Solving Homelessness Begins At Our Borders

By Southwest Nationalist. Newly released government figures have shown that there has been a 17 percent increase in the number of homeless people in Britain since this quarter last year.

Burying his head in the sand as ever, or leaning it over the side of that houseboat, Housing Minister Grant Shapps tries to tell us that homelessness is actually at an historically low level.

Still, despite sticking to that line, he blames it all on the recession anyway. There’s not a problem, but there is, the recession underlines it. Good hedging, call me Dave had better watch out with skills like that, could be a future party leader in the making there.

Of course, wrong on both points hapless Shappy – there is a problem, and it cannot solely be laid at the doors of the recession.

But, there shouldn’t be a problem. There is absolutely no need for any homelessness problem in the UK.

Should we choose to allocate social housing properly, and cease paying exorbitant rents to house asylum seekers in £1 million mansions, or indeed to house them in any British homes at all, there would be plenty of housing for the British people, and there would be money to subsidise it where needed for those Brits on low incomes.

We’d actually likely make a huge net saving overall if the system were thus overhauled, and also cease to be so much of a magnet for asylum seekers from the world over.

Our population is not expanding rapidly, at or at least it wouldn’t be without the pressures of immigration and immigrant birth rates – control that and there is no reason whatsoever why there should be any homelessness at all.

Pertinent in regard to homelessness would also be to consider how many of the homeless, either official or otherwise, are actually foreigners, although sadly the government statistics do not provide this information.

We have finite housing and finite room – yet there seems to be some insane delusion that we can continue to fit in infinite people and that infrastructure will magically appear to accommodate them.

It won’t, all that we are doing is putting an increasing strain on the resources which we have, symptoms such as increases in homelessness are the inevitable result.

Between recession and housing stocks tied up on accommodating half of the world we will inevitably have a homelessness problem. As recent evidence has shown housing simply cannot keep pace with the number of people who require it.

Mass immigration to the UK has often been hailed as being of amazing benefit to all – but tell that to the homeless and to everyone else living with the daily reality of the problems which it brings.

Our UK today is one where we witness more and more land becoming housing and housing estates, and yet also one where we see homelessness increasing.

The two together do not make sense – unless we concede that, in this instance, as in so many others, the problem either begins, or is made far worse at, our borders.

Of course the recession and manufactured financial hardship plays a part, but the fact remains that there is no reason why there should be any homeless within Britain unless we are faced with a population which is expanding at a rate which we realistically have no chance of accommodating.

Homelessness, like so many other things, is a problem which need not exist – the fact that it does should tell us that something is desperately wrong in this country of ours.

Government ministers like Grant Shapps can bluster and blame the recession all they like, but the simple fact is that an ever expanding population will play an even greater role.

Until we tackle the issue of immigration then, recession or no recession, the fact is simple – homelessness will increase.

We have neither room nor homes to accommodate a population which has been subjected to an artificial and unprecedented increase such as the one which has been inflicted upon Britain.