England is full ‘means’ there is no availability at the doctors, no dentist, the shops and schools are falling down and this is because of immigration England is also full as HS2 had to use all the money tunnelling through packed shire counties, else the din would have disrupted millions

Immigrants are - more likely to be NHS doctors - more likely to be NHS nurses - less likely to need medical care (because younger and healthier on average) Also more likely to be employed, and in aggregate contribute more in tax than the costs they impose on government Apart from that…

I was being ironic. I know all that And I worked 33 years in the NHS 🥰

The thing is, these situations are all running parallel and starting to get on my nerves. Say the ‘right’ have a belief and the left have a ‘fact’ You don’t answer a belief with a fact. It gets nowhere That’s what I meant by means A picture of an empty beach doesn’t change a full waiting room

Unless a sufficient proportion of politicians can stop pandering only to impressions, or only to ‘facts’ it is futile Emotions will win Like say Trump is ‘strong’ and a ‘businessman’ and ‘tough on immigration’ Farage will mimic it, and to a degree the result

Can’t imagine it’s changed much in the last 8 years either. Interesting read.

Usually can’t stand Mark Easton and his pearl-clutching, but this was pretty interesting.

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