To think that net immigration…

[Libertass]

Of 745,000 people a year isn’t what the 17 million people who voted for Brexit in 2016 thought they were voting for?

YABU = Yes, this is what Leave supporters voted for.

YANBI = No, they didn’t vote for this.

Do you honestly think that

The immigrants have a lot of health issues too

We're constantly told by people of a certain outlook that all immigrants are young, fit, men.

When I've been to hospital occasionally it's full of elderly people from overseas

Yes they are immortal and don't use any healthcare etc

I aspire to be as popular and humourless as the Prime Minister, but perhps I have some way to go yet.

Because student numbers dropped during the pandemic and they are all allowed to stay for at least two years after they graduate the net effect is actually not insignificant at present, particularly as they have the right to bring their family as well.

Some asylum seekers are highly qualified and many also highly skilled, doesn't stop some people wanting to send them to Rwanda.

The thing is, it simply isn't true that students only have to show the finances for their fees. They do have to demonstrate that they have sufficient funds to support themselves, at least for the first year of study.

Do you interview them all to find out where they're from?

You missed the part in his history where he was an economic migrant. Easily done, he sometimes forgets as well because he is a man of detail, also sometimes forgets that the law applies to him as well.

And yet I would wager that some of the over million empty homes in the UK are in that local authority area.

Going by some posters, if you are a skilled, high earning immigrant, you are part of the Empire and should go home.
But if you are an unskilled, low paid immigrant, you are a drain on the state and should go home.
If you are an international student, you should pay twice what locals pay and then go home.

I sense a theme....

How can you tell those who are in hospital are from overseas, do you ask for their passports?

@MrsBennetsPoorNerves

Absolutely

Point is it's not true about it always being elderly born in the UK people using the health service and being a burden on taxpayers

How is an overseas student who subsidises the education of UK students a net drain?

Here we go with the million empty homes. They are not going to go very far even if we expropriate the houses from the rightful owners like the communists do. Just may be check with the latest numbers recorded of people emigrating. This stuff of the empty houses really is beginning to sound like a broken record.

Oh. you meant people who've been here since the 50s and 60s, who've worked here all their lives? I assumed you meant recent immigrants.

It is a shame that people keep repeating that there is a housing crisis when there isnt. There is a housing distribution crisis.

I meant more recent immigrants

Let's face it some people have been able to bring in elderly relatives

What do you mean? Have not you seen the numbers of the last two years on net immigration? They surpassed the million people so please stop talking about those empty houses because even is free for all they are not enough. Do not pretend there is not a problem with the huge numbers arriving.

If you think the Brexit vote was about immigration then you are deluded. But then in my view ALL those who voted "leave" were deluded and if things haven't turned out as they hoped, tuff shit.