But obviously immigration puts a strain on an already struggling infrastructure. The simple answer is to restrict migrants. Letting it continue at current rates will only make things worse. We all want better hospitals and schools but they have to be paid for and not with borrowed money.
The idea that 74 million people will somehow make things better for all of us is a myth encouraged by the ruling classes and supported by the deluded liberal/left.

The UK isn't perfect, but who's so pissed off with the country that they see Australia as the answer? :-D.

Is it immigrantion causing a problem for public services - After all most if not nearly all of the immigration deficit is working migrants, who pay tax and NI. What happens to all that tax being paid by them? There is an issue in that they keep wages low and encourage corporations to avoid having to attract workers from the traditional work pool (the unemployed UK citizens), but those migrants are also paying for those public services as well.

Or is it the cuts in funding, and continued cuts in Corporation tax that are the problem?

I suspect the later.

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Adding more users (wherever they come from) to the existing number of services will always cause a problem with public services.

Immigrants who pay tax and NI might cover their own running costs as such, but they have contributed nowt to the initial/existing costs of everything.

Even if 75% of all immigrants are adults, and 90% of those get jobs contributing tax and NI that leaves a third who are contributing nothing and simply drawing from the system. This is before you factor in the cost of any benefit they may receive before becoming a contributor.

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Indeed, but the issue I was getting at is that austerity cuts and cuts in corporation tax have reduced revenue, and that the government has increased pressure on the public systems and infrastructure, and not increased spending to account for that (in fact for most areas its the same or less (when you account for inflation).

Which has far more of an impact than just the increase in numbers. Blame the symptom, not the problem tends to be how the last three governments have turned the UK into a corporate state, rather than a democratic one (and Corbyn is himself a symptom of that, just as the rise of the Far Right has been).

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I suspect the answer is both.

More 'net' people puts strain on public services and housing + a government that is swinging a huge axe at those services year on year + huge corporates keeping a very low wage structure, zero hours contracts and poor working T&C'S that only new immigrants can take = f*cked

Edited by The Sash (03 Nov 2015 10.16am)

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