Is anti immigration now the new political currency?

[suityou01]

We have the second highest external debt in the world, working out at over $46k per capita. Only the USA outdoes us. Part of the reason for this is the succession of short-termists in charge of both industry and government.

A new manager comes in and wants to make the bottom line look good. Quickest route is to cut costs; bin people off, offshore jobs. Two years down the line, costs are cut, profits are up and he gets his bonus and moves on to the next victim, erm, company. What he's left behind is a company with far less internal knowledge, morale through the flaw and an inability to understand the local market. Been there, seen it happen a few times. The upshot is that the company ends up rehiring locally and has lost a lot of knowledge and lags behind where it should have been. Doesn't matter though, because the main man at the time trousered his bonus so all's good.

Same principle applies to politicians; Gidiot raiding pensions by taxing now, leaving them to be taxed later too by someone else, but he doesn't care. Take that further and they've sold our soul to the highest bidder; our infrastructure should be nationalised; everything from road and rail network to power provision (electric/gas/oil/other renewables) to comms. We need to get to a situation where we have a reliable infrastructure, including personal and commercial transport links, getting HGVs off the roads wherever possible. The focus shouldn't be on short term and how much it costs; the focus should be on the future of our children and their children so we don't have the "blame the boomers" situation. Ours should be the generation that was acknowledged as the one that dug deep, stood up to the short-termers and do what's right for the country's future, not it's current elite.

So basically nationalise everything?

[LondonManc]

So basically nationalise everything?

No. Just the infrastructure you plum. I appreciate that it was too long for you to take in all at once.

[d000hg]

It does in politically correct terms, but has political correctness now been redefined to make this new anti immigration narrative now acceptable. The AMERICAN voters seem to think so.

FTFY.

America is a bit, erm, special.