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)

And how many leave? If the numbers leaving don't track closely to the numbers arriving (with a bit of lag) then either we have a mysterious plague killing foreign students or a lot of them are just h… (View Post)

A thought experiment, a little broad brush. Imagine we had zero net immigration, which at the moment means the total population would be pretty much static. Currently we have around 2.7 million peopl… (View Post)