Not to mention declining birth rates across the UK. No immigration, no birth rate high enough to maintain the population… A few generations and you’re looking at a mostly geriatric population with not enough people working and putting into pension pots to cover all the folk no longer working. Not enough young people working to CARE for the massive elderly population. Rapid decline in taxes collected. Total collapse. End of the UK.
It’s stupid. It’s not even a huge problem. The biggest thing I hear from people who buy the right-wing propaganda to any extent is that they, illegal and legal immigrants, are taking up all the resources that should go to the less fortunate people from here. I’m an immigrant from Canada, legal, I have no access to public funds and pay a (quite substantial) NHS surcharge on top of paying taxes. A low income/homeless support/advocate group in Glasgow made a statement recently saying that if every illegal immigrant/refugee was removed that day the rooms freed up wouldn’t even house half the homeless people.
They’re not taking away the basically no support for the poor from the government, decades of malicious underfunding and austerity did that.