Ethan
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I don't know why (well, I do, really) people like the Daily Mail get so het up about immigration. The Daily Mail are the people who once wanted the UK to experience a huge acute immigration of Nazis, IIRC. Seems they are less keen on the Germans these days.
Immigration is, and has always been, a necessary and useful factor in the economy and culture of this and almost every other country. The US is built on immigration, and the UK has a rich and varied heritage for the same reason. Panic stories of masses of Eastern Europeans flooding in to pillage the UK have been shown to be completely false so far, just as fears in the US that the Irish, Chinese, Russians, Mexicans etc etc would destroy the country. All have enriched the country and improved the culture and economy. The UK has still plenty of room and the idea that the place is bursting is laughable outside a few packed areas. But those packed areas are also the places with the greatest need for the sort of labour that immigrants will provide, so that's all right then.
It is obviously sensible to measure and monitor what is going on, so the welfare, NHS and other infrastructure systems can respond, but these ideas of limiting immigration were purely to feed the appetite of ignorant xenophobes, and the Gov knew these ideas would never fly, but they put them out for political capital.
It is also good for humankind to mix their genes in a more diverse pool.
DOI: of Celtic peasant origins.
Immigration is, and has always been, a necessary and useful factor in the economy and culture of this and almost every other country. The US is built on immigration, and the UK has a rich and varied heritage for the same reason. Panic stories of masses of Eastern Europeans flooding in to pillage the UK have been shown to be completely false so far, just as fears in the US that the Irish, Chinese, Russians, Mexicans etc etc would destroy the country. All have enriched the country and improved the culture and economy. The UK has still plenty of room and the idea that the place is bursting is laughable outside a few packed areas. But those packed areas are also the places with the greatest need for the sort of labour that immigrants will provide, so that's all right then.
It is obviously sensible to measure and monitor what is going on, so the welfare, NHS and other infrastructure systems can respond, but these ideas of limiting immigration were purely to feed the appetite of ignorant xenophobes, and the Gov knew these ideas would never fly, but they put them out for political capital.
It is also good for humankind to mix their genes in a more diverse pool.
DOI: of Celtic peasant origins.
) a genuine asylum seeker should seek refuge in the first safe country that they arrive in after leaving their own country. I fully accept that we as a country should be taking our fair share of asylum seekers that arrive in the EU but this country should never be the first safe country they arrive in. Many travel through Europe and cross the channel in the back of a lorry to arrive here and claim asylum. Maybe there should be a central location (maybe Belgium as it doesn't seem to do much else) where anyone claiming to be an asylum seeker is processed and then sent on to a designated country. For example a % go to Germany, % to France, % to the UK etc. 
