do you think Great Britain needs immigration in the 21st century?

Question

Great Britain is a multinational country. It has a long history of receiving immigrants, refugees from all over the world. Its unicity lies particularly in its diversity, as antagonistic as it may seem. Does it need immigrants in this new millenium in order to reinforce its uniqueness?

Answer 1

Get real. It needs them, as it always has done, for economic reasons. This time round it is the pensions crisis for which it needs young immigrants to pay national insurance and superannuation contributions.

Answer 2

To a certain extent, many countries need immigration, however the almost open door policy that Britain has had over the past 20 to 30 years is a failure and must be stopped.

The social implications for Britain have become far to great to permit continued huge numbers to just stream in. Immigration can and will be more closely monitored to allow in those who possess skills that the country actually needs.

Put it this way, why should Britain let in someone who just decided one day that he didn't want to live in his own country anymore. He wasn't being persecuted, he wasn't starving, he just wanted a change of scenery. Why should Britain pay out hundreds of millions of pounds each year for people like these who just decid to try and enter the country as an "immigrant"?

Britain has done away with much of its heavy industry - what we have now is more in the way of banking services, IT and so on. If migrants have skills in these types of areas then perhaps they can enter, however those that just show up and expect to be let in can turn around and head home.