Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "UK net migration from 2022 revised up from 606,000 to a record 745,000" video.

Support legal immigration here, as do the vast majority of people I’m aware of. However, for any given country there is clearly an optimum number. The UK optimum would probably be about 25-50,000 per year. If 750,000 legal immigrants arrive in the UK year-on-year (this figure taking absolutely no account of the tens of thousands of economic illegals who will be on the Channel boats), it won’t be long be long before the British electorate, rightly or wrongly, will be going the way of the Dutch and electing strongly rightest anti-immigration parties.
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@dukesb If better pay and conditions were offered to British-born and trained doctors and nurses, half of them wouldn’t leave to go work abroad once they’ve trained.
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@Tamarlane389 My head. We can debate about the numbers; perhaps revised up a little. However, if it’s gonna be 750,000 newcomers year-on-year then that is clearly unsustainable: not least from the simple point of view of social cohesion and integration. If these things are done too quickly, and if too many people who uphold views which are diametrically opposed to western liberal values flood in en-masse, then you’re just asking for real trouble down the line.
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@isaacho8230 Yes, I understand all that and ty for the patronising tone. I will repeat this once again for the hard of reading: I’m pro-immigration; just not pro-750,000 per year. Just for the record, I don’t know anyone I’m aware of who would support those kinds of numbers. 👍
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Yeah, but you forget: Brexit was the democratic will of the people. I say that as a Remainer.
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Don’t worry too much Mr/Ms Canadian. A large part of European people’s intolerance to mass immigration revolves around one word: Islam. If you don’t count on this score, you should be ok.👌
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@Tamarlane389 Huh? How do you deduce that? I said was pro-immigration, just not pro 750,000 per year, and particularly if masses of those immigrants follow a religion which I, a rationalist agnostic, find in many ways abhorrent and incompatible with my own liberal secularism (principally because Islam seems to demand the most respect for its values but is least likely to give the same respect for others’ values, historically). This is just being realistic, dear. Did you see the news from Dublin today? 🤔
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@Tamarlane389 Not hiding anything. I don’t trust Islam. I don’t trust any organised religion as history has taught me this. If any modern, secular, liberal country imports masses of people following a desert tribal religion then is it not just obvious that there might very well be civil troubles down the line? I’m a liberal, free-thinking person of tolerance, but that tolerance runs out when others would (eventually) seek to impose their way of life on me once a critical mass is reached. Ask yourself why so many secular, liberal countries are quite happy to accept millions of Muslims but not so many Muslim countries are willing to accept millions of non-Muslims. 🤔
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@isaacho8230 I was kinda joking m8. You were being patronising, but it didn’t really bother me. As you were.👍
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@isaacho8230 Lol. Stop being so f*cking British and polite! 🤣
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@Tamarlane389 1. Totally irrelevant. 2. Totally irrelevant.
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@Tamarlane389 Er, can how can not trusting Islam be ‘racist’ when Islam’s an idea? 🤔
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@isaacho8230 Lol.👍
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@Tamarlane389 3. You tell me. There are 1,001 competing agendas at play 24/7.
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@Tamarlane389 I repeat: Er, can how can not trusting Islam be ‘racist’ when Islam’s an idea? 🤔 You’re really not very good at this, are you?
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