I liked volver’s expert analysis based on scientific evidence very much when we were talking about Covid. She talked a good talk. Although she admitted she was not a Covid expert.
Re immigration volver and I veer away from one another. That’s okay, we’re all allowed different opinions. Remember, we’re talking opinions on here. This is an online chat forum mainly frequented by an older female demographic. Other demographics are free to join in.
I’ve recently observed on the media that whilst legal immigration was just over half a million last year, this year, based on current knowledge, legal immigration is projected to be around one million people. The numbers arriving on boats are small fry in comparison. Many of the visas are given to students, who apparently then have the right to bring their dependents with them, and sometimes this can be as many as seven other people. I’m at a loss as to understand how a student can support seven people, or indeed two, three, or four people, but these are the rules. All those perfectly legal arrivals require housing, utilities, education, health care, dentists, use of public transport or road space for a car, and so on. Assuming these figures are correct, I just don’t know how our infrastructure can support this huge influx of people when there is already insufficient housing, our roads are crumbling, our rivers and seas are already being polluted, our schools have insufficient places, the provision of health care is totally overstretched already, and in many areas no one can a dentist willing to treat them. And since so many of these people are students and their dependents, they are not filling the many job vacancies that employers cannot fill. I have no answers and I don’t think any of you does either when the government fails to act.
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