Comments by "" (@grokitall) on "“It’s Like Rationing During War Time!” British Gas Boss Says Smart Meters Should Be FORCED" video.
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@amyshoneye5455 partly, but mostly it is due to improved education.
in the early 1800s we produced typically 8 kids per family, and most of them died.
when the nhs was introduced, most of those deaths became preventable. as more kids survived, and contraception became available, the number of children per couple produced went down.
when full employment, a job for life, and the ubiquity of unskilled jobs died in the 1970s, we needed to start upskilling the workforce, which we did not even start doing till the 1990s. this lead to a skills gap, with the only option being to import skilled workers a d their families.
as your level of education goes up, you tend to have fewer children, which results in the current problem of lots of people too unskilled to keep full time employment, too few people with the skills we need leading to higher skilled immigration, not enough training of the unskilled to make them fill the skills shortage, and rising levels of education leading to below replacement levels of childbirth in local populations.
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@amyshoneye5455 i am not claiming that the immigration levels, and this countries failure to address them properly are not causing issues, they are.
most notably, the act of some minorities to self ghettoise by only working for, shop at, rent property from,and get entertainment from people of the same community.
we actually ended up with riots due to that, and the cause was people moving here for money, and then trying to live exactly like they did in the old country.
migration only works well if you integrate with the people in the new country, whether that is the windrush generation moving to britain, or brits moving to spain.
that is a different problem than if we are full, as regards that, there are a number of western countries with higher population densities than ours, so it is not down to density, but down to distribution and provisioning.
provisioning is a major problem. for a lot of services, the level of provisioning is determined by the returned figures from the uk census, only taken every 10 years, and widely recognised as not being fit for this purpose. there are a number of things that could be done to replace this, like requiring you to submit the essential information in order to register at doctors, dentists, and schools, but no government has bothered to do it.
the other major problem is housing. we have not been building enough houses, and definitely not the right sort. we have known this since the falklands war, and no government has bothered to change the planning rules enough to make a difference, which needs fixing.
the other issue is where the migrants go, and how they are treated.
skilled economic migrants have to go where they are needed, but hit the provisioning problems mentioned above. this group always ends up being of benefit to the country, and the local economy, but too many politicians treat them like illegal migrants so they can score short term political points, which helps no-one, not even their own party.
low skilled economic migrants are largely getting excluded now that eu free movement does not apply, and we move to a more australian points based system, so this is a problem which will be self correcting over time, but mostly they also are of value, just not as much as the skilled economic migrants, and rule changes are helping here a lot.
genuine asylum seekers eventually end up going into one of the two above categories, but the rules and the people treat them all like illegals, which seriously hurts their interactions with everyone else, and encourages the sort of ghetto forming mentioned above due to nobody else giving a dam to help them.
lastly, you have the illegal asylum seekers and other illegals. the only policy we have seems to be "illegals bad, boo", and basically we need to actually come up with some policies which look at the problems surrounding asylums seekers and illegals, actually come up with some policies which address those problems. at the moment, we don't, and until we do, this will continue to cause massive problems.
first we need to deal with the provisioning issue. i gave some possibilities earlier for how to address that.
then we need to stop requiring asylum seekers to cluster at the point of arrival, and allow them to work. this will spread out their populations, and remove most of the artificially induced stress points for these communities, easing integration. it will also ease their integration into the legal migrants groups during the long time it takes to deal with their eventual status.
as for the true illegals, they need to live somewhere, and work somewhere, so we need to improve how the rules make landlords and employers interact with them, while being flexible enough to accept that nobody is perfect and sometimes they will genuinely get it wrong. the rules need to be about compliance, and the penalties need to be about persistent non compliance..
this will not solve all the problems, but will make a major difference, and the remaining problems will become clearer, and can also be addressed.
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if you are happy to pay 4 times as much for your house insurance if you can get it, then you are right, but the poor do not have that choice.
with global warming, the choice is between reducing the ongoing contributions to the problem, which costs a lot, or paying even more to recover from the consequences, like back to back huge hurricanes in florida. that is why the aim of net zero, to reduce future costs of dealing with the consequences.
same for on demand metering. if you can even out the humps in demand, it makes the entire infrastructure cheaper.
having more efficient devices also saves expense all along the line.
the problem is that none of these policies consider the poor, who cannot afford the higher upfront costs connected with each of these options.
as an example, your primary school child will not wait until bedtime for dinner, so it just costs more.
your freeview box wastes 60% of its energy usage on standby unless you can afford to pay the extra 65 pounds for the efficient one.
heat pumps don't work unless you have an insulated house, which most people don't, and the poor certainly won't.
i could go on, but you get my point. the poor cannot be part of the solution.
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