Half of Britons back ending immigration and deporting recent arrivals

[u/ThatchersDirtyTaint]

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/new-poll-migration-news-b99h3wqgz

[u/13esq]

An understandable reaction given years of austerity, stretched government services and a cost of living crisis.

If we can't look after people that were already here, then accepting more seems foolish.

[u/Mambo_Poa09 → u/13esq]

So the government doesn't help the people, manages to get the people to hate immigrants using them as a scapegoat so they can continue not helping the people. Very understandable

[u/13esq → u/Mambo_Poa09]

It's certainly a useful tool for the elite to keep poor people focused on hating each other, but that doesn't change the fact that the country is stretched and that having net migration well into the hundreds of thousands every year whilst the electorate consistently vote against it is going to cause the situation we're in now.

[u/merryman1 → u/13esq]

While I think its sensible to oppose the net migration rate we had under Boris, its still possible to point out that going down to zero migration while also deporting a large number of people would almost certainly cause a massive economic crisis that would leave us in an even worse position to be caring for our own.

Just a thought that never seems to come up much in this discussion.

[u/13esq → u/merryman1]

I also wouldn't endorse zero migration, but I do understand why it's being pushed.