People who think reform are anti establishment genuinely fascinate me.
These populists thrive on anger and hate. Solve the problem and those are gone. And the problems aren't the ones they champion anyway.
I have to say Labour is putting on a shit show too though. They were supposed to be new and refreshed, instead they are Tory-Lite on steroids. Worse than Blair or Miliband ever were.
Really UK politics needs some sanity :'(
Housing is in short supply and the sight of it being reserved for unemployed economic migrants is making me pretty angry.
The amount of housing actually taken by immigrants is minimal and releasing those wouldn't fix anything. Most of them live in squalor and doing jobs regular English guys wouldn't touch, in particular for the exploitative pay. You want your 2am burger delivered for a quid. Or the puke cleaned up in the metro. Who's going to do that these days?
It's this age-old problem: https://realfiction.net/assets/careful-mate.jpg
But now it's being weaponised for political gain. They're making you mad at the wrong people. The people who are causing it all are the ones you're voting for.
Supply has increased steadily, approx +200K dwellings per year.
Demand has increased -dramatically- primarily due to mass migration (net +944K people in year ending March 2023).
95% of additional households had a foreign-born Household Reference Person between the years 2010 and 2014. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/62910/html/