How Britain become addicted to immigration in fields as varied as agriculture and higher education
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
- Getting on for half the universities in this country would become bankrupt without foreign students, many of whom will remain in Britain for good after they graduate.
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Good morning, Uk is changing fast for all the wrong reasons.
Who nose who is behind it all?
@@Occident. Eskimos ?
@@Occident. Nice shoes
@@Occident. The "Tribe" who Shimon will never ever call out.
And it is all down to Our Shimons chosen people.
We're not keen on immigration.
We just don't have any say in it.
If you do say something about it, or get active to oppose it, you get targeted by the state!
@@Occident. ah,poor little lamb.
I moved abroad in 2020, I've visited the UK 3 times since, I have just spent the last 7 days in the UK, returning home yesterday.
I have never seen a country so run down, wild grass out of control on council roads and surrounding areas, traffic queues,pot holes everywhere, buildings shabby, commercial properties empty and covered in graffiti. Nottingham unrecognisable, stank of cannabis and soulless.
Sadly the UK has lost it's identity, it reminds me of Heathrow, full of people detached from each other occupying the same space but not embracing it, the UK is a convenience, a means to an end, the new comers don't want to invest in the UK, they want to use it. It's tragic how the country has become.
Great comment, it is exactly what happened and it’s gone down very quickly.I live in a nice area , so far, and don’t leave it much as I can’t bear to see the decline.
Nottingham is worse now than 20 years ago?! 😂 Trying to imagine how that is possible, haha
Oy vey.
@@SkepticalTeacher
20 years ago there was never the stench of cannabis. It appears nobody eats at home anymore, all I saw was numerous people delivering fast food on electric bikes?
The centre looked like a foreign city, soulless and empty
So you are not contributing to Britain . So many people make comments but deserted their homeland to give thier services to foreigners . No wonder Britain has problem with all it's educated talent leaving the country for their own self reasons . You are a true patriot for someone elses's country but not your own. Hypocritical I would say!
If people would just stop buying junk takeaway food a large proportion of the jobs these people do would disappear overnight.
Laziness.
yes they keep telling us the NHS And the care sector needs them but only 15% of the incomers go into those areas. As for the care sector it could be more correctly called the care industry they charge more for a pensioner than the 4 star hotel. Just a thought maybe we could save money by putting our elderly and four star hotels rather than asylum seekers
All of the shops you list are known to generally be just 'fronts' for money laundering but the law finds it difficult to prove and prosecute.
@@robertduncan6361..True. But I doubt that the police have the ability, manpower or skills to put an end to it.
@@phildavies6020
They're too busy, queuing in those takeaway shops
Why can't they all be amazing engineers, scientists and doctors in their own countries and transform them into the most developed countries on earth if they are all so smart?
Exactly.
Because they work for cheap. Replace Brits, like American engineers.
Ah... Now how the hell dis you allow yourself to ask a real question, slave? (bad sarcasm.)
Because it would take intervention by the west and once again we would be called colonizers, look at the state of some of the previous African colonies...
It would take intervention from the west, in the past we were labelled colonizers, the same would apply today even if there was no invasion....the left would loose their minds.
Its not a theory , its a agenda
I can't post a single comment
What does that even mean?
@@alaninsoflo it means it's an agenda not a theory. Wtf
Blair's slogan: education, education, education . What he meant was , Indoctrination, Indoctrination, Indoctrination.
A snake oil salesman of great skill.
More like.... IMMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION.
@@Occident. Spot on.
Rubbish we need more qualified people in the Technical disciplines !
Which makes it sensible that we train up people who already live here.@@alanmarr3323
When us old codgers are gone, we will be the last generation to remember Britain as it was, and all this nonsense unfortunately will be normal.
Sadly you are right about that.
And our history will be rewritten to finally and totally disconnect us from our homeland... "Been here from the start" and "Cheddar Man, Bruv" on steroids.
But wasn’t that the same for our parents? I remember my dad telling what things were like when he was young, so different. Some good, some bad, but that’s how life is! Just my opinion of course.
@@michael1714 the difference is that standards of living were improving. Now they are decreasing!
@@michael1714 The demographics weren't the same
A few years ago when migrants farm workers were in the news & the reason given was no British people would do the work I applied for several and got nowhere. As for foreign students they are accepted with lower grades and get the degree they’ve paid for regardless of ability. It’s a racket, nothing to do with higher education
This is the same in Australia with getting farm jobs. they will advertise it and show pictures of westerners doing the work. As far as I've heard from people who are farmers and people who have worked in the small places. Everyone knows they don't want foreigners because they can pay less. They can be incredibly mean to them as I've read on many websites. Some of them have taken their passports away and threatened the women and many other things. There is also that thing that always floats around that young people don't want to do it but as far as I have seen it's 50/50 and it's not like they're giving them a chance.
Not forgetting that the former tech colleges and polytechnics rebranded themselves as “ universities” offering useless degrees in any subject imaginable. Former tutors now became “ university lecturers” with grossly inflated sense of their own worth . With left leaning worldviews that they eagerly pump down the throats of gullible students courtesy of Blairism and Common Purpose.
@@ditta7865It's not that Brits "don't want to do it", it's more a case of the employers don't want to pay a Brit to do it.
@@robm8809correct
@@robm8809 Absolute rubbish I know many potato farmesr who can't get British labour!
Why are they always security guards and care workers? you never see thousands of African tarmac gangs repairing Britain’s roads.
It's beneath them. The only physical work they do is running around the sports fields or hand to hand knife fights
@@valeriegrimshaw1365they're preforming surgical procedures on their brethren, remember? These are doctors and surgeons you're talking about 😅
@@valeriegrimshaw1365too much hard work and having to pitch up every day can’t go down well either.
That's because there's not a real hard days work in them! Iv been on building sites 45 years. Not seen any. Just indigenous.
Where are the thousands of Asian tarmac gangs?
How many bloody vape shops, barbers, car washes and takeaways does one country need!...solve this and solve a massive part of the problem.
In scotland and its just as bad aa down south, chineese nail shops, vape shops ect. But how do they not run out of money hmm 🤔
You can only launder so much money 💰through a shop perhaps hmrc need to clarify how much £££ their prepared to accept a small shop can turn over before it gets suspicious and so prevent our "guests " undue expense and inconvenience...
And a good percentage of those "businesses" are just there to launder money made from nefarious means. This country is in a dreadul place and a huge reason for that is immigration from Third World countries.
Same in my quiet town, we used to have 2 barbers on the high street, now there is about 10, which is odd because my hair isn't growing any faster.
@@garywheeley5108Too much work. Just deport them
We can debate the reasons, but each day we are turning more and more into a third world country.
Thats the plan
I'm not convinced with simons reasoning. Yes, it accounts for some migrants, maybe 10%, but the rest of the chancers and hustlers, of witch 44%:don't work are here with their own agenda they all read from the same book, banks, builders land owners are reaping the benefits of over population, at the end of the day, we pay....
Unfortunately, CZcams finds the facts and statistics about immigration, to be unpalatable, and as usual, take down my posts, the truth hurts us more than it hurts them...
You can see it in the inner cities and towns of the UK for sure. I returned to England after 10 years and was shocked at the highstreets. The retail banks are next to useless for example, if you walk in they tell you to go home and open a bank account with them using a smart phone app which doesn't even read your passport in correct lighting conditions LOL
Demographics is destiny
The curse of mr Blair again
It Goes back further than that turd
The Dark Lord Himself.
@@user-ub1dz8js7s Glad to see an AA fan 👋
It began right after WWII. 1948 the first ship full of illegals arrived, and weren't returned. Doesn't feel like winning to me.
Since before blair
The trouble is 'Britain' didn't become addicted to immigration, our leaders did. And as we see daily, our leaders seem to be increasingly remote from the actual people.
The leaders did at the behest of the Globalists.
I was born at the end of the 1950s so I lived in Britain when it was still great, it isn't very great now is it.
Our standard of living is considerably better with working class people going on Cruises !
Not just cruises but also Airlines.. back in the 50s and 60s Airlines were very expensive..
@@alanmarr3323 Cruises consumption and material goods don’t determine how we feel about the state of our Country. Far more important things impact our everyday lives and wellbeing. Mass immigration is seen as a major bone of contention for many U.K. citizens now. Our infrastructures and finances are not limitless.
British Universities need to be investigated and placed under new leadership. They are part of the problem and need to be fixed.
Most need to be shut down. As a nation we don't need 50% of 18 year olds with a BA in film studies, social studies, art, politics etc . The trend now is to stay on and get a MA or PhD as they are given away with ease plus handing over money, strange given all these qualifications are worthless. 😂😂😂😂
@@composedlight6850 Well said and so very true. They have produced a generation of fools who hate their own country and are of absolutely no use to our society.
It’s the overall quality of the immigrants that’s proving problematic as well.
The money that some universities pay their top people is staggering. That needs to stop.
The Vice Chancellor of Huddersfield University has just received an £18,000 rise, bringing his annual Salary to £426,000. He has also made 300 Staff redundant in the last 18 Months.
@@yiabwstetienne7474 Eye watering sums with absolutely no justification. No doubt he claim will be they need to pay a market rate to get the best people though clearly that doesn't work.
@@kylekatarn3382 Staggering, isn't it ?
Incidentally, he is far, far behind Vice Chancellors Pay in other more, Prestigious Universities.
@@kylekatarn3382 My reply to you has just been 'unalived' by those nice People at UT.
Lets try again, a staggering remuneration package, but this is Far, Far, less than VCs at more, shall we say, Prestige imaged Universities.
Now extrapolate the same logic to the country as a whole. Britain is now just a business.
I agree.
A huge charity shop.
We are not the proud nation we once was, we are an economic zone
@@JustDaniel6764for the global elites. WEF, UN, WHO
Very true the whole country is up for grabs to the highest bidder . Unfortunately the board of directors running the business are incompetent ,corrupt,clowns.
Britain , 'the man I the street' ie NOT 'addicted to immegration'. QUITE THE OPPOSITE.
The man in street may not be addicted to immigration but the men in government are
Ahh
I'm ready to go Cold Turkey ASAP
They all go onto become petrol station attendants, security guards and uber eat drivers
Would you rather they were unemployed 😅
You've forgotten 'traffic marshals!'
I rather they get repatriated with financial incentives. Is that better?@@JAMESLOONEY-kd1nu
I believe the correct terms are: Petroleum Dispersal Engineers, Security Operations Experts and Culinary Logistic Scientists.
@@chad01..Don’t forget the cutlers, firearms executives, pharmaceutical logistical directors and timepiece distributors that are being educated as I type.
While this may be true, this hypothesis does not cover the fact that the boat people are not students or going to uni.
If only the so called police would look into the goings on in vape shops, takeaways, barbers e.t.c, a massive problem would be eradicated.
True, but they are an insignificant proportion of the 750,000 immigrants last year.
Whilst you are looking at the "boat people", you are not seeing the hundreds of thousands flying into the UK legally.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb Lots of people are making money off this. These people use services who guarantee them school entry and graduation.
@@everest9707they're both problems
Mr.Webb, everyone should consider just how catastrophic Labour were to this country the last time they were in power !
If the general election see the same level of apathy as the London mayoral election (a 60% turnout which saw Khan re-elected on 18% of the available vote), combined with the recent by-election results....
@@richardhockey8442i feel like it was rigged
@@richardhockey8442 I heard somewhere only 1 in 9 Londoners voted him in?
Would fall on deaf ears George. Remember the clamour by a certain age group for Jeremy Corbyn to be installed not so long ago?
@@charliesmithers7663 The entire Labour Shadow Cabinet supported Corbyn not so long ago!
Ah yes, “students”. Britain’s future doctors and engineers
😆😅😂
Witch doctors and engineers of the wheel, I suppose.
In the late 1980s I did an MSc in Agricultural Engineering. The majority of students on the course were foreigners - one of whom I later saw cleaning Hammersmith tube station. The look he gave me indicated he didn't like being recognised, presumably because he should have returned to Nigeria after his student visa expired.
Perhaps found himself a British woman or Nigerian woman with British citizens/permanent residency..
Atleast he was working and paying taxes.. unless most of them illegals...
It’s time for these institutions and businesses to be weaned off the money from foreign students and cheap workers. They need to streamline their aspirations for growth and take a hit and a hard one at that. The ordinary working man is suffering and huge swathes are now reliant upon benefits!
When l was at uni in the 70s there were overseas students studying maths. economics, physics etc. All were in early 20s and had no dependents and most returned home when they finished their degrees. Typically they were hard working, well behaved and intelligent. Had some of them found employment in Britain when they graduated, the country could only have benefited. I guess these aren't the ones that are the problem.
start your considerations with its the big big numbers of o/s students compared to 1970s
No matter what sector you look at, it's all failing.the UK Is a house of cards 😢
Mainly caused by the call of ‘Education, Education, Education!’...... now then. Who was it that said that?... The man who set the immigration ball rolling- Mr Blair.
The same as Australia... but we only have 27 million people... our universities are basically all international students
Yes, but your international students go back home because your government knows how to control them. Our government doesn't care.
No it isn't.. don't bulls**t.
Yes Britain and much of the West has been made to become addicted to mass migration, but that was a conscious decision which did not have to be. Britains politicians are guided by very powerful interests ( who do have a vision) in the same way that they have been guided to implement DEI in institutions and SEL in education
My son just finished at Sheffield, I never realised how many Chinese students attended there, Chinese only apartment blocks, a mini Chinatown, and they learn in Chinese I believe, all a bit odd apart for financial reasons 🤷♂️
Wouldn’t be surprised if classified information is sold to the Chinese. The UK is like a big yard sale and everything has a price.
Go to York... it has the same epidemic...
They are your future overlords….tasked with building the new social credit system infrastructure based on the Chinese model. Enjoy the decline!!!😂😂😂
And Newcastle
Don't they have universities in China? It's a wonder.
Your correct, its even worse that you mentioned, fake degrees are also provided for a fee in the UK and its all well known.
I have come across this personally and took time to bring a case to the ministry in UK but recieved no reply, seems money is to be made and no one is interested.
Imagine a government putting their own first?
They don't view us as "their own", many of them are not of our nation, many of them look like us but are in fact a different group.
I have a very, very good imagination but I’m sorry. That task defeats me.
You mean Nationalism?
It’s a great levelling, unfortunately we’re the ones being levelled down.
Exactly the same going on in Australia...but the numbers that have come in as a proportion of the current population ar e far higher than even England!!!
It's the back door around your immigration system of which they will never leave.
@@MrTaytersDeep Yep ..have a friend who works for Australian Border Force and he has seen all combinations of that get Student to be able to stay ' Temporarily Permanently '
England or Britain?
Don’t they have any higher education facilities in the countries they’re coming from? Why are they so keen to ‘study’ in Britain?
A large part of our university system is a racket and probably always has been.
Obviously they have higher education facilities.. but they don't have a lot.. use your head..
Same here in Australia. Melbourne resembles Lahore these days.
I think Canada is even worse.
Melbourne is shite.. was worse during covid..
Cheap foreign labor isn’t a replacement?
Listen more closely to what Mr Webb says. The answer is 'no'.
The emphasis on UK students attending Uni largely contributed to the labour shortages in many fields. Now it seems we have a popuation highly educated in topics of doubtful value to society and who regard traditional work and skills as unworthy of their abilities. Educating our young in trades and skills of real use and value to society would be far better than the current model of Uni businesses that churn out graduates with high expectations and little prospect of fulfilling them, while we continue to import both qualified and unskilled people to fill the void.
completely devalued degrees, with employers complaining that 'graduates' are barely literate and numerate and sometime require remedial training to reach the required standards (if they are even worth the expense).
It also reduces the average number of children’s couples have time to produce. Especially if they are gullible enough to believe that preventative medication is there for their health.
When the government announced that university fees could jump from £3k p.a. to £9k p.a., they clearly stated that only a small number of universities would be making the change. I don’t have a degree in economics, but I predicted that all universities would increase their fees to £9k a year. So, if every university in the country tripled their fees overnight - where did all the extra money go? Many of the £48K student loans may never be paid back. Someone somewhere must be profiting from this enormous financial scheme 🤔.
When you think about it, it was extremely callous of the government to engineer a situation where up to 50% f the student population was/is encouraged to go to university to obtain mediocre degrees and then get saddled with in excess of £50,000 of student debt hanging around their necks. How does this aid family formation among young adults ? It doesn't ! Bingo ! Another government objective secured ! Trouble is, our society is now too fractured and diverse. There is no way of going back to he old economic model of practically free university education for the top 10-20% of the student population because the student population is becoming extremely diverse and the tax payer has no social affinity with the types of people attending university. This will happen to all forms of state services: Health, education, police etc.
The money will go into the pockets of the university..
Wait, 9 times 3 is 27..
Happening all over Europe America Australia Canada etc,
But it’s just an accident.
Oy vey.
Yep that's what we are told 😂😂😂
Morning All. A lovely sunny day here in Birmingham. 👍 🏴
Good morning!
Birmingham? Is it true that it is completely muslim city? I'm not from UK, just read about things. Leicester, Birmingham, Manchester are 95% muslim cities, right?
@@TheJackal917not completely Muslim ( yet) about a third, 300,000 or so, but it certainly looks like a lot more,white people make up around 40 percent.
Although many , like me would like to escape the enrichment we can't afford to, the council is proud of the " diversity"
@@TheJackal917 Although I'm from out of town I do socialise in Birmingham a lot. Out on the streets it doesn't feel like an English city anymore, but go into the bars and restaurants and the clientele is almost exclusively white. It's like two different worlds occupying the same space!
@@user-dl6pn9kp8m shit....
We are competing in a race that we have won many times in the past. With each lap the officials impose a handicap, the result of which is that we slip lower and lower down the field. The idea is that we never win another trophy and may, one day, not even compete . Instead we will sit by the side of the track watching others celebrate and be expected to applaud. A sorry state of affairs that is as destructive as it is senseless. Worse, with every passing day we are disqualifying ourselves, dropping the baton and tying the laces together on our track spikes. Our universities are busy training others in order to ensure this continues to happen, laughing with every stumble and false start, in a way that only ‘academics’ can.
"Handicaped" by the enemy within. We were warned plenty..
The great replacement is no longer a theory, it is a fact Simon. You can roll your eyes all you want, but it can no longer be denied
Exactly. It's probably a good idea to sidestep these things if you want to keep your platform though. One thing having it in the comments, but espousal on your own channel will get you shut down.
the old fraud knows it well enough.
No... The comments are part of the channel..
We are too fat and happy. Get ready for the horror to come. Dracula was a mild malady.
Thank you Simon. Excellent piece.
Start the day with Simon is now part of my daily routine.
Thanks again Simon, have a lovely weekend 👍🇬🇧
You too!
If the government goes back to paying for student debt the universities will have useless degrees available at high cost to the taxpayers. Maybe look at the incredible wages they get as lecturers doing about 12/15 hours a week if that.
Let's aim for net zero universities.
Students visa have been abused for several decades, as you say, encouraged by commercial interests. Many don't do much studying either.
I think both explanations can be true at the same time. The Tories reasons for high immigration are for cheap labour for their sponsors in big business and to keep wages and the unions down. Labour's support for high immigration has grown since the Thatcher revolution when the old working class started to abandon them and couldn't be retrieved. They needed new voters. Without mass immigration, figures like Sadiq Khan would have little or no voter base. Tories and Labour are united in maintaining high immigration even if the reasons are different.
There's another explanation that can also be true, alongside the ones you mention.
Thanks Simon. So called 'universities' should go back to being the colleges they once were; teaching skills in different trades:- Plumbers, electricians etc.
But colleges still teach that..
For someone who talks about this and similar topics several times a day, the theory that foreign students are somehow unable to study their chosen courses anywhere else but British (and other Western) universities does seem a little too suspicious to just be a coincidence though?
A quarter of a million came in, (? Plus dependants in some cases) but how many will stay forever - 75-85% ?
100%
Who owns the banks??
I’m 63 yrs, my Mum and us kids went to work on land pulling peas, picking potatoes, strawberries etc. loads of us went on buses early in the morning and came home very late afternoon. No social security for my Mum and others. When more women got jobs and also the benefit fit system grew too it put and end to that.
Ah!.... but have you thought just how much faster you could have dug up those potatoes or picked those strawberries had you gained a Media Studies degree?
@@phildavies6020 I know, you are so right! My numpty 17yr old grandson twins are both aiming high for a media studies degree, the pair of them have a low life ambition to work for The BBC, it pains me to just know that, lol.
No social security, no mobile phones, etc.. but remember houses were cheap back then .
@@joelc9439 yeh I know, but I was just pointing out that it was a time when we didn’t have immigrants coming over to do land work. There were organised land gangs of mainly women and kids going on coaches to farms picking produce. Once she ciao security became common people would get in trouble if caught.
Britian never became adicted to imigraton, we have been told we need cheap labour. As for 50 % of 18year olds going to University is a total joke and made Degrees worthless.
Question Simon: It is obvious that a great many foreign students see studying in the UK as a way of staying in the UK with, judging by the figures, their families. The question is, who decided to add these two incentives to the arrangement and why? How many students would come to the UK just for the opportunity of a British degree and, if the answer is not many, what does the Government (and therefore the people) get from what looks to be a one sided deal?
Simple economics maybe buy simple logic also tells you that at some point the UK will be standing room only if this influx continues.
kneeling room only, need the space for the regular prayers off to the east
A lot of people find this difficult to believe, but most UK homes are already smaller than those on the continent.
Stuffing people into ever smaller properties, or properties of multiple occupancy, causes friction and stress.
Mental health problems are already shooting up.
Building on green belt is also ramping up.
Life expectancy will fall..
Conspiracy deniers have to do a lot of miles to justify the “incompetence” of the establishment
Well said!
50% of universities folding would be OK by me . Idiot factories imo
The explanation that its simply money doesnt hold. Why does a st vsa turn into ctznsp? Where in the world does that happen? And why does it extend to the family? I was watching a session of Australian Parliament. A man from the Treasury stated that these stdnts dont enter the workforce and energy and attention should be paid to natives.
Yes, I was wondering about visas being changed too. There's more to this than meets the eye.
An excellent point!
Citizenship is the key to understanding the issue. None of the touted economic advantages require anyone to be given citizenship, access to welfare or any other benefit, as places like Qatar and Dubai have demonstrated. If it was about economics rather than what it's actually about, they would only be given work and study visas, and only top talent would come.
Where in the world does that happen?? You obviously haven't heard of Canada, Ireland, America, even France..
The natives in Australia don't wanna work!! They want free money and a lot is wasted on alcohol or drugs.
Simon when i was 15 years old in 1954 I went to work at Tate and Lyle, in Silvertown, and at my own cost attended West Ham Tech as it was known then , I paid my own way with the fees, and thru hard study i eventually got my HNC, and then got a job as a draughtsman at a large Engineering company, after that and two years in the MOB , i left the UK and sought my own way to the USA the greatest Country on Earth. in my opinion, NO ONE ever gave me stuff all I worked for everything, Like you I went thru all the hardships as a child in the East END and hardships they were for my mother, and my 3 sisters. I do not want any of the third world wasters in the UK , I want the indigenous people to control their cities and streets, But looking from afar i see gloomy clouds approaching, and the lot i am thinking of are nothing but trouble, it will take a lot more than words to deal with this, situation, and the former situation in Ireland comes to mind. only force of Arms will stop the madmen in downing Street.
Japan and Switzerland are the greatest countries on Earth not the US.. even Monaco and Iceland.
Plenty of third world people also worked hard and came up with nothing.. if anything, many of the present day indigenous people are wasters.
@@joelc9439 but america leads NATO which tops everything.
It’s a disgrace. Go to any university campus and it’s like a foreign country.
British university places should only go to British students who, unlike their foreign counterparts, will stay here, contribute to the economy and pay taxes here.
You’d think the universities would realise this, but all they care about is short term financial gain, much to the long-term detriment of the UK.
The foreign counterparts do stay, and bring their families with them. The universities do know this, some have oriented their business model to facilitate it.
A recent study reveals a significant drop in undergraduates' average IQ, from 119 in 1939 to 102 in 2022
i think it used to be the top 10% --15% who were accepted to the higher levels of education,i personally do not see the need to increase that % unless its for political / social engineering reasons.
Simon is doing mental gymnastics to delude himself against two certain ideas.
I started work at a Polytechnic in 1990. Things were a bit rickety the wages were quite low - we were linked with the local authority and couldn't confer our own degrees and relied on a local red brick uni. To do so. The Vice Chancellor (an accademic) was on £75000. They had 3 public relations staff and half a dozen dealing with overseas students. 30 years on the vice chancellor (an ex. Head of the Met) is on £300000 with a grace and favour house and a car and chauffeur. There has been huge expensive alterations to the buildings and the pr and offices recruiting overseas students boast 150 full time staff. No wonder these places are struggling financially. What was a top class poly is now an also ran uni. If all the ex polys hadn't changed to unis - maybe we wouldn't be in such a mess. And don't get me started on the underwater feminist basket weaving courses!
I remember the sky-rocketing unemployment rate during the Blair years. Oh dear, what could he do to bring it down?
He talked up the percentage of German youths who went onto take university degrees and decreed that we must match their higher rate.
So Blair suddenly encouraged the formation of new 'unis' to reduce unemployment because those in full time training or education wouldn't be counted for another three years.
But all the UK's clever youth were already going to university. How could he get the rest to go?
By lowering the entry standards and introducing all those crazy new degree courses on pencil sharpening and kitchen storage.
Finally, the term NEET was coined (young people Not in Education, Employment or Training). NEETs weren't included in the UK's unemployment figures. Hurrah!
Job done! Well done Blair.
and yet he still lives and his family thrives.
A far higher proportion of people born in the UK have university degrees than ever before, and yet, we are desperate to recruit tens of thousands of people every year from abroad (with the right qualifications) to fill the higher skilled vacancies.
There is something similar going on with low skilled jobs that many UK born citizens are no longer willing to do.
Not working with the imports either is it ?
Hardly surprising given that the financial reward paid at minimum wage level is so close to the amount of Government benefit paid to recipients. When one adds in housing benefit, rates relief etc., and taking into consideration the cost of travel to and from work then one wonders if it’s worth the effort.
You may not agree with the Great Replacement Theory , I don't either but you can't deny there's a section of the liberal, left middle class who at least wouldn't consider it a bad thing and at most actively want it. The rest of us just aren't interesting or exotic enough for them.
I believe in it. It's literally the only way to account for what is happening.
While universities making money is surely a part of it, it doesn't explain the laws brought in which only seem to apply to the white people of the UK, hate speech laws, DEI, two tier policing, ETC all of which are aimed at suppressing the native population and preventing dissent.
How could it be anything other than a great replacement?
Its no longer a theory but a fact.
There is a Great replacement! Look around you Fgs!
The giverments take from those who who worked for their counties , to give to those who never did.
that sums up globalism/communism take from the creators and give to those who have created little or nothing.
Lots of universities are doing very well financially. Imperial College is currently building an entire new campus at White City worth billions.
Universities get grants from government, charity status, sponsorships from private companies, and donations from past students. You can have a building named after you for around £100m.
They take foreign students as part of a plan (many students have the studies paid for directly or indirectly by UKforeign aid).
and the chinese communist party.
This is abuse on an industrial scale, the idea that a student can bring his or her family, and extended family is criminal.
but none of you are on the streets demonstrating,they only fear action what you think want or say without action is just p-ssing in the wind.
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I'm an outsider looking in, I agree, enough talking.
Before you say I'm in no position to comment, I was born and bred in the UK for 61years before I left.
What you're saying Simon is that people are buying the right for themselves and their families to live in Britain by signing up for university.
I just don't get it. If 50% of kids are now going to Uni, & paying the top whack (which was originally meant to apply to the top establishments only), & that money is guaranteed via the gov & supposedly recovered by student finance - why are they struggling?
The article's claim is that they would struggle if they lost the foreign students.
@@shaunpatrick8345 yes but in my day, the government funded Unis but not to the degree that students do now (albeit underwritten by taxpayers) - & at that time only a tenth of the number went to Uni compared to today. Yes the foreign students subsidise - but that was never the case in the past. Personally I think the Unis have got drunk on money & have overstretched - in my town the Uni is an ex polytechnic & not a high performer - yet they have recently built a £330 million site having sold the old one for nothing like that.
Why arent the severance terms of senior managers available for public scrutiny?
You should see Australia Simon... if you went to a university campus, you would think you are in Hong Kong
A university I worked with used to charge three times the amount for overseas students than domestic ones. They couldn't run the place without the extra income from these fees. Labour want to introduce VAT on private education, I wonder what they will do with tuition fees? It would cost students nearly £11k instead of the £9k a year they currently pay in fees. If VAT applies to universities it will kill off the further education sector for all but the mega wealthy.
Meanwhile those of us on ground zero have to suffer while the greedy ones try to show a good profit. When I was a young you had to earn a university place with hard work, now it is just a natural progression.
Are indian chinese universities not up to english standard in australia its looked as backdoor migration by o/s students an open secret but the natives are getting restless.
SAME THING GOING ON IN THE NETHERLANDS😒 !!! Students are given TOO MUCH MONEY, GRANTS etc. : as simple as that. Stimulates moving around and rooting out the most profitable place to ultimately settle and become full time Receiver of local Benefit Payments.
Describing universities as businesses if far too complementary in my opinion. Academic Mafia is closer to the mark.
Very succinctly put
I'm 68 so the answer is simple, do away with all those over pension age.....oh wait!
They tried that with COVID
A friend of mine (no names) worked for the BBC News department until 2019 when he was informed they wouldn’t be renewing his contract as according to my friend (still ain’t sayin’) “The BBC are not recruiting white, middle aged journalists & are focusing on recruiting from the BAME community”
I was amazed & when probed he told me these were the exact words used during the meeting. ⬆️
He now has a new position as a journalist in Indonesia where apparently they’re not recruiting from their own community & are looking for white, middle aged guys with experience.
Looks like the UK is following in the footsteps of its former colony Australia. Last FY our nett migration was around 518,000. And yes, our universities also rely on huge numbers of full fee paying foreign students - the priority for re-opening the border after the flu was students.
The more money the universities get their hands on, the more ways they find to spend it. The solution to the universities' financial problems is in their hands.
University Degrees Of Dubious Merit (Understatement)
The fact is all qualifications are worth something but the vast majority of qualifications are not worth very much.
There is a fine line between developing an education system to meet the demands of the economy and transforming universities into community center full of people who should never have been there in the first place.
The fine line has been crossed a long time ago of expanding the education system for the demands of the growing more technology based economy and expanding the education system with for no practical reason whatsoever.
Allowing people into university who are not remotely academic and many with mental health problems just so the university system is expanding for the sake of it.
There is a conflict of interest in allowing the education system itself to constantly demand more and more students be allowed in just to increase student numbers for the sake of it.
Long overdue politicians stepped in and used a pragmatic approach and most people are better off studying a third year of sixth form as opposed to a dubious university degree.
Comments welcome
Simon you might want to correct the title because because became is misspelled as become.
Basically, pushing our own native students out because of more money. Madness.
The uni's actively 'overlook' native indigenous students but clearly they would never say that part out loud...
Balan Singh? I’m sure he was in my class at Leicester university!!!
Just because you can’t see the plan doesn’t mean it’s not there.
he sees it he's an old fraud.
Good morning Mr Webb!
Good morning!
An episode of Yes Minister was dealing with this problem as well of foreign students necessary for surviving a particular university. The problem was solved by giving the minister an honorary doctorate of law. The problem hasn't changed since, but the costs have.
I was looking at the government's "skilled worker" list the other week.
"Retail Store Supervisor" (or words to that effect) was on there among many other jobs that, at least in my opinion, are not particularly "high skilled."
Bear in mind this is essentially a very small step up from retail store dogsbody who stacks shelves or serves on a till and usually pays about 10-20p more per hour over the pittance the plebs get. And this is now apparently a "high skilled" job.
It would appear Mr Johnsons' "high skilled" economy has been brought about by labelling almost every job "high skilled," even when to all but the most extreme immigrationphiles, many of the jobs seem to require basic numeracy or literacy skills at a maximum.
No wonder we're 730k net deep in immigrants each year when you can hire workers from the third world to do such mundane jobs as cashing up tills.
Because all the money is getting sucked up by loss making government schemes, even when it's given to the financial sector it still magically makes a loss.
Were constantly told this high immigration has been good for us , the area i live has had high levels, what was once a area of local people, shops , cohesive society, now many of the shops are dirty, rundown, that cater for there needs , the whole area full of people speaking different languages, some of these immigrants hate other immigrants ,which has increased tension, , some are surly , rude , the roads are often gridlocked, no new housing room ,apart from knocking down period properties to put flats on , crime levels increased massively, including serious things like rapes , stabbings, mps talking about themselves in the third person, saying there reducing numbers, while doing the exact opposite, were told again and again, how good immigration is,
"They'll pay your pensions!" we were told by the politicians that enabled all this, yet we're all having to work well into old age... Why?
Simon, you used to mention Ockhams or Hanlons razor to explain these things.
I do indeed say this sometimes, but then I often get sidetracked and end up talking about William of Occam. I thought today I would stick to the point!
Have you listened to New Discourses? DR.Lindsay does an excellent podcast on the WEFs future plans for them. The fact that they no longer want to incentivise certain ideological studies whilst starving other studies ( such as fossil fuels ) of any funding. At the same time they wish to expand universities/ schools into the wider community in a circular manner ( they like circles)
Anyway if this begins to happen within the next few years, in lockstep across Western countries, then it would suggest that this is not merely being driven by economics or a reaction to national circumstances, in fact it may be actually harmful to those interests. Then we can assume that there is a very conscious drive to transform the West
Would it be such a bad thing if some universities went to the wall
80% need closing