I am successful immigrant in the United Kingdom, and had to undergo several months of preparation, documentation, and proof to be allowed to live and study in the UK in 2012. I wasn’t allowed a full bank account, access to NHS ( had to have a private medical insurance ) or a NINO until I had employment. I required a yellow card, with proof of sustained financial backing to not rely on the system when I was here. I am European by the way.
I happily complied. Done everything right, and assimilated the culture, the law and the people.
In 2014 they scraped the whole lot of regulations I had to comply by. I know because I had family members who waltzed into banks and opened bank accounts like popping candy.
What happened with the immigration laws, is a travesty. But reacting like monkeys during mating season is simply not acceptable.
I have been paying tax, and sustained the economy and pensions since day 1, because I wanted to be here. My desire to be part of this society meant I had to learn everything and respect it. I believe the vast majority of people that choose the UK are like myself. I respect and love your country, for better or worse, with all its shades, inclusion, nations and skin colours. So where is the hate coming from? What are these people expecting to affect? Or change?
Why even after the obnoxiously racist Brexit campaign has Britain not had an Australian style immigration policy at the border? Why are these people not asking THIS question in particular to their MP’s, if the bloody boats are the problem? It’s nigh on 8 years since the vote.
These clowns are rioting now against Islam and the channel crossing?
Sigh.
A decade after the laws that were already in place for a stable migration system, were butchered, after years and years of gaslighting and irregular and sometimes pathetic governance, these lot blame the Muslims for the shit state of their own country? The 5% is a problem?
Lads, you voted for this. Why the long face now!?