Konstantin Kisin

The easiest way to increase it when you're busy strangling your economy with net zero high taxes and endless regulation?

Bring in more bodies.

This really isn't complicated to understand.

So why do so many people in Britain who clearly feel the economic pain

nonetheless refuse to see it.

To see that mass immigration is an attempt by badly incentivized politicians to deceive them about what's actually happening.

Instead, they cling to their support for mass immigration and the seductive but false idea that they are struggling because the rich aren't paying their fair share.

A report last month, however, has opened my eyes to another reason, one I had never considered.

It turns out many British people think that the decline in their living standards is personal to them while the rest of Britain is somehow thriving.

A big new poll and focus group studies conducted by Freshwater Strategy with the support of the John Templeton Foundation asked participants where they thought Britain stood economically compared to our main competitors.

As David Frost put it in his excellent article, voters are living in a dream world.

Specifically, nearly half of British voters think that we are as rich or richer than Switzerland.

Over half think we're as rich or richer than Australia, Singapore, or Germany.

And incredibly, over half of Brits think that our country is as rich as or richer than the United States.

Imagine their shock when they were told the truth.

We're 10% poorer than Germany, 20% poorer than Australia, 40% poorer than America and Singapore, and only half as rich as the Swiss.

Not only are the voters unaware that mass immigration is a deceptive tool deployed by politicians to disguise our poverty, they don't even know we're poor in the first place.

If you thought that Britain was a rich country instead of one that will soon be overtaken by Poland,

but also experienced a continual fall in your living standards, would it not be logical to think that you're deliberately being screwed by the people who are thriving?

The British economy is not stagnant because we've produced too much of our own oil and gas.