When all else has failed, our great leaders and civil servants usually revert to telling us we need immigrants to ‘do the jobs the British won’t do’ (even when those jobs were only advertised abroad, at one stage) and to fill up our pension pots via taxation, etc etc.
It struck me the other day that the BBC was reporting that current vacancies had fallen to c. 723,000. According to official figures, however, there are 70 million people in the UK. We all know the true figure is probably way north of that – Tesco allegedly estimated it was already 80 million back in 2008, so you can likely add another 10 million to that, minimum. I personally wouldn’t be surprised to learn our country was currently hosting something close to 100 million. The truth is, nobody knows, as successive governments from John Major onwards have deliberately sought to obfuscate the figures, with actions such as abolishing exit checks in 1994 (they have since been reintroduced). Now I realise that total population numbers will include pensioners, the long-term disabled, NEETs (people not in education, employment or training) and so on, but 70 million++ people vs 723,000 vacancies? That’s a heck of a gap, and certainly doesn’t justify importing millions of no-hopers. I also noticed that there are 1 million youth unemployed (not NEETs or disabled). 1 million young people out of work – 723,000 jobs available. Hmmm …
So, of course, because it makes no sense to keep importing ‘useless eaters’, I imagine that’s exactly what we’ll continue to do. Because we all know that’s not the *real* reason they’re intent on bringing half the third world here. Something far more sinister is going on. You only have to look at those recent pictures of British lads trying to stop the invasion being prevented from doing so at gunpoint by Robocopped-up French state employees to see that. And that’s before we get to the net migration – a fudge phrase to hide the fact that we are losing actual British people from Britain at a rate of knots. And that it has just emerged that 44% of our immigration is now from so-called ‘asylum seekers’.
This surely cannot, however, continue indefinitely. The whole system is creaking at the seams and everyone knows it’s a shambles, which is why all of those at the top are currently trying to point fingers at each other (as if that’s going to solve anything). But at some stage, someone is going to have to start to sort this horrendous mess out, and whoever it is and however long it takes, the sooner you start, the sooner progress can be made and be seen to be made. There will be two angles to this, I feel. The first will be the immediate task of organising the chaos – difficult enough in itself. But the second will be publicising the wins, to keep the public on side. The latter is where I think governments, especially Tory ones, have performed very poorly. Labour since Blair have always had a slick PR operation which trumpeted (and indeed over-trumpeted) their achievements. Whoever gets the poisoned chalice – and please God it won’t be the Uniparty again – will need to shout any change in the right direction from the rooftops. And I don’t mean spin and lies, either: I mean genuine facts.
There was, for instance, the immigration skills charge introduced by the Tory administration in 2017, which required employers to pay a fee for every overseas worker they sponsored to work in the UK. The money raised was supposed to be invested in upskilling domestic workers. When it was mentioned in passing recently on a chat show, I remember turning to the person I was next to at the time and saying, ‘Well, I didn’t even know that existed’. They’d never been aware of it either. It’s a bit like the fact that decades ago we were on the point of winning the war against the IRA, but the public were not informed of that, so they thought we were fighting a losing battle and therefore they, by and large, passively accepted Blair’s and Mo Mowlam’s effective surrender. The traitors among us, naturally, actually cheered it on.
In the fog of war, you need to keep bearing in mind the sight of your distant goal, even if it only becomes crystal clear occasionally. Morale needs to be kept up. Any government which forgets that in future may find it quickly overtakes even Sir Kweer’s monumental -38 (dis)approval rating.
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