B0ycey wrote:@Nonsense, all the benefits of the EU for ordinary citizens will be noticed under "Hard Brexit" conditions. You're in denile if you believe there are none. The size of your pension is one of them btw.
As for migrants, the can only "steal" a job if there is a vancany. The UK has low employment. The vast majority of migrants are not criminals. They are workers contributing to the economy.
As for housing, there is an issue and that is solely down to Thatcher and not the EU. You cannot sell off your nations housing stock and not build new housing to replace them and expect there not to be an issue in the future. Migrants don't take social housing. They take up private rent. The reason, because they are not entitled to social housing. The NHS needs migrants to run btw and terrorist are usually UK citizens of Asian heritage, not Eastern Europeans looking for work. To replace those workers under Hard Brexit conditions would likely mean more migrants from Pakistan btw. So all your fears are actually hightened outside the EU.
My pension has NOTHING to do with the E.U, like any other Englishman, I would be entitled to the same pension, whether in or out of the E.U & it's funny how many myths those on the 'Left' conjure out of thin air when it comes to justifying their prejudicial arguments.
As for housing, again, more myths, if a council house is sold, it makes no difference to the supply of housing for tenants, as neither the Tories, nor Labour built sufficient houses to meet the demand, in any case the 1980's were when the country was in an economic recession & house prices actually fell significantly.
What selling a council house, in FACT did, was to satisfy the demand for that house by those in need, so it was a positive thing, offset by ideological contempt for the poor by the Tories & New Labour anti-working class policies.
That's why virtually no new social housing was built in the time of Thatcher & Blair- Brown.
Migrants paying 'private' rent, claim housing benefit, or else they sub-let, because their wages do not cover the rents, it's another reason why the Tories don't build social housing, because the people they support, the BTL landlords, get the money from the taxpayer through those housing benefit payments, in addition to the capital appreciation of the asset's(houses)they are buying, paid for by the taxpayer through HB.
BOycey- "As for migrants, the can only "steal" a job if there is a vancany. The UK has low employment. The vast majority of migrants are not criminals. They are workers contributing to the economy".
Migrants do NOT 'steal' jobs, the jobs they take are jobs then not available by way of choice to the indigenous people of this country, it is called, 'displacement', a concept that those on the Left are in denial of.
Another myth of the Left is that, "migrants come here to work", back in 2008, ONS data gave a figure that said that, " within 6 months of arrival in this country" for just one benefit only (DLA) 6.8% of migrants were claiming that benefit, no doubt there was not one wheelchair or walking stick 'prop' amongst them.
The of course, there were all the other state benefits to claim, thanks to the £MILLIONS that New Labour spent on financing 'Advice' Centres for migrants, in order to help them claim such benefits.
Then again, New Labour created over 1 MILLION 'jobs' for migrants in the Civil Service, which the Tories reversed in 2010.
You may call the terrorist, "UK citizens of Asian heritage", I do NOT, I ONLY acknowledge 'English', 'Welsh', Scottish' or 'Irish' as being UK citizens, everyone else is of 'foreign' descent & should not be given 'citizenship' status.
The above does not mean that I dislike 'foreigners', on the contrary, I dislike the 'British', even though my ancestors arrived here in the Middle Ages from what is now Germany.
I have nothing against people from anywhere in the world coming here, what I am against, is, 'Social engineering' & 'uncontrolled immigration', factors that the two main political parties are guilty of.
Both are due to Maastricht(John Major's fault).
I could go on & on about the damage to this country's people by New Labour when they were in office.
I'm sure ,that people like you would never accept the FACTS, anymore than CORBYN accepts his racist tendencies, or his party's airbrushing disabled people out of the political narrative, or that Labour never ever mention, 'white English males', just women, gays, Muslims & unionist.
Unlike some people, the mist cleared from my eyes in the late 1950's with political parties, when age or experience runs it's course, deep cynicism is the result, as a result, my vote, as well as my freedom , is too precious to sign away by placing an'X' on a ballot paper.