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The job market has imploded and the economy hasn't been growing since 2008. There definitely needs to be a cap.
If only there were more customers to grow markets! Hmm I wonder how that could be done…
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If they are fed up with immigration they are stupid. “Gee we have declining birth rates and we want to deny this pool of labor that might correct course because they are brown.” The american empire was built on easy immigration. Turns out the tired and poor that we took in can build empires and win europe’s major wars for them.
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If they are fed up with immigration they are stupid. “Gee we have declining birth rates and we want to deny this pool of labor that might correct course because they are brown.” The american empire was built on easy immigration. Turns out the tired and poor that we took in can build empires and win europe’s major wars for them.
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Immigration has dramatically gone down in the past few years. https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/lo... (figure 2) I think the real problem people are having is that a large amount of those immigrants are now no longer from the EU. But you have Brexit to blame for that.
People had a problem with EU immigration before Brexit so I do not think that is it.
I think most of the problem people have is with is to illegal immigration. The sentiment is "stop the boats". There are bizarre things happening in the asylum system. Do we need to consider claims made by people from the EU or the US? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/18/eu-citizens-hand... That is an extreme but there are lots of claims by people from safe countries.
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Immigration has dramatically gone down in the past few years. https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/lo... (figure 2) I think the real problem people are having is that a large amount of those immigrants are now no longer from the EU. But you have Brexit to blame for that.
If people prefer unskilled EU immigration to skilled non-EU immigration its says something about them. People had a problem with EU immigration before Brexit so I do not think that is it. I think most of the problem people have is with is to illegal immigration. The sentiment is "stop the boats". There are bizarre things happening in the asylum system. Do we need to consider claims made by people from the EU or the U…
Hard to complain here with the current trajectory.
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If people prefer unskilled EU immigration to skilled non-EU immigration its says something about them. People had a problem with EU immigration before Brexit so I do not think that is it. I think most of the problem people have is with is to illegal immigration. The sentiment is "stop the boats". There are bizarre things happening in the asylum system. Do we need to consider claims made by people from the EU or the U…
Small boat arrivals and asylum applications are down and deportations are up: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70989jrdweo Hard to complain here with the current trajectory.
Simple answer is power, look at how things have changed since Musk bought the largest communication platform on the planet. Look at who's backing him and what they want. The UK's stance goes right against the values and goals these billionaires want and that's basically to do whatever they want without recourse. What better way to sow diversion than to stoke civil unrest and cause change to the systems that stand in…
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As a brit, I can confirm I am not at all fed up with immigration. Your comment is unnecessary, unsubstantiated, doesn't add anything to the discussion and is just going to cause arguments in its current form.
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Again, sorry, I can't find any sources to support your facts here, maybe I looked in a different place to you, so perhaps you could share your sources?
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You mean the made up idea of immigration as a problem? Sure. What Brits probably want more is to rejoin the EU, get back some leverage on the world scene and dig themselves our of the brexit hole
This is why it's completely barmy to suggest the average brit is fed up of immigration now, and I'm not sure why many people pointing that out are being heavily downvoted.
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That seems like an inadequate explanation of why Elon Musk, who is not a Brit, is investing so much time and energy into this issue.