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Scotland Needs 500,000 Muslims to be “Independent”
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On May 26, 2014 @ 9:22 am In The Point | 25 Comments
I don’t see a problem with this plan. With 500,000 Pakistanis forming 10 percent of Scotland, finally it will have the booming economic productivity of Pakistan. I’m not sure what the Gay Police Association of Scotland will do to avoid losing their heads.
Pakistanis in the UK have twice the unemployment rate, so there will be more investment in their job training and social services which will pay off when a bunch of them drive up to the Glasgow Airport and try to blow themselves up.
An independent Scotland could open its doors to a huge influx of immigrants who would fill a city the size of Edinburgh, Treasury chiefs have claimed.
Also it could set itself on fire. I’m not sure why it would want to do that, but it would probably be cleaner in the long run.
A separate Scotland’s weaker fiscal position would mean a rapidly ageing population would have to be countered by a massive rise in foreign workers – a policy endorsed by the SNP.
Alex Salmond’s proposed solution is to lift restrictions on non-EU immigration if he wins the referendum, bringing in more workers from abroad.
But despite repeated requests for precise estimates, the Scottish Government has so far failed to produce detailed information.
By 2035-36, that would take the total to an eye-watering 480,000 – a near 9 per cent rise on Scotland’s current population, placing unprecedented strain on health services and housing.
The alternative would be to increase taxes or slash public spending to ensure the government could afford services for the growing number of elderly pensioners.
Pakistan has double the birth rate of Scotland so you can do the math on that one.
This report is obviously a bit of FUD from the UK aimed at the SNP (that’s enough abbreviations for the moment), but unfortunately it’s the sort of madness that the SNP seems willing to embrace.
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