over TWO MILLION immigrants in the last two years have entered our country (uk), what are your views on this?

Question

more than 500,000 of those people were polish! please tell me your views of this.

Answer 1

Everyone on here who says "only 2 million - i wish america had that problem" is obviously a bit dumb. Compare the size of the United States to the our tiny island and there's a huge difference. The government is right to take in immigrants who deserve the help (illegal immigration is another issue) but we need to limit the amount coming in. We simply can't cope. When they changed EU laws they anticipated 1 coachload of people per week would come in - there are 6 coachloads a day! And to cope with these people they are building more houses on greenbelt land so one day we will have no countryside left. That is my biggest problem.

Answer 2

With the fourth largest economy in world, the UK is the very attractive destination for people seeking a better life. The trouble is the UK is already full up. The average population density of England is twice that of Germany, four times that of the France, and twelve times that of the United States. We are bursting at the seams, with our roads and railways seizing up, our town centres near gridlock, and our social services close to breakdown. Our doctors' surgeries cannot cope and hospital waiting lists are growing.
We cannot sustain this increase which compares with a city the size of Cambridge coming into Britain.
No more 'economic' immigration should be entertained except in very exceptional circumstances. If we cannot run our own country with sixty million people. Then when will we ever be able to run it?
In 2004, Mr. Blair has irresponsibly agreed to open our borders to all citizens of the 10 new countries joining the EU, unlike most other member states who are phasing in this process over 7 years.
If this trend is allowed to continue,and unemployment starts to rise,I fear there will be social unrest in this country!Mr. Blair and his "cronies" are fanning the flames of fires only just starting to burn!

Answer 3

How do you know 500,000 of them are polish. I am polish, but like I told someone last week, I was born here with 3 sisters, and my dad came over from POLAND TO HELP US WIN THE WAR. I am sick of people going off about POLISH coming over here. Then again, while they are going on about POLISH they are leaving the MUSLIMS alone. My dad didn't have to come here, marry my mum and have 4 daughters, Whom are half Polish, like all the other Polish soldiers in 1943 that came here. Well you did ask my views.

Answer 4

With one or two exeptions, I am utterly appalled by the naivety of your other respondents. The question you ask, has been asked many times before, and I have to say that I am a little weary of answering it. But It is important to understand that immigration, from the governments perspective, is not a personal matter. I would probably get on fine with the vast majority of them, but that is not the point, the government should be determinig policy in the long term interest of the country and its existing legal citizens.

I want to summerise my position as follows - True unemployment is around five million (Sunday Business newspaper 20th August) when the figures are re-adjusted to make them comparable with the recent past. The strength of the economy is an illusion, as in the US, because it is predicated on spending that derives from excessive credit card debt and huge mortgage borrowings on the back of grossly inflated house prices. Irrespective of the so called economic benefits, which are largely nonsense, the sheer numbers of people coming in, are stretching our already over pressured public services, way beyond their capacity. If you have a lefty/liberal government, it doesn't care about immigration, because to them, it is migration. This is an importent distinction, because it tells you that the government no longer recognises the existence of any border around Britain. Their ideaology is driving them further toward European intigration (without your permission) which involves the removal of borders. With a population of sixty million people it is absolutely ridiculous to claim that you need to bring in hundreds of thousands/millions to carry out certain jobs. Unless, of course, you have created a benefits culture (75% of those on benefits should be on the unemployment register and helps to build the true figure up to 5m see above) which allows people to avoid doing basic jobs. Immigration will drive some wages down, but when the new immigrants become savvy, they will push for increases. Also, the new immigrants are nearly all young males. Young males get married and have children, up goes the population even further. They will, however, nearly all vote Socialist!

From an economic perspective, supply and demand over time, determine wage rates. If an industry cannot afford the economic rate for the job, then it has to go out of business, or innovate, or reduce wages against a tougher benefits regime. Britain is struggling to compete, we know that, but the answer is not to flood the country with foreign workers and illegal immigrants. A country does not suddenly become short of Plumbers, Electricians, Doctors, Nurses and so on. This problem has been obvious for years. But this government is obsessed with the idea that forty per cent of young people should go to university, thus tempting them away from training as Plumbers, electricians etc.
So it has become a problem of their own making. There have been complaints from students in this country that they have to go abroad to find summer jobs because foreigners are picking all the fruit etc.

Only a multiculturist fool would say that we have made a social success of earlier waves of immigration. Incidentaly, I don't think it matters a jot that the latest wave of immigrants are Poles, they are hard workers, I should know, my inlaws are Polish refugees from the second world war. You really could write forever on this subject.

Answer 5

We will all end up having to pay in some way for bringing in an extra 2 million people or more. With added health care and social security bills. My local council has to employ an interpreter for any language which is spoken by local immigrants. We now employ Polish and Rumanian interpreters. The world has gone mad.

Answer 6

NINE MILLION ex pats do not live in the UK. I'm one of them. Can you provide the figures for UK emigrants over a similar period. I read on yahoo that more and more people would like to leave UK. Anyone who wants to emigrate there good luck to them. People come people go why should they be restricted. I've never had a problem with Polish people and I've met quite a few. They can be really funny when they've had a few vodkas. A bit too Catholic (but I hate all religions) but then the church played a leading role in the fall of communism so its quite understandable. I don't understand your fears. Maybe if you spoke to them you would be relieved to find out that they don't eat babies or whatever it is you fear. Solidarnosc

Answer 7

It depends, the government try to sell it to us by telling us the migrants are working as dentists, doctors and other social jobs. However ther real truth is that unskilled young men from Poland are coming to the UK and working as cheap labourers and putting British men out of work. I know of one Polish worker who offered to work as a builder for free just to get the reference, how can British workers compete with that. I have personal experience of this and I am upset at what is happening to my family. I have also been to rural Poland and understand why people want to leave, but Mr Blair is taking the P*ss, why should we look after Polish workers and let our own people live on benefits?!

Answer 8

Is the hatred of the Polish people the next racist fashion?
Considering that the British workforce has taken to sitting on it's ample buttocks to watch daytime TV, I would think we need these people to keep our Nation productive.
Just look back at previous 'ethnic minorities' moving over here and how successful they have been at utilizing the free education we have all taken so much for granted.

We wouldn't have a health care service if we didn't have so many 'ethnic' Doctors.

How many ex-pates have taken to sitting on their ample buttocks, soaking up the sun of other Nations?
How many Brits have holiday homes?

It's one planet. It's currently big enough to accommodate us.
With a little rationality, the worlds resources can enable everyone to have quality of life. However, while there are so many individuals wishing to remain 'separate', we have not a hope in hell for the future...

Answer 9

Economicly migrant workers are a good thing FACT the only downside is the rapid influx of immegrants is swamping our system, the answer isnt stopping or sending immegrants back but reducing the rate they are allowed to enter the country, ESPECIALLY before romania join the EU in a short while.

Answer 10

Here in Ireland we've had comparativly the same, it's a new thing for us, everybody is fine with it, eastern euorpeans are quite similar to us, if it was arabs or africans we'd have a differnet idea. Also, a lot of them don't want to settle over here and in UK, mostly young middle class people saving for a house back home.