Ignoring the problems will get us nowhere (nowhere good anyway)

‘Serious problems’ with UK’s reliance on migration, warns OBR official User Posted Link

Posted By: paulg on August 25th 2025 at 15:03:30

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So if £250bn marks 10% of Gdp (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Aug 25, 14:41:03
- Because the government doesn’t spend £500bn on “you” (General Chat) - Old Git, Aug 25, 15:41:05
  - Bigot. What's another 50k a year in the mix (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 15:48:08
  - I guess that's why it's over 20 times the amount. (n/m) (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Aug 25, 15:42:41
- what fag packet are you using for those figures (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Aug 25, 15:23:01
- Ignoring the problems will get us nowhere (nowhere good anyway) (General Chat) - paulg, Aug 25, 15:03:30
- Because it's money we shouldn't spend at all (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 14:50:37
  - How do you propose we deport people to Afghanistan? (General Chat) - Snakepit Divorcee, Aug 25, 15:09:31
    - The germans are doing it. (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Aug 25, 15:54:42
    - Put them on a plane and say goodbye ? (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 15:23:03
      - There are no direct flights from the UK to Afghanistan. (General Chat) - Snakepit Divorcee, Aug 25, 16:05:00
        
        Well (General Chat) - phrankin, Aug 25, 18:19:25
        
        Ummm... I think we could use a charted plane (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 16:30:58
        
        And do you think Afghanistan would just take them back? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ulf jr, Aug 25, 17:53:46
        
        Why not? (General Chat) - phrankin, Aug 25, 18:21:07
        
        If there are no direct flights. (General Chat) - Snakepit Divorcee, Aug 25, 16:46:03
        
        And that's one country. (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 18:10:18
        
        True. Then prison camps for them. Make it unattractive (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 18:09:02
        
        it'd be easier and cheaper to educate fuckwits so they understand how asylum works (General Chat) - Cable Gap Pioneer, Aug 25, 18:32:47
        
        Surely it would be a cheap venture? Maybe some volunteers could do it (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Aug 25, 16:08:31
        
        The germans use military planes I think (General Chat) - shoddy, Aug 25, 16:08:11
        
        ironically, we flew civ charter to kuwait on an icelandair 747 bitd (General Chat) - Tombs, Aug 25, 17:25:39
        
        And all sounds really unpleasant (n/m) (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Aug 25, 16:15:57
        
        So what? Make it unpleasant. Who gives a fuck (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 16:33:39
        
        Who hurt you? (n/m) (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Aug 25, 17:15:55
        
        They have a very different relationship with the Taliban. (General Chat) - Snakepit Divorcee, Aug 25, 16:11:10
      - ^^^ VMT^^ and ..... (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Aug 25, 15:36:02
  - Nope. The issue will (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 15:02:48
    - So it's having very little impact on anybody's lives, but it's upsetting everyone? (n/m) (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Aug 25, 15:09:25
      - I mean its having impact on lots of people (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 15:26:19
        
        If all the UK citizens abroad had to return to the uk (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Aug 25, 15:40:21
        
        They don't need to. I imagine ( without research) (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 15:46:21
      - It’s upsetting racists. (General Chat) - Snakepit Divorcee, Aug 25, 15:10:27
        
        I blame the poor standard of schooling. Thickos can’t understand difficult concepts (General Chat) - footymadman, Aug 26, 09:11:01
        
        I really don't know how anyone can look at tens of thousands (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 15:31:56
        
        I think about how horrifying the journey must have been (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Aug 25, 16:01:45
        
        Nobody does (General Chat) - APB, Aug 25, 15:55:38
        
        Just make it clear they are unwelcome (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 16:00:14
        
        you realise that the UK has a legl obligtion to accept asylum-seekers? (General Chat) - Cable Gap Pioneer, Aug 25, 16:51:26
        
        You do realise these people could claim asylum (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 17:38:31
        
        Maybe, but they're legally entitled to do so in the UK. Given that we accept fewer than (General Chat) - Cable Gap Pioneer, Aug 25, 18:05:13
        
        Also, 70% of asylum claims are accepted, so the vast majority are "real cases" (General Chat) - Cable Gap Pioneer, Aug 25, 18:06:26
        
        Given all the small boat migrants could be refused (General Chat) - phrankin, Aug 25, 19:23:21
        
        They have no obligation to stop in a 3rd country. Why can't you understand that? (General Chat) - Cable Gap Pioneer, Aug 25, 20:13:53
        
        Overview of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (General Chat) - phrankin, Aug 25, 23:29:40
        
        Oh please.. just because you don't want unfetted migration (General Chat) - Disco, Aug 25, 15:24:11
        
        No one has said that. (General Chat) - Snakepit Divorcee, Aug 25, 16:57:59
        
        ^^^VMT^^^^ (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Aug 25, 15:27:58
  - Less than 1% of spending will destroy the goverment everyone's future? (n/m) (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Aug 25, 14:57:10
- Because they simply can’t accept actual facts which might prove them wrong (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Aug 25, 14:45:16

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