What is the primary issue driving housing shortages? It’s not planning reform, it’s not corporate greed. The primary and most fundamental issue is that as a country, our population is growing too rapidly to keep up with the necessary infrastructure demands.
Most of the country backs reducing immigration sharply probably in around 100k that Cameron promised. There just hasn’t been the political will to actually make the difficult choices and electorate no longer believed the Tories could be trusted on the issue.
I hope Labour gets a handle on things because if they fail, how long would it take for us to have our own ‘National Front’ movement. That’s something I’m desperate to avoid.
Maybe most of the country does back reducing immigration sharply. I would also say most of the country doesn't understand the intricate web around it and how much would be affected if it were, not to mention the legal issues. I almost certainly don't. And maybe that's why the political will isn't there despite it being such an obvious vote winner.
The social care system would collapse as it's already under enormous strain and understaffed despite a huge number of immigrant workers. And that's because the natives don't want to do it. Speeding up processing would help, but again the way to do that is employ people, but people don't want to take the jobs.
I doubt there's many people at all that don't want to see the borders and entry being enforced rigourously but fairly. Neither would there be much opposition to migrants/refugees/asylum seekers that break the law either severely or repeatedly being removed from the country.
But if it a huge, swift reduction in immigration were to happen it would be like Brexit II - after the fact everyone would slowly realise the massive side effects it would have and be "we didn't realise it meant that!"
