As I understand it, a large part of the problem is that the MK5a stock is not from Hitachi but from CAF, known for good reason as Cheap As F***. The locos (not CAF) are very good, but the CAF built h… (View Post)

I'm going to disagree. If we pretty much stopped issuing work visas tomorrow, the market would sort it out. Wages in certain sectors would rise, there would be some bumps along the road (remember a c… (View Post)

The two are linked together. The main reason we're having to build loads of housing is for all the immigrants, indeed we're not actually building enough housing to keep up with the rate of immigratio… (View Post)

Immigration is just trying to keep the Ponzi scheme afloat. It just can kicks to create even more old people in the future. The problem of people spending more over a lifetime than their economic out… (View Post)

The flaw in this line of argument is that if all the students went home and weren't replaced we should have probably seen net emigration during the pandemic. (Spolier - we didn't). (View Post)