@Mincepiepoptarts
Reading that just makes me lose a little bit more faith in humanity. WTAF is wrong with people?!!!
I wouldn't have jointed in with those people's actions, but I can understand them. What's wrong with people is unmet needs. I'll explain.
Person X needs a GP appointment for something non-life-threatening but unbearable to live with. They're told it's a 4wk wait for an appointment. During that time they're expected to work like there's nothing wrong. If they don't work, they face loss of wages they can't afford and disciplinary measures because they can't get signed off sick, because they can't even get an appointment, plus the problem is treatable and doesn't/shouldn't require sick leave anyway so the GP doesn't want to write a sick note retrospectively.
Person Y needs care for their elderly parents, they've been struggling on for years and can't cope any more. Their own physical healyis being affected, their parents physical health is declining due to person Y's ineffective care and mentally person Y is at the end of their tether. Social services say they can't get help because of "budgets".
Person Z wants to get their DC into the one half decent school in the area, they've uprooted the family to move closer in the hope of getting a place and they can barely afford the new rent/mortgage. Buy they'll go without themselves because their DC future is important them. Except they don't get a place at the school because the only spaces left are for some sort of diversity quota (or other beauracratic bullshit).
Then a boatload of immigrants arrives. That's people who need housing, GP, schools, etc.
Someone who works at the GP surgery sympathises with person X, telling them how the practice which is already overrunning with excessive amount of patients has been forced to take on some of these immigrants by the health board.
Person Y goes to the jobcentre to enquire about tax credits or sort out a problem with UC and sees that social services can somehow afford an interpreter, just not their parents much needed care.
Person Z starts noticing more brown faces at the school gates (which doesn't necessarily mean there are more) and rightly or wrongly wonders why they're barely scraping by and still unable to get DC into a halfway decent school but somehow "all these foreigners" (who may actually be British) can.
When there's a scarcity (perceived or real) of resources, those who have it or want it will guard access to it. It's human nature. People no longer trust that politicians or local councils will do what's right for them, the people, so they end up taking matters into their own hands. I don't condone it but I do understand it.