Why is it worse in the U.K.

[Thatsaturdayfeeling]

I’m British but not in the U.K. at the moment. Where I am, we also have food price increases and petrol was v high for a while, but it’s all not to the extent as the U.K…why is the U.K. in such dire straits compared to other places?

Yes it is an issue I agree

Confused - what has the US got to do with it?

Unless you're referring to the common trope about immigrants coming over here and all living off welfare. But the point of my post was that those sums have been done, objectively and mathematically, and shown that as a whole they end up contributing more than they take.

They're going to work and pay tax (that's the "skills and labour" bit), and with the tax money the government will be able to increase the housing supply.

Of course the government WON'T, it will use the tax money to give greater tax breaks to its rich mates to syphon even more of their wealth offshore instead. But that's the point: the idea that population pressures due to immigration are responsible for the housing crisis is horseshit. The housing crisis is a political choice, and could easily be solved with the right political solutions. A larger number of net contributors to public finances, increasing the available tax base, would be a useful part of those solutions, not an impediment to them.