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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
There is always an initial over reaction when a big change happens, but it doesn't always indicate a trend or future economic direction. When the Soviet Union collapsed, many commodities took a big hit and economies all over Europe and Asia were affected for a while. In the long run, not too many people outside of Russian nationalists would argue it wasn't for the best.
The "remain" side pushing doom and gloom scenarios is as much to blame as anything as it is in their best interest to void the results of the democratic referendum. They want to scare people into changing their minds.
It is unfortunate that a handful of racists stole attention away from the other issues. Immigration control is a logical and sensible mechanism to apply. I think we would all agree that you wouldn't want 6 billion people moving to Canada as the country would never survive. That's obviously an exaggeration of what is happening in Europe, but the principle is the same. It's not fair for foreign governments to dictate immigration quotas to countries struggling to absorb them.
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Immigration is a tough one. A struggle for governments since there were governments. In North America, immigration was was English and protestant. Then it became other parts of Europe and catholic. Then Chinese, then East Indian and so on. Many US presidential elections have been run on religion and immigration. It's tough because there are only so many jobs to go around. How does a government protect jobs for the natives while giving the immigrants a fair chance. Some go too far one way, some go too far the other. What is the balance?. What about minimum wage? What about paying under the table? What about outsourcing? What about school quotas? As there are more and more university graduates, there are more and more 2nd generation immigrants graduating.
How does a non-EU Britain address this? We let only 'these types of immigrants' in but the next generation changes, and the next, and the next.