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→ British support for migration falls steeply
As the election draws nearer, Britain’s borders remain a hotly contested issue. Now, a new survey from the National Centre for Social Research shows how sceptical Britons have become of the benefits of immigration. It found that as recently as 2022, 51% of respondents believed that immigration had a positive impact on the economy. But now this figure now stands at 39%.
Still, it is worth noting that the UK is far more pro-immigration than it was a decade ago: in 2013, just 22% of BSA respondents answered that migration had boosted the economy. Will the downward trend of the last couple of years continue?
→ Trump lead widens amid Biden age questions
Team Biden’s relentless optimism about November is becoming less believable by the day. Donald Trump now holds a commanding lead against the White House incumbent, according to new analysis from the Economist. The report shows Biden trailing in all six swing states; and of those states, the two in which he’s performing best have seen Democrats underperform compared to polling predictions for the past two elections. The odds of Biden winning currently stand at 34% — so it’s likelier than being struck by lightning, but less probable than an 81-year-old dying in the next half-decade.
Add to this a new report in a major paper questioning the President’s mental competence, not to mention a string of felony convictions for his son, and the needle is unlikely to move in his direction. Yet the White House remains optimistic in public, downplaying concerns as partisan attacks. Biden 2024: hope or cope?
→ German town votes to eliminate pigeon population
Germany’s authoritarian turn may be worse than any of us feared. The town of Limburg an der Lahn, in the Western state of Hesse, has just voted to exterminate its population of 700 pigeons. The referendum took place on Sunday, and so was perhaps overshadowed by another vote which attracted national attention.
53% residents voted in favour of a referendum on the issue. https://t.co/bhD29VLUwX
— Euronews Green (@euronewsgreen) June 12, 2024
It was at least close, with 53% of residents electing to kill the pigeons. “The citizens have made use of their right and decided that the animals should be reduced by a falconer,” mayor Marius Hahn ominously told the press. Once the pigeons have been lured into a trap, the falconer will — and animal-loving readers are advised to look away now — hit them over the head with a stick to stun them, and then break their necks. The AfD will be relieved that there are some new villains in town…
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SubscribeSo support for immigration rose dramatically after the Brexit vote and after the near-uniform message to that effect in all major opinion- forming organs. And now that support is ebbing, along with trust in most institutions by those of us easily dismissed as Deplorables.
Has any new government ever entered office with such limited genuine public support.
Open borders have destroyed faith and trust in the entire immigration system. It’s sad really. I live in a small town in Alberta and we’ve had an influx of Filipino and Indian immigrants. They are hard working, good people who have benefitted the community. But we are thousands of miles from Toronto, where the vast majority immigrants initially land. Only people committed to working would ever bother to come here.
At least you get good hardworking people. Here in Airstrip One, we get rapey savages from the middle east and Africa.
That’s the problem with open borders. Canada has open borders too, but it’s very hard to get here, and even harder to get from Toronto to rural Alberta.
What a dreadfully R post. (Everyone will know what the R means).
Go to a Care Home or a Hospital, or a farm perhaps, or even our building sites, and see the immigrants working their backside off for you.
There will be some wrong uns in amongst those coming here, but it is the definition of R to lump everyone together.
We have an immigration problem and net migration is too high. However some show their true R colours that also lies behind.
Housing price increases, destruction of schools by a tidal wave of uneducated non-English speakers, destruction of hte low-wage sector, huge crime increases esp rape due to the young male cohort, on and on and on. Illegals scum are destroying the US and Canada and UK and Germany and Greece and Sweden and Poland and Lithuania and Italy and on and on.