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Four in ten homes taken by immigrants
The current housing situation in the UK is a hotly debated subject at the moment. New research will add fuel to the current fire after revealing four in ten homes built in the last decade have been needed for immigrants. Gordon Brown has admitted that it is harder for first-time buyers to get on the housing ladder and has promised to build three million homes by 2020. However, based on current immigration levels, 40% of these homes will be needed for immigrants. What do you think? How can we work around this situation � if we even can?
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For years I have been complaining about immigration and the problems it is causing.
I have spoken to politicians, written to papers, updated forums on sites like this, but the people in charge seem to pretend the problem does not exist.
The demand for housing for immigrants has driven up rents and mortgages, so anyone paying a rent or mortgage is paying hundreds, maybe thousands, of pounds more a year than they would if we had not allowed such rampant immigration.
But immigration has caused other problems like racial tension, gun crime, drug pushing, larger jail numbers, and increased medical problems like TB and AIDS.
We have the increased costs involved in translation of documents and signage for people who dont speak English, learning assistants in schools for children who dont speak English, costs in Asylum appeals, keeping fake Asylum seekers or Asylum criminals in prison or detention centres, the list goes on.
Whole swathes of some British cities have been ruined by allowing immigrants to turn them into ghettos (if you dont believe go to Birmingham and see Sparkhill, Aston, Handsworth and many other areas).
I would go so far as to say the WORST decision this country has made in the last 50 years has been to allow such uncontrolled immigration.
I think it has ruined this country and we will have to live with it forever.
I have spoken to politicians, written to papers, updated forums on sites like this, but the people in charge seem to pretend the problem does not exist.
The demand for housing for immigrants has driven up rents and mortgages, so anyone paying a rent or mortgage is paying hundreds, maybe thousands, of pounds more a year than they would if we had not allowed such rampant immigration.
But immigration has caused other problems like racial tension, gun crime, drug pushing, larger jail numbers, and increased medical problems like TB and AIDS.
We have the increased costs involved in translation of documents and signage for people who dont speak English, learning assistants in schools for children who dont speak English, costs in Asylum appeals, keeping fake Asylum seekers or Asylum criminals in prison or detention centres, the list goes on.
Whole swathes of some British cities have been ruined by allowing immigrants to turn them into ghettos (if you dont believe go to Birmingham and see Sparkhill, Aston, Handsworth and many other areas).
I would go so far as to say the WORST decision this country has made in the last 50 years has been to allow such uncontrolled immigration.
I think it has ruined this country and we will have to live with it forever.
It tells us two things we already know. The Government under estimated the number of immigrants that have come to this country and that they live somewhere.
Does the AB Ed only read the Daily Mail, because this is their take on a story that appeared in the Telegraph last week. The Telegraph report is much more sensible and is more damning of the Government.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml? xml=/opinion/2007/07/30/do3002.xml
Does the AB Ed only read the Daily Mail, because this is their take on a story that appeared in the Telegraph last week. The Telegraph report is much more sensible and is more damning of the Government.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml? xml=/opinion/2007/07/30/do3002.xml
"A revealing government response to a question from James Clappison, Conservative MP for Hertsmere, last week showed how hopelessly wrong past assessments of the likely impact of net immigration on housing demand has been. In doing so, the answer demonstrated conclusively that the Government simply had no idea what it was doing.
It indicated that not long after Labour came to power, Government actuaries - using household projections from 1996 - estimated that a quarter of the 150,000 additional households that would be formed each year between 2001 and 2021 - ie, 38,000 - would be attributable to net migration into England.
By March this year, the actuarial projection, based on 2004 figures, was that one third of the extra 223,000 households that would be formed annually by 2026 - ie, 73,000 - would be attributable to immigration.
In other words, the housing requirement caused by immigration to England is twice what was predicted when Labour took office just 10 years ago. This failure to acknowledge its level even now has badly affected local councils, which rely upon an accurate assessment of their population in order to qualify for Whitehall grants, and has obvious knock-on effects on other services such as education and healthcare."
- Daily Telegraph 30.07.07
It indicated that not long after Labour came to power, Government actuaries - using household projections from 1996 - estimated that a quarter of the 150,000 additional households that would be formed each year between 2001 and 2021 - ie, 38,000 - would be attributable to net migration into England.
By March this year, the actuarial projection, based on 2004 figures, was that one third of the extra 223,000 households that would be formed annually by 2026 - ie, 73,000 - would be attributable to immigration.
In other words, the housing requirement caused by immigration to England is twice what was predicted when Labour took office just 10 years ago. This failure to acknowledge its level even now has badly affected local councils, which rely upon an accurate assessment of their population in order to qualify for Whitehall grants, and has obvious knock-on effects on other services such as education and healthcare."
- Daily Telegraph 30.07.07
Agree with Vehelpful, watched the programme Immigration -how we've lost count and it reallys showed how our council services are put under strain. Don't get me wrong don't object to EEC people coming to this country to work but I think it should be controlled and I don't think our country should pay for them to learn the language, if I went to Spain or France to work I wouldn't get a house or taught how to speak the language for free!! I work and live near some lovely Polish people, and would rather have them live next to me that some of the drug addicts out there!
Have you noticed how many asians buy auction homes on these TV shows??
I have a little place in London what I rent out, and the managing agent is, say, short with his words. I am the only English landlord on his books of about 250 people, the rest being Asians.
It is so bad that every letter I receive from them has wiggly Urdu or Arabic on them as well. I also got a letter explaining how "Sharia Complient" they are.
The irony is, however, it is a Jewish company in a fairly Jewish area of London.
Muslims are taking over.
I have a little place in London what I rent out, and the managing agent is, say, short with his words. I am the only English landlord on his books of about 250 people, the rest being Asians.
It is so bad that every letter I receive from them has wiggly Urdu or Arabic on them as well. I also got a letter explaining how "Sharia Complient" they are.
The irony is, however, it is a Jewish company in a fairly Jewish area of London.
Muslims are taking over.
No, I worked for money in a decent way and invested accordingly.
The average allah lover comes over here demands everything under the sun, places twenty people in one house, and then invests with the money they receive from the Governement and ripping English people off.
A right-wing rant I hear you mutter? No as leewyne says this is the real world.
Their will be a bloody revolution in the UK before 2020, mark my words if you are still alive. And I mean bloody in the sense that blood will be spilt, not an expletive.
If middle class and intelligent England feel this way (i.e me) what must the average white man on the streets feel? The ones who would actually start fire-bombing mosques?
I tell ye, there will be blood. Brixton, Tottenham and the Poll tax riots will seem like playground handbags come the revolution.
The average allah lover comes over here demands everything under the sun, places twenty people in one house, and then invests with the money they receive from the Governement and ripping English people off.
A right-wing rant I hear you mutter? No as leewyne says this is the real world.
Their will be a bloody revolution in the UK before 2020, mark my words if you are still alive. And I mean bloody in the sense that blood will be spilt, not an expletive.
If middle class and intelligent England feel this way (i.e me) what must the average white man on the streets feel? The ones who would actually start fire-bombing mosques?
I tell ye, there will be blood. Brixton, Tottenham and the Poll tax riots will seem like playground handbags come the revolution.
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tell us something we dont already know..............and now up to 15,000 'interpretors' want to come here....yes let them in the war against immigration is lost.we are being taken over by all kinds and the british people have to fight tooth and nail for any bit of social care they need, these people waltz into the country and get whatever they need from housing,money ,nhs care,food,clothing and whatever else they can claim yet they have not contributed a single penny to the economy.in some cases they take whatever they can out of the system and then turn against us and turn into suicide bombers.STOP IMMIGRATION NOW AND CLOSE OUR BORDERS .although i fear it is alredy to late.
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