For a long time the mention of the word immigration in the UK brought about an embarrassed look and a shuffle of the feet, nervous coughs commenced and a squirming of the inner torso was visible.
People in the country believed there was a problem with UK immigration but were too hesitant to verbally acknowledge it or give it credence, those that did were often viewed as racists.
This viewpoint that there was a problem initially was easily undetected to most in society.
Immigration tends to be in less privileged areas and the burden on existing public services was easily attributable to an already troubled part of society.
The sudden increase in migrant workers from within the EU - more specifically Poland was highly visible around the middle of the 2000's to those living in urban cities.
This coupled with a more lenient approach by the existing government in allowing skilled migrants entry from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) resulted in more people without any increase in the level of public spending within those areas.
This feeling of a problem was in large part raised by those in the areas of high UK immigration and this group experiencing the negative side of migrants moving to the UK.
Where once school places were a dime a dozen, those families within urban cities were often being denied choices they had before taken for granted.
Hospitals became weighed down with new patients and dentists stopped accepting NHS applications to join the surgery.
Those living outside of areas such as this were oblivious to any problems and so it was easy to affix the label of racists when such arguments were raised.
There was, however, a growing feeling that things why going awry.
The alarm bells began to ring in the UK when the extremely right-wing political party the British National Party (BNP) gained a seat within the European parliament in 2008.
This was not the British public that we knew and loved, we didn't vote for political party's that held racist views.
This was the calling card of a public so dissatisfied with a government that seemed to be denial over the numbers of immigrants arriving within their area.
This was soon latched onto by the opposition party's.
The conservatives questioning the government on a supposed 'open door' UK immigration policy.
As has been witnessed this issue was in brief the largest of the previous general election, and quite possibly the reason that the Labour party fell from power quite so acrimoniously.
Labour just didn't grasp voters feelings on the sheer level of UK migration to certain urban areas - possibly attributable to politicians not actually living in those areas.
The new government promised to reduce the level of immigration into the UK into the tens of thousands rather than remain at the level of hundreds of thousands.
This promise, however, may be difficult to keep.
That is because the majority of migration into the UK is from within the European Union.
These migrant workers are unregulated by UK visa rules and can freely move and work anywhere within the UK.
To change this government would have to have a new treaty agreed upon and signed by all member states - no mean feat.
People in the country believed there was a problem with UK immigration but were too hesitant to verbally acknowledge it or give it credence, those that did were often viewed as racists.
This viewpoint that there was a problem initially was easily undetected to most in society.
Immigration tends to be in less privileged areas and the burden on existing public services was easily attributable to an already troubled part of society.
The sudden increase in migrant workers from within the EU - more specifically Poland was highly visible around the middle of the 2000's to those living in urban cities.
This coupled with a more lenient approach by the existing government in allowing skilled migrants entry from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) resulted in more people without any increase in the level of public spending within those areas.
This feeling of a problem was in large part raised by those in the areas of high UK immigration and this group experiencing the negative side of migrants moving to the UK.
Where once school places were a dime a dozen, those families within urban cities were often being denied choices they had before taken for granted.
Hospitals became weighed down with new patients and dentists stopped accepting NHS applications to join the surgery.
Those living outside of areas such as this were oblivious to any problems and so it was easy to affix the label of racists when such arguments were raised.
There was, however, a growing feeling that things why going awry.
The alarm bells began to ring in the UK when the extremely right-wing political party the British National Party (BNP) gained a seat within the European parliament in 2008.
This was not the British public that we knew and loved, we didn't vote for political party's that held racist views.
This was the calling card of a public so dissatisfied with a government that seemed to be denial over the numbers of immigrants arriving within their area.
This was soon latched onto by the opposition party's.
The conservatives questioning the government on a supposed 'open door' UK immigration policy.
As has been witnessed this issue was in brief the largest of the previous general election, and quite possibly the reason that the Labour party fell from power quite so acrimoniously.
Labour just didn't grasp voters feelings on the sheer level of UK migration to certain urban areas - possibly attributable to politicians not actually living in those areas.
The new government promised to reduce the level of immigration into the UK into the tens of thousands rather than remain at the level of hundreds of thousands.
This promise, however, may be difficult to keep.
That is because the majority of migration into the UK is from within the European Union.
These migrant workers are unregulated by UK visa rules and can freely move and work anywhere within the UK.
To change this government would have to have a new treaty agreed upon and signed by all member states - no mean feat.
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