I saw a tweet whilst browsing twitter the other day and it struck me that it was a throw away statement that actually, when you dig deep, could have far reaching ramifications for a large industrial town in the North West.
I was intrigued (some would say I need to get a life …) about what this tweet could mean. I therefore decided to investigate. A theme began to emerge supported by a second tweet I saw later that day.
The Labour Party have without doubt moved to the far left of their raison d’étre of center left socialism established by their most successful Premier Tony Blair. Their manifesto is, to an awful lot of people, simply frightening. Promises to borrow many hundreds of billions of pounds for a free giveaway extravaganza together with serious tax hikes is enough to cause anyone a sleepless night or two.
But what about local levels? I have no connections whatsoever to St Helens in the North West. A large industrial town known for glass production, it is like many others suffering from lack of investment and sustainable jobs. Unemployment in the town is at 4.4% which is higher than the national average of 3.3%. 20.2% of people who live there are on a benefit of some kind against a national average of 13.5%.
Education is not good in the town, 27.9% of the people educated in the town leave school with no qualifications. People having very good health in the town are below the national average and people in very bad health are above the national average.
So, what was the tweet that intrigued me enough to research this town?
Councillor John Fulham (Labour) tweeted:
“20,000 refugees to come to St Helens in 2019, they make a significant contribution to whichever country they choose to live”
My question, following from the foregoing is, where are they going to live, how will the good people of St Helens educate, medicate and offer sustainable worthwhile employment to this large number of people who will suddenly descend on this less than prosperous town? What planning is taking place for this influx? How much is it going to cost?
I looked into the available housing. St Helens Borough council have ceded their management of their 12,000 or so houses to a company called Helena Housing. I cannot find out how many houses are empty, or what is the housing waiting list numbers. But I bet there are not enough houses lying empty to house 20,000 people.
Various housing associations operate within the town, it did not go unnoticed and I make no allegations or correlation about the fact that Councillor Fulham is a board member of the Torus Housing association that boasts 20,000 dwellings worth an estimated £400 million.
So, for me that simple, virtue signaling tweet opened up a whole can of worms that goes to prove that sudden, unplanned-for mass immigration, under the convenient banner of refugees, is a folly that not only can the country as a whole not afford but towns like St Helens most certainly cannot afford.
Bearing in mind the convention that refugees claim asylum within the first country they arrive at where they are safe. I ask: why are they coming, how many more are coming to which towns and cities and at what cost? Surely it is better that refugees are assisted by us via the overseas aid budget in the safe country they have arrived at whilst their claims are determined.
No, I am not a racist, nor am I xenophobic. I am a realistic pragmatist. I believe, as we have seen in other northern towns where large numbers have been settled in one go and all at once such as Middlesbrough and Sheffield, that no significant contribution is made, that it is nothing more than an enormous drain on beleaguered social services and their budgets and resources. To set the tone of a warm welcome and orderly settlement you can bet your last pound of welfare that the local people will be knocked off housing waiting lists and an awful lot of interpreters will be recruited.
The second tweet that caught my eye is a bit more frivolous but nonetheless worrying when you think about it. It surrounds Lord Alan Sugar, him from Apprenticeship fame and one of Great Britain`s industrialists. He was on Good Morning Britain and once again repeated in his forthright manner that if Jeremy Corbyn gets into power, he will leave the country and take all his family with him. Questioned as to whether this decision was based on the threat of paying more tax, he denied it strongly. He said he was afraid for his granddaughters. It is important to note here that the noble lord is a Jew. Whilst he did not make any reference to this you have to wonder if that is the real reason behind his threat.
So, what was the tweet?
Owen Jones the very far left Guardian columnist and TV pundit tweeted a copy of the video of Lord Sugar talking about leaving on GMB. He stated on the top of the tweet:
“Celebrate good times come on”
He was just being his usual nasty self, but again his tweet exemplifies Labour far left thinking and ethos. What he has disregarded is the fact that Lord Sugar annually pays £52 million plus in personal taxes to the inland revenue. Together with his corporation tax and employer’s contributions it’s a sizeable chunk to the coffers.
Times that contribution by a few multi-millionaires leaving and you soon realise just why socialism at its very extremes just does not work.
Our government has recently signed the sinister UN Global Compact on Immigration, in spite of a huge, official petition from the general public not to do so.
Signing this agreement is a major step towards making illegal immigration legal and any opposition to this mass, uncontrolled immigration illegal.
Make no mistake the UN and the EU are key organisations in the planned demise of European culture.
Mass, uncontrolled immigration into the civilised western world is well underway and will destroy Western European for ever.
What a truly terrible comment by Mr Jones in response to Lord Sugar’s statement about leaving the country. Lord Sugar is a hard working success story for whom we should all be proud. The extreme left is the greatest enemy of this country right now
Good article. Some of us have been joining up these dots as well. It is not just labour. It is continuity new labour practiced by the tories as well and just as bad.
Yes the government do know what they are doing and that is why they work so hard to hold off any dissent. The economic benefits of immigration are indeed fantastic -if your an immigrant. The H of Lords reported in 2008 that the economic benefits of immigration for the British economy are insignificant and may even harm those on the lowest incomes. If immigration is so integral to our economic success why, after twenty years of economic enrichment, is the government desperately borrowing record amounts? Surely the tax receipts and wealth generated is contributing to our public purse? Park that thought.
Different tack. According to conservative and labour economic theory 20,000 refugees on housing benefit and universal credit should turn St.Helens into an economic powerhouse! This demographic change produces a client population for government services provided by private firms. As a bonus its a safe seat for labour. People with the ability to move will move to tory suburbs. Keeping the two party system going. Everybody wins.
Of course this will not stop if we do or don’t brexit. Neither labour nor the tories care a jot about controlling immigration. At the moment it is such a delicious weapon to employ against anyone not on message. You are on message or a racist right? Crank up the hate laws to keep the lid on criticsm. Huge salaries for the loyal. Such is the thinking of our political class. We are going to have a big problem voting our way out of the mess our politicians are constructing.
Owen Jones is an interesting case.His personal religion is the Revolutionists Incorrect view from the future. Of What in those days was the unattainable dream of taking her baby, and getting into actual work 12 hours a day in a warm factory With her baby able to play in the warm if dangerous place( Dark Satanic mills) With her baby child so that she could rent a nice warm slum with an actual outside toilet. That was what they dreamed of.Unbelievably better than living in a hedge. Or forest.or ditch.
Somebody tell the silly sod to grow up, and get a proper job. Then we might , I only say “Might “, listen if he can haul himself up from fairyland.
On Labour and lefties love affair with the the EU
Evening Standard reports this sad news : 13 miners killed in blast at Karwinia coal mine .
11 polish , 2 czech
Another triumph for the EU environmental and workers protection ?
How come EU digs and burns coal and we have to listen to Green Party hypocrites.
The cuddly moronic left just swallow any propaganda from big business
The Stalinists are a menace to us all.
Germany got rid of its coal fired and nuclear power stations and relies on renewable fuel but unfortunately they don’t produce enough so they buy more power from Russia.. Virtue signalling, no nasty polluting power stations they buy their fuel from countries who do use nasty polluting power stations. Merkel the hypocrite.
Germany has not got rid of its coal fired power stations :—
“Germany is Europe’s largest producer and burner of coal, which accounted for 40.3 percent of net power production in 2017: 15.5 percent from hard coal and 24.8 percent from lignite, also known as brown coal, among the dirtiest of fossil fuels, which Germany mines more of than any other country in the world.”
https://in.news.yahoo.com/germany-coal-burning-gas-guzzling-173517831.html?guccounter=1
Acid News
No. 2 June 2018
Germany still constructing new coal power stations —
http://airclim.org/acidnews/germany-still-constructing-new-coal-power-stations
We cannot and should not support these so-called refugees. Facts that are always overlooked:
– they are needed to develop / rebuild their home countries
– many are unemployable here owing to lack of skills and often low intelligence
– Some carry diseases which legitimate immigrants must be tested for before being given a visa
– they come from cultures which are wholly incompatible with our own so cause ongoing friction
– they are an unacceptable burden on the taxpayer
– they contribute to overloading our public services
– the cost of giving temporary aid in their home countries would be far less than the ongoing demands of them and their offspring
Surely government cannot be ignorant of the problems caused and are using mass immigration from the third world as a weapon against their own people.
“government…are using mass immigration from the third world as a weapon against their own people”.
Yeah, but to what end? To prove some sort of nihilistic academic point?