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I’m not missing anything, Gurny, wilfully or otherwise.
First you miss the point, now your point isn’t clear at all. You twist this way and that, quoting irrelevant stats just like you used to with climate change denial. At least that rubbish has stopped now.
Mostly tho’, you try to frighten folk by mentioning the ‘downside’, ‘the problem’, and ‘the big impact’ of overseas workers, and by quoting numbers of elderly who were overseas-born (a “big number”!!), as if these people were somehow undeserving, even though they’ve lived and worked here for most of their lives, mostly after being invited to come here to fix things others have broken, clean things they’ve made dirty, and look after those who can’t look after themselves while suffering a tide of abuse and marginalisation.
As for those born abroad who are now aged 26-64 – most would have been brought here by their parents when very young whether they wanted to come to Britain or not, or else they were born here but didn’t qualify for a British passport. Others would have been EU citizens already working here before Brexit, such as Irish and French. So, just what is your point?
Public services? Are you really suggesting those born overseas should be refused access to them? For example, access to education, health care or emergency services, simply because they haven’t paid as much tax as some others? What about the British born workers who also earn little, like the multitude needing in-work credits? Are you really suggesting they should have less access to schools for their families, doctors for their children, subsidised housing, and so on, because they don’t pay as much tax as some high earners?
If you want to increase the number of workers from overseas, then you have to expand the services we all need and depend on, just as should happen if the birth rate increases.
Yet oddly, despite the ‘downside’ and ‘problem’ of overseas workers, and despite your support for Brexit, you say you’re “all for” immigration! With that sort of understanding, I’m surprised you can tie your own shoelaces! In fact your hypocritical contortions know no limits and are all too typical of the dreadful lies and mismanagement the country has suffered in the past 12 years, which you have consistently supported, no matter how malodorous or incompetent. Ashamed, you should indeed be.