Are there too many immigrants in the UK?

Question

There seems to be a lot more recently.

Answer 1

Yes, there are too many. We're too small to cope with them all. Building houses that's a laugh, who will be able to afford them? The yuppies, politicians and celebrities. I can't even get onto the property ladder so how is an immigrant supposed to? Ever since the UK joined the EU, we can work anywhere in Europe, you know so we are just as free to work anywhere really. Why can't Polish and other Europeans come to the UK to live and work? I don't call them immigrants, just Europeans and they don't half work compared to some of the lazy sods about. It's the asylum seekers that we've got to put a stop to because we're not big enough to cope with them. I'm not being racist, I'm being realistic and some of them don't wish to follow our country's rules which is annoying. When in Rome, do what the Romans do.

Answer 2

I'm Irish and i hate the term "the lazy Brits" obviously I'm not in anyway siding myself with the British they're just as foreign to me as the Polish are but the term "lazy Brits" immigrants are only doing the jobs the "lazy Brits won't do, well thats absolute bollocks.  My missus is English was she a "lazy Brit" when she was plucking turkeys and gutting them to put herself through university, she graduated as a teacher and what was 90 percent of her schools catchment? yep you guessed it immigrants!  I don't mind immigration at all, h**l enough Irish have gone overseas hung about in Irish bars and lamented about "dear ould Ireland how they miss her"  The 32 counties of Ireland can just about handle with its infrastructure at the minute the amount of immigrants it has, but there is noway the Island of Britain can handle theirs.  So yes there are too many immigrants over in the UK.

Answer 3

Definately yes.

The issue is that the government doesn't really want to deal with them as they see them as a solution to so many problems. One of the main problems is that of the pension deficit, which works somewhat similar to a Pyramid Scheme in that for one person to be pensioned it requires ten people working.

It also serves as a divide and conquer mechanism, because whilst we are grumbling, griping, and arguing about petty things like this the government hoodwinks us into accepting other S****y issues like the restriction of liberty in the name of security, and selling the heart and soul of this country to Europe for nothing, without allowing any of us a say in the matter.



Another issue it solves is keeping the wages of the poor and middle classes down, and therefore in the employment of or dependent upon the state for assistance through tax credits, unemployment benefit etc.

Anyone here in the construction industry will tell you how many Poles are taking work at cheaper rates thus killing off their professions and livelihoods, but this is not exclusive to the Polish.

Asians seem to work as a a family unit, pushing their children through eduction and into higher earning professions, such as Doctors and Lawyers, whilst expecting nothing more then them to assist for nothing in the running of the family business from time to time, and then the childs help in later years.

This contrasts severly with the majority of the westernised attitude of leaving home as soon as possible and raising the middle finger to family until Xmas.

If we are to be more successful and 'dominant' within our own country then we must learn some lessons from our non combatant invaders, and perhaps adopt some of thier attitudes, instead of whining about how unfair it all is.

Answer 4

its not than there is way too many , is than 2000 million UK citizens have left the UK in the last ten years , so as people arrive it does seem as if many were coming when in reality half of those who arrived in the last four years from other EU countries have already left .

note those who arrived in the last four year were 1 million so if other 1 million arrived in the other 6 years assuming less people arrived prior to this four years they would still be less than the UK people who have left .

Answer 5

Yes there are too many.  How many too many?

Any that are there illegally equals too many.

Answer 6

Yes, we are being swamped and losing our national identity.

Answer 7

We've a lot more in the U.S.

Answer 8

There are far too many people living in this island as it is, so to have a open door policy on immigration is just another example of this loony government trying to govern.

The sooner we can get shut of most of the non British population and this insane crazy Labour government the better.

Answer 9

there's millions more in the US...come here and you'll see what we mean

Answer 10

You can walk down City Road and not hear a single other person speaking english. I feel like I'm in the Middle East; except its raining..

Answer 11

Way too many. We should stop uncontrolled immigration immediately and be as selective as other more sensible countries. We should also repatriate all illegals and all foreign criminals.

Answer 12

no where near as much as the US

Answer 13

yeah there is an there isn't even enough room for them thats why there are so many houses being built  

Answer 14

There are too many people in this overpopulated island, full stop.  We and the rest of the world need a population policy with real teeth.

On the subject of immigration, though,  I would rather deport and deprive of their British citizenship people like the racist and xenophobe bigots who have provided some of these responses than, for instance, my well educated, civilised and law abiding work colleagues, who include Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, other Europeans, Australians and North Americans.  We need such people. We don't need ignorant refuse.

The bigots should remember that they, too, are all the descendants of immigrants - just like the German-Danish royal family.

Answer 15

London was found by immigrants.

Before they were   just a bunch of barbarian  uneducated  tribe  pagan people

London   is the largest urban area and the capital of England and the United Kingdom.[8] An important settlement for two millennia, London's history goes back to its founding by the Romans

Answer 16

of course there are more in the US,it's massive compared to the uk

but you have land to spare we don't

most people in the US are from immigrants in the not so long ago past anyway.

Answer 17

Yes!

Answer 18

i went to ireland last week and all i saw was Polish and Polish shops! I was most dissapointed that i hardly saw any Irish people!

Answer 19

Yes, because Sterling pounds are more valuable than US dollars or euros

Answer 20

Yes of course .i just returned from my home country for a few weeks only to find more immigrants running the country than one can shake a stick at they are taking GREAT out of Great Britain it was bad enough that 3 of my job interviews were by immigrants one i had to laugh at because i think he was fresh of the boat from India i find it very upsetting

it makes me feel that they are running the country and that we true brits

have no way of even trying to get employed because someone that can only speak two words of English is getting the dang job .I think that's not right at all  so YES there is to many immigrants and give real Brits jobs  

Answer 21

I am US born to English parents and the last time I went to England, when I landed in Heathrow I said to my husband 'Have we come to the right country?  Where are the English?'.  I think the UK needs to seriously re-think its immigration laws.  As a small country they run the risk of having their culture overtaken by that of the immigrants.  A certain amount of immigration is good as it brings labor and new ideas, but too much will lead to cultural clashes.

Answer 22

no i a donna thing so

Answer 23

Yes way to many. We should have done the same as  Australia stoped it. They got it right.

Answer 24

Yes there are, but they are welcome because without them there would be no excuse for us to all leave. This island is overcrowded in certain areas and the government is forcing towns to build more houses to accomodate immigrants (and to allow for divorce).  If families stayed together we would not need so many houses, or so many other services.  The immigrants are leaving families behind in other countries, adding to the problems of family breakdown, and general breakdown in society structure which traditionally was founded on families supporting each other.  No amount of social services can replace that.