Immigration in the numbers we've had over the last 15 years.

[Mangosmate]

A good thing for this country?
Do immigrants help themselves or the country overall?
Can we cope with the amount?
Should they receive any kind of benefit without "putting in to the kitty" ?
Do you think we're a soft touch?
Is it Xenophobic to be concerned about immigrants and the impact on the country?
Do we owe migrants from countries we once occupied?


Yay or Nay ?

Yours thoughts please.

[betalucky]

And the numbers in the last 15 years are??? (*see below)

Anyway:

Not sure
Yes, not sure
Yes
No
No
Not necessarily
Not now

Supplementary questions:

Over the same period, we have had net EMIGRATION by British citizens.

A good thing for this country?
Do emigrants help themselves or the country overall? (Either benefitting the UK or the host country or both?)
Is there a negative impact of British emigration? Can we cope with the amount?
Should they receive any kind of UK benefit later without "putting in to the kitty" while they are abroad?
Do you think we're a soft touch for returning British migrants?
Is it Xenophobic to be concerned about emigrants and the impact on the country?
Do we owe emigrants anything after they decide to leave?

*Net immigration over that period was 2.5 Million. Net emigration of UK citizens was over 1 Million.

[lovedeanblue]

I don't think any Immigrants should be able to take anything from the UK Benefit system unless they have contributed. I was amazed in Farlington Sainsburys yesterday how many East European car cleaners were plying their trade. If they work that's ok, if they don't return them to whence they originated from. As for returning expats, they chose to emigrate. When it all goes wrong, as often it has in Spain for instance, they automatically think they can return and start claiming. Not on for me, no one asked or forced them to go. Plenty to discuss, as there always is, when the Truss reconvenes next Monday at 1400 in the Guildhall Spoons.

[betalucky]

Thanks for the tip on where to get the car cleaned properly. I haven't seen a bob-a-jobber offering to do that for decades, is bob-a-job still allowed or did the Savile tendency force them off the streets?

Is your main question really about immigration, or about benefits? You sam to have quickly focussed on the latter, whereas the majority of immigrants and returning emigrants wouldn't fall in to that category..

[lovedeanblue]

Bob a Job is long gone sadly.

[chiblu]

Bob a Job is long gone sadly.

I remember toiling long and hard for my "bob".

*****philes weren't invented in my day.

[betalucky]

So now you have a lot of eastern Europeans doing bob-a-job in supermarket car parks so the kids can play X-box unmolested.

The hidden benefits of immigration.

[TurktownAnt]

I don't think the level and nature of immigration that the UK is experiencing is very good. I want it to stop. There, I've said it.

[ForeverPompey]

i agree with Ant

[pompeygun]

So do I.
I'm not sure what Emigration has to do with Immigration tbh. This thread is about numbers in or so I thought.