We have an aging population, without immigrants we're completely screwed. And our economy is doing bad enough as it is, imagine how much worse it'll get if we suddenly lost millions of workers?
The last generation, the ex-hippies and socialists, loved to play Lady Bountiful and give everything away but never has a generation hated its own children so much.
We have an aging population, without immigrants we're completely screwed. And our economy is doing bad enough as it is, imagine how much worse it'll get if we suddenly lost millions of workers?
Wonderful, what happens when the millions of immigrants get old too? I suppose their children and grand children will be calling for tens of millions more immigrants. A human Ponzi scheme if ever there was one, from a generation which can't see past its own nose.
The last generation, the ex-hippies and socialists, loved to play Lady Bountiful and give everything away but never has a generation hated its own children so much.
The way I see it is that we need more Polish people to come over and build houses to saturate the market
Also, the problem with housing is predominantly because rich older people hold on to houses they don't need, or have built up property empires, meaning that the number of houses actually in the market are fewer than the available homes. If people rent out 3 homes, that's 3 homes that aren't in the market for selling.
We have an aging population, without immigrants we're completely screwed. And our economy is doing bad enough as it is, imagine how much worse it'll get if we suddenly lost millions of workers?
And who is going to pay for these immigrants and their children when they get old? You can't solve the problem of an ageing population by endlessly importing young people and swelling the population. Eventually there will be a generation that has to pay the price.
The trouble with friends of baby boomers is that they want their children or grandchildren to pay the price.
Wonderful, what happens when the millions of immigrants get old too? I suppose their children and grand children will be calling for tens of millions more immigrants. A human Ponzi scheme if ever there was one, from a generation which can't see past its own nose.
Immigrants have more children than average, so their children will help provide for them.
First houses prices rising are a good thing. Secondly population statistics would show that give around 50 years or so, our population should start declining
The last generation, the ex-hippies and socialists, loved to play Lady Bountiful and give everything away but never has a generation hated its own children so much.
You'll find out when you (a) try to find and then (b) try to afford your first independent accommodation.
As much as it would annoy me getting my own house, house prices rising are a good thing, not a bad thing. That being said, I guess there's also selfish reasons for it being a good thing, due to my parents owning a house, and my grand dad owning some houses.
Also, the problem with housing is predominantly because rich older people hold on to houses they don't need, or have built up property empires, meaning that the number of houses actually in the market are fewer than the available homes. If people rent out 3 homes, that's 3 homes that aren't in the market for selling.
Welcome to capitalism. And just because you do happen to own more than one house, it doesn't by any definition mean you are rich
The way I see it is that we need more Polish people to come over and build houses to saturate the market
Also, the problem with housing is predominantly because rich older people hold on to houses they don't need, or have built up property empires, meaning that the number of houses actually in the market are fewer than the available homes. If people rent out 3 homes, that's 3 homes that aren't in the market for selling.
Cheap housing will just be yet another draw for immigrants. You will end up building over the whole country.
The reason British housing is expensive is that British people do not want the whole country to be built over, everything destroyed. It is our last, small protest at being consumed by socialists and corporatists who care nothing for anything.
We have an aging population, without immigrants we're completely screwed. And our economy is doing bad enough as it is, imagine how much worse it'll get if we suddenly lost millions of workers?
Economic growth predicated on importing more labour is doomed to failure eventually. Either the economy must grow through selling higher value products using the same labour (i.e. better productivity) or it must level off and not have the country ruined by the pursuit of an impossible dream of endless growth.
Cheap housing will just be yet another draw for immigrants. You will end up building over the whole country.
The reason British housing is expensive is that British people do not want the whole country to be built over, everything destroyed. It is our last, small protest at being consumed by socialists and corporatists who care nothing for anything.
You complain about expensive housing, and then say it's bad because it draws immigrants?
The reason British housing is expensive is because a few wealthy people in the suburbs don't want other people ruining their rural idyll. The way I see it, this is a problem with British people, not immigrants.
On what basis do you think that? Property price inflation exacerbates class divides, puts a brake on both social and physical mobility and makes life more difficult for the young and the poor.
The reason British housing is expensive is because a few wealthy people in the suburbs don't want other people ruining their rural idyll.
People who live in the suburbs aren't living in a rural idyll. They may be living in idyllic surroundings (to them) but it isn't, by definition, rural; it is urban.
On what basis do you think that? Property price inflation exacerbates class divides, puts a brake on both social and physical mobility and makes life more difficult for the young and the poor.
So social mobility of the young and poor is good, but letting poor, young immigrants come over for jobs is bad?