Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Even without recent migration, for over 100 years in times of recession and hardship it always highlights the gulf between the rich and poor. When times are tough, and lets be under no illusion that across the globe the impact of the financial crash is still felt all too keenly, then there will always be reasons to blame for people's misfortune, and look no further than Mr&Mrs Foreigner living down the street seemingly doing all right, getting in the school they wanted, doctor's appointments etc. etc. This is how the far right rises, it isn't the racists that increase the numbers, it is the gentle rhetoric taking those with moderate opinions go with them, the majority not sharing the deeper views that lie beneath.
Difficult to blame the financiers, the bankers, the policy makers, the tax dodgers, the multi-nationals because they don't touch the people's everyday lives. All they see is a cultural change on their high street and their community and that must be to blame for what has happened to their country.
What people really don't understand, the elephant in the room, is that the economy doesn't grow without population growth. Countries like us and Germany have negative birth rates and an ageing population needing more and more money for their retirements and healthcare going on much longer. It really is simple mathematics that you need immigration to make up the short fall in your population. Australia as another example actually pay you to have a 3rd child such is their desire to grow their population. It is madness because an economic growth model relying on population growth does doom the Earth to failure at some point.
