Jonksy,
immigration, and emigration, have been around for longer than there
has been a United Kingdom. There are always going to be people going
some place new to try to find a better life. There have always been
such people. It is an essential part of the group human
personality.
That it seems to have increased is due primarily to technological
factors - increased awareness of the world and conditions in different
parts of it, improved communications, modern transport systems, and of
course, a much much bigger human world population than ever before.
You cannot do anything to stop it - people have tried many times
before and always failed.
Why not just go with the flow? If you feel uncomfortable at home, go
somewhere else yourself.
We have turned the planet into a Global Village. Short of un-
inventing the wheel, the printing press, radio and TV, telephones and
the Internet, we are stuck with it how it is now. Those few
countries that have surrounded themselves with high walls and
watchtowers manned by soldiers ordered to shoot on sight, anyone
trying to get in or out, have quickly become isolated, nasty little
backward, poverty-stricken backwaters left behind by all the rest.
The places people choose NOT to go to are unpleasant. If you and your
ilk make the UK really unpleasant you will get your wish - but
everything has a price, and people are often reminded to be careful
what they wish for.
Love,
Briar