I don't think there is anything wrong with what Brockton is saying. I don't dispute that immigration has had a positive effect on the economy either, but I do disagree with that growth being positive for the general population of the UK. It is growth in the pockets of medium businesses who want to hire on the cheap and granted it works for them....at a cost to a significant sector of the population. The truth is that low educated, relatively unskilled workers are the vast bulk of workers in any country, so to have them competing with millions of legal and millions more illegal migrants, is a rather heavy pill to swallow. It isn't a fair game. Romania for the English with a minimum wage of 88p an hour and Romanian a language spoken by few or England for Romanians where the minimum wage is over 6 pounds and in a world where everyone can speak some English. How does that equation ever amount to being game in an open labour market?

Liberalism sometimes wants its cake and to eat it too, and in this instance the liberals are usually people who are very comfortable and with the least to lose. The typical broadsheet reader has nothing to fear and thus liberalism at all costs is the majority view. Sometimes you have to say no to unchecked liberalism and this is just one of those issues.