His point still stands. He was wrong to use the word "colonized" and I can see he regrets using that word but the argument he has made and the debate is very much a valid one. Fair enough he used wrong data statistics about the population but the point does not change drastically.From BBC news (and many outlets)... Looks like he didn't stay up that particular lamp-post for very long...
Ratcliffe says sorry his language 'offended some people' after criticism of immigration comments
The Man Utd co-owner says it's important to talk about "well-managed immigration" after backlash over his claim that the UK has been "colonised by immigrants".www.bbc.co.uk
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I'm not really sure why I bother, but 76% of non-UK nationals have jobs - https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac....migrants-in-the-uk-labour-market-an-overview/. Btw, a second analysis by Oxford put the net contribution of migrants of ~ £300,000 over their lifetime - https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac....s/the-fiscal-impact-of-immigration-in-the-uk/
Regarding the "value" of those jobs, it's sadly all too common for migrants to work at levels below that they worked in their homeland - https://ukandeu.ac.uk/migrants-skil...in-britain-and-hong-kongers-are-no-exception/. This is for various reasons, including language and contacts, but by far the most common is that their credentials aren't recognised. If we did better at that, we'd be able to tap into their skills more effectively, but this is historically a problem across the world. Again, it's one of those things the government "could" do more on. Maybe you'd be open to asking them why they haven't?
Regarding asylum seekers. I'm sure you know that they're forbidden from working for the duration of their asylum claim, which can be a very long time. Again, this is a criminal waste. Coming to the UK costs people an awful lot of money. It's often the middle classes (and up) who make the journey. They don't risk their lives for a better lifestyle. They risk their lives because their lives are in danger at home. I work with a number of refugee charities. Maybe do the same. Get to know some of these people so you're not reduced to caricatures of them that you get from Farage.
Regarding our "carrying capacity." From the end of the war to the Thatcher era, the population of London shrank by around 2 million people. Do you think there were similar fears then? It's now back to war levels, but inner London is still significantly lower than it was then. As I've said, regions deserve support from the government to cope with changing populations (whether up or down). Banning migration isn't the answer to Great Yarmouth or Scarborough.
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To be a net contributor in this country you need to be paying an income tax/NI liability of c.£17k a year. That requires an income of c.£65k a year.
Earning £65k + a year puts you in the top 10% of income in the country. So whilst people may have 'contributed' all their lives, for 90% of people they've not paid enough to even cover their own costs and in most cases not nearly enough. Median wage is £39k and that only accounts for those in employment.
But, yeh, it's the burden of immigrants that's the problem...
Earning £65k + a year puts you in the top 10% of income in the country. So whilst people may have 'contributed' all their lives, for 90% of people they've not paid enough to even cover their own costs and in most cases not nearly enough. Median wage is £39k and that only accounts for those in employment.
But, yeh, it's the burden of immigrants that's the problem...
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Wolf whistling to the audience will be welcomed, we are seeing what happened in America in 2015 and it’s insane people can’t see it.
Of course the point changes drastically when he used drastically inaccurate statistics to support his point.
This is what racists regularly do. Make an outrageous and verifiably false statement, then walk back the inaccuracies and let the rest of the statement stay there for 'legitimate debate'. The Tucker Carlson school of 'just asking questions'.
What you are endorsing right now as it happens.
Dirty, racist, tax avoiding scum, in my humble opinion.
Britain's built on immigration. The saxons, the vikings, the celts, the gauls, Windrush, up to modern day.
No one gave a flying fk when all the Singaporeans came over.
What do people expect after our governments have systematically levelled the countries the migrants come from over the last 2 decades.
No one gave a flying fk when all the Singaporeans came over.
What do people expect after our governments have systematically levelled the countries the migrants come from over the last 2 decades.
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Yeah, and that £65k figure will just keep rising exponentially as the population explodes. I hope you like eating bugs.
whoever uses z instead of s in colonised is complicit in the Americans colonizing the English language.
The 12 million increase in 5 years was wrong and inaccurate, but the overall point doesn't change. The overall population has gone up around 1.5-2 million in these 5 years, which is very significant.
It's like arguing why losing 3-0 is better than getting hammered 8-0. Both of them are grossly unacceptable.
Jim Ratcliffe is an exemplar of British excellence; somebody who grew up dirt poor in a council estate in a working-class family but decided to work himself to the very top, leading a world class chemical engineering company and becoming the country's richest man.
This is why the UK will never prosper anymore. Talent and brilliance isn't respected by the population.
What in the ‘Please Sir May I shine your shoes?’ Oliver Twist universe is this?
God I hate people who desperately rush to protect parasitic billionaires so much, as if their greed isn’t the cause of most of humanity’s ills and they’re all brilliant geniuses who don’t exploit every employee and tax loophole they possibly can to take out as much as they can and put as little into society as humanly possible.
Significant how? Why is it a bad thing having an increasing population? Some countries are concerned about declining populations as their own ages, others have higher population growth than what you are saying.
So your football (speak their language and they might become racist too) analogy doesn't track because a rising population, at what seems to be a reasonable 0.65% rate is not a bad thing.
Is it the colour of some of that 0.65% perhaps?
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Then why not get it right the first time?