Comments by "Iazzaboyce" (@Iazzaboyce) on "Immigration: how do British views differ?" video.

More people bidding for employment (when there are too few jobs) makes wages lower and working conditions worse. More people bidding for housing (when there are too few houses) makes rents and property values higher. Low wages and high rents makes a poor standard of living for most... This is why ordinary folk don't like excessive immigration and employers and landlords like excessive immigration...
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@ishaanrahman9880 You are articulate and able to make arguments that are not based entirely on reality. You use wage growth figures for a 12 month period and home ownership figures for a 40 year period. Of course, economic migrants work, but they also displace native workers that are forced onto benefits. Of course, home ownership has increased since the discounted council house sales of the 1980s. Wages might have been more in 2015 than in 2014, but is this calculated in the same way as in 1980? Whichever way you look at it, in 1980 a single unskilled wage could keep a family and buy a house and there were no Family Tax Credits and no food banks. How does this compare?
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@ishaanrahman9880 So, please explain the reason why in 1980 a single unskilled wage could keep a family and buy a house and in 2019 two incomes have to claim Tax Credits to feed and clothe the children and cannot buy a house...
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@ishaanrahman9880 This is what Wikipedia says about the selling of council houses: "being credited as the main driver of the 15% rise in home ownership, which rose from 55% of householders in 1979 to a peak of 71% in 2003 (though this figure has declined since the late 2000s to 63% in England specifically in 2017)."
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@ishaanrahman9880 It has nothing to do with immigration which is the point I am making in response to your contention that it did... you raised the issue of home ownership in relation to immigration - not me. The evidence that proves my point is houses have become more expensive and this is undeniably caused by increased demand.
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@ishaanrahman9880 Give up Ishaan - you're making a fool out of yourself.
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@ishaanrahman9880 There is no counterargument required. I made the argument that, there are too few houses in relation to the amount of people in need of housing and that this situation has increased the cost of housing. You have attempted to disprove this and have failed.
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