to finally be able to say there has been too much immigration

[moogy1a]

Now that UKIP have made massive gains in local elections,conservatives stating that major changes need to be made and labour admit that they made a big mistake in having an almost open door policy can I finally say this in public without the hysterical accusations of being racist?

Coming up...

Immigrants are eating all our swans

Pan - none of them were born in the Uk were they?

Pan I have been wondering what our football teams would look like, if we sent back all the forriners

ivy sorry I misunderstood -- you're right, there are certainly other places with more benefits, and that are physically easier to enter.

The large majority of immigrants to the UK come to work or study. I think students actually make up 50% of the yearly immigrant totals.

Isiolo

and later,

a Hampstead couple who voted UKIP deny illegally employing a Philipino housekeeper..

Oh yes students - you mean the students that come here from the gulf and the like that spend large amounts of wonga? Enough wonga to lee london suberbs going through the summer and are a great big fat wedge to the economy that is so stinkingly poor at the moment and without them we would be well stuffed - those students?

Philipino - is that near the Norfolk broads? Thats not foreign is it?

I have heard that whole church congregations have voted UKIP because they oppose the redefining of marriage. Is this true?

Yep. Those students who, until last year, were paying 3 times the tuition fees of home students, thereby subsidising education for native Brits.

Bastards

They weren't subsidising so much as not being subsidised. Big difference.

Nighty night folks. I too am an immigrant to this country but have contributed more than my fair share & will continue to do so :)

probably been said before, but do you mean people like me from new Zealand or people from other places??? you do realize that EVERY first world country was built in immigration don't you???

I'm sorry but it doesn't seem like a huge difference to me (although thanks for correcting!) It's students bringing a lot of money into universities and local communities, that the UK government doesn't have to pay for.

Uh oh, the Guardian readers must have gone to bed [ wind up ]

That is a good point pixie v true.

Olympic Brits - Rutherford was born English, Farah came to England as an 8 yo, and Ennis' dad is Jamaican, as we know? fwiw?
no ivy, the Philippines are just north of Rockall. So def. Brit. I was wrong.

it is always ok for immigrants to come to the uk, but often those same immigrants don't want others to join in and come here as well...

Who gives a stuff if you contribute your fair share, it's an attitude of fairness that is required - not pulling up the rope ladder when you reach the top

gingernut - wasn't he born in Ghent?

Pixie you use the word 'built' which is past tense. You have needed a visa to live in the US for many yrs and nil entitlements similar to UK on entry.

is that true about immigrants to a country not wanting their fellows to follow them. Seriously? Where is that evidence? Are you kidding?

I agree Ivy, nobody cares if one contributes ones fair share.

Ghent? What? A......Belgian immigrant!! Really?

for Pan