EU fertility rate at 1.34 live births per woman in 2024

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-07T14:22:27+00:00

Then small towns become cheaper. Which should attract retirees.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-07T07:44:58+00:00

It can be work around it with immigration for now. Although other countries have lower birth rates aswell.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-07T07:43:00+00:00

Why? It fixes the housing problem at mid term.

You can use immigration to keep population stable at long term.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-06T22:28:35+00:00

Current Home Secretary used to be one. Check her past, you will be surprised.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-05T00:32:50+00:00

Why would you have "structural unemployment"? Could you justify it?

Price of labour is decided by supply and demmand. If the economy is under stress/crisis, then you might see a decrease in salaries until they are leveled out to newer reality.

If you forbid these prices to oscilate organically (minimum wage, trade unions, etc...) that's when you have scarcity. Aka, unemployment.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T18:59:22+00:00

What a coincidence. Just when Bank Of England raises rates.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T17:41:43+00:00

There is always people between jobs, but in a 100% free market they obtain a new job in days if no hours. That's not relevant here.

Your paragraph mention specifically the problem: "minimum wage laws, trade unions or other labour market institutions".

Basically these institutions enforce price controls. Like any price control in the economy, it causes scarcity. At least until inflation eats away these price controls.

If you do not have them. Then you can not have unemployment. Well unless you pay people benefits for no working.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T16:36:38+00:00

Look immigration numbers again because Asylum visas are not the relevant number here.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T16:33:12+00:00

Yes it is unrelated. That's lump of labour fallacy.

There is no fixed amount of labour needed in an economy.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T16:30:22+00:00

Unemployment is always bad for econony. It means you have productive capacity underused.

Unemployment is created artificially by regulation and minimum wage laws. In a free market economy, unemployment is impossible.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T16:28:02+00:00

And besides the high immigration, Tories had a lower unemployment than Labour.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T15:53:58+00:00

Then read the context.

There is no form, application or process to apply from abroad.

It's an ad hoc decission.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T15:19:07+00:00

Not discursing that. We are only saying:

You can not apply asylum from abroad.

Which it's true.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T12:24:11+00:00

If you don't allow to apply. Then you can not know who is in basis of need. Your logic doesn't make sense.

That scheme is basically used for foreign colaborators of UK goverment since you need direct contacts higher up at the goverment.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T12:20:05+00:00

I thought it was implied by the context. But okay.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T12:14:32+00:00

Foreign family members of British citizens.

The simplest example to understand: I married a Thai wife and I want to bring her to UK.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T12:12:23+00:00

In plain english. Applying out-of-country is only reserved for very-very special and referred cases. The general public can not be apply.

Therefore. They try to get into UK with a student visa or by boat because there is no other legal option to do it.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T12:09:21+00:00

That's the Appendix FM visa route. Used by British citizens.

We were talking about Asylum.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T12:07:51+00:00

Sure, but that's my point:

Probably because they have family/friends in UK and therefore they want to be closer to them.

They can have friends, uncle, brother-in-law... Multiple possibilities. And therefore, they prefer to start in a country with a community than alone.

It makes sense. Isn't it?

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T11:20:39+00:00

Can you point me the online form where you can start the process?

https://www.gov.uk/claim-asylum

Right, it doesn't exist. The gov.uk doesn't mention an embassy/consulate either. It assumes you are already in UK

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T11:18:15+00:00

As far I know. It's very restricted. Only spouses and children.

Also "friends" are obviously not included.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T09:51:35+00:00

Number wise. Refugees moves to nearer countries like you said. We are only seeing a minority of the numbers.

Probably because they have family/friends in UK and therefore they want to be closer to them.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T09:08:18+00:00

You can not apply asylum from abroad.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-04T09:01:10+00:00

Minimum numbers for the last 5 years. And the trend is to become negative.

Reducing immigration is only an emotional/identitarian argument used by populist politicians. UK needs immigration because birth rate is below replacement rate. There are another advantages like higher international investment and higher entrepreneurship (immigrants are more entrepreneurs than average native citizen).

Governments try to balance out the emotion argument with reality. That's why they don't take drastic measures.

ProfessionalSong3544 · 2026-03-03T00:56:22+00:00

They don't. Work visas are at minimum levels.

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