Our politicians are addicted to mass immigration, our NHS is creaking at the seams and we’re all paying for it, says Patrick Christys

It’s budget day. Will Jeremy Hunt slash inheritance tax? Will he fund our armed forces? Will he pull a rabbit out of the hat that will win the Tories the next election?

Oh, a £1million statue to Muslims who gave their lives in World War 1 and World War 2. All right, what else have you got there, Mr. Hunt?

The reason most people are proud to be British is not because of our most bloated and dysfunctional public service. We all went outside and clap for the NHS during COVID.

Now we should just go outside and set fire to a £50 note instead. That’ll get him dancing. He’s promised close to another £7billion for the NHS.

For people who bang on about the NHS being understaffed and under resourced, figures show that we will be spending around £180billion on the NHS in the coming year.

Since 2013, the overall number of employees in the NHS is up 35 per cent, doctors are up 37 per cent, nurses, midwives and health visitors up 23 per cent, support for clinical medical staff up 45 per cent, NHS infrastructure and support staff up 41 per cent. We have around 1.3 million people working in the NHS. Of course the elephant in the room is here.

Rapid, huge population growth fuelled by mass migration. Our population in 2013 was about 64,000,000. Today it’s about 68,000,000. By the 2030s, that’s expected to be 73.7 million.

We are heading towards the highest tax burdens since 1948. What are we paying for? Record waiting lists. Billions of pounds in negligence claims, junior doctors out on strike every two minutes and they’re all overstretched. Could it be anything to do with the 1,000,000 more people we keep piling on top of it?

Jeremy Hunt said three times at the dispatch box today that the Treasury couldn’t keep relying on mass immigration and then wallop. The Office for Budget Responsibility upped its projected migration prediction from 245,000 in the medium term to 315,000.

It’s really great to have people coming to this country to work in the NHS, I want to make that absolutely abundantly clear.

And I will get a lot of comments from people here saying that if it wasn’t for immigration we wouldn’t have an NHS. Yeah, absolutely fine.

But we have a lot of other people coming here as well, don’t we?

Did you know that the Department for Work and Pensions has stopped telling us how many people are on welfare by their nationality? Basically they’re hiding how many immigrants are on benefits.

And HMRC isn’t revealing tax contributions by nationality, so we don’t officially know which demographic now pays more tax. Lovely.

Our politicians are addicted to mass immigration, our NHS is creaking at the seams and we’re all paying for it.