Enjoying a beautiful day …

 

The obligatory look at the print editions’ front pages provides us with an insight into how the papers’ chief editors view their ‘audience’: “Newspaper headlines: ‘Braverman pushes PM’ and ‘brothers in arms'” (link): the posh and/or more intellectual readers of the broadsheets are meant to worry about being racists and thus disagree with Ms Braverman’s and the Tories’ “immigration” bill. There’s no real difference between ‘right’ and ‘left’. The red tops are divided between ‘left’ and ‘right’, with the lefties going for a heartwarming story about some marathon runner, the righties screaming about Starmer’s proposal to tinker with election laws. 

At the time of writing, Remain Central is leading their online edition with a truly ra-ra report on Ms Braverman. Under the incendiary headline “Britons will forget how to work, says Suella Braverman” (link, paywalled) we read (all emphases are mine):

“The government must reduce immigration before the next election because Britain has become too “dependent” on foreign labour, Suella Braverman will say in a warning shot to cabinet colleagues blocking proposals to reduce numbers. In a speech on Monday, the home secretary will say there is “no good reason” why British workers cannot be trained to fill shortages in sectors such as lorry drivers and butchers. She will warn that Britain risks “forgetting how to do things for ourselves” if net annual migration remains at hundreds of thousands.” (link,paywalled)

This, right there, means that mass immigration creates what can only be described as ‘institutionalised helplessness’. How else can one describe  it when Ms Braverman says that “we” risk forgetting how to do things for ourselves. Me, I’d rather say that our reliance on migrant workers, for decades, has made us helpless.

Moreover, Ms Braverman’s  description doesn’t address the decades-long addiction of Brits to living on bennies and thus doesn’t address the ‘reason’ certain politicians and industrialists give for the ‘need’ to ‘import labour’. After all, haven’t we been told that “we” need all those migrants to do the work Brits won’t do or are too unqualified to do?

Furthermore, isn’t the underlying ‘reason’ for mass immigration our wonderful system of bennies which apparently cannot be touched, or can only be attacked when it applies to OAPs? Shouldn’t the migrants coming here for years have provided us with some of those ‘qualified’ workers by now? 

When will ministers and politicians stop telling us that all those migrants are providing us with services we need and are contributing to the GDP rather than inflicting costs on the budget? Where are reports about the true cost of this mass migration, about the lack of infrastructure from schools to medical services to housing? 

I am so sick of the ongoing refusal of the Westminster clique, MSM editors included, to actually address this ever increasing problem. I am so sick of the prevailing MSM  and Westminster attitude of crying ‘racist’ whenever someone tries to look at this problem dispassionately.

Furthermore, I recall their snobbish attitude towards those ‘imported’ workers when they actually work. I’ll never forget the wail of a well-dressed ‘lady’ in a BBC audience about Brexit who meaningly asked who’d serve her at ‘Pret’ if EU workers – cheap workers, you understand – were prevented from coming here. 

I leave you with a wonderful contradiction regarding the ‘cost-of-living’ crisis. The National Farmers’ Union warned that higher food prices ‘are here to stay’, because of high prices for gas caused by yon war (link, paywalled) while right next to that article there’s a report on Mr Grant Shapps claiming that “Energy bills should fall within six weeks”:

“The energy secretary acknowledged that while wholesale prices were returning to “normal” levels, households had yet to see that reflected in their bills. Shapps said households should start to see the fall in wholesale prices affect their bills this summer.” (link, paywalled).

Well, I believe that when I see it! However, let me draw your attention to the play with numbers – see this:

“The government has been spending billions of pounds on an energy price guarantee that caps the typical bill at £2,500 a year, but falling energy prices have led to predictions that Ofgem’s price cap — at present £3,280 — will fall to about £2,000 from July.” (link, paywalled)

Why is the wholesale price per therm, now at 76p, not reducing the bills to where they were two years ago? Where’s Labour demanding the Big Gas companies reduce their bills in order to benefit ‘the poor, hardworking families’?

Have  the mighty minds in the Treasury calculated that it’s cheaper for the Exchequer to hand out some bennies for ‘poor households’ rather than demand the government twist some arms in order to make those handouts unnecessary, because they ‘earn’ VAT on those high energy prices? After all, one doesn’t even need a calculator to appreciate that VAT on a low price is less than VAT on a high price …

That’s all I have for today. The ‘news’ presented to us this morning are as disappointing as always. However, it’s a beautiful morning in my neck of the woods, cheering me up no end. I hope it’s the same for you. Have a good day.



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