Migrant boats are bankrupting Britain. To make matters worse, it seems to me that the UK government is considering a tax raid on everything you have worked your whole life for to pay for it. If your mission in life was to work hard to leave something behind for your children, forget it. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves may effectively take it away to pay for the migrants they seem incapable of turning away, despite their gaslighting rhetoric claiming the opposite. I am not sure what other conclusion to draw when I read articles like this one in The Independent in which a former Treasury adviser warns that Labour are “coming for your children’s future”. Or this one in The Telegraph which uses words like “pernicious” and “ransack” to describe the putative “desperate” cash grab. It is alarming rhetoric in mainstream publications. Even The Guardian acknowledges that this move is “controversial”.
But as the fiscal “black hole” grows, Labour – like the Tories before them – have failed to get a grip on the migrant boat crisis. They spitefully scrapped the Rwanda plan that the Tories devised without giving it a chance and as a consequence, the small boat arrivals have hit a record high of 50,000 this year, as the total number for the past 5 years presses on ever closer to 200,000.
Let’s do some maths. I’ll keep it in round numbers. First the numbers.
- The average UK taxpayer pays about £5,000 in income tax per year. (This isn’t counting indirect taxes like VAT, various levies, council tax, etc).
- The government is currently spending over £40,000 per year per illegal migrant.
- The number of migrants is edging towards 200,000.
It is an easy calculation, but nevertheless jaw-dropping.
It takes 8 average tax-paying UK citizens to work for an entire year and who then contribute their entire tax contributions to pay for a single migrant.
200,000 migrants at £40,000 a head costs us EIGHT BILLION POUNDS per year.
Incidentally, that is equivalent to the amount raised by inheritance tax. Yes, another way of looking at this might be that the current amount raided from taxing British people’s inheritances is spent on accommodating illegal migration. If we put a stop to the migrant boats, there would be no reason to make further raids on the assets British people intended to pass to their children, and the existing taxes could be put to better use securing some kind of future for British children. We already know Education is woefully underfunded and Labour tax raid on private education made it even worse, creating hardships for aspirant families while raising a derisory amount in terms of the big picture: they expect to raise less than half-a-billion, when we’re spending multiple billions on small boat arrivals.
Another fact to keep in mind is that the average Briton earns just £38,000 a year, so the cost of a single migrant is greater than that the annual salary of an average British worker. This is not sustainable. It makes no economic sense.
To put that into even more mind-numbing perspective, 1,600,000 of us average taxpayers work full time to pay this £8billion bill. Yes, let’s spell that out: one-point-six-million British taxpayers’ total contributions is completely squandered on paying to accommodate people we did not invite here and – if polls are any indication – don’t want here. And we don’t need them here either. The vast majority are young unaccompanied males, and judging from their countries of origin, at least three-quarters are Muslim. There is a legitimate concern that these uninvited arrivals are from cultures that do not share our own values and norms, and this may explain the number of crimes – particularly sex crimes – attributed to them.
On that note, at the end of April, the Government announced that migrants convicted of sex crimes would forfeit their refugee status. This is a welcome policy, but if anyone has an example of this being put into practice, please leave a comment. Certainly, our judges don’t seem to have got the memo, According to a GB News report, they are “filling our jails”. I wonder what that is costing?
If, in the gaslighting rhetoric spewed by the government, nothing seems to add up, don’t be distracted by it. It doesn’t add up. What does add up is the maths. We know what it costs per migrant, we know how many migrants there are, we can see how to keep paying it the government is going to need to take more and more from more and more of us and that black hole will just get bigger.
It adds up to bankruptcy.
On this trajectory, by the end of the decade, the full tax contributions of two-million Britons will be earmarked for the costs of illegal boat people.
I have used the most conservative estimates. More pessimistic projections might state the problem as up to 40% worse than the crisis I have set out.
Never mind the debates around demographic change, cultural assimilation and social cohesion, strain on housing, healthcare and education, crime, and other concerns. Discussion on these terms is fruitless and pointless, and a diversion from the material reality. In pure pounds-and-pence terms, it is not sustainable. Either we stop the boats and send these people home, or we are going to go bust.
That’s the sum of it.
