immigrantsA good government knows when to break a bad promise.
If the Liberal Democrats can break their pledge on university
tuition fees, their Conservative bedfellows can break theirs on
immigration. The Tories’ campaign promise to put a cap on non-EU
immigration was one of those populist panderings that doesn’t
address the root problem.  To be sure, there are many people who
simply dislike foreigners for being, well, foreign and there’s
not much any government can do about that. Others think
immigrants take jobs away from locals, but most such jobs are
those the locals refuse to do or aren’t qualified to do.
Probably what riles most anti-immigration sentiment is a sense
that, in recent years, too many immigrants with no skills, no
income and no assets have moved to the UK for its seemingly
generous but inefficient benefits system, not to mention free
health care and education for their children. But the
fundamental problem here isn’t immigration, it’s the benefits
system and the universal access to health