Immigration is not the problem, wealth inequality is.

Getting taxation right and introducing a wealth tax will help solve many of the inequalities in the U.K. including poverty. The richest have gotten wealthier, with more billionaires than ever in the last 15 years, yet we have more food banks than branches of McDonalds, a staggering 21% of the U.K. population are living in poverty, that includes 4.3 million children.

Further on from our 'How To Solve Immigration' article, it is often raised through sheer ignorance or a hard right agenda that immigration and asylum seekers are putting unnecessary strain on economies up and down the United Kingdom; however, the reality is so far removed from that narrative.

It is wealth inequaility that is the problem

For several decades now the wealthiest have increased their wealth, influence and numbers; with record numbers of billionaires and millionaires, the correlation of that and the number of food banks in the United Kingdom, the staggering numbers of people in poverty and those below the poverty line, whether in work or not, children, pensioners, the homeless, it is abundantly clear that the system is broken. People are being left behind and the wealthiest who utilise the infrastructure of the UK as much as anyone else, are not paying back enough into that system. They have secured influence in several aspects of how the countries in UK operate, and provide services (many of which are below standard) that exert more strain on our infrastructure, charging the people and the government more, but by return are not paying back. They make gains, while society, councils and government fall further into debt.

It’s not rocket science; tax the rich.

SOURCE: NATIONAL CENSUS & WORLD INEQUALITY LAB