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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1
Its not about GDP its about the fiscal return, you know, the money used to build hospitals etc.
Houses, schools, hospitals and sustainable infrastructure don't magically appear with each penny that drops into the exchequer.
It is not possible to build houses at the rate of 8 per minute to track current population growth. Let alone build new schools, hospitals, increase roads and train transport, power etc. Even if everyone who comes into the country contributes (such as all the highly skilled members of my team!) it doesn't pay for these things over night. On top of that, you need to train new teachers, new nurses, new doctors, new engineers to build the above. etc etc etc.
Yes, long term it may be good. But we are putting massive and harmful stresses on our society and infrastructure. We need control of immigration and our own borders, and we need to introduce
targeted immigration centred around key skills.
Incidentally, do you know how much skilled, beneficial immigration we have to turn down from the likes of Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico, the US, Australia and Russia etc. because we're committed to the EU/migrants can bring their families over and our government is desperately trying to get the net figure down by any means?
Its actually ****ing hard to immigrate to the UK if you're a Mexican scientist or Malaysian quant etc. with no immediate family in the UK/no EU passport.
Ridiculous that these are the people who are kept out in return for another Lithuanian barista.