never apologize or temporize for it, b/c I never wanted, as a Jew, to be a part of this. All states are brutal, but to affirmatively align myself with this?
@robpalkwriter
Yes, and American liberals in particular increasingly see participation in therapeutic culture as a minimum requirement for participating in public life.
Hiring Kate Andrews was a big mistake by The Spectator. Lots of interesting things are happening on the right. Andrews is stuck on old slogans, pretending mass immigration hasn't already been tried and the results haven't been stagnant wages, low productivity, & high house prices
@templBite
@LunarPaths
@cafreiman
Neoliberal wonks were given control over Russia's economy in the 90s, and completely bungled it.
Wars to maintain supply chains are also part of the liberal tradition.
You can't just take everything good that's happened in the last 200 years and attribute it to liberalism.
@john_mcguirk
@Roisin_Garden
I remember thinking there was far too much focus on Alan Hawe's mental health, and far too little on the cruel fate of his wife and children.
@cremieuxrecueil
The Soviets rolled back these kinds of social experiments when they realised how destructive it all was.
I worry that we have no means to hit the brakes.
@DerbyChrisW
If you weren't an evil communist, you might demand a single state full of Zionism, where Arabs and Jews could both fulfill their national aspirations.
But your ideology is one of petty resentment and cruelty.
@mehdirhasan
Indeed, not only are they entitled to make decisions based on the national interest, they should always be doing so.
If the current immigration system is not good for the majority community, immigrants and their descendants are obligated to oppose it.
@chrischirp
@SadiqKhan
London is a great city. It would be even better without the large Muslim population (40% of which are in social housing, essentially being subsidised to live here by non-Muslims).
@ursine_meeting
Leicester Square is an absolute disgrace. Probably more footfall than any other place in Europe, and it's still full of these front shops, crap street art, and Dawah people.
Independent Muslim candidates depriving Labour of a few seats might be a good thing in the long run. If anything is going to cause Labour to rethink immigration and multiculturalism, this is it.
There are some, possibly inspired by the work of Peter Singer, who don't care if life in Britain gets worse for its current citizens, if it is still better for a new arrival from Lagos. This is quite mad, but it is probably what motivates people like Sam Bowman, for example.
The less articulate they are, the better.
The more clientelism, the better.
The more drooling Mirpuri clansmen harassing female Labour canvassers, the better.
This is accelerationism in action!
Independent Muslim candidates depriving Labour of a few seats might be a good thing in the long run. If anything is going to cause Labour to rethink immigration and multiculturalism, this is it.
@SholaMos1
I think Jews are indeed better citizens than those demographics who can't clean the mould out of their state-subsidised flats.
The Israeli cause is superior to Islamism.
The state should treat different things differently.
We've seen record numbers of immigrants, combined with economic stagnation, a collapse in productivity, high taxes, stratospheric increases in housing costs (for most people their biggest expense), and the services we were supposed to need immigrants to run aren't working either.
I've often said British businesses are the country's biggest Welfare Queens. They persistently refuse to invest in capital and their own labour force, while we see constant pleading by the CBI for open door immigration.
@BobBlackman
To the tune of 'The Vicar of Bray'
To Anglican roots I held so tight
While consulting Hindu sages
An internal struggle I did fight
To keep an MP's wages
In church on Sundays I'll be found
In temples every week, sir
For this is what a man must do
To be MP of Harrow East, saar
@BellaWallerstei
Jews have been in Britain long before multiculturalism became state ideology. It was only October 2000 when a report from the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain recommended that Britain be turned into “a community of communities” and there be no national culture.
@jasonomahony
This is a broad statement that ignores:
1. There are many ways of giving out visas. Some systems clearly work better than others.
2. Immigrants aren't a single bloc. They have vastly different life outcomes if you disaggregate by national origin, skills, etc.
@SangitaMyska
Only 4% of UK citizenship applications are refused. It's more enlightening to look at the foreign-born share of people in social housing.
It's also good practice to disaggregate by area. The situation in London, our most productive city, is absolutely shocking!
In 1995, Peter Brimelow’s ‘Alien Nation’ argued that adding more people doesn’t create wealth.
In fact, quoting one of Thatcher’s economic advisors, he says labour AND capital are minor factors in production.
What matters is new ideas.
Not long ago, the economic case for immigration was considered settled. Even many restrictionists conceded this, and tried to argue on purely cultural grounds.
There were notable exceptions.
This guy is editor of the largest English-language Islamic news and opinion site.
This is mainstream, normative Islam.
Allowing mass immigration from some of the stupidest, feral populations of the world was Britain's greatest ever mistake.
Most immigration restrictionists will concede that if they are wrong, and we end up with crippling labour shortages, then we can release more visas. That error is easy to correct. But if the open borders position is wrong, it is EXTREMELY difficult to fix the resulting problems.
@FraserNelson
This isn't about capitalism vs socialism. This is about a specific kind of economic liberalism that has dominated Britain for the past 30-40 years; one that has harmed British workers and promoted rent-seeking that contributes little to productivity.
@CharlotteCGill
"Do young Brits have any rights to their homeland?"
The sad answer is no, they don't. Both the far left and the Adam Smith Institute agree on that.
This is why we need nationalism.
@AlexTaylorNews
It's great that people of immigrant background look at the issue in terms of the national interest, rather than that of their particular tribe.
To encourage otherwise is to play with fire.
The book argues that mass immigration leads to low-investment, low-productivity economies. Whenever America had crackdowns on visas for agricultural workers, for instance, produce never rotted in the fields. Yields went up because farmers invested in better production methods!
@kitmalthouse
Because they are increasingly not leaving after their studies.
Because they are increasingly bringing in dependants.
Because they are increasingly not elite or talented. Third-rate unis like Middlesex are filled with students from Third World countries studying communications
My Dad ran a construction business in the Blair era. Suddenly there was little incentive to hire and train a young British school leaver when a mature Eastern European man would show up looking for work, often willing to live in crowded HMOs until he could go home.