To all those that welcome/encourage the small boat migrants.

[Mrs Doubtfyre]

For my own confirmation, Himmy/Bloomer.

I'm glad to have helped.

By the way, what did it confirm. Just for my own curiosity.

 

[motorbiking]

It's called being proactive. Soggy cornflakes again?

You understand the objective is to reduce the number?

 

[denso13]

You understand the objective is to reduce the number?

The number of boat people and illegals. Of course that's first on the list.

 

[motorbiking]

And you are still convinced opening a lovely processing centre to make it much easier for people to apply, possibly even encouraging them. is the answer?

 

[denso13]

And you are still convinced opening a lovely processing centre to make it much easier for people to apply, possibly even encouraging them. is the answer?

I think it could be part of an answer.

Before they were all made illegal, the majority of claims for protection from boat people were genuine and approved. Does that not tell you something?

 

[Munroast]

For all those who welcome the inward migration; in the long term how sustainable do you think it will be?

Labour is promising to build 1.5 million homes in the next 5 years (which is not really enough to keep up with inward migration, we would need 1,750,000 new homes for the migrants). But think about it Greater birmingham (coventry walsall, black country etc) has 1.2 million homes, so if inward migration continues our urban sprawl will be creating a new Greater Birmingham (with all its hospitals, factories, shops, prisons, roads, parks, the whole infrastructure that 1.2 million homes need ....) every 5 years.

Clearly this can't go on indefinably, but may be you think it can?

 

[Brigadier]

For all those who welcome the inward migration;

It is not a case of "welcoming" (although, in the absence of our government investing in developing our own, only an idiot would not welcome a cancer or heart specialist, as an example): but a case of accepting migration as an inevitability.

Clearly this can't go on indefinably,

Indefinitely?

That goes without saying.
However, the world keeps changing so, whatever you think can't be accommodated in 20 yrs' time, for example, might well be manageable in 20 yrs' time.

 

[Munroast]

so do you reckon these gangs of young men forcing their way into our country are specialist cancer and heart doctors? shirly some must be engineers and rocket scientists?

We need less people not more, stop the benefits namby pamby workers rights and we will soon have a workforce again

 

[Mottie]

They are amassing an army on our shores. Mark my words!

 

[Mottie]

Labour is promising to build 1.5 million homes in the next 5 years (which is not really enough to keep up with inward migration, we would need 1,750,000 new homes for the migrants).

My mate from Newham was telling me this morning that in the local paper it said that 3.9% of the population of Newham (which works out to around 15,000 people) only entered the country in the last 12 months. We're filling up and filling up fast.

 

[denso13]

Clearly this can't go on indefinably, but may be you think it can?

Of course not. We need a grown up policy on managing immigration and all its implications.

 

[Munroast]

My mate from Newham was telling me this morning that in the local paper it said that 3.9% of the population of Newham (which works out to around 15,000 people) only entered the country in the last 12 months. We're filling up and filling up fast.

15,000 engineers and doctors - that must be fantastic.

 

[Mrs Doubtfyre]

For all those who welcome the inward migration; in the long term how sustainable do you think it will be?

Labour is promising to build 1.5 million homes in the next 5 years (which is not really enough to keep up with inward migration, we would need 1,750,000 new homes for the migrants). But think about it Greater birmingham (coventry walsall, black country etc) has 1.2 million homes, so if inward migration continues our urban sprawl will be creating a new Greater Birmingham (with all its hospitals, factories, shops, prisons, roads, parks, the whole infrastructure that 1.2 million homes need ....) every 5 years.

Clearly this can't go on indefinably, but may be you think it can?

What is your 1,750,000 new homes based on?

The current capitalist system is based on ever increases in GDP.
How do you think that can be achieved without migration?

 

[Mrs Doubtfyre]

It is not a case of "welcoming" (although, in the absence of our government investing in developing our own, only an idiot would not welcome a cancer or heart specialist, as an example): but a case of accepting migration as an inevitability.



Indefinitely?

That goes without saying.
However, the world keeps changing so, whatever you think can't be accommodated in 20 yrs' time, for example, might well be manageable in 20 yrs' time.

Migration will increase beyond all known parameters within the next 20 years due to climate change.

 

[Mrs Doubtfyre]

My mate from Newham was telling me this morning that in the local paper it said that 3.9% of the population of Newham (which works out to around 15,000 people) only entered the country in the last 12 months. We're filling up and filling up fast.

Newham must be a popular tourist destination.
My granny was telling her neighbour that it's an urban myth.