We have and have had the power to deport EU nationals if they cannot pay for themselves after 3 months, either by getting a job or personal wealth. The problem has always been that we never registered anyone who entered the country or used any of our services. If we had enforced that any scroungers from EU countries could have been ejected. Likely not done due to cost, but like Windrush comes back to bite you on the butt.
The immigration issue has always been conflated with Brexit. Immigration that many have issues with is non-EU immigration (legal and illegal) which we have absolute power to deal with.
There are racists in the UK as there are in every country. Not all Brexiteers are racists. Some might be, most are not. I expect some Remainers are racists. All EU countries are 'white' christian nations, the black faces and Muslims some people ant to get rid of primarily from countries we colonized, the commonwealth. The proportion of non-EU migrants compared to EU migrants will go up as the EU nationals will be under the same immigrant rules as everyone else. If there are any racists out there (colour and religion based) it is going to get worse for you not better after Brexit because we need immigration to survive as a nation. If we did the extreme and we ejected the 6 million non-UK born people in this country (I know this wont happen but some I have spoken to make this flippant comment) and forced/trained the 1.5 million unemployed into their jobs (that they probably would not want) we would have a couple of million job vacancies.
Some of that 6 million will be GPs. And blaming immigration on lack of local services is daft. We have a historically low unemployment rate. The problem is we don't build or fund local services. Housing estates get built and the local services don't grow with them. In short we need to pay more to fund the NHS and local services if we want to keep them. Boris is safe for four years so he could do some radical things. Get this Brexit thing out the way and hopefully he will surprise people. Probably wont but we can only hope. Ramble over.

One of the reasons the assisted program happened was that the UK was broke and there were lots of jobs in Australia. We joined the EU as the poor man of Europe in the 70s. Being a member was partly responsible for our prosperity in the 80s (that and north sea oil), we became the springbord for the US into the EU and were the financial centre of Europe and the World (almost).
The world is a very small place since the invention of the plane, internet and mass media. People will move from country to country. Economies will boom and bust. We are the 7th largest economy (India and France have overtaken us in the last year). It is inevitable that movement will become easier over time (it may be long time mind you). Not because of the EU, but because of trade, science and education (educated people are less prejudiced and less likely to be tribal). There are 1 million UK citizens living outside the UK. Immigration/migration is inevitable.
One day there will be no nation-based passports. All countries will be like the states within the US. Sadly I will be long dead when that eventually happens. Perhaps due to WWIII? And I wont ever get my hover-board.

That is clearly not true. We were almost entirely (99%+) white in the early fifties. Go and look at any street scene or footage back in those days and it will clearly show this.

The white indigenous population (and especially the working class) have been displaced in the cities by this and anyone that has remained has to deal with high crime, the constant threat of terrorism and constant social tension. Indigenous communities have been totally eviscerated against their will. People live in fear of some of these communities and the fear of having their life ruined simply by raising concerns about what's happening.

There has been no benefit to the general UK population for mass immigration either financially or socially - quite the opposite. Integration has simply not happened as governments have discouraged it. With the numbers now there is no hope of this happening. We have huge numbers of people in this country that do not identify as British and significant numbers actively working against our interests (e.g. some 23,000 known Jihadis)

"Patience, determination and fortitude is what is needed. Not defeatism" - what does that mean?

What we are seeing now is the instability this has created in the entire western world as differing self interest groups compete for resources and power and it will only get worse.

Once again, this internationalist concept that immigration is 'inevitable' and can't be resisted isn't consistent with how many other countries have successfully approached it. As stated elsewhere, Japan has a larger GDP than us and doesn't follow the 'ponzi scheme' immigration policy.

The demise of nations....into what would ultimately be a what...corporatocracy? That might indeed be your wish but I suggest it's one that will ultimately leave a blood soaked legacy in Europe.

The EU of the seventies offered an expansion of markets without a pooling of sovereignty. It has been the compulsion and with Thatcher the admitted mistakes of signing further treaties that increased public disquiet and concern.

Also the success of the eighties can't be reduced down into 'North sea oil' and the EU....You'd have to add several other policy and directional changes. And as Labour's Shore pointed out in the seventies joining the EU completely screwed the trade balance and it's beneficial affect certainly wasn't felt by the working class.

Edited by Stirlingsays (13 Jan 2020 3.39pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Errrr....sorry, firstly I don't accept your narrative about 'white' history and secondly what has your perception of past 'crimes' got to do with 'whites' now? Are you suggesting because I'm white I have to account for the decisions made by elites from what....hundreds of years ago?

That's historical and racial guilt you're pushing there. The idea that something someone's great grandfather did falls to me to pay for.

Sorry mate, I was not 'born guilty'......You wear a hairshirt if you want to but keep it away from me.

There's no going back for you perhaps but the consequences you have supported will and have already led nowhere good.

Edited by Stirlingsays (13 Jan 2020 3.47pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

.....and what Stirling said

I actually don't give a toss what happened 100's of years ago.