13 Jul 16 15:13, David Rance wrote to Richard Menedetter:
DR> You are never going to get the people in poverty to see that picture DR> when they don't have a job or anywhere to live. Even here in Reading DR> we have beggars on our streets which just didn't happen thirty, DR> forty, fifty years ago. And why? Because we cannot stem the flow of DR> migrants to this country who are as entitled to government allowances
Maybe my memory is faulty, but wasn't it especially the UK being eager to get in cheap working force from the new EU countries back in 2004? UK was deliberately opening their labour market to them as early as possible. When thinking about UK and economic decline, poor people and such, I am more reminded of the 1970ies and 1980ies, especially Margaret Thatcher and her politics that willingly allowed for social inequality, crushed the unions and so on.
DR> as those who have lived here all their lives, which is why we need DR> not just more money to go to the NHS, we need more schools, more DR> teachers, more affordable housing, and so on. Do you honestly think DR> that we can see the "greater picture" when the EU is preventing us DR> from reducing the flow of immigrants? And why do we have this flow? DR> Because they think that the UK is a soft touch when it comes to free DR> handouts.
I don't understand you at all here: UK is hardly taking any refugees compared to many other EU countries. The foreign workers you have were invited, you wanted them as soon as possible. So what is this "flow of immigrants" you want to reduce?
Regards, Gerrit
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