Immigration and the dilution of our underlying wealth.

You as a citizen of the UK own 6.56 metres of road. Though due to 400 illegal economic migrants landing ashore today, that is 0.04mm less than you owned yesterday. Over 10mm less than the year prior after 110,000 have diluted your share. The addition of 5 million immigrants over recent years has diluted your share of the nation's wealth significantly. Maybe your share has been diluted by 9 percent. You are nine percent poorer as a result of more people taking a share. That is with all things being equal. On the plus side, your share of the national debt in percentage terms has come down too. (In absolute terms it has risen as our debt has risen considerably).

Most think of the national wealth as belonging to the government rather than us as citizens. That is a mistake. You own a share of the 4 million council houses. It equates to about 666 bricks per person. You own 46 bricks less than you did a decade ago. You also own a section of the railway lines, a piece of each hospital and each school. Lots of infrastructure is owned by us as citizens. Bridges, canals, pipe work and so on.

Flags on lampposts.

People have been putting flags up on 'council property'. It is not council property, but council run property that is owned by you - a citizen. You pay the council tax and general tax which the council gets to spend on your behalf. You own about one tenth of one lamppost.

If you think councils own things, then does that mean if I become a councillor, I then own council controlled items? Or if I work for the council, I then own council controlled things? Of course not. Therefore, suggesting that councils own property implies that a non-human entity owns these things. You the citizen own a share, not an imaginary body. In law, only humans can own things. As a councillor doesn't own the lampposts, nor those that work for the council, there are therefore zero humans left involved with the council to own them. The councils use our money to install and maintain lampposts, but they never own them. We all own them.

The council serves the people they represent. They work for you and ought to do what is best for you. If you want English/British flags flying on street lampposts then that is the will of the people and ought to be respected.

National assets.

The infrastructure is a national asset that has taken generations to construct. Those that join this country will not have contributed to that group effort. But they benefit from it immediately. They can travel along the roads. They can utilise the water pumped from reservoirs. And much more.

Economic activity relies on our infrastructure. Much is made possible by our infrastructure. Where would we be without our roads. The better the roads the quicker things move. The more time spent travelling along the roads, the less time spent making things, improving things, fixing things.

Economic activity is what we term gross domestic product, GDP. More people, less GDP per person. GDP per person has remained static since the arrival of millions of immigrants. Some believe that the increase in diversity, the need for younger workers, the necessity to help those born abroad have a more prosperous life, is important. More important than the prosperity of those with generational ties to the country. Workers arriving from abroad have filled gaps in our skills base. Lots of positives, I am sure. Certain, in fact, notably in our health care sector. Though have we deprived other nations of skilled individuals? Movement of labour within nations and between nations can be shown to produce greater output. However, these is a limit to how much benefit greater numbers can bring. Too many and that benefit is lost. Too many and it turns sour with less produced per person.

Giving deprives someone.

I will leave you with one final thought. A magician casts a spell which conjures a jet of water in the desert. This amazes the onlookers. Magic is good, helpful or so it seems. One can, with the right tools, provide water to the thirsty in the middle of the desert. However, the magic extracts water from another spot on the planet possibly draining a pond and killing all the frogs and newts that were in there. When we give to immigrants we do so by depriving others. Our generosity takes from those that work hard and gives to those that have done nothing to earn it.

We all pay. A little at a time. We gradually become poorer as each immigrant take a small slice. Those slices add up. You may not realise it but everyone in the country would be much better off today if immigration had been a trickle rather than a deluge.