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Originally Posted by Damien
I still am unsure of what vision of Britain people have. Our History is hardly full of happy, rich, success and dancing around green fields. Since all of you have been around England has had immgration.
Its seems with some on here, and not all controlled immgration is what everyone wants but its the extent of the controls we disagree on, but some have a warpped vision of what immgration has done and what Britain used to be. A complete avoidance of fact and a willingness to believe the worst if it conforms to their own views.
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I think the difference between now and further back in history, is the perception of the immigrants usefulness to the UK.
To stereotype to a certain degree, Irish workers were 'encouraged' here to build roads and caribbean workers were 'encouraged' here to drive buses and trains. That is a completely different reason to modern immigrants, modern immigrants are welcomed here by companies that want to pay peanuts to maximise their profits.
Joe public sees no benefit in an immigrant coming here and working for a private company unlike those filling a public sector job. Even Polish workers coming here to build houses are carrying out a much needed task, but they are again working cheaply to line the pockets of private companies.
Apart from Nurses and Doctors Immigrants are not filling many positions that have a direct benefit to the public.