To help explain to those in America, why the Dems would intentionally allow 20 million illegals to flow into our country. This is what's next for us. They'll blame it all on Trump, and their use full idiots will lap it up…
They Knew Mass Migration Would Break Britain. They Did It Anyway.
Prof Alan Manning, the former head of the government's own Migration Advisory Committee, was speaking publicly about Britain's immigration record when he said the quiet part out loud: mass migration was used to paper over economic failure, and it is now storing up serious long-term problems. Not warned about. Not predicted. Stored up. Deliberately.
That admission matters because it comes from the heart of the system that designed and defended the policy. Manning was not criticising from the outside. He was explaining how the state learned to substitute migration for reform. When austerity hollowed out public services and ministers refused to fix pay, productivity or training, immigration became the workaround. It was easier to import people than to repair the model.
For a time, this sleight of hand worked. Wage restraint in the NHS became "international recruitment". Universities starved of funding were turned into visa factories. A broken social care system was propped up with low-paid migrant labour instead of being rebuilt. Each failure was masked by the same answer: bring people in, keep the system moving, and push the costs into the future.
Manning now concedes what voters were told was heresy. The fiscal benefits of this approach were always short-term. The costs were always long-term. And those costs are not abstract. They show up in overcrowded housing markets, longer NHS waiting lists, classrooms stretched beyond capacity, stagnant wages at the bottom end of the labour market, and a welfare state carrying obligations it was never designed to absorb at this scale.
The OBR's figures remove the last layer of comfort. The average low-earning migrant, over a lifetime, costs the state more than they contribute. Again, this is not a moral judgement on individuals. It is a devastating judgement on a policy that knowingly brought people into a system that could not support them without degrading conditions for everyone else.
Manning's most revealing comparison is to public borrowing. Immigration, he says, was treated like debt: more money today, less tomorrow. That is exactly right. Governments spent social cohesion, infrastructure capacity and public consent to buy short-term stability and political quiet. The bill was deferred, not avoided.
And now the bill is arriving. Population growth has outpaced housing. Demand has outstripped services. Pay has been held down by design. Communities feel transformed without consent. Trust in institutions has collapsed. Even as net migration falls, the accumulated pressure remains. You do not undo a population surge of millions by announcing lower numbers and moving on.
What makes this scandalous is not that mistakes were made. It is that this was a conscious strategy. Migration was not a by-product of policy failure; it was the tool used to manage it. Instead of governing honestly, the state imported labour and called it compassion. Instead of reforming broken systems, it fed them new bodies and hoped they would cope.
Now the architects are retreating into the language of inevitability. "Long-run problems." "Unintended consequences." But there was nothing unintended about this. The trade-off was known. The warnings were issued. The decision was taken anyway.
This is why public anger does not subside when ministers say numbers are down. People understand, even if politicians pretend not to, that the damage was cumulative. You cannot stretch a country for a decade and then declare the crisis over because the inflow slows.
And the final indictment is this: a state that uses people to mask its failures is not humane. It is dishonest. And a political class that admits this only once the costs are locked in is not brave. It is exposed.
"The OBR's figures remove the last layer of comfort. The average low-earning migrant, over a lifetime, costs the state more than they contribute."
@SenWarren I have a great idea, you know all those millions of illegals that you let in the country and are trying to protect? Let the leggaly be deported and see what happens to low cost housing demands…
@GavinNewsom That's rich -- your F'd up policies have made California the most expensive place to live in the country. Please stop the gaslighting, nobody is buying it!
@JAYMADDIS@spencerpratt Doesn't matter if it's San Fran, or LA; they have both been run into the ground by idiotic progressives policies. All of you nitwitts in Cali deserve this because you keep voting for it.
@Fish_Flakes546@mrddmia Trump and ICE are here because of what you libtards did; allowed 20+ million illegals into our country so that you can remain in power with their votes. How did that work out for you? You will always be the minority voting block who must cheat to win...
@l3ftisf0rw4rd@catturd2 Speaking of tactics, it is SO satisfying to see you libtards getting beat by Republicans finally fighting back by using your abusive tactics.