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America might have been embracing immigration more, and for longer, but the Britain you have today too is to a large extent a consequence of embracing immigrati
by red_admiral 8y ago
America might have been embracing immigration more, and for longer, but the Britain you have today too is to a large extent a consequence of embracing immigration post-WWII as we needed a workforce to rebuild our country. See "windrush generation" (more recently: "windrush scandal" over how poorly some of them have been treated) . If you're living in the UK you might have heard about it on the news recently (I say with typical British understatement).
Immigration was certainly good for our economy too.
- mhneu 8y agoAnd I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the UK university system (and high tech economy, see DeepMind) is extremely strong. Having a lot of immigrants makes it attractivr for other high skilled immigrants to come and live.