EnricoPallazzo said:
Its a common theme that I have seen in many countries including my birth country (Brazil). Politicians being elected to do what people want and then going on the exact opposite direction, which then pushes people more into the extremes. It always happened at some extent as you cant keep all your campaign promises, and some promises are made exactly to not be fulfilled, but it seems to me the disconnection between what people want and the agenda being pushed by politicians never been so wide in my lifetime (44). What I have seen by tory government in the last 8 years, the period I have been in UK if baffling. The vast, unquestionable, supreme majority of british people, left and right, do not want mass migration. Only 9% wants it. 74% thinks it needs to decrease heavily, be net zero, or actually start sending people away to decrease the population. Yet look at what hapenned/happens. And Starmer is going in the same direction. At the same time, Labour voters do want to see more investment, more spending, reforms on Nymbis, University Fees and other issues, and until now they are dissatisfied as they see Starmer as being almost a Tory. Its no surprise people are pushed to the extremes, especially when the extremes more and more sound just like a real conservative or labour party would normally say or do. People have nowhere to go. |
The avg age of politicians in the UK (in the house of commons) is 50 with an upwards trend, generation X. Their parents are all facing pension troubles with the ageing population.
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/key-issues-parliament-2015/social-change/ageing-population/
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/the-uks-changing-population/
Without immigration population would decline in the UK and the only thing these politicians can think of is bring more people into the country, preferably those that have many children, who can work and pay taxes for their state pensions.
It's all self serving... This is what happens if you design your social security on ever growing population. Many western countries face the same issue.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2017/11/these-animations-show-the-western-world-is-rapidly-ageing/
https://rajawali.hks.harvard.edu/articles/a-rapidly-aging-world-and-the-awaiting-demographic-implosion/
Significantly increased labor migration will be essential for aging societies, and not least for Europe, to function. Closed borders only exacerbate the problem. While there is no shortage of young people in the world — Africa’s median age is 19 — the trend of declining birth rates in more and more countries must be reversed. No developed country offers a successful model for this.
Shut the borders and work until you die is the alternative? Pension age of 71 is already forecast for the UK with the current immigration.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/feb/05/uk-state-pension-age-will-soon-need-to-rise-to-71-say-experts
The young pay for the old social security schemes don't work anymore, a complete overhaul of the current system is needed to suit declining populations. As much as people complain "They're taking our jobs", in fact they're paying for your pension and elderly healthcare.
