According to Migration Watch this week, our population increased by 8 million in 20 years with 85% nearly 7million due to migrants and children of migrants. Our population is expected to hit 75 million by 2050.

This increase in population has been ignored for 20 years. Lack of available housing means that the number of families sharing a privately rented house in England has trebled since 1991. It can only be that successive governments decided to just wait and see what happens, they certainly made no attempt to plan and address the growing requisite for more adequate housing. Why was there no monitoring of the backlog of need among people living in unsuitable accommodation?

I read today that the Home Secretary Suella Braverman has vowed to clamp down on “sex for rent” arrangements that exploit the vulnerable. The illegal practice involves tenants, often young women, accepting a free or discounted rent for sexual relations with a landlord. How widespread and for how long has this despicable practice been going on? I hope this government is not going to just wait and see.

According to the latest stats from Age UK there are now nearly 12million people aged over 65 in Briton and the state pension bill has risen rapidly.  Growing numbers of elderly people will have an impact on the NHS and Care Provision. A decline in the working population means a drop in tax revenue to fund all this. What happened to contingency planning?  This problem should have been anticipated. Again, a big fail in successive governments deciding to just wait and see.

The number of homeless on the streets including Veterans has not happened overnight again this shoddy government and local authorities adopted a wait and see mentality.

No action has been taken and no serious questions raised about capacity, reliability, and performance of our transport network, which brings misery every day to so many. They have known about such issues for years but decided to just wait and see. This country is in a pickle and the population is uneasy, people are in danger.

The increasing problem of uncontrolled immigration is probably the worst of the wait and see blunders.  The UK has reached saturation point, we are full up!  Uncontrolled and unmanageable immigration will be the final nail in the coffin. 

Apparently, a bit late in the day, moves being made to toughen up the Illegal Migration Bill, include new powers to confiscate phones from illegal migrants. The government have been giving phones out to migrants like sweets!  Where age is uncertain, they will be treated as adults unless they agree to a scientific age assessment. Well done, Sherlock, surely both of these practices should already be in place, it is just common sense.

The UK independence Party have solutions to solve this country’s problems and our new “stop the boats” policy  proposal will be hitting the headlines soon.



We will not be a Party that just stands by waiting to see what happens. We will recognise any problem and in particular those in danger of escalating and take whatever steps needed to sort it pronto!

Patricia Mountain

UK Independence Party – Immigration Spokeswoman