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Originally Posted by Livia

In a small country of around 65 million people, 300,000 is a lot in a year. I have no problem with people with skills coming here, I have no problem with genuine asylum seekers. but there is finite space and finite resources. Our infrastructure is already overstretched.

Yes but some of the hysteria... is really quite over the top, surely? Also worth pointing out - not sure why it hasn't been yet, unless I missed it - immigration is not "up 300,000" at all. It's gone up to (nearly) 300,000. It was, obviously, not previously zero. At the end of 2013, it's quite clear from the graph that immigration was at over 200,000. Immigration is actually up by around 90,000. The thread title and OP are a bit misleading, no?