Originally Posted by licoricepizza

The real problem is not the immigrants, it's the warped view of entitlement. We have a considerable problem in the UK with the number of people on unemployment benefit, many believing that their entitlement is a right rather than a benefit. Similarly with incapacity benefit, particularly here in the north east. I am not suggesting for a minute that genuinely unemployed or incapacitated people are not deserving of support from the government, however the level of support is so great and easily attainable that abuse is rife.
The idea that being born in a particular place entitles you to more than someone who was born elsewhere is equally misguided, and put bluntly, xenophobic. It should be your contribution that should be recognised rather than your nationality. You cannot reasonably argue that you should be more concerned about a non-working foreigner taking from the state than a non-working national, that's absurd. It's the same in the case for the employed too. It is often argued that your heritage makes you more entitled, "My father fought for this county" for example. So what? That made your father entitled, not you.
Who's to blame? Partly the government, partly the media, but mainly ourselves. We are frighteningly selfish, materialistic and isolated as a people, more so than any time in history. We send our mothers and fathers to nursing homes when they become a nuisance, we tolerate inequality for women out of respect for beliefs. Two million children in the UK live in poverty, but as long as we're OK... That's the mindset. We have bigger problems than immigration.
The truth is that people are scared of immigrants becoming more successful than they are. Fear and Loathing. I'm scared of it so I'll dislike it. If that's the calibre of my countrymen, then please keep sending in the foreigners.