Making Room For The Invaders?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7kn4z399o

100 new mini caliphates planned.

[davebro3]

//The chances of many, if any, of those newcomers having the funds to buy or rent any of those new homes, (or those vacated by people already here) at market values is vanishingly low.//

Dunno about that - the incomers are mostly young males.  7 or 8 sharers working at a car wash could easily stump up the rent.

[davebro3]

it's how some earlier waves of migrants got established...

[New Judge]

"Dunno about that - the incomers are mostly young males.  7 or 8 sharers working at a car wash could easily stump up the rent."

And are their efforts going to greatly improve the country's GDP, especially its GDP per capita? And when hey all begin o father children, will their car washing enterprises earn them enough to support their offspring?

We need to look at the long game here. There are only so many car washing and pizza delivery jobs to go round and I would suggest that anybody engaging in them is unlikely to improve the UK's overall standard of living too greatly.

[naomi24]

//“Work on new towns to begin by 2029, minister says”//

 

Why then and not now?  Could it be a handy carrot to be dangled before the next general election?

[davebro3]

but "they" don't care, it's better than what they have...

[davebro3]

They even prefer delivering pizzas from on illegal caravan shanty in Bath from what they left behind.

[New Judge]

"but "they" don't care, it's better than what they have..."

No, they don't care dave. But we should and we should expect our government to put a stop to it.

[Atheist]

Put a stop to house-building?

[Old_Geezer]

Put a stop to the need for more housing.  If the population is stable the only new housing you should need is to replace housing no longer viable and being demolished. We already have too many folk here. Creating more housing is pushing the real problem into the future with greater numbers and less undeveloped land.