Posted on 10/03/2021 8:37:42 AM PDT by blam
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would not return to "uncontrolled immigration" to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of post-Brexit adjustment. At the start of his Conservative Party's conference, Johnson was again forced to defend his government against complaints from those unable to get petrol for their cars, retailers warning of Christmas shortages, and gas companies struggling with a spike in wholesale prices.
The British leader had wanted to use the conference to turn the page on more than 18 months of COVID-19 and to refocus on his 2019 election pledges to tackle regional inequality, crime and social care.
Instead, the prime minister finds himself on the back foot nine months after Britain completed its exit from the European Union - a departure he said would give the country the freedom to better shape its economy.
"The way forward for our country is not to just pull the big lever marked uncontrolled immigration, and allow in huge numbers of people to do work ... So what I won't do is go back to the old failed model of low wages, low skills supported by uncontrolled immigration," he told BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
"When people voted for change in 2016 and ... again in 2019 as they did, they voted for the end of a broken model of the UK economy that relied on low wages and low skill and chronic low productivity, and we are moving away from that."
It was the closest the prime minister has come to admitting that Britain's exit from the EU had contributed to strains in supply chains and the labor force, stretching everything from fuel deliveries to potential shortages of turkeys for Christmas.
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Wait? People believe immigration solves scarcity?
The UK’s mess is in progress, here. It’s going to get a whole lot worse when 400,000 criminal illegal alien invaders arrive at the southern border.
If all criminal illegal alien invaders had uniforms on, we’d look like an occupied nation.
Talk is cheap. Will Boris deport any and all illegals? And will he set up effective border controls? I suspect the answer to both questions is “probably not”.
We’re all going to have to do with a lot leas. Poverty is the way forward. Everybody equal, as in equally poor.
The way forward means that, we’re going to have to adjust to having a lot less of everything. When that happens, government(s) will be in charge of what you work at and what you get paid and what the government takes from you and businesses.
Less production of goods and services. And less of everything, including less freedoms, if any at all.
It's always been used to address scarcity of labor.
Damage done. Enoch Powell and the like have already been bred out.
“It was the closest the prime minister has come to admitting that Britain’s exit from the EU had contributed to strains in supply chains and the labor force, stretching everything from fuel deliveries to potential shortages of turkeys for Christmas.”
I thought Newsmax was supposed to be based and conservative?
Cue the video of people disgorging from boats and scrambling ashore along the coast near Dover.
Government will pretend to pay us and we will pretend to work.
Forward to progress!
Being a “progressive” means you want homo sapiens living in caves throwing feces at each other.
Cheap labor in the short run works. In the long run it destroys the country.
It’s like taking out a big loan against your house that you can’t afford to pay back... In the short run you and your family to better. In the long run you lose your home.
Sorry,the toothpaste is never going back into the tube.
Easy, one word solution for him.
“Workfare”.
Especially for immigrants.
IOW, keep filling up the US.
That was not the “scarcity” being addressed in the article, was it? Rather it was “fuel, gas and Christmas food crises“.
Though there is a direct relationship between the availability of abortion and the eventual demand for open borders.
It’s a shame our lawless baby killing Court didn’t see that a population sustained by the posterity of its own Citizens was of vital national interest to preserve the nation.
But those Justices are in Sheol now….
In Socialism the governing elites and the military always eat first.
Yes, it was exactly the scarcity being described.
Rather it was “fuel, gas and Christmas food crises“.
Each of which was due to labor shortages. There isn't a shortage of fuel in the world, there's a shortage of truck drivers in the UK.
At least the Jamaicans that came to Britain after WWII for the most part were hard-working. The problems started once they started to have offspring.
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