If you can't get local population to grow, you have to bring in your labor from somewhere else. And of course, like most wealthy nations, the British birth rate has been in the toilet since the 70s.
This is also a reason that Brexit happened. Arguably the reason, even. There are a lot of working-class people whose families have been in the British Isles for centuries who look at the lack of progress relative to what their ancestors saw during the Empire and postwar eras, and want someone to blame. In this case it was Brussels' migration policies, even though it was providing essential labor that the British economy needs and cannot get from "real British" people because they don't have kids at the necessary rate.
That would be silly. Those things are supplied in the required quantities... but there's an oversupply of people to take them. People who don't even have a reason to be in the countries that we're discussing. Implementing marxism won't change anything anyone cares about.
> Those things are supplied in the required quantities
What makes you think that. The UK does not have soviet style socialism. The only supplied products and services come from the free market which right now is dysfunctional
Countries will have to adapt to lower or even declining birth rates and deal with it. The world cannot just keep on growing indefinitely, unless we populate Mars or whatever. The UK, Korea, El Salvador, Israel, Netherlands, Rwanda, etc., will have to learn to make their economies work with a steady state workforce even a shrinking workforce ala Japan.
Definitely, but the economies will likely won't be able to sustain your current style of living. Say goodbye to your electronics (including the one you are reading this comment on). Return to something closer to an agrarian economy until the birth rates go up. Will we agree to do this?
Ironically, once "free" from Brussels, none of the conservatives have actually stop the migration rate or reduce it to nearly zero and they have not been honest about it either
This is also a reason that Brexit happened. Arguably the reason, even. There are a lot of working-class people whose families have been in the British Isles for centuries who look at the lack of progress relative to what their ancestors saw during the Empire and postwar eras, and want someone to blame. In this case it was Brussels' migration policies, even though it was providing essential labor that the British economy needs and cannot get from "real British" people because they don't have kids at the necessary rate.