When I think about the UK

I think there is a wider picture. Immigration has always been exploited by the wealthy. Immigrants have always been a source of cheap labour and can also be weaponized to push down the wages of the indigenous workforce. Cheap labour in the form of migrant workers has always been encouraged in an unmanaged fashion leading to resentment between indigenous communities and the immigrant community. When immigration then becomes a problem the people who encouraged mass immigration then hold up their hands and say not our fault, blame the government (even though they are sometimes the same people). For those who exploit immigrant labour there is always a fear that tightening up controls may cut off the source of cheap labour so they are wary and unsupportive of such measures. 

All very objective Peter1970 but can you say how the issue affects you?  For me it's about competition for resources: housing, jobs, public services. Always remembering of course that land is the most important resource that was stolen from the English people hundreds of years ago.

What/when are you referring to here?

Jaygee said:

land is the most important resource that was stolen from the English people hundreds of years ago.

If you go back far enough a sizeable proportion of the population of England were theowas, chattel slaves.

William I changed this, he banned the export of slaves from England and gradually slaves became part of the serf class. The slave and serf class certainly did not own land or rent it. Renters were called gafolgelda.

If you go back far enough a sizeable proportion of the population of England were theowas, chattel slaves.

William I changed this, he banned the export of slaves from England and gradually slaves became part of the serf class. The slave and serf class certainly did not own land or rent it. Renters were called gafolgelda.