Many of these migrants came to plug acute skills shortages. Employers seem to want employees who are highly skilled and ready to go straight in at the deep end. Far more companies should provide good quality apprenticeships. More and more I see ads for jobs saying 'must be able to work on own initiative'....to me that says...'we cant be bothered to train'” Who will pay our pensions if we don't have more immigration? If stop immigration, then property prices will drop, who wants there home to go down in value? Who will produce decent curries? WE can enjoy Friday prayers, and coming to Ramadan special treatment for Muslims in the workplace? *(i.e. time off for prayers) What about the other benefits we have from "multiculturalism" ??” Whilst I agree that you have an immigration problem in this country, I don't think that this is your main problem. Your main problem is the disintegration of the family unit and the loveless binge drinking environment that your children are growing up in! NEVER in my life have I seen another country where people so seldom give their children a hug and a kiss like in this country and NEVER in my life have I seen another country where there are so many children from different fathers growing up in single parent households! Before you tackle the immigration problem (at least the immigrants LOVE their kids) you should first look at yourselves! Immigration is regarded by the public as the biggest issue facing British society, a major new survey taking stock of the state of the country reveals. One in three people believes tension between immigrants and people born in the UK is the major cause of division, while well over half regard it as one of the top three causes. Most people worry about immigration being too high, do not believe it is being managed competently, and fear that this could fracture our society. Politicians need to acknowledge these anxieties, but how can they find workable responses to them too? Migrants are people like the rest of us. Human beings have always moved around the globe from the beginning of time. It' s part of our nature. There needs to be a sensible debate on the scale of inward economic migration. Unfortunately, the tabloids and the coalition would rather engage in hyperbole and scapegoating. Many White people under the sway of Tory tabloids don't even bother trying to distinguish between ethnic minority citizens and recently arrived economic migrants, regarding all and sundry as 'immigrants'. When times are tough, people do look for scapegoats and it's up to the government and the media not to indulge this (unfortunately) primordial tendency. A fact that is usually not mentioned by politicians or the tabloids is that it's mainly British employers (of all colours and creeds) who take on economic migrants, often in preference to British citizens. Their excuse is that citizens are likely to be lazy whereas migrants are likely to be hardworking. I suspect what these employers really mean is that citizens will not be easily exploited, humiliated and underpaid, unlike desperate economic migrants. Britain is in a Globalized world, Globalization has lifted millions out of Poverty and its currently responsible for the re-balancing of the worlds wealth, meaning that the West will inevitably get poorer as money rushes to all four corners of the world. So to all the people who are moaning about Globalization, do grow up. Its here, and here to stay. As for Immigration the fears are normally stroked by Political parties as an easy cheap shot, every one likes to beat up on immigrants, in particular every one's favourite punching bag Asylum seekers. oh well, haters gona hate. Many French protestants came to the East End as religious refugees - are their descendants English. Many Russian Jewish people later came to the East End as refugees from pogroms carried out under the Tsar. Are their descendants English? What is English? IA http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk