General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Peter Israel

The last Labour government from 1997 to 2010 presided over an intake of over 4 million legal migrants . Most of these were family units not single men.
It’s probably reasonable to add, over the same period, half a million illegal migrants.
This is the reason why all public services and housing came under, and still do, such tremendous pressure.
In part it was due to Gordon Brown trying to create a client state that would favour Labour in the polling booth. To further this aim he encouraged an increase in the size of the public sector payroll of 850, 000 from 1999 onwards. Many, if not most, of these were victims of the austerity that followed later.