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<blockquote data-quote="Walterp" data-source="post: 5119218" data-attributes="member: 321"><p>Hostility to immigration - whatever the business case or the national interest - has been at the core of the pro-Brexit case. The leave side defined itself with the claim that Britain was being lost to an uncontrollable tide of migrants from eastern and central Europe. Many were criminals and welfare scroungers. Public services had been overwhelmed.</p><p></p><p>It's called 'playing on people's fears' - in fact, UK net immigration is not particularly significant in today's global circumstances. Australia's annual net overseas immigrant intake is 168,200 people (2015-16, Australian Bureau of Statistics) for a population of 24 million, whilst our Tory government is aiming for 100,000 for a 66 million population.</p><p></p><p>Many aspects of modern life rely on the free flow of labour, either cheap and manual or specialised and expensive: NHS performance will suffer without immigrant staff, just as sectors of UK agriculture will reduce output without it.</p><p></p><p>It's self-evident that if labour is prevented from coming to where the action is, the action will have to migrate to where the people are, with concomitant adverse effects on most of us.</p><p></p><p>The interesting question, to my mind, is when and why did many UK voters lose interest to the importance of the needs of business and the economy (whilst retaining their enthusiasm for the fruits thereof)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Walterp, post: 5119218, member: 321"] Hostility to immigration - whatever the business case or the national interest - has been at the core of the pro-Brexit case. The leave side defined itself with the claim that Britain was being lost to an uncontrollable tide of migrants from eastern and central Europe. Many were criminals and welfare scroungers. Public services had been overwhelmed. It's called 'playing on people's fears' - in fact, UK net immigration is not particularly significant in today's global circumstances. Australia's annual net overseas immigrant intake is 168,200 people (2015-16, Australian Bureau of Statistics) for a population of 24 million, whilst our Tory government is aiming for 100,000 for a 66 million population. Many aspects of modern life rely on the free flow of labour, either cheap and manual or specialised and expensive: NHS performance will suffer without immigrant staff, just as sectors of UK agriculture will reduce output without it. It's self-evident that if labour is prevented from coming to where the action is, the action will have to migrate to where the people are, with concomitant adverse effects on most of us. The interesting question, to my mind, is when and why did many UK voters lose interest to the importance of the needs of business and the economy (whilst retaining their enthusiasm for the fruits thereof)? [/QUOTE]
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