We interrupt this journey for a RANT!

Theresa May
IDIOT.

Well, I just happened to see a bit of the Tory Conference on TV today (in my defence, I was in the gym!). Dumb-ass Theresa May was waffling on about how she was going to get tough on immigration.

But how is she going to do it? No word there of the strategies she will use to make it happen – just strong-sounding, yet ultimately empty, statements.

I know how to sort out the immigration problem. In fact I know how they could sort out the whole bloody country in three (rather dramatic) steps:

1) IMMIGRATION: Go door to door around every address in the country, comparing all residents against the electoral register. Any bugger who could potentially be an illegal immigrant should be sent to a detention centre, where each case is investigated and all illegal immigrants are held until there are enough for a deportation boat to their country. This will remove about 1/3 of the excess population, leaving more jobs and more government funds to go around. Foreign criminals should be deported penniless, all their assets seized and contributed to public funds in lieu of keeping them in expensive jails in Britain. Haulage companies should be issued huge fines (£5,000 each for the company and the driver) if illegal immigrants are found hiding in their trucks. Police have the power and active encouragement to stop and search trucks coming from all the main ports instead of spending their resources chasing speeders. All illegal immigrants are immediately interred in camps and deported asap.

2) SPENDING: Carry out the ultimate wastage investigation throughout the government. Find every department that is paying £18 for a box of paperclips because they come from a HM approved supplier and make ‘em go to Staples. Find every gigantic office block owned by the government ‘just in case’ and sell ‘em. Demolish every ridiculous subcommittee engaged in pointless policy wrangling and statistical analysis of five-year economic trends. Publish salary details for every elected person and civil servant and bring them all in line with equivalent private salaries. Fire all insanely overpriced advisors and consultants. As a result create more jobs with training in the same areas! And chuck all that spare cash at the NHS. I get a feeling they could put it to good use.

3) EMPLOYMENT: Make it illegal for any company to out-source their production/call centres/suppliers to another country if there is a suitable equivalent available in Britain, OR THE CAPACITY TO DEVELOP ONE. Any company wishing to shift their manufacturing base to India should have to prove that there is a genuine and pressing reason – and increased profit is NOT an allowable consideration. So if we can build a train in England, or have the potential to create a factory and workforce to build that train, it is illegal for the company to have it built in Germany or Poland.

And that’s it! Then, when we have a strong economy, comprised of people who are entitled to be here, with sufficient jobs and public funds for all – and on top of all that, a government we can trust, who are leading by example – THEN we can worry about tackling the bloody deficit! It’s always been there, it’s always been growing and every other country has the same problem, most of them much worse than ours. Does it affect our day to day lives? Whether we can feed our children? No. So leave it the hell alone until our more pressing domestic problems are sorted out!

Right! Rant over. Sorry about that folks. What do you think? Got any better ideas?  :0)

3 thoughts on “We interrupt this journey for a RANT!

  1. Good God, I’ve heard these ideas somewhere before… I think you just described New Zealand!

    There’s a reason the entire country has a population that is HALF that of Greater London, despite it being larger than all of Britain. Perhaps its because every new immigrant has to spend a small fortune to go through the applicaiton process, as well as being able to prove that they bring something to the country that is really needed, not just another person for the dole queue. Another plus, to get into New Zealand, you have to speak the damn language, more than can be said for the UK!

    And may I add my own ‘fix Great Britain’ suggestion: FIX BENEFITS! People with six kids and no job should NOT be able to buy nice cars and go on foreign holidays. All social benefits should exist only to keep folk from starving and freezing until they find a job, and the incentive should be to find one bloody fast!

    Also, the fact that so many people on benefits live at up-market addresses in London that only the top 10% of working people could ever aspire to is ridiculous. Rent benefits should be capped. If it’s too expensive to live in South Kensington, DON’T LIVE THERE!

    I’ve always thought benefits should come in the form of vouchers and not money, same idea as the WW2 ration system. Vouchers for rent, bills, food, clothing etc. That way all the money won’t go to alcohol or cigarettes! I think the country needs to remember what social benefits were invented for – it’s to take care of those who CANNOT work, not those who don’t want to.

    And that’s my rant over 🙂 I give the floor to the next eager idealist…

  2. I totally agree with both of you, especially the bit about the benefit money being given in food and housing vouchers. If they want to go on a holiday, get a job and save up like the rest of the world, not scam another load of benifits! I cant believe that they get the same money for sitting at home with 4 kids then we do working full time. Thats just messed up!
    I did think it was slightly ridiculous that May was quoted as saying “We will make sure that all people here in the UK will go home after they have completed their working visas” HOW?! They cant do that now so whats going to change?! Everyone knows all you have to do is get into the country, then you can hide anywhere and get illegal documents and there you go…join the benefit system! It should be harder to get in somehow, cost more or need more garantors and checks like Oz and Nz where less people go awol. Or you should hire Julia Gillard and put her in charge, she’ll sort em out!

  3. Totally agree with all three of you! Especially about the benefits thing. I was horrified when I found out what ‘entitlements’ people on the dole can get in the UK. And that’s half the problem – they view them as ‘entitlements’, not as a privilege. Benefits should be there only as a stop gap for those who CAN work and there to support those who GENUINELY can’t work.
    I get frustrated enough here in NZ with those bludging the system but that’s nothing compared to the UK. It’s insane. Tony Reynen-Slater for PM!!

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