Politicians Use Mass Immigration to Disguise Economic Decline Through GDP Manipulation

What was said

"If all you care about is the headline figure, why not hand a bedroom to your in-laws to top up your prosperity with their pension? When described like this, it sounds, frankly, insane. Yet that is precisely what our politicians are incentivized to do."

Kisin argued that British politicians from both parties deliberately use mass immigration as a deceptive tool to inflate total GDP while individual prosperity declines. By focusing on aggregate GDP rather than per capita measures, governments create the illusion of growth while citizens actually become poorer, a practice he compares to artificially inflating household income by adding more dependents.