BodyButter
Vital Football Legend
Why do you need to limit it?
Obvious answer.
We accepted over 5million Eastern Europeans, that put massive strain on rents in the rental sector, that had a knock on effect for the indiginous population trying to get a roof over their heads.
You have to have limits. What do you do if 10million turn up together with the increased birth rates that accompanies them.
They may well be coming anyway, but not in the numbers that want to come here.
As for criminals, go after them big time, not pussy foot around like we currently do.
The perception that everyone in the developing world is desperate to leave and go to the West just isn't true. I live in a developing country and there are lots of Malaysians who go to other countries just as there are lots of Brits who go to other countries but just like Britain, the vast majority would much rather be where they were born, in their own culture and close to their family.
All of the people who want to go to Britain are going to Britain regardless of whatever fences are built or what laws are passed.
The strain on public services wasn't caused by immigration. Study after study shows that migrants are net contributors to the country they move to. They move there to work and if they are allowed to do so legally, they pay taxes etc. The strain on public services was caused by a Tory government determined to wage war on its own people. That austerity was estimated to have resulted in 150,000 deaths with very sick people being deemed fit for work and kicked off benefits etc.
So the choice isn't to have immigration or not have it. Migrants are coming one way or another. The choice is to have legal, well managed migrants coming and working and paying taxes and going home when they want to or you can have human trafficking, illegal workers not paying taxes and migrants never leaving the country.