O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[keldsyke]

Don't make the common error though of confusing people who are anti-immigration and people who are anti-illegal immigration.

I'm not sure who they are - from my experience on NCM, the majority are either pro-open immigration or pro-controlled immigration.


However, you are close to a weird thing I noticed, since moving abroad.

You tend to find that people who have emigrated to another country legally, are the most ardent supporters of enforcing that country's immigration system. It may be because they have experienced the damage that an unregulated immigration system can do.

Spot on, after living and working in the EU I have experienced the abuse of going to another country and being called out for taking a potential natural residents job and asked numerous times why I am not back in my own country by the locals. If you have only have lived in the same country and not experienced life from the other side then you have not seen it from all angles. The point about pro-open immigration and pro-controlled immigration is spot on too, we need immigration but it needs to be controlled, most arriving on boats are not fleeing tyranny they see the bright lights and that is what attracts them, as someone who has gone into another culture you understand from the feelings you experience that you have to fit in mainly to the culture that you have arrived in, you will always be who and what you are but you have to make the effort so you can see why when an immigrant commits crime etc that the local residents get angry and questions why they are there.

The friends and colleagues I made while living and working abroad and still have contact with and see are some of the best people I have ever met in my life, but I had to make the effort to gain their trust at first. The fact is in summary, when you have been part of the whole being / living / working in a different country you see things differently but things have to be in a controlled and managed situation .

I heard a really good example recently if a stranger comes down your garden path you expect them to knock on your door and wait until someone answers, you do not expect a stranger to walk down your garden path and let themselves in and make themselves at home. Its funny that when you come back to your place of birth and you see what is going off after being in a similar position you do not accept it as you know the lack of respect being shown by people coming here is not what you have given when the situation was reversed.