Britain’s stretched services can’t be expected to absorb 5 million people over just 10 years
Bulging Britain
HOW is Britain meant to absorb a nation-sized population rise in just ten years?
Especially when we have built a tiny fraction of the infrastructure necessary.
The forecast of a five million net increase between 2022 and 2032 solely from immigration is truly staggering.
It is like importing almost all of Ireland or New Zealand and expecting our existing housing, hospitals, GPs, schools, roads, reservoirs, and those who currently use them, simply to cope.
Even the Government’s house-building targets won’t nearly be enough.
As our population eclipses France’s, we are already about four million homes short.
This explosion is not specifically this Government’s fault, though it was Labour which first embraced mass immigration.
The totals soared beyond comprehension under Boris Johnson.
But Labour now needs a solution.
There is no way Britain can plan and build fast enough to accommodate a surge as vast as that.
The impact on services alone will be horrific.
If Labour won’t cap the annual influx, what will it do?
Broken NHS
AS we feared, the Health Secretary’s bold ambition to reinvent the NHS appears to be running into a brick wall of apathy.
Officials in his department and at NHS England are “out of ideas and remarkably complacent”, reports the Labour-dominated Public Accounts Committee.
One member says: “The Government has transformative ambitions. We were aghast to find some of the worst complacency among senior officials in charge of delivering those.”
The NHS rubbished their report.
But on Page 17 you can see the real state of it, as elderly patients, robbed of dignity, lie in a packed hospital corridor because the wards are full.
The NHS has had colossal budget rises. But that solves next to nothing, and is a road to ruin, as Wes Streeting knows.
This system designed in 1948 looks unfit for purpose. Time for a new one, Wes.
End this folly
IT’S all very well panicked Home Office ministers running a mile from that disgraceful internal report on extremism.
Minister Dan Jarvis says it is not current Government policy. Fine.
But who wrote it, what job do they still hold in the department and why?
Downplaying Islamist extremism and grooming gangs, rubbishing as a “far right narrative” the two-tier policing voters can see with their own eyes, and urging cops to probe MORE “non-crime hate incidents”…
These are the thoughts not of impartial civil servants with expertise in actual extremism, but clueless Corbynites with a hard-left axe to grind.
Why are they still given a hearing in this key department?