I love how the media seem to feign to surprise about he election of Geert Wilders in Holland and the riots overnight in Dublin. Sweden has shown us the movie , we do not need sequels in our country .
To me the problem is that we in the West, whether we like it or not , need immigration (and lots of it) to sustain our nation and particularly welfare arrangements. The hidden issue is that the indigenous population (the descendants of immigrants who arrived here in the unrecorded past in the Bronze Age in most cases) are not having enough children, and without it our population will age and more and more elderly people would be relying on less and less workers paying their dues.
It’s a matter of record that governments of all hues reduced the support for families to nothing over the decades. Life has become so expensive that a married couple NEED to work to afford a massive mortgage. I personally think the Thatcher era of the 80s institutionalised greed into our society, getting rid of council homes for a song and getting the population indebted, but also Gordon Brown as chancellor stated that it was ‘no part of government to prescribe one form of family over another’ and killed the married couple’s tax allowance. Thus families and kids are disincentivised (is that a word?😂)
The only answer to mass immigration, which is naturally going to come from the poorest and most marginalised areas of the world, is for governments to see the value of stable families as a bedrock of society and start to support that. It may already be too late.
I appreciate that I have only written a little bit here - there is much I could write… but it’s not my blog! Suffice to say that I accept many single parents and non standard families can (and do) do a great job but for the best average outcome in life and start for kids, families are necessary.
That would eventually reduce our reliance on immigrant workforce members, I believe.
I love how the media seem to feign to surprise about he election of Geert Wilders in Holland and the riots overnight in Dublin. Sweden has shown us the movie , we do not need sequels in our country .
To me the problem is that we in the West, whether we like it or not , need immigration (and lots of it) to sustain our nation and particularly welfare arrangements. The hidden issue is that the indigenous population (the descendants of immigrants who arrived here in the unrecorded past in the Bronze Age in most cases) are not having enough children, and without it our population will age and more and more elderly people would be relying on less and less workers paying their dues.
It’s a matter of record that governments of all hues reduced the support for families to nothing over the decades. Life has become so expensive that a married couple NEED to work to afford a massive mortgage. I personally think the Thatcher era of the 80s institutionalised greed into our society, getting rid of council homes for a song and getting the population indebted, but also Gordon Brown as chancellor stated that it was ‘no part of government to prescribe one form of family over another’ and killed the married couple’s tax allowance. Thus families and kids are disincentivised (is that a word?😂)
The only answer to mass immigration, which is naturally going to come from the poorest and most marginalised areas of the world, is for governments to see the value of stable families as a bedrock of society and start to support that. It may already be too late.
I appreciate that I have only written a little bit here - there is much I could write… but it’s not my blog! Suffice to say that I accept many single parents and non standard families can (and do) do a great job but for the best average outcome in life and start for kids, families are necessary.
That would eventually reduce our reliance on immigrant workforce members, I believe.