Is immigration to the UK a problem?

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Gordon Brown has promised to "tighten" the UK's immigration rules. Is this the right policy?

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[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

No.

Any economist, or indeed anybody who knows anything about population economics, will know that these forecasts of our population hitting 70million or above are preposterous scare-mongering.

There is a beautiful Malthusian symmetry to population. As our country becomes 'attractive' economically for migrants (i.e. they can come here and earn more for being oppressed and exploited 70 hours per week), under-populated (or at least not over-populated) and politically 'free' (the old capitalist cliche) compared to their home country, they migrate over here. When many migrants come here, the price of their labour gradually goes down, because the capitalist employer is forcing the workign class migrants to compete as wage labourers. Moreover, the country becomes over-populated and cannot adequately house, feed and care for everyone. Many migrants are forced to work many hours of the day, for shit all in return. So they end up sending money home in preparation to leave. When the economy plunges into yet another crisis due to the stupidity of the capitalist class, the migrants go home.
Eastern Europe is a great example. The immigration numbers from Poland, for instance, peaked 2007-08. The net migration numbers to this coutnry also peaked at around 200,000 for the same period. I look forward to see the drop in net immigration over the coming years. I wonder what the Daily Mail will have to say then.:rolleyes:

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:lol: Newsbot is such a xenophobe. Should he really be posting outside of OI?

[bcbm]

restrict!

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:lol: Newsbot is such a xenophobe. Should he really be posting outside of OI?
No:lol:
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