Of course we are not living in the dark ages. I call it what it is. There are enough evidence around the web you can find that mass immigration does not have useful purposes for the host country.
Oh really? You know how much immigrants contributed to Britain as one example. Please do some research you'll find the results not your liking. Unchecked immigration is not a good policy. But here, the immigration started after world war II, where those in charge were practically asking for people to come over here and work. And they did, often doing thankless jobs.
Even today, immigrants in the UK make a net contribution to public finances, ie they pay more in taxes than they get back from the system (perhaps not all of them or some individuals, but the overall trend suggests this), they are also more productive, they tend to be younger and not settled, so they end up being more productive. They also increase the efficiency of certain markets where they are present, the negative effect is that they can often be exploited and also bring down wage prices relative to inflation for certain industries. Another aspect people conveniently ignore is the masses of immigrants in the higher education system, thousands of international EU, non-EU students paying in tens of thousands a year into our universities, also having these bright young minds around is what keeps British universities still on the world map. A lot of the others tend to be highly skilled workers, and people who do jobs here that locals cannot or are unwilling to do.
Now, the last argument against immigration is the social impact. This is perhaps the weakest argument, History is a witness to the fact that not all social change is bad, and people often find themselves on the wrong side of history. Receding culture as a result of the presence of immigrants is as weak as an argument as enrichment of culture due to the presence of immigrants. Sure, having foreign folk around will change your area, the culture they will bring with them, but this does not have to be a bad thing. I'm a Londoner, and no-one seems to mind the diverse culture. Right wing parties like UKIP historically fail where immigration is higher, in London they failed. London's immigrant population and non-white population is HUGE, yet the White British vote within London completely rejected parties pushing on immigration only, such as UKIP. Places where immigration is 2% barely, out in the country, suburbia is where UKIP gets most of it's seats from. So this argument is a lame one.
Going back to my point about a changing world I am 99% sure that people who wan't to cap immigration are not only on the wrong side of history with regards to social change, they are also going be damaging many aspects of their own country in the long run, starting with the economy.
Well the Brits will now know that a Payback is a Bi*ch
What payback? What kind of backward idea would force people to pay for the wrongs of generations gone by?
Should we still punish Germans for Nazi Germany? The Japanese for the crimes of Imperial Japan? How about White Americans for the Native American genocide? Italy for the rimes of Roman Empire? In fact, you can apply this logic to any oppressor in history.
Before you know it, everyone deserves some payback. Brits are great people, and I don't see why people ITT are seeing this as some sort of pay back, as if that's even a good thing.
