Housing Minister Dominic Raab has blamed the affordable homes crisis on migrants. His figures suggest that immigration has caused a 20% price hike over 25 years.
Raab is writing to the Migration Advisory Committee, instructing it to advise migrants to clear off. This, he believes, will give proper ethnic Brits a fair shot at the housing market.
LCD’s Paradoxical Positions correspondent took time out from Brexit matters to engage in a Q&A with Mr Raab.
LCD: Tell me, why are you presenting housing price rises as bad news? Normally it indicates a healthy economy.
DR: It’s the wrong type of price rise. It has been caused by migrants flooding the country, and greater demand pushes prices up. Migrants are bad.
LCD: Migrants are portrayed as coming here to scrounge off the taxpayer and drain our public services. How does this create demand in the house buying sector?
DR: They take jobs from the native Britons and buy their houses, rather than building their own. Mud huts, or whatever they prefer.
LCD: Explain how they simultaneously scrounge off the taxpayer and take our jobs.
DR: Let me be quite clear. We are at breaking point. Some get jobs, many scrounge, while genuine British people are unemployed.
LCD: All the figures show that migrants make a positive net contribution to the economy.
DR: And they force native Brits out of work. We need to take back control of the situation, close the borders and make sure there are British jobs for British workers.
LCD: How does that affect yourself? After all, you are the son of a Jewish immigrant, and married to a Brazilian woman.
DR: We are fine, because we are rich and important.
LCD: Taking two jobs which could be done by genuine Brits? You mean, because you are white?
DR: I am on record for being against positive discrimination, and in favour of meritocracy. There are good migrants and bad migrants, that is why we need border controls.
LCD: You are also on record for saying the British are the worst idlers in the world. How are they going to replace all the hard-working foreign workers who currently keep the country afloat?
DR: Universal Credit means work or starve. Possibly both. It’s another Brexit dividend.
Migrants come to this country, work, buy houses, and fit in. Like Dominic Raab. It’s just not good enough.