Immigration: UK Government still in thrall to scare stories

Nicely put and clearly you have talent and the right to be in great Britain as a useful citizen or an immigrant whatever the case may be. The problem is UK has been flooded with people that have not got your own good qualities they seek the free welfare its not about jobs or pinching jobs. its about draining the welfare system.

Talent is not being lost people are being recruited for just that firms, companies do take on overseas workers that can integrate themselves and become useful British citizens. But the problem is that many people seeking a better life are not all talented and many are being smuggled in the back door or try to get in just because of the welfare system.

One more point is the factor of not blending in with British culture, but bringing ones culture and changing whole towns to look like the country one has come from has been the mode for many years. I am not a racialist but i have seen my country change over the last 60 odd years in many towns and areas of cities a white face seems much out of place. I have had racialist remarks made because I am white and i simply have made to feel like an alien in my own land on many occasions.

These are the feelings of the original natives of the land that many Immigrants have gone to seek a better life in. There are many that feel the country has been invaded by people that do not wish to blend in and do what one does in Rome, that being do as the Romans do. 

There are even those that want to impose their own countries religious laws such as Shara. some have entered politics and are trying to impose cultural based laws upon the original  British natives. Effecting education and other social based structure within the areas that like minded immigrants have settled. 

It's due to all these factors that the government is changing its policies as the Enoch Powell prediction could turn out as being a fact "Rivers of Blood".

As an immigrant or the son of a family of nationalized immigrants you may not understand that many of the original natives find it hard to see you as a British national and that is due to segregation and the separate religious culture and the separated environment that you live in your race and other races has not fully integrated themselves within the existing British native culture. It attracts discontent unfortunately and due to other influences to do with terrorism the government is frightened that they are letting terrorism in. Also frightened that the muslim communities built around mosques are danger spots for terrorist recruitment amoungst nationalised muslim immigrants and there new generations.

I certainly can place my feet in your shoes and understand your confusion at the way the british government is reacting to immigration at this present time. Hopefully these bad times will go away and people can live together in harmony without racialism and religious indifference. But at a guess thats a long time off, we can but go with the flow and hope for more pleasant times ahead and not for Enoch Powell prediction to be come a reality.

I hope my comment contains some answers you were looking for and you respect my opinion as one of the origional British natives. I now live in south East Asia and have done so for nine years I am well intrigated within the culture here in the Philippines I do as the Romans do so to speak.

However I am viewed as being different and that something I live with every day in a sense thats how people with a different color skin must feel in UK. I also from time to time get racial abuse thrown at me, its just not a perfect world. wished it was.