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    Immigration biggest issue for Britons for first time since 2016, poll shows


    Immigration biggest issue for Britons for first time since 2016, poll shows

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    1. spackysteve on

      Would it not be worth splitting the topic of ‘immigration’ into legal immigration and illegal immigration. Seems like it would be sensible to have issues with unvetted individuals coming in illegally, and then still be aware of how beneficial legal immigration is to the country.

    2. corbynista2029 on

      Looking at [YouGov’s issues tracker](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/the-most-important-issues-facing-the-country), it’s fascinating that concerns for immigration don’t track with overall migration into the country. Even when ONS was reporting record migration into the country for the past few years (both legal and illegal), more people were concerned about migration pre-2016 than today. What seems to be happening is that these numbers go up when the far-right put a spotlight on these issues. They did it in 2015/2016 and gave us Brexit as a result, and they are doing it again. I wonder which self-sabotaging policy they will deliver to us this time around.

    4. Aggressive_Plates on

      We need to release killers early and arrest more people who question the benefits of immigration!

    5. trmetroidmaniac on

      The year is 2016 and people are worried about immigration. They vote Brexit to lower immigration. Brexit happens and immigration soars. The year is 2024 and people are worried about immigration.

      I wonder what the next chapter of this saga will be, but I already know how it ends.

    6. djpolofish on

      I mean yeah, if you keep telling people for 20+ years that everything bad is because of immigrants then people will think their problems come from immigration and not the governments in control of the country including immigration.

      **Why do you think the most anti-immigration narrative governments are the ones to increase immigration?**

      Edit: Took 30mins for the bots to find this article, they’re getting slower everyday.

    7. Ready_Maybe on

      Can we stop pretending the tories are the answer to the immigration problem? I know the far loves to push this issue to the top, but the tories have promised to fix immigration since Cameron and have failed spectacularly.

      Labour have actual plans to tackle immigration beyond bullying them out, including actually processing asylum seekers instead of keeping them in limbo. So attempts to push this issue further have me dumbfounded. Its pointless. The tories have proven time and time again they cannot deliver on it.

    9. mooninuranus on

      Immigration the biggest issue at a time where ‘race riots’ & hate crimes are actively taking place across the UK.

      No shit!

    10. dalehitchy on

      Of course it would be. That’s why the country will never get any better. Why go after rich people who have caused the inequality…. It must be the immigrants fault.

      Honestly this country deserves the cesspit it’s become. I know there’s an argument for reducing immigration, but it’s not the countries main issue.

    11. ProfessionalMockery on

      Well, that’s great for the ultra-wealthy that are *actually* Britain’s biggest issue.

    12. J1mj0hns0n on

      its because they never tackled the issue the first time. They said it was the european union that caused it and naively, people believed them. we could have avoided 12 years of mismanagement if they tackled the issue properly the first time.

      they either need to say “look, country is fucked without it, grow up” or “right, no immigration, lets see how cooked we get.”

      also a completely different issue that people confuse with immigration, is ILLEGAL immigration, which is once again, the ACTUAL issue.

    13. thecheekymonkey on

      Illegal immigration of course. Legally and properly vetted immigration is a non issue.

    14. Duanedoberman on

      How many of those Britons who regard Immigration as the biggest issue have any other interest in politics?

      In my experience, many of those who bang on about it also say that politics is *useless* or *they are all the same*.

      Engage them about any other political topic, and their eyes go blank, no interest whatsoever.

    15. buddykire on

      There are 400 million people in Pakistan and Bangladesh that are living in poverty.Not even speaking of Africa, south america and the rest of Asia. At least Britain can let in 10million immigrants every year. There is enough space, share your resources.

    16. Jj-woodsy on

      People voted Brexit to lower immigration, where vote leave said they’d introduce an Australian style point system.

      What happened to that, as immigration is way higher than before Brexit.