I keep trying to imagine the reasoning that led to so much of the sociopolitical establishment pushing mass migration to the West. At this point I'm wondering if it isn't borne out of resentment from globalists that they are enriching the Chinese by basing manufacturing in their sphere of influence, so they're trying to import a new underclass into Europe to make cheap subsistence manufacturing viable again there.
I'll be very interested to see if minimum wage and safety regulations start being dismantled in places like France and Germany in the next couple of years (barring a fascist uprising since, for some reason, the influencers of the world didn't see a rise in extremist right politics coming as a response to this). Britain's been edging in that direction for a few years with the privatization of parts of the NHS and such, but I'm admittedly even less familiar with continental politics than I am with those in the UK.
Only the UK has been doing the
polar opposite for the past six years. The Minimum Wage continues to go up, the lowest paid are being taken out of
any kind of income taxation and the Health n Safety body has been basically slowly dismantled because it was becoming slightly retarded when you need training for a single step step ladder before you were allowed to use it.
The big issue was basically governments only thinking short term. Raise the population, shove them in jobs (no matter how shit) and you get tax revenues to spend on more shit. It's a circular
very easy way to get big figure growth and is the stock in trade of lazy as fuck chancellors which is all we've had in the post since Norman Lamont some twenty three years ago. GDP Per Person, lifestyles, pay rises etc gets pushed down in the process but who cares? We get tax revenue yaaaaaaaaaay!
Even Phillip Hammond is trying to continue to pull this crap off instead of setting up the board for long term sustainable growth on a per person basis and is apparently in a battle of wills with Teresa May as a result
Also the NHS privatization people keep whittering on about? It accounts for just
6% of the NHS. Over 94% of the NHS is still state controlled, and the political climate there has seen a slow down if not near stop on that due to public unease. Some who had contracts with the NHS have been told to jog on once they run out too.
Jeremy Hunt has just put out a policy which will hopefully reduce our reliance on foreign workers in the NHS too, by basically drafting anyone who is medically educated here into the NHS for a minimum of four years. Mostly because way too many doctors and nurses trained here promptly sod off to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA after finishing their education here, leading to a brain drain. it won't eliminate the problem, but should help reduce it significantly.
The UK's stock in trade is for high quality, reliable and specialist manufacturing which requires a skills base, something endlessly importing people doesn't really cover. This is why JCB resorted to
making their own school to cover any potential skills shortages in the manufacture of their plant machinery.
Car manufacturing is also a specialty of ours, with the UK producing some of the most reliable cars on the planet, only the EU kept
bribing "offering incentives" to car manufacturers to move out of the UK, which is why Ford was
bribed given money to build a plant in Turkey, and then wondered why their van sales collapsed because the Turks can't put them together right. Oddly enough the european van makers benefited from this arrangement nicely and I am certainly hard pressed to find a Ford Transit that's newer than when the factory moved.
Massed manufacturing is certainly done here in the UK as a whole, and importing a bunch of immigrants isn't going to magically turn back the clock, but we can certainly find more and more ways to specialize and adapt.
