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Surely, the net figure isn't anything like the full picture.

Business owners and shareholders want turnover to remain static at worst and, preferably, increase. This because they have a lot but want more. Low birth rates would decrease population figures. The size of the market place has to remain stable and, preferably grow. There are more job vacancies than job seekers. How do we fill those vacancies without immigration?

Solve that problem and we can shut the door on immigrants but only once we have zero vacancies in the NHS and other vytal areas.

Maddy, that's tosh. 90 000 were admitted for health care work last year. Doesn't exactly explain the rest does it?
When you are allowing students(who actually don't meet the rquirements of entry for a lot of them) to come here AND bring their families, why? Student Migration to the UK

Migration Observatory
https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk › briefings › stud...
24 Jan 2024 — In the 2021/22 academic year, approximately 680,000 international students were enrolled in UK higher education, making up 24% of all entries?

Immigration is supposed to be managed. It isn't.
Every immigrant, for whatever reason- brings pressure on housing/NHS/education/services/transport , as well as social problems and stifling wages .

We need immigration! But only what we need


But we are supposed to be managing it, like most countries in the world do.
Australia is very strict on immigration, yet needs workers when it suits. But even theirs was less than ours and thats after issuing 0.5 million temp visas for food picking.
London now has a population density of between 10 000 -15000 /km2 and rising. Sydney 2037 people per square kilometre,

This is why immigration is an issue to most folks. No disrespect to RA, but he lives in rural Derbyshire. He is hardly likely to feel the pains of poorer people living in these areas.