How do you stop/control immigration?

[Mich the Tester]

With less legal immigration going on the problem of illegal immigrants becomes more visible and easier to tackle. The biggest problem facing us are the numbers of 'legal' immigrants.

How do you reduce the number of legal immigrants without increasing the number of illegal immigrants?

[Churchill]

How do you reduce the number of legal immigrants without increasing the number of illegal immigrants?

Take off and Nuke the place just to be sure.

[TimberWolf]

WTF have living standards to do with buying a house?
In Germany most people do not own their own house but living standards are far higher.

That depends on how you define standard of living. Many here aspire to own their own property and land rather than being a lifetime tenant. Are we so rich that a lifetime of saving would barely buy a badly made rabbit hutch? And as AtW would not doubt be able to tell you, UK tenancy laws are less favourable to the tenant than in Germany.

[TimberWolf]

How do you reduce the number of legal immigrants without increasing the number of illegal immigrants?

There are only so many jobs that illegals can do undetected and that market is probably already saturated. At least until the Lib Dems declare an amnesty.

[Mich the Tester]

That depends on how you define standard of living. Many here aspire to own their own property and land rather than being a lifetime tenant. Are we so rich that a lifetime of saving would barely buy a badly made rabbit hutch? And as AtW would not doubt be able to tell you, UK tenancy laws are less favourable to the tenant than in Germany.

Most people in Germany can afford to buy a house if they save for a couple of years for the deposit (they don't have 100% mortgages). However, they choose to rent.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Take off and Nuke the place just to be sure.

How about engineering a virus that proper British people are immune, but affects immigrants?

[Mich the Tester]

There are only so many jobs that illegals can do undetected and that market is probably already saturated. At least until the Lib Dems declare an amnesty.

And you assume the jobless illegals leave if they don't find jobs?

[TimberWolf]

And you assume the jobless illegals leave if they don't find jobs?

The biggest problem is legal immigration, so that's where we need to crack down. Jobless EU legals would then likely be better off where they came from from within the EU. Jobless third world people would be dealt with at the border on entry as in the past and those unemployed and already here will probably continue to operate here illegally until detected.

[TimberWolf]

Most people in Germany can afford to buy a house if they save for a couple of years for the deposit (they don't have 100% mortgages). However, they choose to rent.

Did you just make that up?

[Mich the Tester]

Did you just make that up?

No, it's true. Lots of Germans don't care for buying a house even though they can afford it.