Your post right there shows me that you and to some extent
@pmv don't understand, or are not factoring into scale. The scale of this country is not gonna turn it into Sri Lanka via immigrants sending money back to their families and home countries! Shitlol
Bring1 million more immigrants into this country and you still wouldn't fill a significant portion of the currently available jobs.
I'm not saying that's the danger. That the whole country will become impoverished.
Merely that migrants coming in
above all if they are not settling permanently but are just coming to earn as much money as possible while spending as little as possible, and then go home again after a short time probably don't 'create as many jobs as they take', which is the standard argument always deployed when people complain about migrants 'taking our jobs'.
Its a specific phenomenon associated with the particular form of migration encouraged by the EU (very different from people in the 19th century taking ocean liners across the Atlantic to make a new life in the US, never to see their home country again), that has political effects because it adversely affects certain groups within a country.
The presence of such incomers benefits some people and hurts others. That needs to be accounted for and the effects ameliorated (i.e. share the costs and benefits around between everyone).
It was compounded in the UK because it coincided with 'austerity', i.e. cuts to public spending (areas worst hit by austerity were much more inclined to vote leave).
Add in those factors, plus of course, racism, and the stupidity of Cameron in holding that wretched referendum in the first place (to try and solve internal Tory Party disputes - heh, that went well) and it was enough to push the Brexit vote over the line.
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