Simply unfair (From York Press)
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Simply unfair
9:12am Wednesday 31st October 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter
A SENIOR politician stated on TV that there are now “unmanageable” numbers of people in the UK.
There are 1.8 million families in poor housing.
It is understandable that teachers, jobcentre staff, the police and border control are disillusioned when more and more problems are piled on them daily.
Much of this is the result of Labour’s planned immigration programme.
On the TV programme China On Four Wheels, a couple were fined the equivalent of £10,000 for having a second child.
Here it seems simply unfair to have four, five six or more children. They will be fighting for jobs, yet the Government rewards this practice.
Paul Askham, Manor Road, Tadcaster.
Comments(4)
ColdAsChristmas
says...
12:02am Thu 1 Nov 12
The general point is however that there are simply too many people in the UK today and thanks to the benefit system being abused that number will be 70 million before very long. This mean almost 20 million more people living in the UK during my lifetime. And then the Greenies want to lecture us about sustainability!
PinzaC55
says...
8:26am Thu 1 Nov 12
I can look the figures up but I don't need to. I also suspect that the current "government" are doing no more to stop illegal immigration than Labour did.
But if the Tories hadn't took us into Europe the overall total of immigration would be far less.
Zetkin
says...
12:20pm Thu 1 Nov 12
In reality there is quite enough decent accommodation for everyone to be well-housed; the problem is how it is distributed.
Too many people have second, third, fourth homes.
Too many greedy buy-to-let landlords, egged on by Labour and Tory governments, charge ludicrously high rents in order to enrich themselves.
Too many council houses are being privatised either through massively subsidised sales to tenants, or by wholesale transfers to private landlords.
Immigration is a red herring used by politicians of all main parties to divert attention from the real inequalities and scandals in our society.
PinzaC55 says...
11:39pm Wed 31 Oct 12
The vast majority of immigrants are legally entitled to come here from Europe.
Remind me again which political party took us into Europe?