vinylweatherman
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Not so sure Dunover.
The UK has had a deficit for the best part of the last 3 decades, coinciding with the fall of many industries in the UK and that far before any of the latest migrant "mumbo jumbo" started. It shows clearly that the governments never managed to keep their election campaign promises and to steer the country properly to replace those losses with other industries/services. The result is cutbacks on social services, increased taxes etc.
Your biggest share of migrants are from the Commonwealth and your past colonies, who have every right to be in the UK. Most came a long time ago and have been sending money home ever since, hence the monetary "export" cannot be the sole reason for the ever increasing deficit.
I am not trying here to say other countries have done it so much better. I merely want to point out that the rather small NET migrant increase from the EU is NOT THE CAUSE of your problems. It is surely on the surface as it gets splattered all over the media and people can have their scapegoat but if you look at the facts those problems were on the rise already in the mid-80's.
Repeating now an example i mentioned before. A former UK colleague waited in 2000 IIRC, could be 1999, 3 years to have hip replacement surgery done by the NHS. 3 bloody painful years for him and that was way before any of this migrant crisis talk started.
It was in the late 1980's and 1990's that "political correctness" was used to censor and stifle any meaningful debate about migration and it's effects on quality of life, as well as on the economy. This lead to the manufactured impression that there was "no problem" in all this while. In fact, discontent was brewing all through these times. However, it was movements like the National Front, and later the BNP, who dared to voice the undiscussable "migration issue". They were summarily dismissed as "the rantings of racists".
It was only when the issue slowly began to get discussed more widely that people began to pay more serious attention, and we saw the rise of UKIP with their agenda of Brexit and better control of net migration. However, what really blew the issue out into the open was the Rochdale scandal, where a long term cover up mounted by the police and the local council over organised child sexual exploitation was revealed. The uncomfortable truth was that it was primarily young men of Asian descent that were involved, and the young girls were predominantly white. The authorities admitted that the reason they didn't act more robustly was because the offenders were predominantly Asian, and the rules of political correctness meant that this simply could not be true, so instead the young girls were treated as though they were the instigators, young prostitutes luring naïve young Asian men into illicit liaisons. Whilst the issue was finally dealt with, and quite robustly, the damage had already been done. The genie was out of the bottle, and no way was the far right going to let it get back in. Every negative incident since then has been grabbed by right wing groups as further evidence to support their agenda, and there has been no shortage of such incidents, all the way from the Cologne mass assault right down to the inappropriate touching of women in mixed leisure venues. For many, these are even more important arguments for curbing migration than the economic ones, and of course, ALL migrants are being tarred with the same brush.
The effect can even be seen in America, the insular, nationalistic, and sometimes bizarre promises coming from Mr Trump have considerable support, and now he is the Republican candidate for the presidency. Trump is arrogant enough to actually build that huge wall to keep Mexicans out, and even find a way to force Mexico to pay for it as promised. I wouldn't put it past him to permit border police to shoot at anyone trying to cross, and as we have seen, the US police don't need any encouragement to shoot a non white first and ask questions later even when they are laying unarmed on the ground with their hands in the air.