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Allow immigration? Seems like there are tens of millions of people in the world who would be overjoyed to have a chance to move to the UK.

• ben_w 3y ago
  Probably, but allowing it doesn't change the surprisingly difficult time that even the middle class families in the UK are having economically (which will probably put off a lot of migrants and asylum seekers if they believed it). Immigration may or may not help the current shortage of labour in the UK in various aspects of the economy that's likely to get worse as the population ages (more pensioners) with insufficient replacements (making the things and doing the services the pensioners might buy), given that's already a weird combination — not sure how the UK is managing to get both of these wrong at the same time, but, somehow, it is. UK definitely needs more homes though, whatever else. Too much as a faction of income going to landlords like me…