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I want to discuss how we can encourage more people to come here! [...] Immigration is a good thing. Let's have more of it, please.

No, let's not. Or at least, not except in a managed framework. Due partly to politicians not looking beyond the next general election, Britain is currently heading towards not having enough housing to house its population, and not having enough power generating capacity once the current crop of nuclear reactors are decommissioned to provide for its electrical needs. These are both problems which can be dealt with, but we don't want people coming to live in this country faster than the infrastructure can be expanded to deal with it.

(Just consider how for what you spent on a three-bedroom house, I could only afford a one-bedroom flat in London, and then roll that out across the rest of the country in twenty years' time.)

Now don't get me wrong; I'm not against immigration, being a fourth- to sixth-generation immigrant myself; but there's a difference between having a managed system of immigration and throwing the gates open to anyone. What the government did in 1905 to slam them shut was wrong, but the alternative is just as wrong too.

There are other issues too, but those will do for a start.