If the basis of your argument is that in the UK anyone who rocks up by any means gets to stay for any reason, then you are already starting from a flawed premise.
Do not confuse the Conservative government deliberately collapsing the asylum and immigration system with there not being one.
That may be true (I personally believe you are are over intellectualising that viewpoint) but it is still a viewpoint based on a false premise.
The working class are angry because their lives are shit. There is no money. Their traditional industries have been run down and not replaced. Their health service is on its knees. They canât get on the housing ladder. They canât get a GP appointment. Work doesnât pay enough to sustain a family.
These things are all true. But the people who have benefitted from the ideology that has fucked the working class, have managed to convinced the working class that the blame for this is immigration.
Of course this isnât true. It isnât supported by any study into immigration, and every study of immigration shows that creates an economic net gain to the country.
It is a lie that is very easy to take hold, because we are all to a greater or lesser extent, susceptible to it. We are all hardwired from our primordial past to feel more comfortable around people like us. There was once, in our distant past, an evolutionary advantage to racism. It is proving incredibly difficult to shake it off now we donât need it any more.
No, it hasnât. Nobody has been incarcerated for holding an anti-immigration viewpoint.
You may be getting confused here because holding an anti-immigration view can also tend to go hand in hand with inciting racial hatred, assault, criminal damage and rioting. In the case of certain individuals operating under several names, libel, contempt of court, fraud and harrassment.
The thrust of the argument here seems to be âWe need to look after are own firstâ.
I find that argument misguided - there is no foreign policy, even down the things like aid and international development that doesnât have it root in serving the interests of the British People. The only policy I can think of that can be remotely described as altruistic is Britain declaring war on Germany in 1939, which cost us our empire, our cultural and economic hegemony, and for a time our prosperity, for the sake of defeating fascism in Europe (even then there is obviously a self interest to doing so).
Immigration has been shown to bring an economic benefit to the country. But more than this, the concept of âthe nation stateâ makes increasingly less sense in a globalised world, where our economies are interconnected, the threats are without border, and the biggest challenges only surmountable through cooperation. We live in a world where the collapse of sub prime mortgages in America can result in the UK banking sector collapsing.
And please explain the concept of sovereignty to the people of Tuvalu, whoâs island is disappearing beneath the waves because of the energy policies of countries thousands of miles away.
