It seems to be generally accepted that the current level is unsustainable but is due to a blip in the figures because of Ukraine and Hong Kong.

That said we are sill short of labour so if I it falls what happens?

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

They weren’t better times! They were different times. Ours were times when xenophobia was considered normal. Some of us learned better. Some didn’t.

Our kids grew up in more enlightened times but had other problems to face. They weren’t better or worse. Just different. That’s their times.

Our grandkids won’t know your times, only their parent’s and their own, which will seem completely normal to them.

I feel sorry for your grandkids too. They have a grandad telling them how great it used to be and how their attitudes are all wrong. Nothing new there!

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

It will be a sort of Northern Ireland situation with concentrations of various ethnic groups in certain areas, no-go areas and intermittent outbreaks of sectarian violence.

The Conservatives went to the country with a manifesto commitment pledge to reduce net migration four times. They just tell their voters what they want to hear and they fall in line.

The messaging to non EU immigrants was always very different. It was obvious all along that we were trading one type of immigration for another with Brexit.

"Feb 23, 2016

Priti Patel, Britain’s minister of state for employment, believes exiting the European Union will provide a “massive boost” to relations with India, “I know that many members of the Indian diaspora find it deeply unfair that other EU nationals effectively get special treatment.

This can and will change if Britain leaves the EU. "

I'm not anti sensible numbers at all, nor am I colour obsessed in that process. From a housing perspective alone though these numbers are make a difficult situation - home ownership - worse. Anything to prop up those house prices. No shortage of landlord MPs of course. Funny that. They've had 13 years to reduce numbers; instead by intention they've dramatically increased them.

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King's college? I wouldn't be surprised if half those they asked were bleeding foreign.

Attitudes have softened as the percentages go up.

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

Yes. That will be the Coudenof-kalergi plan.

Eze Peasy at Anfield....