Britain: are we full?

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Are we full? 

This is a question that always seems to pop up in our society. Immigration has always been a touchy, yet important, topic and is one that plays a massive part in which political party we decide to elect.

So, are we full?

I can't answer this question - in fact I don't think anyone can truly say that we are 'full'. It's not like we have a limited number of seats and every seat is taken. We're a country, not a west end theatre. There isn't a guard counting how many people are coming in, or a digital board counting free spaces and shutting borders when we're full. 

Why?

The problem is that those kind of procedures are near impossible to enforce. I'm not saying they are impossible. With the right funding and time a system for tracking the amount of people in the country, as well as 'free spaces' could certainly be created. However, the amount of time and money a system like this would actually take is immense. It just isn't viable - unless of course there was a way to profit from it.

Perhaps limiting the amount of people coming into the country would aid current citizens with getting jobs, housing, etc and build up the economy? To be quite honest, this does sound viable but then there's no evidence or reports that prove the economy would benefit (or if it would, by how much)

Maybe there is a different approach to sorting out our immigration problems. I don't have the first clue on how to solve the growing problem we have, but I do know that something must be done. What's the point in letting people in who have absolutely no intention of obeying our laws and mixing with society. By all means, people can follow whatever religion and/or belief they wish but it mustn't interfere with British morals or laws. If it does, they aren't welcome and should be refused immigration clearance.

There's a lot more to this argument than I can possibly discuss. Ultimately though, most arguments are a variation on one important point - the immigration epidemic needs to be sorted.

MP's are underpaid, wait... what??

I've just been reading a rather funny story. In all honesty, I read it yesterday but couldn't get my head around it properly in order to express my opinion.

The long and short of it, MP's have stated that they believe they are underpaid and are entitled to a 32% pay rise! Before I carry on, please bear in mind that most MP's are on a paltry sum of £60,000 p.a. so they deserve the pay rise.

Actually, no, they bloody well don't. A pay rise is generally awarded when an employee excels in their role, I don't believe MP's have even come close to correctly performing their role let alone excel. It just shows you how out of touch they are with the rest of the UK. 

It makes me laugh, they want all of us to vote for them, yet they cut people's benefits, they increase taxes, they introduce more fees and then have the cheek to say they want a bigger wage. The wage they are on at the moment is easily 3-4 times, if not more, as much as the standard working class citizen. In my eyes, if these citizens can live on their wage then the MP's can live on their so called "low" wage. If they can't, they should make sacrifices and cut their spending like everyone else has to. Sell that flash car, downgrade the property. You do whatever it takes to live on your wage. Most people I know, and those I don't, have a hell of a lot more expenditure to worry about and they DON'T complain - they get on with it. What a perfect example of how the country should be.

If I had my way, the country would be run by the majority. None of these wealthy bred, Cambridge educated toffs who have no idea how the majority of the UK lives.

Or, to make it fair, why not have it similar to America. Each area of the country run by a different government. One that is more in touch with the people of the area. Money made from that area goes straight to their particular government and spent in that area only. None of this centralised bullcrap where the high lords in London get to decide how the rest of the country lives, only spending money where they see fit.

You can find more info on this story here. I'm done. I could go on for hours and hours about how ridiculous this whole saga is.