Our economy is struggling with uncertainties, housing issues, foreclosures, global fluctuations, and the pandemic aftermath, causing instability. Rising inflation, sluggish growth, and trade disruptions need urgent attention from all sectors to restore stability and stimulate growth.

The UK economy is so weak because people can't afford anything anymore. Goods and food have become far more expensive. Housing is insanely unaffordable. UK politics have failed british people.

The conservative party failed to govern for over 14 years now. Housing has slumped and prices are put off controll. Investment is services like fire and police has been cut for years. UK has less police officers then in 2010 despite having millions more living here

Loss of freedom of movement since Brexit means Brits cannot emigrate to the EU easily, therefore net migration has skyrocketed.

This country is messed up.

I cant believe people think 700k net plus a year is sustainable.

You should make a content on how to earn 6 figures in monthly profits cos I've been reading about investors making up as much and I'd really love to know how to such substantial profit in this current market

Nurses are paid 18% less then in 2009. Junior doctors are getting 30% less then in 2009. NHS spending has been far below Inflation. Knees, hips, eyes - what tops the waiting list? Jane is not alone. Nearly 800,000 people require hip, knee and joint-related orthopaedic treatments. Close to half of them have been waiting longer than 18 weeks, which is not just the target waiting time but supposedly a patient right, written into the NHS Constitution.

moved to Bristol with my family from Devon when I was 15, started work at 17 and was able to rent somewhere within 3 miles of my family in 2005. 2020 priced out of Bristol to Newport South Wales, 2023 priced out of Newport and moved to Liverpool. Bristol has two universities, both of which have swallowed up entire quarters of the city centre with new build international student luxury apartments. Outside the city centre entire residential districts like Brislington and Fishponds are bought up for student houses. locals cant live near their families and some like myself are being pushed out of the south west entirely to the north west

The analysis argues: Large-scale migration has not delivered significant growth in GDP per capita, and has increased the strain on our capital stock, from roads and GP surgeries to housing. as per the center for policy studies. GDP is a poor measure for growth even if it is nominal or real. You can get nominal growth in GDP via inflation. The real GDP growth relies on real necessities being part of the inflation index. So lets elaborate, you hear people talk about the bank of england should reduce interest rates so mortgages get cheaper. The reality is CPI doesnt include mortgages. So they can inflate house prices and that would not show up in the CPI. There are other indexes such as the Core CPI which is not looking so good for the UK. The reality is, the UK has been run badly for decades, and the electorate will do well to be more synical of the politicians that they elect.

I am an immigrant to UK since 2007, of course legally through work visa. We are entitled to permanent residency after 5 years of continuous tax payment without claiming public benefit, then 7th year to be neutralised to British Citizen. We did so, and I settled with my partner, also came via work visa, same route to settle down. We have two kids here, apart from very occasional NHS consultation, two child birth in hospital, and some child benefit, we claimed no other benefits, and had always been paying tax, high tax band, for so many years. I am confident to say I did much more contribution to the UK economy than claiming benefit. Please differentiate illegal immigrant and legal immigrants, please also differentiate immigrants who are working hard and pay for the country to those who are not. Big talk of all walks of immigration problems will not improve things but arouse hatred, fuel nationalism against us! This was how Brexit happened. There was a reason UK chose to open to immigrants in The beginning. That was agreed to have benefit. How things went wrong afterwards was caused by collective factors, bad immigrantion policies, poor education of British schools that can not met the demand of UK’s economy and technological development, wrong decision of Brexit that lead to lose of investment and business then caused loss of national tax and increase of costing of living, involvement and support in major wars, increased US federal interest rates hugely increased the financial cost of UK government , plus the pandemic expenditures, etc. I think the legacy of British empire, common wealth countries immigration policies formed the foundation of the population demographic in Britain today.

go on any university's website, choose any course, compare the fees between UK, EEA and international student. Compare the difference in fees and you will no longer start liking Reform, unless of course you have got a private school education and are happy for more Brits to be illiterate

Johnson has cut 400 frontline firefighter positions for the London Fire Brigade when he was Mayor. This shows were the Conservative party is standing.

That tufton street wannabe doesn't tell you that every legal migration person gives £700 per year for the NHS. So every student has to pay this every year of there studies.

It's incredibly important to the economy, culture, & it's standing in the world. Legal skilled immigrants should have an easier time in the system & settling not be made to have it harder. Students should not even be counted as immigrants & should be removed from net migration statistics. Family unification should be a human right & there should be no MIR for spouses! Placing MIR also has a massive negative affect on British citizens who are in relationships with foreigners! Scapegoating immigrants also doesn't help with anything & shows extreme weakness. Trying to be cruel to asylum seekers won't stop them from coming either b/c schemes like the rwanda policy doesn't get to the root of the problem which is instability in their home countries.

I can't breathe. There's too many people.

In the Netherlands a government committee calculated that 'Non-Western' immigration is a net COST over the life of the immigrant. That is after deducting cost of education, healthcare housing etc. etc. from the 'net production' (taxes) of the immigrant. of course there are exeptions to the rule in the positive ánd negative!

Obviously it doesnt work- don't believe the lies

It’s not about growth. It’s about sustaining what we have. How do we keep the NHS going?

If the international students are working in UK, then the money that they spend on fees and living expenses is NOT export income. Some even send money back to their home countries, draining the UK economy.

NHS backlog and waiting lists There are 640,000 waiting to see eye specialists - many will have declining eyesight with its obvious consequences on their daily lives - and there are more than 500,000 waiting for gynaecological care and another 500,000 waiting for ear, nose and throat (ENT) treatments. Even in emergency deparments people are waiting 8 or 10 hours.

Channel 4 recently did a video of a new immigrant (who didn't work) complaining that her benefit wasn't enough for her and her child. What do you think?

0:23 There you have it. Mask off moment. Been saying this for years, a bigger economy just means more profits and fat dividends for the asset owning classes. For you it means bigger queues for a doctor or more sewage in the rivers. We need to get away from this "good for economy = good" paradigm. When the economy is set up to benefit only a very small number of people it has no relevance.

The public are not to be dictated to, we know what immigration has done and we want a swift end to the madness.

Stop anyone coming into the country unless they have a minimum off £ 36000 coming in every year.

I'm glad this is getting coverage. We need to have this scrutiny, with the levels of immigration we have now this issue absolutely cannot be ignored any longer. If you hate the likes of Farrage it is all the more reason you shouldn't ignore it.

You got to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration. Most citizens welcome legal immigrants. Illegal immigrants are people who jump the line (queue). There are thousands of people waiting in queue for legal immigrations.

The housing market has been screwed for 15 years, wages havent risen in line with house prices.no new council houses and hardly any affordale housing created. Visa'd immigration is very high but the changes in university fees has made them the UKs latest money maker. We need houses, rent is crazy everywhere.

A lot of people voting for Brexit were from Asian backgrounds, because European immigration they couldn't bring so many people from their original countries, Brexit did open the borders for them.

Yes make it all about immigration to pit people against one another so we don't focus on inflation, austerity and housing. Great idea.

"How should we view UK immigration" Alright channel 4 tell me how to think.

As an Australian the same issue has happened here. Quantitative peopling by the federal government has inflated house prices and construction costs so much that it’s practically too expensive to build housing now. The rate of migration should be tied into a percentage of the overall national stock of houses built per annum. This will deflate the housing market and consequently construction costs. The removal of unnecessary planning and rezoning restrictions also needs to be fast tracked in policy reform.

The reason why net migration figures jave skyrocketed is because their immigration points based system.

Lived in korea for over a decade. You want to see a country with an aging demographic problem, its a done deal there. Yet they still have a highly managed and metered immigration policy. With visas renewed yearly with no expectations to stay indefinitely. Immigration in the tens of thousands focus on what sectors and industry needs in mostly farming, manufacturing, labour, fishing, building. Jobs that Koreans won't do. Not all jobs are allowed to be done by foreigners and for skilled job degree/master and years experience in that field is required before even consideration to why a foriegner should take the job over a Korean. Add on to this ratio quotas per korean employee to foreigner employee their polices puts country first. It's wierd now i think of it. The only have immigration in such small number compare to the UK yet the have well organised immigration offices for even city and province yet the UK has like 3.

The media is overtly framing the immigration issue in economic terms, and ruthlessly avoiding discussion about culture. Small numbers of migrants can be integrated into British culture, and can be enriching. Mass migration creates enclaves, segregated communities, and low trust. A British Asian in London, Harrow (45% Asian) will face less pressure to integrate into traditional British life than a British Asian growing up in Norfolk (0.5%).

Indian immigrants bring in so many high quality talents to UK , provide so many politician, CEO or entrepreneur , even UK richest person is a Indian.

The reason we have immigration at all is because people aren’t having enough children. Our ageing population has created a demographic imbalance. There is a direct correlation between increasing house prices and decreasing birth rates. To find the solution, the formula has to be rearranged. It really is as simple as that.

Fascism is also out of control

Tax, inflation, prices, real estate all going up. When inflation goes 'down' prices stayed up but when asked it's always "it doesn't work that way" from ministry.

Has Andrew Parker been arrested yet channel 4? No? Why not? Is it because he would have to speak to the police and not act?

Forget the economy, the social cost is unbelievably high, and that's what liberals will never understand until they themselves have to live in some of these highly diverse areas.

It's NOT JUST STUDENTS THOUGH IS IT. IT IS ALL THEIR FAMILY TOO, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE STUDENTS THAT LEAVE BEFORE YEAR 1.

If your economy is driven by Immigration and not by investments and manufacturing, you've got it all wrong. Immigration is good but if it is controlled and sustainable. Why no one thinks about other impacts of unusually high immigrants coming into country?

Who would think that spending £7m a day on illegal immigrants would be bad for the country

Channel 4 believes infinity immigrants will solve all our problems. Good luck, glad I emigrated 👍

We need more people to keep the GDP up. More people means we can raise prices and charge more. It is how capitalism works.

That Karl Williams guy comes off so sleazy and smarmy. And when he mentions how the graduate visa acts like a loophole, without actually knowing what it is, I love how Professor Jonathan Portes says, 'to say it is a loophole, is simply a fiction invented by people who don't like foreigners.' 🤣🤣🤣

How come there is a problem with doctors, with all of these doctors arriving with boats...

Boris to blame for. He should be prosecutes

Legal migration is definitely not the problem

Its finished our economy to its knees

I could have to them this for free in 2018 about sharp rise in nonEU Migration

Well.... It is gona cost a huge amount of money with NO, I repeat: NO advantages

If you’re going to university, you don’t bring your mum do you you don’t need the visa family

This ifs guy is a problem

We don’t mind a little migration but like the host country we age so in that context we should be training our young up

Our country is broken

Migration legal is welcome we need that … not illegal

The Windrush generation and those who came from India can wben people were needed and so many people intergrated. Illegal migration now is a huge issues, housing people who really shouldn't be here (not those actually fleeing war), legal migration isn't that much of an issue if they are contributing to society. However there needs to be stricter law, come to study here you cant bring dependents because a lot won't work but will use things like the NHS etc. And to those crying about Rwanda, Denmark successfully do the same thing, it was one thing they negotiationed when they joined the EU. The UK population need to learn from this and actually put the country first!

If immigration is the key then the goals are completely wrong. Slave ecconomics are the wrong ecconomics. Skilled well paid jobs for British people. High wage, high skilled, High valued jobs. Scandanavians can get it right. Why can't we ? Because our largest sector is banks and people who are not in devt are of no value.

Vote REFORM!

Let me clue you in…it isn’t! It’s a lie!

Immigration is a big business in UK

Why do people argue about migration so much? Who cares? I certainly don't, it can go up, it can go down, it doesn't affect my quality of life, I don't care if I hear another language being spoken, I don't care if another Polish supermarket opens on the high street, there are more important issues.

Make babies, not arguments 😂

We are full up now shut the boarders it’s insane.

Liar

Look at Poland and you will see want immigration dose

To many students getting brainwashed

If the uk did not have migration who would pay the tax for Brits to get their uc payments. We all earn over 34k a year pay 3 k in visa and nhs surcharge every 2 years pay tax and ni and get no benefits and can still afford to live in the uk. Brits are on uc and complain they don’t get enough free money.

..and this journalist sounds like a spoof.

Why beg immigrants to come over and then cry haaaaaa

Personally, no trouble with anyone’s skin colour. Islam is _the_ issue for me. When a critical mass is reached in this country (and anywhere else) there will be calls for Sharia Law and if Islam is in the driving seat at that point, it _will_ be enforced. Or else. We are sleepwalking into a not-too-distant disaster.

I'm German brat

Left wing media Chanel 4 is a fk in state of a channel sack your directors

Wafloob

Vote reform!!!! We want our country back!!!!

Sounds like we need some kind of Reform of the political system...

our main problem is Brexit, in fact, freedom of movement is the control we need, the one thing that would help and no one is talking about it, we have done the most foolish thing possible, freedom of movement within the EU means control of the boarders not less, and you can stop the boat in France, we need to stop being foolish

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The question of economic impact of immigration is very complex. But for racists and bigots, the issue is very simple.

The UK economy is so weak because people can't afford anything anymore. Goods and food have become far more expensive. Housing is insanely unaffordable. UK politics have failed british people.