What would actually happen if the UK deported two million people in three years, as Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain political party proposes?
In this video, I look at the real economics and not the slogans.
- NHS staffing and social care would collapse
- Construction and food supply would face massive disruption
- We'd have falling GDP and tax revenues
- And there would be rising inflation, and austerity
This is not immigration policy. It is economic self-harm driven by a politics of hate.
A politics of care offers a real alternative: investment in social care, strengthening social security, training workers, taxing wealth fairly, and rebuilding the capacity Britain actually needs.
This is the audio version:
This is the transcript:
What would happen if Britain deported 2 million people? Not theoretically, not rhetorically, but actually.
That is what Rupert Lowe MP is proposing with his Restore Britain Party, which now has apparently got 10% popular support in opinion polls, despite being, and let's be clear about this, well to the right of Nigel Farage.
The proposal he is now circulating suggests removing millions of migrants from this country in just three years through either mass deportation through what we might as well call concentration camps, or by driving out many more through what he calls a hostile environment.
Now, this is not about immigration policy, of course; this is all about a politics of hate, but let's be clear about it. It is also about an economics of failure, resulting in a care crisis, NHS collapse, declining GDP, failing public services and serious economic self-harm.
We are talking about something here which is massive in scale. Let's be honest about this. He is suggesting that around 700,000 people a year might be forced to leave the UK by one of the two mechanisms that he is proposing.
He's talking about having at least 2 million people leave over a three-year period, and, of course, he's putting deterrence on new workers arriving in the UK, meaning that we will move into a situation of serious negative migration. In other words, the UK will face a massive population decline, something we've not seen in the modern era. None of us has lived through such an episode, so we have to guess what will happen.
Well, the first thing we know is that we live in a country which is already short of labour. Yes, I know we have unemployment in the UK, but also, we have many more people looking for jobs than we have jobs available. We actually have a problem with a shortage of skilled labour to fill the jobs that we've got. That's the obvious point I need to make. Therefore, if we expel people who are here precisely because they are, amongst other things, economic migrants, and many of these people will be, let's be clear; they didn't come here just because they have associations with the UK or because they are refugees from other countries; they've come here to create a new life and have done so. The vast majority of the people he's looking to expel are working in this country. So if we already have a shortage of skilled labour in the UK, that's going to get worse.
This then is not just a moral question that I'm asking here; it is a purely practical one. I've done another video on the morality and the politics of hate that is implicit in what Rupert Lowe is saying. What I'm asking is a different question on this occasion, which is: what happens to a fragile economy when you rip out a large part of its workforce?
Let's be honest about this. In the UK, we already know we have long NHS waiting lists.
We have serious problems with social care and a shortage of resources within it.
We have housing shortages and staff shortages in a whole range of economic activities from construction through to supplying, for example, teaching assistance in education.
We aren't living in an economy with spare capacity in that case. We are living in an economy running on goodwill and even exhaustion. Removing workers from this system will not create a smooth transition to something better; it will break our economy in the process.
Let's just look at some examples. Adult social care might be the first system to fail if Rupert Lowe got his way and started deporting very large numbers of people. We have a social care system in this country, which sort of works. Let's not pretend it works well because it doesn't. There are all sorts of issues within it, including a massive shortage of care facilities and people to work in them. But what we know will happen if tens of thousands of carers are removed from that system is that there will be fewer care packages.
There will also be more pressure on families who will have to look after their elderly and vulnerable relatives who do need somewhere to live where they can have 24-hour care for them, which is virtually impossible in many households now.
There will be delayed hospital discharges because one of the biggest reasons why the NHS is under such bed stress is precisely because people can't be discharged into a community where they can be cared for, and that is because of a lack of social care. As a result, NHS costs will rise as a consequence of the proposal that Rupert Lowe has.
And remember, something fundamental to the politics of care. When care fails, it is almost invariably women who pick up the resulting unpaid work. So this policy will redistribute labour from paid carers to unpaid family members, and that is regression, and not reform, and nor is it restoration. Do we really want to put ourselves back into an era where the whole of this country is dependent upon women having unpaid work that they do in the home, and do not contribute in any other way because they're prevented from doing so for institutional reasons, which is what Rupert Lowe wants to restore?
And then let's just look at the NHS itself. Social care is one problem that we face, but the NHS has all sorts of issues, in particular, because it does not work in isolation. It depends on care workers, cleaners, porters, nurses, doctors and admin staff, and many of those people are migrants. Up to a third of the people working for the NHS might be first or second-generation migrants. I know Rupert Lowe says he's only going to get rid of what he calls undocumented people in the UK, but let's be clear, they're not working for the NHS now because they can't, because there are mechanisms to make sure that this is not a possibility.
What he's actually talking about is getting rid of migrants full stop. And his hostile environment that he's talking about is designed to make sure that these people want to leave, not least by increasing the level of stress within the NHS where racist abuse of staff is already a routine matter and a cause of massive concern, not just to the people involved, but to all their colleagues, because the NHS is about care and the NHS cares for people who work for it.
Remove these people, and you get rota gaps. Waiting lists will grow. Costs will rise. Health outcomes will very obviously worsen for everyone, whoever they are. You cannot make Britain healthier by driving out its health workers.
And there are other parts of the economy which will obviously suffer as well as a result of this policy. Construction is a perfect example, but so too is food supply, where, quite literally, we are dependent upon the work of migrants to keep our food supply in this country working because nobody who appears to have ever been born here now wants to work in the fields in the way that, incidentally, I did as a teenager to make money to pay for my summer holidays.
The hospitality sector is also heavily dependent upon migrant workers, as I know from my coffee habit. Most of the baristas I meet are from countries other than the UK, at least by second-generation.
And there are other sectors as well. Transport is heavily dependent upon migrant workers, whether that be rail or road, and universities are also now heavily dependent upon migrants because, such is the level of pay in most universities in the UK, the basic level of teaching provided to most students is often provided by people who have come from overseas to work here, very often after doing a PhD at a UK university and therefore well qualified within our system, but who are nonetheless not British citizens, and who work here on a visa to supply the essential education that so many young people in this country require.
Remove all these workers and our economy will slow to a stop.
Housing construction will either slow down or virtually cease because so many skilled labourers will disappear.
Food processing bottlenecks will appear everywhere, and we will become more dependent on imports, which economically and environmentally would be disastrous.
Local economies would shrink, and here's the irony: you cannot solve housing shortages by deporting builders.
Now, in the short term, Restore Britain will get what it wants. They probably will push up wages for those who are left in employment in this country, but where supply is constrained, in particular in care, in housing and in health, higher wages will mean higher costs, higher prices, and higher public spending. That will, in turn, lead to austerity, redundancy, and a vicious downward cycle with regard to the provision of all the services that we are utterly dependent upon from cradle to grave. We wouldn't be delivering prosperity; we would be getting inflation and rationing, but most of all, we woukld be getting managed decline.
That decline would be reflected in things like GDP. We would be literally destroying the wealth of our country and its income, but you would also reduce the tax stake.
Most migrant people in this country work. They want to work. They're here to work. They have the right to work, and they should be working because they've got the skills that we need. But if we take them away, they don't pay income tax. They don't pay national insurance. They don't spend, so VAT does not take place. The tax base shrinks, and with it, the government will lose confidence in its ability to spend, whichever way you understand the economy, whether you think that tax comes before spend or, correctly, spend comes before tax.
And at the same time, £57 billion is apparently going to be spent on deporting people. So not only are we going to have a labour shortage because we are literally taking people out of our economy, very large numbers of people are going to be redeployed to the job of expelling them.
We are absolutely going to destroy our productive capacity in this country if Rupert Lowe tries to do this, not just by getting rid of people, but by denying those who remain the chance to work productively. However you look at this, mass deportations are economically self-defeating and fiscally destructive.
But things might get even worse than that. People do not always leave when they're told to do so, and why should they? Because they've come to this country and they want to stay in this country, and what is more, we know that the figures that Rupert Lowe is claiming for the number of people who are here who do not have permission is grossly overstated. He claims there are 2 million such people; there might only be a hundred thousand or so. But if he makes a toxic environment, as he says, he will, people will disappear from systems. They will avoid GPs. They will avoid the police. They will work illegally. They will be exploited, and not just economically. They might be abused, and that worries me enormously. What Rupert Lowe wants is control, but what he'll get is failure.
So, what does this restoration that Rupert Lowe is talking about look like in economic terms? Let's be clear, Britain would survive. It has always survived shocks. It will survive this shock, but as a country, we will be poorer.
The world will be harsher as far as everybody in the UK is concerned, because toxicity doesn't impact just those against whom it's directed; it impacts everyone.
We would live in a country riddled with fear.
We'd be living in a more brittle country as a result, and care would be rationed.
The NHS would be jammed.
Growth would disappear.
Inflation would get higher.
Inequality would definitely get worse because that's implicit in everything that Rupert Lowe talks about.
And trust quite critically would be eroded.
This is not then about patriotism. This is a policy that can only be described as vandalism.
The real problem in this country is not migrants. The real problem in this country is, of course, a lack of care and a lack of provision for housing and public services. It's about weak social security and pay that is too low. It is about rentier economics. It is about inequality. It is about a refusal to use fiscal policy to build capacity. As a consequence, we've actually got a lot to thank migrants for, because they have filled the gaps created by neoliberal failure. We should be thanking them and not punishing them when they have actually helped us out.
If we care about Britain, we would rebuild capacity. That's what restoration should be about.
We would invest in social care.
We would train workers.
We would pay properly.
We would deliver lifelong training.
We would manage the AI transition in ways that we have not yet imagined, but we are most definitely going to have to think about.
We would support people, whoever they are, whenever they are, and however they are.
We would tax wealth to beat inequality.
We would end the hostile environment that does already exist in the UK where prejudice is real, as we all know.
And we would save the environment.
That is what a politics of care would deliver.
A country cannot deport its way to prosperity. That's my key point. Economic strength comes from investment, inclusion, and democratic accountability.
If we want a stronger Britain, we must build a fairer one.
That is the choice before us.
We can choose care, we can choose hate, but only one delivers prosperity, justice, and freedom; the other does the exact opposite. I know what I want. I want the politics of care. What do you think? There's a poll down below.
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You have to hope that given he was too extreme even for Nigel Farage and we can all see the outworking of such policies through the ICE raids in America that people will see this for the extreme racism that it is. Yes we have rising youth unemployment, but getting rid of skilled migrants won’t help this. And I for one don’t want a society like the one that Trump has created that reminds me more of the Handmaid’s Tail than anything I would wish to live in. And remember also that many of these immigrants are the spouses and family of British citizens who through the hostile environment policies pay a lot to be here.
Please carry on exposing these awful policies for what they are. We need a politics of hope and care, not hate.
What makes me smile wanly about this, is that Restore Britain could still do what they want to do in terms of immigration, but if they used some of the social investment ideas here, they would actually reduce the negative impacts their proposed policies would have on services.
Now I’m not saying this is desirable by any stretch of the imagination believe you me, but what the lack of investment in their policies reveals is the dark unthinking racist heart of what they about and deserves to be called out as such.
For us though, their time in office would be a tragedy for sure. They just have not thought through any transition at all. You’d need training courses and job centres working over time to replace those being sent away etc.
As for those who join the ‘Cromwell Club’ – well, we know that those that have that sort of money to burn are not particularly intelligent don’t we?
Of course, none of this will remotely affect Lowe and whoever his paymasters are. They’re happy to let the systems they don’t use fall into a state of collapse, because they can afford private alternatives.
One of the more ridiculous things about Rupert Lowe is that he makes his money from a chain of care homes, and doubtless relies on immigrants to work in them, presumably on very low pay.
He also owns a farm and horse racing stables. Many of the staff are immigrants.
A hostile environment cannot be precise towards a defined group of people.
The racists will use it as an excuse to attack whomever they like.
He who rides the tiger cannot easily dismount.
Agreed, entirely.
As regards our economy, even before Lowe & Destroy Britain get to work on it…
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/19/uk-reports-record-breaking-surplus-rachel-reeves
Our chancellor is pictured smiling, at news of a £30bn SURPLUS. Clearly both she and the journalist who chose the picture, view this as a “good thing”.
But that’s £30bn taken OUT of the economy, which isn’t good news at all. Carry on like that and recent history tells me we are headed for contraction, recession, and possibly, depression.
But the spin will be (to save Starmer’s job and her’s) that this is success and we are all meant to cheer. I’m not cheering. I’m thinking of where GOV could have spent £30bn to deal with some of the urgent problems crying (literally) for attention round here.
The “surplus GOOD; deficit BAD” message is still very deeply entrenched in our system.
But no – it’s so much simpler to blame the immigrants, the young, the disabled, and chronicallly sick. As Rupert Lowe is well aware.
The MOST effective way to steer angry voters away from the fascist racist right is to invest in our national infrastructure, but that isn’t compatible with a run of budget surplus figures, just to keep a smile on a neoliberal PPE-indoctrinated Chancellor’s face.
Fiscal forecast mumbo jumbo arithmetic, one day there’s a £20bn “black hole”, the next there’s £30bn of “headroom”, and we’re all supposed to clap at the magic trick.
Doubtless Mr Lowe gets air time. I wonder if any of the assorted journos that “interview” him have the brains/knowledge/willingness to pose the questions/points contained in the blog? Probably not. I don’t include GB News as a news source since calling it a news channel is a bit like categorising the magazine “Penthouse” as a journal of philisophical enquiry. The emergence of the likes of fart-rage and Lowe has only occured due to the decline/depravity of UK journalism, which in the past would have torn such scum to pieces.
Farage is talking about expelling 3.5mn Europeans who have Settled Status.
Lowe wants to get rid of 2mn migrants.
Economically and socially this is utter madness.
Why is the BBC and the rest of the media not doing their jobs and investigating this?
Sorry I forgot, they don’t because the BBC is “balanced” or the owners of the media do not want it exposed.
The thing is John, if you read what Lowe says about the BBC on the RB website, you can see Richard’s oft made comment that the BBC cannot win – it alienates everyone at the moment – which is a fair point given that I don’t like it much at all as it is now.
And yes, I have been to the Restore Britain website – where Lowe seems to have written just about every policy document on it ( a personal strong man project for sure). It seems well designed and neat but heavy on rhetoric and emotional pull – nothing else.
So, in saying that, it could be quite a threat.
I am continually amazed at how Reform can spend hours talking about how immigrants are putting a strain on housing and public services and how we need to remove them, then immediately pivot to discussing how we need to increase the birth rate to avoid a demographic disaster the next, seemingly with no one pointing out the obvious!
When will the media start connecting the dots here. And of course now they want to cap child benefits. A more incoherent policy is difficult to Imagine.
Whilst cutting maternity allowances, and benefits…
No objectivity in your video? As a migrant, can we ever expect you to talk objectively on the matter?
Millions came without a democratic mandate. The “care” sector, the “NHS”, these people aren’t working in those fields exclusively.
Think about the working issues for young people with university degrees competing with someone who has come from the other side of the planet.
The disadvantage they face is often overlooked.
Please explain this (I am ignoring the rest not agreeing with it):
“Millions came without a democratic mandate.”
The vast majority (into the high 90 per cents) of migration into the UK has been legal – and the majority of those for whom it has not been (a tiny number in proportion ot the whole) have been removed.
The inward migration was legal, sanctioned and successive governments welcomed it.
What do you mean when you say there was no democratic mandate? Please explain, precisely.
I’ll give you the same script you’ve heard 1000 times.
Successive conservative governments promised lower levels of migration. “Into the tens of thousands.”
The main issue of Brexit was immigration, “uncontrolled migration from the EU.”
Now we sit here with millions who’ve come, all legitimately, the impact on housing, NHS and employment all overlooked to prop up critical sectors who haven’t got the investment they needed.
Educating entire generations to study degrees they’ll never use, over 70s paying more income tax than the under 30s, this is reinforcing the generational divide amongst our culture.
Who will exploit it next?
You are wrong.
David Cameron said that.
He never legislated.
Inward migration was always legal.
And our mmerbshio of the EU was legal.
And the imapct of all thsoe people coming was we had:
– Builders
– Doctors
– Nurses
– Care workers
– Tranport workers
– Teachers
– University lecturers
– Crop pickers
– A great many of the people you will ever meet in hospitality
And to make the point: most of thosee graduates you worry about are taught by inward migrants
Most new houses ave been buot byu migrants
Your food has been harvested by them
And you saw one or many more in the NHS
Make them all go and what do you think will happen?
So why are you saying things that are totally untrue and which, if you had your way, would destroy the economy of this country? Is that your goal, because it is what would happen.
You speak of not enough jobs but are against depopulation, what is the impact of overpopulation on the economy?
Presumably you think we can have more jobs! Oh yes, of course! So we can have 100m people as well! Hurrah!
The welfare bill is forecast to be the largest government expenditure in the coming years.
Discuss these impact on the economy. Discuss the impacts on education, healthcare and housing from overpopulation.
Be objective so we can learn not hear green party policy.
I do think we have too few jobs. But as I point out, that is by the deliberate choice of govermments pursuing austerity, or the politics of destruction as I call it. There is ample work to be done – more than we have people to do, which as the population ages will become ever more obviously true, which fact you ignore. We are in fact short of labour. That is the reality. You want to make that very much worse.
And you ignore all the issues I have raised. Why is that?
Oh, and that social security bill (we do not have welfare in the UK); that is alnost entirely down to an ageing population. What do you propose? A cull of those over 75?
Please now answer the questions and stop spouting nonsense. I am happy to engage, but you realy do have to as well.
I have explained all the impacts. A collapsed NHS. Collapsed socal care. Collapsed care for the disabled and children in need. Collapsed food chains. A failing economy. No new housing. A collapsed currency. Now explain why I am wrong.
The country elected governments who broadcasted to the country that they would reduce migration not increase it. They did the opposite. These acts were undemocratic in nature.
What country will we have in 10 years with this deceit in public office?
Deportations will have a positive impact if managed properly on the economy. The economy being prices, housing rents, utility bills, mortgages. Reductions on demand for housing, education, NHS, care and dentistry to name a few also. If it means -1% growth then this will be welcomed by many.
You did not discuss these positive impacts.
I understand this metric isn’t usually a consideration for political figures but it should be.
But you said there wa no democratic mandate. There was. I have alrready adressedthi poiint.
And where would we be with more inward migration? Sustainable, richer and ahead of the game, for a start.
Whilst your claim of gains assumes that none of those deported do valuable and even essential work, when they do. There are no positive impacts. That is why I do not discuss them: they do not exist.
So, let me put three things to you. First of all, you actually have no arguments at all. You just have totally unsupported claims.
Secondly, you have very clearly not thought through what you were suggesting, because in fact, what do you want is the description of the well-being of most people in the UK, yourself included. The price of what you are proposing will be enormous.
Thirdly, let me then suggest what you will not say, which is the only thing that is motivating your comments is your hatred of people not born in the UK. That’s all there is to this really, isn’t it Ben? Go on, be honest for once.
@ Ben K
“Deportations will have a positive impact if managed properly on the economy.”
Thinking purely OBJECTIVELY Ben, I’m totally with you on the above. But nevermind immigrants, what about the number of LEFT-HANDED PEOPLE in this country? There… I’ve said it.
The population of the UK was 67 million in 2020. Now it’s 70 million. Of those at least 10% are LEFT HANDED. 10 PERCENT. Think about it. That’s 7 million LEFT HANDERS, 7 MILLION mouths to feed. And you wonder why this country is on its knees? We should deport them all!
The NHS don’t have enough beds for us right handers, never minded all those left handers!
They are a BURDEN on our economy I mean have you seen the way they handle SCISSORS? Do you consider their clumsy attempts examples of successful integration?
And don’t get me started on housing…
Honestly this country has gone to the dogs It’s about time we had a SERIOUS conversation about left handed people!!
Them and folks with GINGER HAIR.
🙂
NOTE: This is humour, if you are in doubt!
Ben K
I’ve read through your posts and to me you are really being very misled.
I wrote a post this morning an exactly the theme you have mentioned – how the benefits of immigrant repatriation could be realised. In that sense I was opening myself up to what I considered to be an unpleasant policy but did a thought experiment on it and even went on the Restore Britain website to look at their proposals (I know about Reform’s ideas- I hear about them on the radio/TV often). I was being open minded.
There is only way to restore Britain Ben and that is for our government to invest in it. A LOT, effectively putting back in what the Tories started taking out 2010 and more. A lot more. Reform and Restore Britain are not about investing in the UK.
Nowhere in Reform and Restore Britain can I see anything about investing other than in the means of deporting immigrants and other stuff that looks to me more like for show than anything of any real lasting benefit. Restore Britain wants to sack tube train drivers (Englishmen with jobs, there are plenty of white tube drivers Ben), ban hosepipes bans without saying how it will deal with the fresh water crises we have; have low corporation tax etc.
Now, how will any of that benefit you or anyone else for that matter? A lot of what they say is un-costed.
What you need to think about Ben is who is funding and leading these ‘parties’. Be curious mate, delve into how they are funded, the background of their leaders – I bet many of them are better off than you will ever be.
What you might end up with Ben is a load of white English people expected to do the job of immigrants for minimum wage and less? With hardly any training – because there is no investment in that being talked about? Most whites don’t want to be looking after the elderly on minimum wage and less – they would not do that for less £15 per hour.
The unfortunate thing is this: Reform and Restore Britain may not want black and brown people in the country – but they still want a slave economy – a white one. Is that the future you want?
Spot on, PSR
Talking of Reform, the BBC has given Farage’s party 3 slots on Question Time in the runup to the Gorton by-election, while the Greens have been given none.
Why is the BBC doing this?
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25869141.greens-furious-reform-uk-get-bbc-question-time-slot-by-election/
Last night’s Question Time with Jenrick and the Tory candidate shouting at each other was appalling.
Agreed
Quite appalling.
The real problem in this country is not due to immigrants, it is due to people like Rupert Lowe. A quick dig into his background on Wikipedia shows he went to an independent private boys only school and then went into the city of London. He set up a company Secure Retirements which ran nursing homes, no doubt motivated by profit rather than goodwill. This then became Southampton leisure holdings and got involved with Southampton FC not without quite a few controversies over issues like transfer fees. He also got involved with the FA. He owns a farm near Cheltenham and is involved in racehorse training whilst also somehow managing to be the MP for Great Yarmouth. He has also set up a CIC called the Rape Gang Enquiry CIC which is no doubt designed along deeply racist lines.
Thank you.
I’ve been a racing enthusiast, mainly flat, since I was a toddler, mid 50s now, and note how many stable lads and lasses are immigrant. The tenant trainer for Lowe is no exception.
Weird, isn’t it?
I’m not a racist, but I want to deport my staff
in the Independent today
“The UK’s plummeting net migration numbers will add billions of pounds to the nation’s borrowing, Rachel Reeves has been warned.
Successive governments have announced crackdowns on migration since the figures hit nearly a million in just 12 months in 2023.
But these attempts have proved so successful – with numbers dropping by two-thirds in a single year, driven by a huge fall in people coming for work or study –that they now risk affecting the exchequer, a leading think tank ( Resolution Foundation) has warned.
Lower migration, especially of people of working age, can cut the amount of tax the government takes in without necessarily reducing the cost of public services.”
I hope someone puts that to Mr Lowe.
Agreed, and thanks
A question I don’t know the answer to..
We know that Rupert Lowe is lying when he talks about immigration and the effects of his planned deportation of 2m “migrants”policy.
Q.
But is he also lying when he says, “these are my policies”?
Starmer lied when he said he had left wing policies.
Labour lied with its 2024 manifesto.
The Tories lied and boasted about how effective their liar-in-chief, Johnson was.
Fa***e lies all the time.
Lowe lies about immigration and deportation.
When almost everyone lies. how do we even respond to them? What WOULD Lowe do if he won power?
I conclude, on the evidence so far, and the current national & global context, that:
1. Whatever he did would be very nasty indeed.
2. It would also be a shock, because it would be different to what he is currently saying (and worse).
3. The same applies to the Labour Party, the Lib Dems, Reform UK Ltd., and the Tories (we’ve already seen it from all of them, so it’s a rational assumption).
When systemic lying gets to THIS level, we are encountering a very tangible form of evil, almost taking on an ontological reality, much worse than just “wrongdoing” or “dirty politics”.
That is both very scary, but also reassuring, because REAL Evil with a capital E, is shallow, fragile, unstable and ultimately contains within itself, the seeds of its own destruction (but we have to help overwhelm it too). I see Lowe and Fa***e are already talking of throwing money at lawyers and suing each other – all to the good!
Yes, this stuff is consistent with me being a god-botherer, but it’s still worth thinking about, however you interpret the world around us.
Does anyone know what Rupert Lowe is REALLY up to?
Fascism
That’s it
One word is all that is required.
Lowe had better be careful what he wishes for
I understand that the population of Russia has dropped by about 2 million. While there are many features that are unique to it – the war with Ukraine & Vodka being two that spring to mind the consequences are serious and theirf economy is failing in part because of this
Did not know where to put this but I just heard on MSNOW TV News that the SCOTUS has ruled 6-3 that Trump CANNOT impose tariffs he has imposed. The power to impose tariffs rest with the US Congress.
I think this may be the beginning of the REAL end for Trump’s presidency as he becomes more and more a lame duck!
I am sure no leader will now care if he rubs Trump the wrong way during a phone call!
I have just published a post on this.
And we seem to be in agreement.
Hi there Ben K
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/20/what-would-happen-if-britain-deported-two-million-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-1068691
I’m just going to ask you about ONE of your (unevoidenced) claims.
You say that well managed deportations would “have a positive impact if managed properly on the economy. The economy being prices…”
How will this “well managed deportation” programme you are so looking forward to, have a positive impact on “prices” please, Ben?
Which prices?
By how much?
Will prices go up or down (you didn’t specify)?
Over what time period?
Please, I’m all ears. Maybe Rupert Lowe ISN’T a dangerous destructive democracy destroying fascist but has the magic solution to the cost of living crisis, and now YOU can explain that to us all.
Just “prices” Ben.
How will managed mass deportation have a positive effect on prices – for example, the internationally traded price of gas that governs how much I pay for electricity?
Or the price of British carrots?
Or perhaps, inter-city train fares?
Or my water and sewage bills?
Please show your working and cite references.
Over to you Ben…
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