>However the total immigration figure per year is 590,000
Per year? You make it sound like it is that every year.
It was that figure in 2008 (and 427,000 other people left that year) but it varies from year to year.
Personally I think the WORST thing this country has done since the seond world war is to allow so many immigrants in, particulalry from Asia, Africa etc.
While I have no problem with SOME immigration, we now have cities where almost 50% of the population are non-white.
There are schools here in Birmingham where EVERY kid in the school is non-white.
There are parts of Birmingham, if you drive through them, you would swear you were in Bagdad or Calcutta. We have whole sections of Birmingham full of uneducated immigrants who have no interest in working, no interest in paying tax, no interest in speaking English.
They are a drain on our country.
And because we allow anyone from the EU to come here, it is easy for say a persona from Poland to come here, marry an illegal immigrant, and that then gives them the right to live here.
This was a scam uncovered just a few weeks ago. See more here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk...d/sussex/10288982.stm
I am afraid Europe has been far too generous in allowing so many immigrants in, and allowing free movement amonst all EU countries.
It is just going to drag Europe down into the gutter (many parts of it are there already)