Just found this.... ....it's the small things in life that give most pleasure.
In my view it is inevitablle that at some point the majority of people will have to accept a lowering standards of living. I'm afraid i agree with Staggerlee when he says an answer is to tax more, but not indirectly, and invest in infrastructure.
the money for infrastructure and housing in the last 12 years has come from the city of london in the form of the p.f.i. private (city bankers) finance initiative. the main plank by which blair and brown were able to recruit the support of the city, and thereby the corporate media to convey them into office. the terms of p.f.i. are a total underwritting of of the dept at exorbitant interest rates (above market rates) ranging from 14 to 17%. the taxpayers and citizens of this country have been saddled with this dept in perpetuity. both conservative and labour governments would have sighned these contracts, in fact, the policy of p.f.i. was created by the previous conservative administration.
as money (credit) is not created by government but by private international banks and borrowed by government to pay for services, then repaid AT INTEREST from tax revenue. in an economic boom, the banks must continually increase the money supply, which they do by ever increasing and more easily available credit. when the interest on the ever increased credit becomes unsustainable, the banks stop lending and the money supply decreases and the value of everthing falls. recession/depression. an ever increasing money supply causes inflation and a fall in the money supply causes deflation. simple.
all the propaganda about higher wage demands being the cause of inflation when wage demands are a result of inflation. the banks have reduced lending to a trickle, so where will the credit come from to invest in infrastructure ?
to respond to max777, the industrial revolution began in the early 1700's and continued right up into the 20th century. the population grew expodentially up to the 1950's without a welfare state until after the second world war. during that time, imigrants, and i'll try to get the order right but i dont mind people nit picking specific's so long as they dont detract from the issue i'm addressing here, came by the boat load. irish (navies) to build the canals, africans and west indians, surplus to the slave trade, indians as contact with the empire and chinese as a result of the treaties of nanking and peking during the opium wars. germans and italians who accounted for about 80,000 out of a population of 36,000,000 by 1871 (census). by sept 1914, 19,000 belgian wounded soldiers and 250,000 belgian refugees were scattered around britain. in 1931, there were 44,000 polish born people living in england and by 1951 that figure understandably rose to over 160,000.
no doupt i have missed a lot out but without being padantic the gist is there. most came here as economic migrants or persecuted people. (asylum seekers). kept the timeline to max777 dates. revisit your research of censuses, not that specific population sizes are important here.
what is important is the aggregate productive capacity of society to sustain the population and the material conditions economically that prevailed during those times. throughout modern history minorities have been blamed for society's ills, particularily during periods of corrections of asset value's/deflation of bubbles, reduction of the money supply by banks. IMIGRATION/RACISM IS A DIVERSION. NOT TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER. IT LEADS TO WAR AND SLAUGHTER OF A KIND NOT YET WITNESSED BY MANKIND. in my opinion.
Gulsonroad, I think historians will disagree with your concept of the industrial revolution. The fact that the UK was able to cope with its population doubling in the past does not mean that it can continue to do so. The numbers ARE important. The population is forecast to reach 77 million by 2050, to be the largest in Europe, outstripping that of France and Germany.
The figures I quoted can be found here:
Immigration is not a diversion, it is a fundemental problem right now in the UK that needs addressing.
max i'm worried about your intentions here although i'm prepared to give you the benefit of doupt. whilst the population of france is on par with the u.k. the population of germany is in the region of 110,000,000 plus. this question of imigration, is important to you and many others because it is intended to be important to you. you are bombarded everyday from all mediums of communication/information with it. you are being propagandised with fear. fear that the jonny foriegners are stealing your job, blood sucking your welfare and taxation and thereby in a subtle way, leading you to believe that if it is stopped, at least some of your fears will go away. your also propagandised to believe there is an element of terrorism within the imigrant comunity and that creates prejudice and fear and if we bring a halt to imigration those fears will subside. all i'm asking you to consider is, do you think that your standard of living/quality of life would change one iota either way if imigration was halted ? if the answer is yes then you do not understand the economic processes in the economy. the issues of imigration/race/religeon/colour/sexuality are diversions propagated by the state and corporate media in order to DIVIDE AND RULE.
As I understand it, the rise in population across Europe is not borne on increasing immigration so much per-se, it comes from the already identified fact that Muslims are parenting far more children than white Caucasian parents by a significant factor.
I did not watch Question Time....Coincided with Curb your Enthusiasm...I then watched Hung(which had recorded) followed by Family Guy...The only Griffin on TV worth paying any attention too....
I have read a fair bit about the ensuing public outcry so I guess in that respect the plan to put him(the other Griffin) on TV worked..
A) The papers got massive coverage so we the numptys buy them..
B)The Beeb got lots of exposure so we the numptys remember they exsist...
C)The Tories get more chance of getting back in Office because we the numptys are shit scared of having a racist in Office..
This could probably go on but the point im making is that for every action there is a reaction and the powers that be have certainly achieved that...
As I said somewhere earlier about the numbers SOME have, with regards to children.
I will try and Google this but.....if you check the stats British parents have something like kids, whereby SOME are up to 3.4. That is as an average btw.
Easter European familes tend on average to have four kids. The real worry is not only the ammount coming in, but how much it will rise to in another 20 years time, if the " average " child figures continue from some quarters.
Something that has to be taken into consideration for the future.
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Sorry found the last comment rather funny.
what a lot of folks forget was that in the post war reconstruction of Europe, there was a massive labour shortage and the Europeans called on populations right across the globe to come to Europe and help rebuild.
When they came and helped rebuild they stayed, and their families, a couple of generations on, are still coming over to families they have across here.
What right have we once we had convinced them to come and help rebuild to say please go home as we're full?
Surely a different economic model and demographic model is required to help the global population shift and therefore enhance Europes population increase?
The 10 million point increase on our population is going to have many effects but the biggest burden isn't going to be from migrant workers/immigrants/asylum seekers but from our own aging population. it is estimated that at the current growth rate that we will have a 3 fold increase from 1 million to over 3 million people over the age of 85 who will require care, benefits, housing and the pension costs associated with it. The cost of this is paid for by NI and TAX, therefore we have to increase the number of workers to produce this NI and TAX increase.
Migrants, economic or otherwise, tend to be young and of workable age. Our population is getting older and less able and thereby we will need a younger populace and since we can't produce this labour force ourselves because of our declining child bearing population. Migrants will be required to fulfill the gap.
Our country remains at a population increase of including migrants this is a lot lower than the 2.1 required for sustaining the country.
Can you be that towards whites? As a police officer that I knew said they do not take seriously any allegations of racism towards white people.
That was Leeds constabulary's take on that.