Immigrants: We need them!!

January 20, 2009

This blog will argue that immigration is much needed. I’d appreciate genuine arguments against my blog instead of the usual “fucking muzzies coming to our country with their fucking burkas, fuck off, you terrorist scum”.

INTRO:
I’m becoming increasingly uneasy about the level of animosity toward anyone who happens to have an Asian skin complexion in this country, particularly in the City I live, Leicester. Whenever someone says “I’m not racist but….” you can guarantee they’ve been reading the Daily Mail, and are about to spew some disgusting out of date bile.

I’ve said before, the majority of British Nationalists, who insist that they love our Country and see immigration eroding our culture, have absolutely no knowledge of our ‘culture’ other than the fact that they like to drink a lot, fight a bit, and be a bit racist. Our culture consists of historical events like the Protestant Reformation during Henry VIII, Edward and Elizabeth’s reigns, the Civil War of the 17th Century, art movements like Gothic, Renaissance Realism, pop art and post-modernism, the horrors of the Great War that saw the deaths of millions of people for less than a square foot of land. The fight for liberalism, as Churchill’s army of warriors defeated the destructive force of Fascism. This is our culture, and the Nationalists are the ones responsible for trying destroying it.

We have a large Asian community in Leicester. One of my friends tried to suggest that the white man is in the minority in Leicester now. He went on to suggest over 70% of the City must now be foreign. I disagreed. He laughed and decided to insult my intelligence some more. It annoyed me quite deeply. He suggested that if I look around, it’s like “spot the white man”.
Firstly, even if that was the case, why is that a problem? If I were the only white guy living on my street, what’s the problem? As long as they don’t treat me like shit, why should I care? It’s a skin colour. It does not go deeper than that.
And secondly, I was fucking right. According to Leicester City Council, the White race accounts for 63% of the population of Leicester. So to sum that up, I was right, he was wrong.

I’d now like to argue against those who believe Immigration should be cut off, and we should “keep Britain White”.

AGE:
During the 1950s, after the War, we in Britain had what is described as the “baby boom”. Soldiers coming home and starting families. Between the 1980s and today, we have a “baby slump”. Hundreds of thousands of more women are starting careers early and not having children. Which means, we have an ageing population. The baby boom generation is getting old. The younger generation need to support the pensions of those ageing majority. This is known as the “dependency ratio”. Given that there aren’t enough younger people to deal with this, if we took the BNP line and stopped immigration completely, we’d have the worst pensions crises ever. If this extended to Europe, according to the author Philippe Legrain, the population of Europe would fall by 60 million by 2050. This creates a worker shortage, meaning businesses close, deflation sky rockets. An economic disaster. You need immigration.

The Welfare State:
I refuse to give a response to the awful “they come over here, taking all our benefits” whilst in the same breathe muttering “they come over here, taking all our jobs”, it’s an old outdated argument that no one has been able to prove.
The majority of immigrant workers come to Britain (according to Home Office Stats) in their 20s. They then start to work, they pay taxes.
Those workers have not been to British schools and so they have cost the tax payer nothing, whilst they pay back into the tax system. Which means more investment into public services like The NHS. So actually, we benefit, not them.
Many then start up a business, paying more into the tax system. Perhaps they’ll then have children, who will go to British schools, on the money pumped into the tax system by their parents, which is fair and just. All the time contributing to an ageing British population.

“GO HOME!!”
Many immigrants come here for a better life. If you lived in a Country where you feared for the life of you and your family every day, wouldn’t you jump at the opportunity for a better life elsewhere?
The Phillipines has began calling those people who leave the country, to work abroad “heroes”. This is because the workers, after paying tax in America for example, then send some of their earnings home, which boosts the local economies, allowing the National economy of these countries to grow, lifting millions out of poverty. It has no damaging affect on America. It’s a boost to the poor nation’s economy, and it’s much needed. Otherwise we get rich, whilst the poor get worse and worse, and that’s simply wrong. It also then means the poor countries are able to create new opportunities, new jobs, new exports, which benefit us directly.

Job Creation:
“Stealing all our jobs” seems to be suggesting that there is a static number of jobs, limited in presence, and that immigrants are fighting the British born Whites for those jobs. This is simply ignorance.
When an immigrant comes to live here, he’s going to need a house, a car, a bed, a bath, a towel, a mug, a photograph frame, sugar, a carpet, and every other luxury you can possibly imagine. When 200,000 come here, there is a sharp rise in demand for such objects, which means production needs to increase, which means new jobs need to be created for supplies to meet demand, which means instead of stealing all our jobs, immigration create jobs. It’s basic economics. If we denied these people access to our country, demand would fall sharply, prices would deflate, wages would dramatically decrease because the pool of unemployed would get bigger and bigger as businesses everywhere shut up shop.
We’d all be worse off.

“This Country is a mess!!”
To suggest the country is now a mess, is to compare it to a previous time when it wasn’t a mess. I’m not sure that this has ever been the case. Was it the 1900s during a needless war in which parents watched as their children were sent to their deaths for no good reason? Or the 1920s during the Great Depression? Or the 1940s and World War, when kids were sent away from cities and their parents? Or the 1950s/60s when women were treated as 2nd class, gay people were imprisoned simply for their sexuality and racial prejudice was rife? Or the 1970s when our binmen went on strike leading to the winter of discontent? Or the 1980s when the miners went on strike and 60% of Liverpool was unemployed? Or the 1990s when The Spice Girls topped the charts?
When was the World and in particular Britain, perfect? It wasn’t.

My conclusion:
A Nation is simply a line on a map. A meaningless flag. A place where those who have deep Patriotic feelings can get together and proclaim just how wonderful their Country is compared to the rest of the World.
We are all citizens of the same Planet. We all benefit each other economically. We all bring with us knowledge and cultural awareness that can benefit each other both socially and for our own mental strength. Only by mixing and interacting, sharing and understanding, can there ever be anything near to peace.


Vote Jamie!!

December 23, 2008

I plan to put my name forward for President of the World. So thought it wise to provide you with reasons to vote for me.

Immigration: Should have a cap, i’d agree with that. The cap must be flexible and take into account, the cost of banning someone from the Country. Immigrants who are in this country, should be given full rights. If an immigrant is better at a job than a British born citizen, then the immigrant should get the job.
There should be absolutely no form of discrimination of the grounds of race, sexuality or religion. Why should an English company be allowed to exploit the World so you can afford cheap clothes, but those who are exploited, not be allowed to seek a better life for themselves and their families here?
Anyone seeking asylum for fear of their life, should be given asylum. We’re a liberal, caring country, it should stay that way.
I do not believe in a “British way of life” so the rapid cultural changes that occur, that have always occured, i’m very much in favour of.
The danger of capping immigration, is capping the number of perfectly able entrepreneurs setting up shop and creating jobs here in England, which we need!
And far from “stealing all our jobs!” they create jobs. More people means more production needed for the rising demand of goods, which means more jobs required to create those products. A sensible government realises this.
Immigrants also contribute to the pension fund of an ageing population, who could not be fully supported without immigrants.

Nationalism : Although Jamie-Land would remain a democracy, a Liberal education and a Liberal government hopefully would put an end to all the morons who spew “I’m proud to be English!!!” – as if it’s an achievement, as if they had a choice. Imbecilic idiots who bang on about how they see the British way of life being eroded, and yet can’t name a famous English artist, or when the Protestant revolution took place, or a great English war general, or an English poet. Fuck off with your hypocritical uneducated intolerant bollocks.
And although we wont ban parties who prey on those who do not understand Politics or Economics, or human compassion, like The BNP, we will work our hardest to undermine them and prove them very very wrong.
We will work for Humanitarianism, rather than Nationalism. It offends me, that groups like the BNP want to stick up for the colour of my skin, as if I care about the Colour of my skin. It’s an embarrassment that BNP leaders like Collett, are claiming to protect my interests. I don’t want little Nazi thug idiots protecting me.

Abortion: Should remain Legal on the basis that two doctors agree that it’s the right thing to do. Religion should not influence the decision of anyone. I fully support a woman’s right to choose. Up to 16 weeks.

NHS: Our National Treasure. Should be well funded, free from private investment, because that’s one step closer to a fully privatised healthcare system, which just cannot happen. The NHS should remain a strong British institution.
Cut wasteful paperwork and bureaucratic nonsense that strangles the NHS.
More NHS GP Practices in the most run down of areas. In the hope of cutting waiting lists.
100 more Walk in centres, by 2012.

Homosexuality: This is simple for me, homosexual couples should have exactly the same rights as hetrosexual couples. There is absolutely no reason for them not to have. Homosexuality shouldn’t even be a topic of debate in this age. If God still refers to Homosexuals as an abomination, then God isn’t allowed in my country.

Religion: Everyone should have the right to believe whatever they choose without anyone causing trouble because of it. A muslim should not be made to feel like a Terrorist by self righteous British Christians. A muslim woman should not be looked down upon for wearing full muslim attire, when a Nun can quite happily wear full Christian attire and have no negative comments thrown at her. Full integration. If anyone is caught inciting racial hatred, their locked up in my country. My aim would be to stop those horribly British Nationalists petitioning Whitehall the moment a new Mosque goes up in their town.
Religion though, will in no way affect policy making or law.

Education: State Education should be the place where the highest amount of tax payers money is spent. Schools should be fighting each other for the best teachers, who should be on massive wages. My government would not sit back and do nothing, we’d pump a lot of money into the system, to improve education.
I’d put an end to Faith schools. They teach segregation. I’d introduce “Culture” classes, that promote understanding and tolerance, in which mixed race classes teach each other, learn together, and involve themselves in team work together.
We’d create a class dedicated to helping children discover themselves as people, rather than a money making machine. Dedicated to Peace studies, humanitarian studies, and charitable studies.
Homosexuality taught as acceptable and not as taboo.
Evolution taught alongside Creationism, both as theories.
EMA is a great Labour achievement, and i’d carry it on.
Extra help for those who aren’t achieving standards that they are deemed to be able to achieve.
Compulsory councilling for those kids who misbehave constantly, to try to understand their problems instead of just chucking them out of school.
The idea will be to, along side an academic education, join people together, and let kids know it doesn’t matter if you’re artistic or academic, musical or mathematical, male or female, gay or straight, black or white, from single parent families or mother and father families or brought up by gay parents. A full Liberal, accepting, tolerant education.

Economy: Mixed. Keynesian. A lot of people are suggesting that Keynes theory is outdated, that it didn’t work the first time around. The first time Keynes theory was exercised, 50 odd years ago, we were in the middle of an economic boom. We’re now in Economic bust, so it’s a completely different set of circumstances.
In Jamie Land, Banks would be under heavy regulation, any smell of wrongdoing, and they’re out. The bankers would be unable to receive huge bonus packages if they haven’t performed as well as expected, and the sub prime market would have to undergo incredibly fine tooth combing before being accepted again.
A higher rate of inheritance tax introduced for the top earners. If you manipulate the free market you can’t then have your own brand of inter-family socialism.
I’d create a new department dedicated to weeding out corporate wrongdoing. Any tax loopholes found to be costing the system a fair bit of money, will be closed.
There must be a safety net for those less fortunate, there must be a sympathetic shoulder of Government that exists, compassion cannot be allowed to simply die. And so the Welfare state should provide for those less fortunate, but also must be regulated tightly.
Child benefit will be increased to £1200 a year, paid for by a 3%
increase in income taxes on the top earners; those earning more than £250,000 a year.
Those on low and middle incomes, will see their taxes dropped by 2%, in order to keep money in the pockets of those who need it most.
I fully support Labour’s new Savings Gateway Scheme.
Nationalise necessities such as gas and water. People should not be in fuel poverty whilst the head of British Gas rolls in a mountain of profit. We’re back to the compassionate side of Britain again. It’s not fair that although oil prices have dropped 29% since August 2008, the big Utility companies are not passing those decreases onto customers, and so are raking in a fortune.
Higher investment in Green Energy alternatives. In the hope of weening us off foreign energy.
Minimum Wage highered to £7 an hour from £5.73.
If we can afford to give billions of pounds to bail out greedy bankers, we can afford to invest extra money in helping small businesses through personal advisors, interest free loans, and grants.
National Insurance, for small firms will be cut by 2%.
Higher tax rate on cigarettes and alcohol.

Housing: There are estimated to be 750,000 vacant properties that Landlords are failing to rent out in Britain. The Jamie Government would invest in 1,000,000 new homes by 2012, in the hope of stabilising the housing market, which seems to be an ever increasing problem for first time buyers. We’d invest in many many more council houses, which would not come with the “right to buy” capability, but remain as council houses. All of which, would be far “greener” than the current stock.
We must be strong in our conviction on where we place housing. We cannot keep throwing up tower blocks of flats, we need to commit to new villages, new green towns.
Repossession is a final resort policy, after everything else possible has been exhausted, including financial advice from the bank.
There will be brand new Social housing for the homeless. They will be looked after, fed, and kept safe, they will have councelling to deal with any unresolved problems they may have, but all on the basis that they agree to be helped back into work when their program of rehabilitation is complete. Whilst undergoing this rehabilitation, they will be involved in Social projects. People should not be allowed to be treated like animals on the street.

Crime: Again, like education, I want to know what drives people to become criminals. There must be a catalyst. As well as much harsher prison sentences for the violent conduct of thugs, drug dealing, murder, rape, child abuse, theft, and other such crimes, they’d be made to undergo weekly psychiatric evaluations to attempt to understand the causes of such crimes.
Crimes such as possession of Cannabis will warrant a three strikes policy. First time you’re caught, a verbal warning, second time; a written warning, and finally, a two month prison sentence. However, the police will be advised not to focus much attention on people just having a bit of social fun, or trying to catch people speeding, and focus more attention on street gangs and thugs.
A ten year focused plan to put armed police units in the most violent areas of the country. Any one carrying a knife, will face a minimum two year jail sentence and rehabilitation.

Europe: Until Europe comes up with a well made Constitution, equal in quality to that of the United States of America, then we must stay at arms length, but we must also press the E.U for much tougher line on climate change, social welfare, and lowering economic tariffs. But until the Constitution and timing is perfect, we just cannot fully commit to the E.U.
Unlike the U.S, Europe should not have a centralised governing body, but a group of States who work together.

Transport: When it costs £40 for a crowded train journey from the midlands, to London, something is wrong. I propose a nationalised train service, to compete along side the privatised train services, in an attempt to bring prices down. If you’re going to tax drivers more and more in the hope that they’ll use public transport, then public transport needs to be better funded, cheaper, and more frequent services.
OAPs still travel free at peak times on buses.
Bus prices, to be regulated by local government.
Subsidised school buses.
And finally, a national tram system, similar to the one currently running successfully in Nottingham, like an overground Tube system, in every major city in the UK. If we really want people to get out of their cars and take public transport, let’s give an incentive to do it. Very costly, but ultimately worth it. Progression is the only way, regardless of the opposition it initially faces.

So that’s pretty much it.
VOTE JAMIE!


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