Immigration is modern day colonialism

in a way. Without the violence/bloodshed. Yes, the British built their empire on steamrolling into countries and taking all their resources but what about these immigrants risking life and limb and bypassing other safe countries to live off our housing system/welfare state? Not to mention the strain on schools, hospitals, public transport etc etc.

You are confusing immigrants with refugees.

Same difference

They're seeking a better life for themselves and their families.

Look at how many British people live below the poverty line. Where can they go to seek a better life for themselves and their families? And they get even more disadvantaged by these said refugees/immigrants coming in to the country as their is a strain on the welfare state (have you ever wondered that at least part of the cuts to the benefit system is down to immigration?), a strain on schools so they can;t give their kids a better education to better themselves, a strain on social housing and so on. It's a constitutional right that British people born here, who have lived here all their lives, contributed to society etc etc have precedence over someone who has just newly arrived for things like welfare, social housing etc and yet no- you see more and more British people on the streets (where I live there's an epidemic) and immigrants getting prioritised for school places etc. Why should the UK be obligated to take these people? We're a small island, our towns and cities are being changed beyond recognition directly due to immigration. Look atn how many people live in poverty/have a poor lifestye in the world (let's just give a ballpark figure of 75%) so that's 4 billion people who want to seek a "better live for themselves and their famlies" where are they going to go? Where are they going to work? Where are they going to live?

So what?

What's stopping the brits from seeking a better life in their own country? They're going to start off doing the jobs nobody else wants to do.

The "they do the jobs the Brits don't want to do" is a fallacy- we built an empire and won two World Wars on hard graft. Who did the jobs before the immigrants? Us of course. And consdiering a fair proportion of jobs migrants do are skilled/professional trades and therefore pay well, you'd think there'd be a lot of competition for them.

It isn't a fallacy at all. You can't compare the attitudes of the current British population to those during a period where standards of living, working conditions and income equality were significantly worse. As the population gets richer, the less inclined it is to fill in extremely low-income occupations.

They're seeking a better life for themselves and their families.

in a way. Without the violence/bloodshed. Yes, the British built their empire on steamrolling into countries and taking all their resources but what about these immigrants risking life and limb and bypassing other safe countries to live off our housing system/welfare state? Not to mention the strain on schools, hospitals, public transport etc etc.

And this is me thinking you are a geezer

It isn't a fallacy at all. You can't compare the attitudes of the current British population to those during a period where standards of living, working conditions and income equality were significantly worse. As the population gets richer, the less inclined it is to fill in extremely low-income occupations.

EDIT: Furthermore, immigrants tend to be either low-skilled or high-skilled. Those in the middle are less inclined to migrate to other countries as they are likely to already have stable jobs which won't be paid any more in the UK.

lol u cuck

They're seeking a better life for themselves and their families.

The standard of living is much higher in the UK then say Lithiuania or Latvia.

Why wouldn't they want to come given the choice?

Economic migrants aside for a second and focus on asylum seekers and refugees.

Why do they come here instead of the nearest safe country (which was legislation up until fairly recently).

in a way. Without the violence/bloodshed. Yes, the British built their empire on steamrolling into countries and taking all their resources but what about these immigrants risking life and limb and bypassing other safe countries to live off our housing system/welfare state? Not to mention the strain on schools, hospitals, public transport etc etc.