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I have no problem at all with immigration and believe it to be a good thing. The downside is that this inevitably puts a lot more pressure on public services, including the NHS, and that is a problem.
This was one of the biggest lies put about during the Brexit campaign.
In fact immigrants tend to be young, single, and compared to Brits, they don’t access public services very much, yet pay tax which contributes to the those services needed most by the elderly and low-paid of this country, particularly social and health care, as many on this board know too well.
You really need to support what you say with some facts BI, instead of spreading around rumours and lies in the manner of a demented Daily Mail.
https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/blogs/immigration-and-the-nhs-the-evidence
The problems really began after Maastricht and, more recently, Lisbon.
No, the problems began when Cameron and Clegg conspicuously failed to deal with an economic crisis. So, they needed an excuse, a distraction, and nicked UKIP’s USP’s, blaming immigrants, blaming “unelected bureaucrats”, and offering a referendum on EU membership.
Most papers/broadcasters went along with it, conveniently forgetting about all the unelected rulers and direct drains on the public purse of this country – the monarchy, aristocracy and lords to name but a few, not to mention the democratic deficiency of the first-past-the-post voting system.
And thanks to an orchestrated campaign across social media with fake identities, bots, trolls etc. the campaign worked. For a brief moment the country lost its collective senses and went mad, dividing families, friends and neighbours, and voting to impose economic sanctions on itself in the name of blue passports and foreigners.
Now, most have woken up (pun intended) and realised the extent to which their pockets have been picked, while Downing St. boasts of opening up chicken markets in Mongolia or similar, and BI still tries to sell the dated view that everything’s fine and dandy.
All so tired, so out of time, so out of place. And sad.
