Spain's economy is booming - thanks to immigration.
Ideological rigidity against foreign-born workers isn’t just xenophobic, it’s economically shortsighted.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/19/spain-economy-booming-migration-gdp-growth
Ideological rigidity against foreign-born workers isn’t just xenophobic, it’s economically shortsighted.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/19/spain-economy-booming-migration-gdp-growth
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Comes out mid May x
Seems that skilled Polish construction workers etc who were so important to us are now building the Polish economy.
Good for them and I wish them well.
Seems they didn’t need us
Aren't the English better than the Europeans?
(except at football 😉)
It’s not immigration or no immigration that’s the issue, it’s the rate of change.
You need quotas to ease immigration at levels which support integration.
When you do it too fast it creates siloed groups and antipathy
When Queen Victoria died in 1️⃣9️⃣0️⃣1️⃣, the British Empire covered 2/3 of the world’s land surface - in 1️⃣9️⃣1️⃣9️⃣, the British ruled from Cairo 🇪🇬 to Cape Town 🇿🇦 fulfilling Cecil Rhodes’ imperialist vision.