Ehwi, who lives with his wife and young daughter in Cambridge, sends money to Ghana, and is facing the squeeze. His monthly electricity bill has more than doubled, and he has had to limit the amount he spends on “luxuries” such as taking his wife out to eat.
“The frequency I’m sending money home is increasing because the economic situation in Ghana is worse than the UK … [but] I’ve received practically nothing to help deal with the cost of living here.”
Because why should they, if you have enough excess cash to send it to people abroad, rather than spending it in this country?
“Sending money home is something I have to do, it’s not an ‘I would like to do this,’” says Toyin Oshinowo. A project manager who moved to the UK from Nigeria when she was one, Oshinowo, 42, remits money between her “two homes” to support friends and family and pay bills in Nigeria.
One year old. And as soon as she starts earning, she's expected to support moochers abroad. Christ, what a 'culture'...
Those flows of money are hugely important for developing economies, vastly outweighing foreign aid sent by governments.
Let's stop all foreign aid then! It clearly isn't needed.
Julia, I feel these immigrants would be better going back home, where they are needed, rather than residing here, half heartedly it seems, and draining us of our wealth and culture, contributing next to nothing to our country.
ReplyDeleteMy view for decades has been and remains, no immigrants, no refugees and no asylum seekers.
I add these days, no one with dual nationality and no foreigners permitted to buy our businesses or our residential and commercial property.
Telling this to my MP is like water off a rat's back.
Isn't that what the Albanians are doing with the benefits, courtesy of the UK taxpayer, and what they can scrounge on the black economy? I read in one of the dailys, of a place in Albania where most of the new properties have been built with money sent from here. We are governed by numpties who were told this would happen, but they did nothing, and will continue to do so as long as they can tax more people in this country.
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"I’ve received practically nothing to help deal with the cost of living here.”
ReplyDeleteAw diddums.