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Fantastic news about BP’s profits. It’ll be good when it starts trickling down.

 

When it pays for this years holiday im sure you will remember all those freezing grannys

 

I'm not exactly a spring chicken 75 in June so your point is caller ?, put the violin away your breaking my heart .

 

Your age prevents you from caring about others of a similar age? odd that one.

 

And don't forget Dave, all this FREE money that keeps pouring in from the government and paid for by the overtaxed workers of today Ha Ha Ha ....

 

William Shakespeare

 

Stumbled across this alarming study: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/4333/immigration-and-housing-booms-evidence-from-spain

We are constantly told immigration has no effect on increasing rental prices and lowering the supply of affordable housing.

Surprisingly few studies have been done on the impact of immigration and housing, but in the ones that have the results are stark. For example, in a 2009 study Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain (https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/4333/immigration-and-housing-booms-evidence-from-spain), the researchers found that a 17% inflow of immigrants increased the cost of housing by a massive 52%. From the study:

"Between 1998 and 2008, the average Spanish province received an immigrant inflow equal to 17% of the initial working-age population. We estimate that this inflow increased house prices by about 52% and is responsible for 37% of the total construction of new housing units during the period."

On top of the impact this is having on our health service, the lack of action against immigration / illegal immigration is literally suicidal.