[Osem]

It is quite bizarre how some people just cannot accept any downside with these levels of immigration. It's like they've been brainwashed into believing that any criticism of it is tantamount to blind racism and xenophobia and has no foundation in reality. These same people tend to whine on about lack of services, housing etc. without for a moment acknowledging how difficult it is for those services and our infrastructure to cope with such huge and rabid population growth, let alone make progress. Despite having 1.5m unemployed of our own, their argument seems to be that we need more migrants to do the jobs which need to be done (most being low skilled) and make up for our increasingly aged population. It's not temporary migration tough is it. Our population has been growing (largely as a result of migration) by around or the last 1,000,000 every 3 years for well over a decade so what does that tell us about the future? The proponents of uncontrolled migration have nothing to say about how we're going to cope with the increasing demands placed on our services when the migrants themselves grow old. Maybe they think we can just keep importing more people ad infinitum or maybe their stance is a political one and for reasons best known to themselves they'll only be happy when the UK has 100m people, 150m, 200m... It'd be nice to think that even they will have some sort of upper limit in mind but what are their plans going to be to suddenly stop any further immigration when that point is reached and just what is our environment going to be like at that point? Have they really given any thought to this at all I wonder? Population growth on this scale is unsustainable for all sorts of reasons but it's not easily reversible. That isn't racism it's something called FACT. Once the damage is done it's done and the lack of foresight evident amongst those who support uncontrolled migration is as astounding as it is worrying.