UK Thai embassy issues warning amid anti-immigration protests

[Pickwick]

2 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

We have a housing-crisis, the NHS is in crisis, surely adding 10+ million people to the population hasn't helped matters?

Let's remember we are talking about legal migration here.

 

The majority of legal migrants work in the NHS and care sector - we have an acute staffing crisis, one of the actual reasons for longer waiting lists etc; or they pay a premium to study at a UK university. The workers have paid the NHS surcharge as part of the visa process and then subsequently help fund the NHS via continued taxation. The students also pay to use the NHS should they need it.

 

Given that the UK has an increasingly ageing population, legal and positive net migration is a necessity to help fund the NHS and the state pension etc. We desperately need working age tax payers, and we desperately need more doctors and nurses. What do you think would have happened to the NHS if we had subtracted 10 million people from the population - people who have paid the NHS surcharge and are continually paying taxes to help fund the NHS? People actually working for the NHS?

 

I appreciate the word 'immigration' is now loaded with emotion. But we need to be able to discern between positive and negative migration, unless you want to scrap the state pension to fund the NHS etc.

 

 

 

 

[Pickwick]

23 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

Money that we've spent that we don't have. How is importing more poor people going to help that situation?

 

The majority of legal migrants are a net economic benefit to the UK. I'm not sure why you continue to conflate legal migration with illegal.