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We absolutely need a degree of immigration to fulfil skills shortages and for other reasons. The issue was the degree of unproductive immigration and the lack of controls not immigration per se.

There's also the minor issue of the EU.

We can't just put up walls, would be intensely counter-productive. We need to reduce unskilled immigration so that we have net unskilled emigration while at the same time having skilled immigrants filling short term needs.

This does, of course, require that the millions of Brits who think that they are too good for unskilled work and would rather sit on their arse watching Jeremy Kyle fill the jobs that immigrants are doing at the moment, and that all the trades jobs that immigrants do good jobs over at more sensible rates than the overpriced and/or indifferent British workers get filled by people who learn their trades, give a toss about the job they are doing and don't want to try and charge a hundred quid an hour for drinking your tea and picking their nose.

If the work weren't there millions of these immigrants wouldn't be here, and the work has been there because the British didn't want to do it.

So how does stopping all immigration resolve the issue that millions of jobs would have been unfilled due to unskilled / semi-skilled British having no work ethic while a large proportion of those that have come in have turned up, taken the jobs, worked hard, paid their taxes, made a few quid then gone home?