It was never everyone - despite what the Daily Mail and alike would like to tell you. The vast majority of immigrants do critical jobs such as social care, cleaning and farm labour. A lot of jobs that a majority of the British population seemed to not want to do - and if we're slamming the door shut on this, who is going to look after our elderly, who is going to pick and sort our fruit & veg, who is going to clean our offices and streets, because due to zero hour contracts, **** poor wages, Victorian work practices established by people like Mike Ashley it sure won't be the British leaping to take up these roles - and quite rightly, because I wouldn't do it. Would you?
When I used the term everyone, I was referring to those who currently want to come here. Those who are the other side of the metaphorical gate, waiting for it to open. I'm not suggesting everyone on the planet.
And I fully welcome immigration of skilled labour. But it's the unskilled labour where the problem lies, and TBH it's all down to one vicious cycle. You're saying that the indigenous folk don't want to do the crap jobs, which I Agree with, but that's because of the low wages. Hence immigrants come in & do those jobs, for a pittance, which is fine for them, because it's a lot better than their countries of origin. That method helps the immigrants & it helps those who are already sitting at the top of the money pyramid, but It does nothing to break the cycle, and nothing to help future growth. How does that help the mum from Canvey, whose cost of living is already WAY beyond her income streams?
It's ingenious if you think about it. Shift all the focus onto foreigners, so The right wing are focused on hating the foreigners, the left wing are focused on saving the foreigners, and all the while, the fat cats carry on rolling around in cash, and your kids future gets bleaker & bleaker.
An impossible solution would be to stop unskilled labour, and then force the fat cats to spread the wealth, creating a better society for us & future generations.
Now back to my origional point which was, over the past 10-15 years, if I'd have made a statement such as... Due to the greed of the rich, The influx of the the immigrant workforce is severely harming the prospects of the current indeginous population... I'd have probably been called racist, before I'd even finished the sentence. And that would have been followed with the standard diatribe nonsense... "Ooh you just don't like brown people", "ooh is Hitler your hero", "ooh white supremacist".
That is just one of the reasons why we witnessed a monumental & shocking 2016. Over the last 2 decades, The left have tried to batter & belittle anyone who mentioned immigration. And all that did, was kill any reasonable debate, which is odd, because in the origional post I quoted of yours, you were calling for.... Reasonable debate regarding immigration.
Have you never thought that during the referendum, those who wanted OUT were multi-millionaires, like BoJo, Gove and Farage and put to the general population as something that would be beneficial to the British people. You think these millionaires give a flying **** about a single mum on Canvey who's barely scraping together enough money to feed their kids?
Maybe so. But on the flip side, the leader of the remain campaign, the Prime Minister, according to EU law, could have applied much tougher legislation on immigration. Which was reported by the liberals hero, James O'Brien. Cameron always had the power to quell this public upsurge, but for one reason-or-another, decided not to. You're telling me HE cared about us? Oh and whilst we're on the subject, *enter stage right* Tony Blair. Now, if you needed any other reason not to trust the remain campaign, it was that grinning piece of ****.
