Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit
Re: Britain filling up. I recently looked at the census numbers for 2001 and 2021. Just the raw population counts by age, nothing too detailed. In 2001 I found that the total number of people aged 65+ was around 9m (plus or minus a few thousand). I then got the equivalent numbers for 2021. Guess what, it wasn't just immigrants coming here. There were 12m crinklies. An increase of a third over twenty years! I presume each of these 12m demand that the UK government pays their pension, based on their NI contributions. The fact that their NI contributions are meant to cover pensions and the NHS, perhaps increasingly for another 30 years, seems not to concern them. They've paid their fees -- give me my god-damned pension!
I get the impression many of them are unaware that not a single penny of their NI goes to pay their pension. Not a penny. Their pension is fully paid by current taxpayers. And now, because of this general ignorance, our politicians are too feeble to demand these crinklies pay more tax to support the services they use, and instead shafts the younger population by suggesting they should now prepare to retire at 71.
Immigrants are not causing problems for this country. It's the pig-ignorant pensioners -- many of whom voted for brexit. I can only presume (by looking at polling breakdown by age) that the current 25% Tory voter support comes from this group. Still, I suppose blaming immigrants is more fun, and keeps your older racist happy.