What would happen if Britain deported two million workers?

Описание: What would actually happen if the UK deported two million people in three years, as Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain political party proposes?

In this video, I look at the real economics and not the slogans.

NHS staffing and social care would collapse

Construction and food supply would face massive disruption

We'd have falling GDP and tax revenues

And there would be rising inflation, and austerity

This is not immigration policy. It is economic self-harm driven by a politics of hate.

A politics of care offers a real alternative: investment in social care, strengthening social security, training workers, taxing wealth fairly, and rebuilding the capacity Britain actually needs.

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00:00 What if Britain deported 2 million people?
00:35 Rupert Lowe / Restore Britain and “10% support” claim
01:15 Two routes: mass deportations + “hostile environment”
02:05 Why this is economics (not just immigration): care crisis + GDP shock
02:50 The scale: ~700,000 forced out per year + negative migration
03:45 UK already has labour shortages (especially skilled roles)
04:35 Fragile economy with no spare capacity: NHS, care, housing, education
05:25 Adult social care would fail first: fewer packages, more family burden
06:25 NHS knock-on: delayed discharges, rising costs, worsening outcomes
07:20 Gendered impact: unpaid care shifts to women
08:05 NHS staffing reality: migrants across roles + rising racist abuse risk
09:10 Wider breakdown: construction, food supply, hospitality, transport
10:20 Universities: visas + overseas staff underpin teaching capacity
11:05 “Economy slows to a stop”: housing build stalls, processing bottlenecks
11:55 Wage push effect: higher costs → inflation → austerity → managed decline
12:45 GDP + tax base shrink: income tax, NI, VAT fall as workers leave
13:25 The £57bn enforcement cost + labour diverted into deportation apparatus
14:10 People won’t “neatly leave”: disappearance, exploitation, fear, illegality
15:05 End state: poorer, harsher, brittle society; rationed care; jammed NHS
15:45 Real fix: rebuild capacity—care, training, pay, fiscal policy, tax wealth
16:05 Close: “You can’t deport your way to prosperity” + politics of care

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Richard Murphy is Emeritus Professor of Accounting Practice at Sheffield University Management School. He is director of Tax Research LLP and the author of the Funding the Future blog. His best-known book is ‘The Joy of Tax’.

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