Immigrants but legal ones?

Ahhh the victim mentality.
Theres a huge amount of british people who have never worked( and i dont mean the ones with disabilities) i mean the one fully capable of work. They complain all they and want more money, they dont want to go and do cleaners job or a carers job but complain immigrants are stealing their jobs. You want the country to benefit from high skilled workers but who will do the low skilled jobs? Surely if we remove the low skilled workers who are here legally and how ilr we are left with our own british people who refuse to do this jobs, how would you get them to work. This is how we got in this situation in first place

Wait till the kids go back to school the racists will be back at home

It's very simple: there's too many.

No people in history have ever consented or accepted becoming a minority in their own country and losing the dominant status in their own land.

That's happened already in areas of Britain.

"For things to remain the same, everything must change."

It doesn't matter now whether the government ignores the will of the people and tinkers with superficial changes within the existing - failed - system or decides to act. Huge changes are coming.

The only question is whether they'll come as a result of political action or violence. But the UK is now an extremely explosive mixture.

For racists, yes being white is a pretty requisite and it has to be for as many generations as possible unless it was to do with the sexual exploitation of slaves.

What differende does that make, to hardcore british who hate inmigrants opening our mouth with an accent is enough reason to make xenophobic comments- if we all had british citizenship further insults how its handed out not that it costs 3k

How so?

What is a British person? Is being white a pre requisite? And if it is, how many generations of white people born in UK does the family history need to go back to?

Please read the post before responding to it. My confusion is why anyone would believe legality would change the fact that racists believe Brits are white and hail from this side of Europe. If you are non-white, speak English as an additional language and aren't Christian, a racist British person would never see you as British in the same sense that they are, regardless of whether you have legal citizenship or not.

Racists are racist.

It’s always been there in the seventies/eighties it was the Pakistani community “taking all our jobs”. After 9/11 everyone Asian was a potential bomber And then gangs and the knife culture (aimed at black people. ) And now it’s the loose term of immigrants which seems to include anyone with a different culture/skin colour and/or accent.

it’s awful and the gutter press doesn’t help riling up the stupid who seem to believe every hotel is filed with Eastern European feasting on 5* cuisine and basking in luxury.

We are not a nice country as a whole.

I suppose that would depend on individual intent. How many of the thousands of mostly men coming over illegally on dinghies do you suppose are intent on working in the biotechnology field?

As has been said a million and one times, the current concerns on the current uncontrolled immigration is just that. It affects every single person living here. We want everyone here to have a home, have a dentist, have a GP, have access to timely hospital care. This is not attainable whilst letting in thousands of people who we cannot accommodate. It’s not a race or colour issue. It’s a current immigration policy one. I wish people would see that.

I think you might have misinterpreted that post.

I work with a lot of people who are not white. And yet, lo and behold, they speak perfect English, have multiple STEM degrees, pay high tax and have private housing and healthcare. They deserve their jobs over Kevin with two A levels.

The idea that white people pay their way and brown or black people don't is just so deeply ignorant.

Because when they hear the word immigrant they imagine someone who isnt white, who cant speak proper english, different religion. They dont realise that every day they go out immigrants are everywhere serving them in cafes/restaurants, answering the phone when they call dentist/doctor etc just everywhere, it shows how influenced they are by the media.

The people who are banging on about migrants and national pride are the same people who go and live in Benidorm (ie migrate) then complain the locals speak Spanish.

Well, I m not planning to be a criminal.
Thanks for trying to make me feel like a second class citizen because i don’t share your views, very pro-foreigner and inclusive of you.

Unfortunately, the racism is dripping from your post.

Quite.

And here they are!

You'll be pleased to hear that I've taken many a British job. Because I was the best candidate for those jobs. If Brits can't compete, maybe they should work hard, train hard, learn new skills and be better.

Are you aware that lots of British women wear the hijab? Are you aware that not all immigrants are Muslim? Are you aware that not all Muslims are the same?

And of course if an immigrant is here legally, they have just as much right to a school place for their child as a British child. It all depends on where you live.

It brings nothing but shame to the UK that you feel this way. This country has moved to a darker place in recent years.

Aha the xenophobe has appeared. Do you feel the same about all the British ex-pats (immigrants) taking advantage of a cheaper lifestyle in Spain or enjoying a higher tax-free income in Dubai or Saudi?

I don't think like that but quite obviously, racists do. They make it quite clear. And I have actually seen this said against white people from other English speaking countries like Aus. in a particular field. Literally wondering why people from Aus, NZ and SA were being given senior roles over the Brits.

I am from a country that is thought well of by the British, and I am white and fluent in English. We moved here for family reasons - DH is British. We both had good jobs lined up before making the move, and I have been a net contributor since arriving.

But none of this matters to the people who hold these narrow attitudes. I am cut a bit more slack than most because of my country of origin, but will always be an outsider. The only worse country I can think of at the moment is Japan, where groups of young men will chat up Western women at bars and then discuss their bodies crudely in Japanese in front of them.

Perhaps small island nations are particularly problematic?

Reform are cultivating a poisonous plant, but the seed was there.

You answered that with more grace than the question deserved.