MustardYellow
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What I can't understand is surely if there aren't the immigration services available to manage it properly, you reject more applications rather than accepting more...? Adding to the problem because there's a problem seems a bit illogical. The more people in a country the more said country needs to spend on infrastructure and public services. There aren't enough of either of those for the people already here, so it isn't a mystery as to why people get their back up about immigration both legal and illegal.So why then do the current government persist in spending so much time and energy on the 2.5% as opposed to actually devoting their time and energy to making sure the other 97.5% the settle here are doing so to the benefit of our society and economy?
You have to admit that the "column inches" and light and heat given to the 97.5% is, at best, minimal.
Might it be because they have systematically defunded and dismantled the very public services that were there to do this over the last 14 years....and we've now ended up with a Border and Immigration service that is no longer fit for purpose, along with all the other public sector support services that sit behind them. Therefore fixing the real issues is not actually possible without huge investment in those services, an investment which they won't make, because . . . think of those sweet, sweet tax cuts!
Might it be that doing so in the name of "austerity" might not have been such a good idea after all? And might it have been a falsehood, often wheeled out by Governments from Thatcher onwards, that running a country was just like running a household budget, and that debt was just like having a credit card, and that this was a huge oversimplification of the way a country actually works. Were they hoping this oversimplification meant that the electorate wouldn't give it another thought and we could all just "leave it to the experts".
So in the end, it's just easier to continually prattle on about the 2.5% in the hope that everyone (including them) can just forget about the other 97.5%, because they will do the square root of f-all towards fixing that.
Ever feel like you've been cheated?
Politicians love to use diversion tactics while as you say, doing jack s**t about the actual problem.