We’re all in trouble, Mrs Duffy for being a bigote, Gordon for not talking to real people, Cameron for weakness and Nick for letting everyone in. But I read an interesting take on Immigration today – Daily Express I think it was.
The quasi, trendy metropolitan view holds the argument that we have to educate and care for our society and that includes immigrants, we can allow poeple in for jobs that they are qualified for and generally do everything we’re currently doing – including removing people if needs be, limited or unlimited to numbers, europeans, africans, asians or others.
The benefits of immigrants have been hammered home to us, they drive the economy, run late night off-licenses, fill the menial jobs at half the cost of English workers – who don’t want to clean the loos anyway – or they offer superior service in our hospitals, courts or other public services.
But in my opinion the point Mrs Duffy raises is that there is a victim here, the ordinary British person, the hard working ordinary bloke(ess) that takes his holiday in Spain and lives somewhere north of the Watford Gap. The truth appears to be that when the quasi, trendy metropolitan – educated middle class – person has had enough of immigrants they can generally just remove themselves from contact with immigrants.
That is the issue that needs addressing here – no educated person can disallow an immigrant a better quality of life if they work for it, no educated person can actually limit or say no the numbers. Instead our attention has to turn to our own people and to work how to help them. How do you make Mrs Duffy happy without throwing immigrants out of the country.
Address that problem and I’ll start voting for you.
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Thanks Patrick, yes a good solution is to help make it more attractive to people to stay in their own country!
My aim was to highlight that there is a section of society that is the victim time (there's always a victim) but in the case of immigration those that allow people in are not the victim and thus do not understand the problems create through immigration.
I think we need to radically re assess the situation and I a firm believer in allowing people in, but we have to do something to make those who are already here feel better about it.
Fascinating challenge, because the solution probably adds to the problem! The short answer has to be, create more jobs that the indigenous population want to do. Unfortunately, that would make this country a more desirable destination for residents of other countries who are also looking for a better life.
Apparently we cannot prevent 80% of immigrants from applying, because they come from EU countries. So we presumably need to create 5 times more jobs than we actually need, which will only encourage even more immigrants.
So, is the real answer to help other countries in the EU create more jobs, so that they become more attractive places to work?