Quote Originally Posted by Robus View Post
It surprises me how little the British understand the real dimensions of their demographic situation. They seem to assume that voting for Brexit and electing Tories solved the immigration problem, apart from this annoying aberration of channel-crossers. There is a widespread view that Britain depends upon immigration for skilled workers, especially for the NHS etc.

None of that is real. You've had about 50,000 channel crossers. A government with bottle could see them off in a week.
Your real problem is mass legal immigration. Labor never let in more than 650,000 per year, appalling as that is. Under Boris the Home Office has issued 2 million visas since COVID began. Skilled migrants to support your NHS? 450,000 of those visas were issued to international students to enter the country with their families!!! How many of those ever complete their studies? The British education industry doesn't care if they finish or drop out. There will be another million Visas next year.
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If only we had an old scrap of paper a few hundred years old that said we could use assault rifles to defend ourselves. :-)