Four out of five new jobs created in the UK over the last decade have gone to foreign nationals. At the same time, the number of Britons on benefits is rising sharply.
The British economy no longer prioritises British workers. But even though foreign nationals are taking many of the new jobs, most migrants end up on benefits alongside all those Britons who are unable to find work.
Consequently, Britons who are still working and paying tax are also affected. We can see the result: a British economy experiencing its worst crisis since the Second World War, in a situation exacerbated by an explosive rise in serious crime committed by illegal immigrants.
The report ‘The State of Dependency’ from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) is subtitled: ‘How a broken benefit system is holding Britain back’. The figures show that since 2014, only 734,000 jobs have gone to British citizens, whilst nearly three million have gone to immigrants, writes Daily Mail.
It is clear that none of the recent British governments has introduced a British version of the Trump team’s ‘America First’ policy.
The US Secretary of State recently spoke to Breitbart News about how this same mindset shapes US foreign policy. Rubio posed the question: How will people react to politicians who deny this principle?
“I know that people in the media (…) like to criticise the phrase ‘America First’ as if it were something evil. Let me ask people: How many candidates would be elected if they went out and told the American people: ‘My job is to put America second, or third, or last.’
If they don’t like ‘America First’, they should have the courage to go out and tell people: ‘I am standing for election with the conviction that our foreign policy should be guided by the principle that America comes second or third.’»
Rubio went on to say that no politician would dream of doing such a thing. But in doing so, he overlooks British politics, or European politics in general. Norwegian politicians are clearly taking the lead; virtually every decision coming from the Storting and government offices has negative consequences for Norwegian citizens.
Everyone knows which decisions we’re talking about: immigration, foreign aid, tax levels, power cables, massive military aid to Kyiv, climate hysteria and the push for ‘renewable’ energy, as well as the electrification of the continental shelf and Melkøya. To name but a few.
According to CSJ, the number of immigrants has increased by 2.1 million since 2020. During the same period, the number of people receiving unemployment benefit has risen by 2.3 million. This alone costs taxpayers 21 billion pounds (264 billion kroner).
The report notes that ‘employers have gained unprecedented access to foreign labour, whilst taxpayers have had to bear the rising costs of unemployment in the country’.
6.7 million people in the UK are now receiving at least one form of social security benefit. The cost this year stands at 136 billion pounds (1,711 billion kroner). The increase since 2019/2020 alone amounts to 1,200 pounds (15,000 kroner) per taxpayer.
The CSJ writes that “high levels of immigration have also contributed significantly to welfare expenditure”, and the report showed that the number of visas issued to “dependent” immigrants rose by around 400 per cent between 2019 and 2024.
The report shatters the illusions of those who still believe that immigration can save the welfare state, which is suffering from low birth rates and an ageing population. Around 14.3 billion pounds (180 billion kroner) of taxpayers’ money is currently being paid out to working-age immigrants living in the UK. This figure is expected to rise to 16.3 billion pounds (205 billion kroner) by 2030.
As CSJ writes in its report:
This implies a significant change in the scope of a welfare state founded on the principle of contribution and reciprocity. Immigration, welfare and taxation appear to be interlinked parts of the same broken economic model.
For far too long, policy has prioritised bringing immigrants into the economy rather than unlocking the potential of even a fraction of the 6.7 million people caught up in the hidden unemployment crisis.
The situation is actually far worse in Norway, but for the time being we are blinded by our oil wealth. Next year, the Labour Party government will have to inject over 600 billion kroner in oil revenue just to balance the books. This enormous sum, which accounts for over 25 per cent of the national budget, is roughly enough to cover the costs our politicians are imposing on us taxpayers through aid, immigration and support for Ukraine.
Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice told the Daily Mail:
“This report is a damning indictment of Labour and Conservative governments, which have chosen an economic model of open borders and low wages that writes off millions of our own citizens.
Reform UK will break the welfare trap, halt mass immigration and get British workers back into jobs.”
Reform has stated that, if elected, the party will seek to reduce annual welfare expenditure by 50 billion pounds a year, partly by halting all payments to foreign nationals.
Reform has estimated that this alone will save taxpayers 21 billion pounds a year by 2029, or 700 pounds (8,800 kroner) per household.
Since Norwegian welfare expenditure exists in a sphere of generosity all of its own, driven by politicians on behalf of us taxpayers, the savings that could easily have been achieved in this country are astronomical.
Simple measures, such as simply halting all forms of public payments to foreigners, would finance the immediate abolition of all income tax for Norwegian taxpayers, and after a couple of years most other taxes could also be gradually phased out. This is, of course, unacceptable to the government and large sections of the Storting, who clearly believe that Norwegian workers must accept their rightful place at the very back of the queue.
