What happens when stopping migration doesn't fix everything?

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What happens when migrants are stopped, returned, sent back and asylum seekers told to look elsewhere etc - what then?

What happens when housing is still unaffordable, when the NHS waiting lists are still too long, when the schools are still struggling, when 1 million young people are still unemployed, when wages still don't keep up with the cost of living and employment is still not secure enough?

Who is blamed then? Labour I would guess.

What will Reform or the Tories do to address those issues when they can no longer blame migrants?

This is a genuine question and no I'm not a journalist. I cannot get my head around how migration and any of those issues are linked sufficiently to make a difference.

If stopping migration would fix those issues I might actually be in favour of it (and I say that as an ethnic minority child of migrants).
But I think the problems are far broader.

If you protested against migrants or support the protesters - What's your view?

I meant the ones coming here uninvited

You mean refugees?

So far nobody has provided any evidence that people with asylum granted do not work.

I’m not convinced most of them are refugees

Based on what?

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/long-term-international-migration-flows-to-and-from-the-uk/

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-june-2025/summary-of-latest-statistics

Let's not allow facts to get in the way of a bunfight, eh?

No
I can do maths. Total immigration c948k, total small boats c37k in 2024. Can you do that final little bit yourself? Or shall I tell you the answer is actually less than 4%?
So let me guess, you get your "facts" from Nigel or UKIP?

Try just actually getting your information from proper sources

I think the present situation is going to damage race relations for years. The gaslighting the gov does is no longer working. It wouldn’t be such an issue if the UK was booming but we already have huge house price problems, huge debts we can hardly cover, AI likely to remove swathes of jobs, an unaffordable welfare bill and a failing NHS - all this bollox about the immigrants working and paying tax - what work -apparently they willingly do the jobs we don’t want -if that’s the case they won’t earn enough to pay tax, they certainly won’t earn enough to buy a house and as they normally have large families will top the housing association lists . That’ll go down well - it is going to take years to assimilate different cultures and no money to help things along. Doesnt bode well. Thanks to 20 years of Gov doing nothing.

God what a sneery, condescending post @sleepwouldbenice

I thought it was simply factual. Maybe engage with the facts?

Did you read the post laughing at me saying I must have got the fact from kier starmer who lies with of course a mature laughing emoji
Or was that just fine in your book.
People should establish facts before being rude. The poster didn't

I will repeat the FACT again that 'illegal boat people' as reform supporters like to describe human beings, were only less than 4% of total immigration in 2024. Yes I think it should be lower,but that FACT gets drowned out by reform hate filled bile

Yes of course the asylum figures pale in comparison to the legal migration levels of the last five years. The consequences of that decision by Boris Johnson are still unwinding. You can’t really escape the logic that the Conservatives really didn’t want to have to pay increased wages or improve employment after Brexit, so they channelled in huge levels of legal
migration. Hotels are a very visible form of migration but I don’t see that this narrative is confined to asylum seekers. It’s just the most visible to the press.

It’s a bloody good question OP, as it won’t fix most things.