Comments by "Acid Joke" (@PWMoze) on "UK Elections: Starting Over || Peter Zeihan" video.
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I don't think it is dwindling international power and trade that Brits fear, it is more likely to be record levels of enforced mass immigration causing housing shortages, sky-rocketing rents, low wages, ever-rising house prices and cultural erosion in the form of radical Islamism and institutional wokeism.
By the way, we also have woeful public services, bankrupt local councils, a system of high crime/low prosecutions with full prisons and clogged up courts, record levels of tax, food banks, crumbling schools, continual crisis in the NHS, shrinking military, empty shops in all our high streets, homelessness, gangs, illegal immigration, drugs and knife crime.
The UK's position in the world isn't really a concern at this point.
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@VittamarFasuthAkbin I'm not sure if Brexit isolated the UK, certainly we struggled without access to the single market at first but we have started to increase exports lately. Meanwhile we have had record numbers of Indian, Nigerian, Pakistani, Bangla Deshi, Ghanaian, Middle Eastern and North African immigrants over the last three years. Add to that tens of thousands of Chinese students each year. Not exactly splendid isolation, more like open borders in all but name. We have seen Net immigration of over 700,000 each year, requiring a new city the size of Birminham to be built every two years to accomodate them.
As for 'strong man' policies, our prisons are currently so over crowded we are now officially allowing prisoners to be released after serving only half their sentences. Out illegal immigration population is costing over £8m per day to accomodate them in hotels, hostels and privately rented apartments. Shop-lifting and burglary goes unpunished, only 2% of rapes are successfully prosecuted, benefit fraud is increasing and tax avoidance by the wealthy is endemic.
Thatcherism has much to answer for in that our publicly owned utilities were all privatised and now we receive much more expensive but lower quality, poorly regulated services, but the real culprits are the successive Tory governments that under invested in our country over the last 14 years and have pretty much bankrupted us. We now have the highest tax burden since WW2, rocketing National debt, the lowest GDP per capita in decades, low growth, social decline, sectarian division all propped up by enforced mass immigration, which the Tories specifically promised to limit and then didn't.
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@davothedon Couldn't agree more. Imagine what the UK would be like if we were to build sufficient houses to accomodate the three million or so who have arrived since COVID. Not only would otherwise small cities have to build new high rise estates in all the brown field sites, small towns forced to sprawl out into the green belt, all these new developments would require new roads, motorways, sewers, power supply, shops, parking, public transport, offices, petrol stations etc etc.
And who would be living in all these lovely newly built developments? Not English people, their birth rates are shrinking. So effectively we would be accomodating immigrant communities who were not born in the UK and who have never contributed to the exchequer, at unprecedented rates never before seen in this or any other country's history.
Why? What would be the benefit to the UK? Can anyone please explain why we need to do this and why there is no alternative?
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