Britain Needs Millions More Immigrants

[Gromit]

// Britain may need millions more immigrants over the next 50 years to reduce the "unsustainable" pressure that the ageing population is putting on the economy, the Office for Budget Responsibility has said. //

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10185342/Britain-needs-millions-more-immigrants-to-reduce-strain-of-ageing-population.html

Bummer?

[mikey4444]

I don't want to get into a discussion on here about immigration, as its such a divisive issue and we all seem to go round in never ending circles whenever the subject is brought up !

But we rely very heavily at present on foreign people to act as care assistants at present. Logic would seem to say that our need for care in old age can only increase in the future. So if we are not going to use immigrants as care workers, and our hard-core unemployed seem not to have any intention of working, where is this extra care to come from ?

[Khandro]

jno; Two fat ladies could keep a small village going for a considerable time, and it would give a new meaning to Potage bonne femme

[emmie]

so no fat black or asians then, what a foolish remark

[tonyav]

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2013/07/18/eastern-european-police-join-west-midlands-crooks-crackdown/

Hope they bring their own police with them !.

[Old_Geezer]

"But we all acknowledge there can be no mis-selling or restorative action without ruining what's left of the country2

No we don't. We realise that might look the case viewing pensions in isolation but not when the bigger picture is viewed. Since an individual forced to work on, instead of retiring, doesn't free up an employment opportunity for someone on welfare, the true cost of not the pension in itself, it is the pension minus the saved welfare costs of someone who would then find employment.

It's all a big con. Private companies may have a semi legitimate compaint they don't have the resource to honour their commitments, but it was they who took 'pension holidays' because the kitty was 'so large'. They ought to factor in the costs of their shortsightedness. Were it a supplier's bill rather than a pension thing, they'd not have it so easy.

[Old_Geezer]

"and our hard-core unemployed seem not to have any intention of working"

I'm unsure what percentage of the unemployed fall into this category but it seems to me that is an issue one should be sorting before inviting in more to overcrown the UK.

Employment ought not be a choice, choosing what to contribute to via your labour is ok, but not long term, "I'm going to live off you suckers". I don't suggest any easy answers but ensuring welfare is just enough to survive rather than comfortable is a start. And finding ways to change individual attitudes must be worth their weight in gold, since we could all fall into a poor frame of mind and not feel able to do more than stay as is.

[Old_Geezer]

OVERCROWD
as typed ! >:-(