Is large scale immigration, like that happening at the moment, good for the UK?

Question

I think its somewhere in the region of a quarter or third of a million immigrants coming in each year. Which must be nearly the population of one of our medium-large sized cities like bristol.

Answer 1

No it is not!

We don't have enough jobs to go around. There are about 2 million unemployed at the moment!

We don't have enough homes.

How do you feel when you see asylum seekers being given free housing, benefits etc while decent working British people who get down on their luck and hard up are given NOTHING!!!

The government needs to stop giving freebies to any asylum seeker who comes into this country and only allow immigrants if they can prove they have a job to go to and can support themselves. Preferably highly skilled jobs or those which cannot be filled by British people - noone should come into this country and take a job away from someone who is already living here!!!

And as for this SHITE about "the jobs that Brits do not want to do"? Come again? I know plenty of unemployed Brits who would take any bloody job that was offered to them, thank you very much!!!!!

Answer 2

At the risk of being labelled racist, I'm going to say that I do not think it is good. At all. We have record numbers of unemployment. We have just been informed that immigrants from the EU can claim child benefit for their children who live IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES. We have no houses for first time buyers due to overcrowding. Our schools, hospitals, police forces, transport systems and roads cannot cope with the population increase. These are the physical costs.
British culture has and is being eroded at an alarming rate. Some town councils won't even let people celebrate Christmas by that name, or fly English flags during the World Cup, for fear of causing offence IN ENGLAND. Schools have to teach multiculturalism and as a result children do not know their own history. The government is being eaten-up with political correctness and as a result we are being put at greater risk of terrorism because muslims are offended that they are being "profiled".
The whole country is filthy, angry, confused and, for the most part, poor due to increased taxation, the money from which is being used to plug the gaps in our over-stretched public services. How can any of this be beneficial? I know that some people argue that the immigrants take menial work that we wouldn't take, but that's nonsense. How's about this for a crazy idea - get the people who have been on benefits long-term with no notable health problems to do that kind of work instead?

Come on, Rodney, you know it makes sense.

Answer 3

Most will say it is good. There is no doubt that we were short of some skills, and non skilled labour filled the jobs that Brits did not want to do.

However, the tide has turned. Unemployment has risen substantially, especially among the indigenous population. Although there are more people in work than ever before, the unemployment figures continue to rise. The only explanation for this is that the country has now reached saturation point, meaning that we must stop immigration now, in order to safeguard our public services, and way of life.

Answer 4

It has worked with the recent influx as they have been shown to be hard working people who simply want to work and pay taxes etc. The problem is the government seriously underestimated the numbers that would arrive and that can't be allowed to happen with Bulgaria and Romania. Other EU countries will prevent such immigration probably for about 7 years which will allow those countries to build economically and socially. A sudden influx would neither benefit the home or the host country.

Answer 5

Good question.. I'm living in Ireland & we recently had a census to basically count the people in this country. Theres a population of roughly 4.2 million.. There are on average 420,000 non nationals in this country.. thats 1 in every 10 people!! We have no restrictions that seem to work. I'm not against non nationals but, they don,t seem to want to integrate. It could become a problem if nothing is done about it but, what can us mere mortals do..!

Answer 6

NO...kick'em all out.on average 10,000 brits a year are leaving to live abroad because the law sucks! it allows immigrants in without any real investigation, they melt into the population, are found jobs illeagally with false passports etc. the latest figures if belived are over 800,000 illegals in the UK! whats bieng done! the latest terrorist plot, all the comvicted people should have all there assets removed from them,sold and the money spent on better things, there famlies friends rounded up and deported and there british passports removed permanantley!it would send a lesson to all whao try to free load in our country.

Answer 7

No it isn't!! Downing Street's claim that "if we don't have immigration, we won't have economic growth" has been stated over and over again since Labour took office in 1997.
If you repeat something often enough, you can perhaps make people believe it. What you cannot do is turn it from being false into being true. And the Government's claim about the economic benefits of immigration is false.
There is no evidence from any of them that large-scale immigration generates large-scale economic benefits for the existing population as a whole. On the contrary, all the research suggests that the benefits are either close to zero, or negative.
Immigration can't solve the pensions crisis, nor solve the problem of an ageing population, as its advocates so often claim. It can, at most, delay the day of reckoning, because, of course, immigrants themselves grow old, and they need pensions.
The injection of large numbers of unskilled workers into the economy does not benefit the bulk of the population to any great extent. It benefits the nanny-and housecleaner-using classes; it benefits employers who want to pay low wages; but it does not benefit indigenous, unskilled Britons, who have to compete with immigrants willing to work hard for very low wages in unpleasant working conditions.
For low-skilled Britons, the result is that there are only two options: very low pay or unemployment. The economy becomes dependent on a constant influx of immigrants who are willing to accept low pay and poor working conditions. That is what Labour ministers mean when they insist that "public services would collapse without immigrants".
It is bizarre that the Labour Party, which still continues to insist that it is the party of the poor and vulnerable, should endorse a policy the purpose of which is the creation of what Marx called "a reserve army of labour": a pool of workers whose presence ensures that rates of pay for cleaners and ancillary staff in the NHS can be kept as low as possible.
Highly skilled immigrants - doctors, scientists, lawyers, accountants, even professional sportsmen - can provide economic benefits to the whole of society. Their skills can generate wealth, and they pay far more in taxes than they receive in benefits from the state. But most immigrants who arrive in Britain from outside the EU, and who hope to settle permanently here, are not highly skilled. Some have no skills at all. Many female immigrants do not want to work in paid employment, or are actively discouraged from seeking it by their spouses and families.
Unskilled migrants and their families often are net consumers of taxes: their children are educated in state schools, they are looked after when they have medical problems by the NHS, and they are eligible for state benefits if they are unable to find work. The new arrivals place a significant strain on the housing stock and delivery of public services in the neighbourhoods where new immigrants live: schools, hospitals and GP surgeries become more crowded, and state-subsidised housing gets more difficult to obtain.
The places where most immigrants can afford to live are usually already poor: they are forced to congregate in those areas where the native population is already disadvantaged. These are not, of course, the areas in which Government ministers and the nanny-and cleaner-employing classes choose to buy their homes. That may explain why they don't seem to care about what happens to them.

Answer 8

It's neither good or bad. It is just something that is happening. Some people (jobless, racist morons too stupid to get even the most unskilled work) don't like it. Employers that want hardworking employees do like it. As for the mythical "fabric of British society"? Things change, they always do. They always have and they always will. Is the status quo so incredible we had better hang onto it at all costs? Is the intolerant blatantly racist ways of the past something we want to return to? Is that the UK that needs defending?

Whatever happens, THAT will be the UK.

Answer 9

Not good. After 7/11 all those at the helm are known to take a hard look at the laws to ensure that Citizens who get all the benefits from the state must be loyal to the country and not to the roots from which they originated.

Answer 10

It depends if they're working or not and whether we can sustain them. At the moment we have an aging population so large scale immigration is only good if they are working as we already have a high percentage of dependents.