"No limits" immigration contributes to housing shortage

**BobTheCrate** · 19 June 2006, 12:08

Mass immigration, so goes the new Liebour thinking equates to :-

* increased employment figures, thereby helping to disguise increasing unemployment.

* more Liebour voters

Liebour's thinking is for once, quite correct.

This country used to have a healthy and sensible attitude to immigration reflected in Gov't policy. The UK did have a proud tradition and history WRT immigration.

But Liebour have gone a long way to destroying all this by literally flooding the country with all sorts of immigrants.

The problems created are and will be far more reaching.

**Numptycorner** · 19 June 2006, 12:51

Originally posted by BobTheCrate

Mass immigration, so goes the new Liebour thinking equates to :-

* increased employment figures, thereby helping to disguise increasing unemployment.

* more Liebour voters

Liebour's thinking is for once, quite correct.

This country used to have a healthy and sensible attitude to immigration reflected in Gov't policy. The UK did have a proud tradition and history WRT immigration.

1/ How can there be increasing employment to disguise unemployment?
2/ I'm guessing you don't remember the last government? Michael Howard started the whole immigration mess, I don't remember his sensible policies?

FFS there are some idiots about these days

**expat** · 19 June 2006, 13:11

"No limits" immigration contributes to housing shortage

Ah, so house prices will keep going up.....

**Hart-floot** · 19 June 2006, 13:22

Originally posted by Numptycorner

1/ How can there be increasing employment to disguise unemployment?

Simple, percentage number of unemployed measured against "working population". If working population is increasing faster than the increase in people on the dole then the percentage "unemployed" will drop.

In recent years, unemployment & people on incapacity benefits has increased substantially but there has been a even larger increase in the working population due to pensioners returning to the jobs market (cos their pensions have been f*****d up and huge influx of people coming to the UK for work.

**BobTheCrate** · 19 June 2006, 13:23

Originally posted by Numptycorner

How can there be increasing employment to disguise unemployment?

Easy.

With many hundreds of thousands of new immigrants coming into the UK each year, many or most take up the more low paid jobs.

How many times do we hear New Liebour crowing on about, "Never have we had higher employment than now". It is probably true.

But unemployment amongst the indigenous population is also increasing just as surely. They don't mention that though.

I'm guessing you don't remember the last government? Michael Howard started the whole immigration mess, I don't remember his sensible policies?

You guess wrong. I do remember. I agree the uncontrolled immigration did start under Howard.

I think you're being a bit harsh calling yourself an idiot though.

**Numptycorner** · 19 June 2006, 13:39

Originally posted by BobTheCrate

Easy.

With many hundreds of thousands of new immigrants coming into the UK each year, many or most take up the more low paid jobs.

How many times do we hear New Liebour crowing on about, "Never have we had higher employment than now". It is probably true.

But unemployment amongst the indigenous population is also increasing just as surely. They don't mention that though.

You guess wrong. I do remember. I agree the uncontrolled immigration did start under Howard.

I think you're being a bit harsh calling yourself an idiot though.

I'm calling you an idiot, you idiot.

Since when did they start publishing unemployment statistics by race and job sector? Oh they don't do they, never mind why not just make a wild assumptions.You really ought to stop reading The Sun, it's a comic not real life.

Your arguement = the reason there are few unemployed is because there are plenty of jobs!

And if these immigrants are taking all the new jobs, while UKjack is being sacked then surely there are plenty of jobs for UKjack also?

As for the last Government, they encouraged swathes of immigration to lower wages. Are you saying this was a good policy?

**BobTheCrate** · 19 June 2006, 13:42

Doesn't half seem like you're calling yourself an idiot.

If you don't like my explanation, Hart-floot explained it simply enough.

**sasguru** · 19 June 2006, 13:47

Agree with Noddy. Where's the evidence to back up these hypotheses?
And not sure that immigrants are the cause of rising prices. As I've pointed out before, house price rises are a global phenomenon and seem uncorrelated to the level of immigration to a country e.g. cf Netherlands and Germany

**ALM** · 19 June 2006, 13:54

Originally posted by BobTheCrate

But unemployment amongst the indigenous population is also increasing just as surely. They don't mention that though.

That is some real f*ucked logic you've got there. If much of the 'indigenous population' was unable to find jobs, this would surely manifest itself in the unemployment figures.

"No limits" immigration contributes to housing shortage