Thanks for this. Would you say you have been partial in how you address this issue? Several factors you might wish to consider include
1 Population growth pressurises services that impact the poor disproportionately, (health, education, rental properties, social housing and together these feel like they have impacted social mobility. )
2 The dissatisfaction of a great many voters, possibly driven by 1 and 3.
3 The messed-up nature of our immigrant-dependent economy whilst there is a growing rump of more than 5m non-working adults. We get stretched 3rd world education systems to create our tier 2 works and greatly reduce our own social mobility.
Taken together I fear this could be a toxic mix that might end up making Farage look like a good option.
First, sorry for the late reply Dick (I lost track, been busy recent weeks).
I try to be impartial, I strive to be fair minded. Do I succeed? Sometimes? I hope I do most of the time, but that's for others to judge.
In regards to point 3 (immigrant dependent economy), I tried to address that by highlighting that latest immigration statistics show we're dealing with high skilled (not low skilled) immigration who come legally and thus will not negatively undermine our economy. I'm okay with the best and brightest skilled from abroad coming to the UK to work, raise GDP per capita and pay taxes. That's an economic dependency I'm personally fine with. I myself spent years in China lecturing etc, so I was that skilled immigrant myself for a time. I hope I contributed constructively to China, and I'm sure those coming to UK feel likewise.
Where I'd share concerns with point 3 you raise is if we faced large scale legal low skill immigration, that wouldn't be an economic dependency I'd welcome. But that's frankly not what we're dealing with, despite Farage et al pretending otherwise.
Hi Dean,
Thanks for this. Would you say you have been partial in how you address this issue? Several factors you might wish to consider include
1 Population growth pressurises services that impact the poor disproportionately, (health, education, rental properties, social housing and together these feel like they have impacted social mobility. )
2 The dissatisfaction of a great many voters, possibly driven by 1 and 3.
3 The messed-up nature of our immigrant-dependent economy whilst there is a growing rump of more than 5m non-working adults. We get stretched 3rd world education systems to create our tier 2 works and greatly reduce our own social mobility.
Taken together I fear this could be a toxic mix that might end up making Farage look like a good option.
First, sorry for the late reply Dick (I lost track, been busy recent weeks).
I try to be impartial, I strive to be fair minded. Do I succeed? Sometimes? I hope I do most of the time, but that's for others to judge.
In regards to point 3 (immigrant dependent economy), I tried to address that by highlighting that latest immigration statistics show we're dealing with high skilled (not low skilled) immigration who come legally and thus will not negatively undermine our economy. I'm okay with the best and brightest skilled from abroad coming to the UK to work, raise GDP per capita and pay taxes. That's an economic dependency I'm personally fine with. I myself spent years in China lecturing etc, so I was that skilled immigrant myself for a time. I hope I contributed constructively to China, and I'm sure those coming to UK feel likewise.
Where I'd share concerns with point 3 you raise is if we faced large scale legal low skill immigration, that wouldn't be an economic dependency I'd welcome. But that's frankly not what we're dealing with, despite Farage et al pretending otherwise.
Sorry again for the late reply!