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by wolvoleo 83 days ago
And people who think they are strong and will solve anything.

These populists thrive on anger and hate. Solve the problem and those are gone. And the problems aren't the ones they champion anyway.

I have to say Labour is putting on a shit show too though. They were supposed to be new and refreshed, instead they are Tory-Lite on steroids. Worse than Blair or Miliband ever were.

Really UK politics needs some sanity :'(
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cbeach 83 days ago
Have you ever stopped to wonder why ~26% of the electorate might be angry though? Personally I don't like seeing 100,000+ undocumented young men of fighting age rock up in dinghys on the Kent coastline and get free hotels, food, phones and ultimately housing.

Housing is in short supply and the sight of it being reserved for unemployed economic migrants is making me pretty angry.

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wolvoleo 83 days ago
The housing problem has nothing to do with immigrants and everything with structural mismanagement and prioritisation of the settled middle and upper class who wants to see their house value go up and up. And also their NIMBYism concerns (again, a new housing estate nearby might drop their house value)

The amount of housing actually taken by immigrants is minimal and releasing those wouldn't fix anything. Most of them live in squalor and doing jobs regular English guys wouldn't touch, in particular for the exploitative pay. You want your 2am burger delivered for a quid. Or the puke cleaned up in the metro. Who's going to do that these days?

It's this age-old problem: https://realfiction.net/assets/careful-mate.jpg

But now it's being weaponised for political gain. They're making you mad at the wrong people. The people who are causing it all are the ones you're voting for.

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cbeach 81 days ago
Like in any market, housing prices are set by the levels of both supply AND demand.

Supply has increased steadily, approx +200K dwellings per year.

Demand has increased -dramatically- primarily due to mass migration (net +944K people in year ending March 2023).

95% of additional households had a foreign-born Household Reference Person between the years 2010 and 2014. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/62910/html/

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