Reversing Blair's poison legacy

There are still a few changes that Blair made to our ancient democracy that must be undone to restore us to health. Brexit will push things along nicely – not least the re-introduction of proper entry and exit controls that will allow the ONS to sharpen their pencils a little. This week it emerged that we have 240,000 fewer Nigerians in the country than we thought, but 240,000 more Poles.

Project Fear III is starting to gear up after its Summer holiday. It seems the theme de jour is to be terrified EU27 citizens in panic and fleeing Britain pre-Brexit. Ahem. The BBC, Sky News and Channel 4 aside, and any other MSM zombies that can’t tell their arses from elbows, actually have no evidence for this at all – it’s like them reporting that the thunder and lightning is due to the sky giants fighting over a rusk. But that doesn’t stop them reporting fake news these days.

There are two main reasons why more EU27 citizens are leaving the UK than arriving right now. One is the pound’s very low exchange rate. You can draw a graph that almost exactly correlates EU27 inwards immigration and the £/€; back when it was €1.45, they were rushing the doors. Now it’s €1.08 they’re moving to fresher fields.

The other reason they’re going is the same reason a Brit I knew here has gone home – the grey economy. Now that UK citizens in Europe and EU27 citizens in the UK must show how they get their income, a few thousands who have slipped under the tax net, or make or supplement their incomes with illegal work including prostitution are being exposed to the extent that they’re packing it in and going home. Good.

And has the NHS collapsed like they said it would? Has it horsefeathers. Here’s why -