"Curbing Immigration could bring down House Prices" - Theresa May

Sampong

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9739590/Curbing-mass-immigration-could-bring-down-house-prices-Theresa-May-says.html

grizzly1911

From that link May says

She added: “Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.”

Alleluia about bl@@dy time.

Stating the Bl**ding Obvious.

Whether it alone will depress house prices I doubt.

Whether than they can/will do anything to stem the flow double doubt.

Sampong

grizzly1911 wrote: »

From that link May says

She added: “Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.”

Alleluia about bl@@dy time.

Stating the Bl**ding Obvious.

Whether it alone will depress house prices I doubt.

Whether than can/will do anything to stem the flow double doubt.

Theresa May should be careful she isn't branded with the "r" word ......

moneyinmypocket

Nothing will happen, house prices reflect there value - there expensive for a reason buy while you can

BertieUK

Mrs May said the Government was on course to meet its pledge to cut net migration, the number of people who come to live in the UK for more than a year less the number leaving, to the tens of thousands by 2015.

Truth probably is that they have slipped into the country already and are living on our welfare.

antenna

The census infomation knows exactly how many non uk born residents in the uk have qualified for social housing (council houses).....and they tell us that less people in the uk can afford to buy their first house..............we are going to hell in a handcart....or is it a rickshaw.
ps......if you are british born to british born parents you have to live with them.........but if you are a asylum seeker the council MUST give you a home.

the_flying_pig

the thing that i like about this is that lower HPs are fairly unambiguously presented as a good thing.

Sampong

antenna wrote: »

ps......if you are british born to british born parents you have to live with them.........but if you are a asylum seeker the council MUST give you a home.

All Councils claim that Asylum Seekers don't jump the queue, but they seem to be dealt with suspiciously quickly - so what are the true facts?

Jonbvn

moneyinmypocket wrote: »

Nothing will happen, house prices reflect there value - there expensive for a reason buy while you can

Do you know the words "their" and "they're"?

wotsthat

grizzly1911 wrote: »

From that link May says

She added: “Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.”

I think she's got the cause and effect the wrong way around.

Immigration fills the gap where low skilled Brits have too high an expectation of wages. Wage rises behind inflation means that wages are less attractive to immigrants. Combine that with reduced benefits and it becomes more attractive for locals to take up work.

Immigration should be controlled (especially low skilled labour where unemployment is high). We could all queue longer at the desks in airports but that won't make much difference - the most effective way is to make local labour more competitive than immigrants.

DevilsAdvocate1

moneyinmypocket wrote: »

Nothing will happen, house prices reflect there value - there expensive for a reason buy while you can

Rubbish. The house price reflects what someone is prepared to pay. If the price is too high, the house won't sell. Houses in my area have sold very slowly for the last 3 or 4 years. They are too expensive.