Most of UK's current problems were created by Gordon Brown and Tony Blair
Jeremy Corbyn is, as ever, complaining about anything and everything, seemingly forgetting that most, if not all, of the problems to which he refers were originally created by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown during the reign of the last Labour government.
For instance, it is Blair and Brown and the last Labour government who are responsible for the vast numbers of immigrants who have entered our country, for whom we are still struggling to provide housing and jobs, and who are largely responsible for clogging up the NHS and other institutions.
Refugees are one thing - and we always do what is right in that regard – ‘economic immigrants’ are quite another and these people could, and should have been handled in a completely different way.
This project should have been handled as an extension of our foreign aid policy. I am sure that none of the countries in question are actually short of ‘space’.
Instead of coming over here, the immigrants could have stayed where they were and the ‘aid’ which they are receiving here could have been provided on their own door step so to speak. We could have controlled what we spent on our part of the aid by coming up with an auditing scheme.
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They could have stayed in their own countries in familiar surroundings. They could have visited our country for holidays and we could have reciprocated.
Borders should never have been opened - this crazy obsession of the EU - and we would not have been invaded by anywhere near as many undesirables as we have, and how many lives would that have saved?
What a saving on housing! What a saving for the NHS! How many more jobs would that have left available?
So much better than the mess left by Messrs Blair and Brown. No wonder we have jobs and housing shortages. Something that the present Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is too dim to see.
As for the refugees, even that problem was caused by Tony Blair and his meanderings in the Middle East. Do we all feel safer as a result of his actions? I think not.
How much better would the succeeding governments have coped without the harm caused by him. And the harm caused by his and Brown's incompetence in accepting all the EU terms and conditions, rules and regulations thrown at them.
How interesting, though, that French President Macron admits that the French too, if given the chance, would probably vote to leave the EU.
John Wilson
Stafford
