Emigration must be slowed.

This then can become a serious threat to the existence of the British nation state, it certainly changes political considerations people have.

When the politicians say the net immigration numbers they are using statistics to lie to the population about what is happening and has been happening.

So what? Why is that a problem?

what a joke, some people, including me hate living in this country, and frankly can't wait to move abroad.

People are leaving because they've got their head screwed on. Look at the amount of debt per head in the UK. After that look at the amount of debt levied per taxpayer. The amounts need to be recouped somehow and they're not being recouped from the multinationals. Who foots the bill? The working and middle classes do through taxation and other costs levied on them by those who are supposed to serve us. The government has been inept for decades and we've had skills shortages for years thanks to emigration.

The NHS is one of the most obvious examples but the industry I used to work in, the construction industry, has suffered the same fate. All of our own trained up end up going abroad to Australia and Saudi Arabia where they can keep more of their income and this means we then need immigration to fill the void. That's why the NHS has many migrants working in it and the construction industry is full of Eastern Europeans. The fact is, we need them because of inept governance. The UK is quickly going down the ****ter and the only people to blame are those in Westminster. However, rather than blame those really at fault people would rather blame one another in a divisive society set up to take the spotlight off those really to blame. The Tories and Labour governments are both as bad as one another.

That's why I'm leaving in the next few weeks and although other countries have their problems, at least I know I won't be taxed to hell and back to service a debt and interest I never created in the first instance. I refuse to pay for the mistakes of the previous generation and prats like Tony Blair and will go and enjoy my life elsewhere. Those politicians for me took the Great out of Great Britain and turned the UK into a country struggling to suit their own political agendas at the peril of the nation overall. It's sad but it's the reality and as long as it keeps happening and they keep getting away with it more people with their heads screwed on will make as much money as they can before leaving or just going to start up elsewhere.

1. There's more turnover in the population, in considering natural birth/death rates anyway, and in the grand scheme of things, the numbers for emigration and population turnover derived in that way, are not so significant.

2. Shock horror, British people move abroad for jobs. Or to live where it's sunny etc etc...

3. The freedom of movement, rightfully enshrined in the EU constitution, is applicable to every single EU citizen. Yes, that means British people too.

4. If it follows that Britain should raise the drawbridge with regard to immigration, Britain could not have its nationals free to move within the EU. Thankfully, no party would be willing to implement such a stupid policy, since it would have a deleterious effect on the economy. There are benefits to people immigrating, and emigrating.

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I wholeheartedly agree. I want to live in the US within five years of graduating. So done with the direction the UK is going.

People are leaving because they've got their head screwed on. Look at the amount of debt per head in the UK. After that look at the amount of debt levied per taxpayer. The amounts need to be recouped somehow and they're not being recouped from the multinationals. Who foots the bill? The working and middle classes do through taxation and other costs levied on them by those who are supposed to serve us. The government has been inept for decades and we've had skills shortages for years thanks to emigration.

The NHS is one of the most obvious examples but the industry I used to work in, the construction industry, has suffered the same fate. All of our own trained up end up going abroad to Australia and Saudi Arabia where they can keep more of their income and this means we then need immigration to fill the void. That's why the NHS has many migrants working in it and the construction industry is full of Eastern Europeans. The fact is, we need them because of inept governance. The UK is quickly going down the ****ter and the only people to blame are those in Westminster. However, rather than blame those really at fault people would rather blame one another in a divisive society set up to take the spotlight off those really to blame. The Tories and Labour governments are both as bad as one another.

That's why I'm leaving in the next few weeks and although other countries have their problems, at least I know I won't be taxed to hell and back to service a debt and interest I never created in the first instance. I refuse to pay for the mistakes of the previous generation and prats like Tony Blair and will go and enjoy my life elsewhere. Those politicians for me took the Great out of Great Britain and turned the UK into a country struggling to suit their own political agendas at the peril of the nation overall. It's sad but it's the reality and as long as it keeps happening and they keep getting away with it more people with their heads screwed on will make as much money as they can before leaving or just going to start up elsewhere.

US is a bit worse in some aspects

Eh. Haven't found it that bad in Pocatello. Honestly, I could live in Idaho or one of the Western states.

wait till after the next election and watch the climate before you make that move

If the Conservatives and UKIP form a coalition...

This is stupid. You can't force people to not leave this country and why are you so worried the political views will change if the population changes by 8-12 million people.