Does anyone think that britain is going completely down the spout because of immigration?
351980
britain is going the way of most of euroope. The promise of social support and medical coverage is more than the government can handle.  Immigration fills jobs that others do not want.  But what people do not recognise is that the immigrants have plans to better themselves while too many people sit back and expect the government to take care of them.  Anyone that does not work at getting better will end up falling into the muck.  You make the future.  By getting more valuable to society the chance of success is increased. Do not blame others for your sitting still.
703903
we dont have any meaningful immigration laws that is the problem , the country is getting full to bursting./
898406
it would be a legitimate control to resort to if we needed to limit the number of immigrants coming into the country.  i don't know why it has never been done before.  i suppose that the hope is that the incentive of being a valued member of society and playing a part in it will be enough for them to quickly learn the language once they are here.  of course learning the language and playing a part in british society could also mean that people choose to reject their old traditions and customs, so preventing your family from learning the language may also help keep them in their place.  i suppose that in time the children of the immigrant families become integrated or am i just being too idealistic ?
808349
yes yes yes!!! we are a british and we are allowing our heritage to be stripped away,pandering to a minority of whingers who have nothing to whinge about, if its so bad why are they here.i believe immigation should follow the lead of aus or usa...skilled people or people with money in the bank who can support themselves. they should have to pay for private health care and pensions as we do if we emigrate, maybe then the nhs wouldnt be so overloaded and we woudnt have to work to our graves supporting people who have no intention of being productive british citizens.going away from the point slightly i know but i also think there should be a return to the old system where if you havnt paid into the economy you cant take out..would put an end to all the phoneys and lazy layabouts on benefit. And before anyone accuses me of being racist i am 3rd generation mixed race. i have no problem with colour or immigration..just a problem me funding wasters and listening to do gooders talking out of their backsides. this country has no backbone and is going to the dogs. the laughing stock comment is highly accurate.
947061
You are right about if all the immigrants were kicked out, that the british people would still sit on their lazy ar*es claiming benefits.\nThats why a lot of the unskilled polish and bulgarian workers are coming over here, to fill the jobs that brits wont do.\nDont believe anyone who says "i cant get a job" there is obviously work out there if they are having to bring in immigrants to do it.\nWhen I talk about immigrants I mean anyone who has emigrated to this country. They dont bother me as long as they are willing to work.\n\nPlus, if you are working here on a visa, you automatically pay 25% tax pon your earnings so I dont think we can say thatr immigrants are ripping the country off and giving nothing back!
791802
We're immigrants of more than Britain. The hype is about illegal immigrants.\nAnd if there were laws back then about immigration, they would have been pissed at the Europeans as well.
365314
to be honest the British people are sick to death of our government putting foreigners before us, there is already a shortage of housing in the UK. and the government still let\nthe asylum seekers flood our country. \nthe government will turn its back on the elderly and the young homeless but will house and feed asylum seekers,\nif you are American/European/Australian you will have no problem whatsoever with the British but if you are from Africa/Pakistan/or other 3rd world countries then you will\njust not be liked!\nmaybe it is racism maybe its not but that's how it is..............
1132253
Most of them are decreasing. I’m from Hungary and we do too. I think it’s rather in connection with living too well. We’re having more fun than many other people in poor countries, and why should we ruin that with kids?\nAnyway, there are a lot of immigrants, so it’s not a big problem.
1037402
the british government cant sort nothing out these days and will let any family wether black / white live in poverty. these hostals were made just for the homeless coloured people. there are hostals also for the british people meaning (mixed races). i know how it seems and i agree with what someone else said. that the coloured people may also feel uncomfortable living in these places and being singled out. im sure if given the chance and the choise they would rather be mixed together in a normal community. what is however unfair is how they are financed. and again this is because of the government not wanting to be classed as a racial run government. the whole of the government is going down the pan fast. but who are we. theres nothing any one can do.
757383
Immigration laws, do we have any, if so it's news to me. I thought Blair had given our country away, at least it seems that way to me.
467981
No, Great Britain is only small, we haven't got room, however the British government do seem to not mind illegal immigrants, they house them, give them money for food and generally look after them a lot better than they look after the British themselves.
503055
I agree with you. I think many of them come here for the exact reasons you stated. I know there are war torn countries and whatever but Britain is only a small island and there are plenty of safe countries in between us and their own country. They come here because they are practically guaranteed a good life and a job, if they feel like working, though they don't have to. I get about £300 a month in tax credits to help me stay at home with my own kids. There are people who have a problem with that when these illegals are coming in and being given brand new houses, some built for them, then they were getting those food voucher thingys but that's not good enough is it, they want the cash so they can go and buy themselves a corner shop and rip us off some more. I am all for the BNP on this one. It's not racist. It's fair. It doesn't happen in other countries. If I went to another country, they wouldn't just hand out free stuff just because I was foreign so why do people think it's racist if you don't want to do that?
331554
Its about time,we had a outright ban on immigrants without genuine qualifications coming to Europe, we are overloaded now and they bring with them all the hates and predudists that they have in the country they have left.
1035634
Whether it is the U.K. or USA, illegal immigration an "asylum seekers" are overrunning the borders.  The best bet is to close the borders altogether.  This would also help with the influx of Muslim terrorists into these countries.  The only country I would like to see have these problems is Israel, which deserves what they get.
342608
To Britain it's been an absolute disaster. We don't have money to build roads, safe rail, improve the tube, hospitals, education, pensions, have homeless sleeping in cardboard boxes, have people working like slaves to pay the highest tax yet we give money away.\n\nWhat is even more disgraceful than the corruption and misappropriation of finances in EU is the fact that we did not let british subjects such as from Hong Kong come to Britain even though they had contributed for a century to Britains wealth and the entrepreneurs that did want to come here who would have created jobs for people in Britain and brought money here were refused entry; whilst people from countries that during the cold war were pointing nukes at us are allowed in as migrant workers. They take british people jobs undercutting wages as they can sending money to their homelands with weaker currencies. Worse we all sending our taxes to these ascension countries as handouts to make them wealthier! We should just pull out!!!!
750131
Surely no-one's going to buy it anyway, are they?\n\nOr has the level of 'culture' in Britain plummeted to a new low while I was snoozing?
742249
In principle, it would be nice if people could live wherever they want. However, Britain just does not have the infrastruture, such as housing and transport, for large-scale immigration. The whole of the United Kingdom has one of the highest population densities in Euope, and that does not take account of the increasing concentration of the population in the South East. In addition, these problems lead to actual or potential social tensions.\n\nLiving in the artificial environment of Westminster, Blair is not personally affected by immigration and perhaps the most charitable explanation for his inaction is that this leads him to overlook the need to temper ideals by reality concerning immigration. \n\nIt may not be irrelevant that Blair's Sedgefield constitutency has one of the lowest immigrant populations in England and the Home Secretary's Motherwell seat is nearly as unaffected by the  effects of practically uncontrolled immigration on English cities and Southern England.\n\nA less charitable reason is that business benefits in the short term by sucking in young and trained people from overseas regardless of the social consequences and the employment effects for the English, particularly older workers. People no longer mention unemployment, but unemployment rates are unacceptably high in this country as well as in the countries from which the immigrants are coming. It is workers, not managers receiving ever increasing bonuses, who suffer, for example, from the unaffordability of housing in this country. \n\nImmigration dislocates the lives of those who feel they have to move and damages the economies of countries that lose their skilled workers. The time has come to develop poorer countries, including those in East Europe and Africa, so that people do not need to move. Immigration is not just a British problem and we should spare a thought for the people so desperate that they take high risks of dying of thirst or hunger trying to reach Southern Europe or the Canary Islands.\n\nThe trouble with a United States of Europe is that it would be based on the crazy economics which are causing people to look so desperately for work in strange countries.