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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Indeed. It's very unfortunate. They are now contributing to those economies rather than the one which educated them.
If you could explain the relevance of emigration of highly skilled Britons to unskilled economic immigrants to the UK that'd be great.
You seem to be trying to set up a straw man involving little Englanders and dislike of all immigrants. Even UKIP don't oppose all migration. They just want a points based system and work permits, which seems quite reasonable.
Canada is hardly famed for xenophobia. Try migrating there if you're unskilled. Try getting a permit to work there if there are Canadians who could do the job.
We have businesses screaming about a lack of skills despite record migration figures. Clearly the migration we are getting is not what our economy needs.
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Lets just get a few of your assumptions corrected here.
1) Im not trying to setup any straw men whatsoever.
2) Im not against a reasonable migration policy using a points based system. but i firmly believe we need to be more accomodating to those that potentially are coming from war torn/human rights breaches areas of the world. I'm a firm believer in innocent until proven guilty and i think there are those on this thread who without saying out loud would portray all of those at calais as an economic migrant.
3) If 1.3m Brits with a university degree left to go to another country to my mind there can only be one reason, that of economics
4) If 1.3m Brits with a university degree left and can make a contribution to another country, how many low paid workers tried to move.
So, what's the difference between a British person moving abroad for reasons of self improvement and that of someone trying to get here from Calais? Surely the only difference is that of the route/method taken.
Also, there is no actual crime of illegal immigration. it's what a person does when they get here that constitutes the offence.
PS if Britain is dying out for skilled workers, why dont we just stop people emigrating?