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Immigrants built Britain

Gina Miller always said that Immigrants built Britain.

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Jurassicspark said:
Feel free to quote anything from my post that constituted to any sort of “BS”.
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There's a reason why New houses sell easily. People get sold tye dream.
The show homes have beautiful furniture with touches from an interior design team.
Mod cons the right smells.

But your not buying the dream, you dont see what's happening behind walls under floors and inside boxing.

Any house and I could pick dozens of holes
 
securespark said:
If your house was built between 1948 and 1965, there's a strong possibility that it was built using labour from the countries I mentioned.
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This is just the kind of thing that Labour and the BBC are trying to brainwash children into believing.

Older people will remember that things were not like this. If you had told my dad that our house was built by Indians, Pakistanis and Caribbeans he would have laughed his socks off and thought you were a seriously good stand-up comedian who by rights should be on telly.

Try to find some pictures and films of British builders at work in the post-war era from books, your local library, the Internet and YouTube and show me the Indian, Pakistani and Caribbean ones. You will not find any, unless they are from a recently-made BBC drama.

Irish builders yes, every town had a few of them.
 
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The other thing about your average modern house and plot is that they are, by comparison, very small.

In show houses, they took you with beds and furniture that are scaled down.
 
transam said:
Loft spaces are sh ite total waste in most new builds

Access / working in them total sh ite

Worked in some new builds down this way
Timber framed out side walls are rendered polystyrene with a sort of rendered coating
You could kick yer way into the house only thing stopping you is a piece of ply wood the other side of the polysterine out side wall

Dummy bricks under the windows

Total sh ite

Chip board floors

Stud interior walls
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Some of the most difficult take down/demolition aspects of a job for us, have been with sheathed timber frame buildings. They are incredibly robust structures.

Would I as a builder chose an old building or new?

New every time, if just for energy efficiency and foundations.
 
noseall said:
Some of the most difficult take down/demolition aspects of a job for us, have been with sheathed timber frame buildings. They are incredibly robust structures.

Would I as a builder chose an old building or new?

New every time, if just for energy efficiency and foundations.
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I would buy a house thats 10 20 years old that in need of renovation.

What you say is true I think as this needs to be fit for purpose.
But most internal and some externals are installed by either the under skilled or tight price work.

Poor design has a massive factor as well as inferior materials.
 
It doesn't seem we're building them fast enough, regardless of how many immigrants there are:

Thousands of refugees are facing a growing homelessness crisis, according to a network of more than 100 organisations across the UK who say homelessness has more than doubled among refugees in the last two years. Naccom, the national charity of 140 frontline refugee and migrant organisations, blames the increase on “near-constant government policy changes” and the introduction of eVisas, which some refugees have not been able to activate in order to access vital services and support.

Network members were approached by at least 3,450 refugees and other migrants in 2024-25 whom they were unable to accommodate. They say this figure is likely to be a significant underestimate of the true picture. Members accommodated 4,434 homeless people, more than in any previous year since their records began in 2013, providing 672,807 nights of accommodation. There were 829 people sleeping rough at the point of accessing services, significantly higher than the 2022-23 figure of 378. Among those who were housed, 2,008 were refugees, a 106% increase on 2022-23. the Guardian
 
securespark said:
To that sir, I respectfully say no ****ing way!

That's down to greedy house builders.
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Yes it is even new houses in Australia have small gardens.

But Immigration has in part got alot to do: With a housing shortage.
Why we are now building on the green belt.
Why cars are parked on the grass or the pavement.
Why there's more traffic jams.
Why there's a lack of hospital beds and long waiting times.
Why the prisons are full.
 
Elsa TLC said:
But Immigration has in part got alot to do: With a housing shortage.
Why we are now building on the green belt.
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We have been building on green belt longer than we have had small boats crossing.

Elsa TLC said:
Why cars are parked on the grass or the pavement.
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Because many housing estates were not built for cars, or were built for smaller cars.
Also laziness. I have seen cars parked on the pavement where there is absolutely no need to do so.

Elsa TLC said:
Why there's more traffic jams.
Why there's a lack of hospital beds and long waiting times.
Why the prisons are full.
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Lack of investment by successive Governments.

For example, look at the road network. Motorways for example. Many "finished" motorways are cut down examples of the original plans.

The M25 is a classic example. The plan started off as 4 ring roads circling London and its environs.

Governments in their wisdom cut back on the schemes. Some bits of road were built.

But only one circular road made it to completion.
 
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