people have been brainwashed via the tabloids into believing EU and muslim immigrants are taking up both jobs and NHS resources for many years.
this simply isn't true, although if you take an already paranoid and depressed population, it will be easy enough to convince them of such, because public services, resources, opportunities and wages have been cut, frozen and under threat for years now.
to divert the blame to working immigrants is piss poor and sadly convenient.
Some family members live in a fairly deprived town in the north, where many local terraced houses have been converted into HMO's, causing issues and confusion across the community.
Sadly the landlords who profit from squeezing 6 people into a 3 bed terraced house never come under the spotlight.
there are people who profit from paying low wages to immigrants and stuffing them into depressed accommodation.
changes in these areas are what is necessary, but I think many are convinced immigration itself is the problem.
we have a tiny island with sod all infrastructure left.
people are stretched and pessimistic. they want someone to blame.
as a white, born-british woman, I am appalled and ashamed of what my country has become due to greed and deliberate tabloid-led division. and to the OP, I'm so sorry you have had this experience here. If I could change it, I would. Im 46 and was always proud of how culturally diverse the uk was.
that was in my 20's.
something has changed and it stinks. I feel powerless, ad if I was from outside the UK I would not want to come here now.