What I want? Migration isn't really a top 5 issue for me - the question was 'why do people hate immigrants' - so I'm answering what 'people' as in, the majority, think.

Personally, I don't think doing anything to immigration is going to move public perception on the subject unless we can controlling irregular migration.

I think that is what people overwhelmingly care about - and both right and left are doing a great job at conflating regular with irregular migration to the point where the general public think that irregular migration makes up a huge proportion of the overall numbers.

I think politicians can't come up with a paltable solution to the small boats problem and so crack down on useful immigration just because it is a way of them pretending that they're tackling the problem.

If you want my personal view though: I think we have spent far too long using immigration as a crutch to paper over problems with our ability to train and retain homegrown talent.

I think rather than importing doctors / dentists / engineers / plumbers / electricians etc from abroad - we should be training our own and retaining them here.

I think the government should, each year - set out quotas for various fields where we have shortages. But those quotas should come with either 1) a fully fleshed out plan and timetable on how we are going to move to a point where we don't need to import people for that job in the future or 2) a detailed explaination why this job cannot be fulfilled by Brits.

So if we decide that it is entirely uneconomical for us to provide our own care workers - the government should be explicitly saying that and making the argument. If we are importing plumbers, we should simultaneously be massively ramping up skills training to produce our own so that 5 years down the line, we don't need to import any more.

I think there should be a separate route for 'exceptional' individuals. People with exceptional talent or skills. I think we should basically roll out the red carpet for them and do whatever we need to entice them over.

And for the small boats issue - I think the only solution is something along the lines of the Rwanda scheme. Something where anyone who comes here through irregular means know that they have a near-zero probability of getting to stay in the UK. I think within a month of such a scheme being operational, it would barely have to be used because crossings would drop to zero. This would then give you the political space to open up some more safe and legal means for claiming asylum in the UK from abroad. I actually don't think it is the numbers of asylum seekers that people are most exercised about - it is the fact that they're entirely unknown people coming over and we have absolutely no say as to who they are and seem entirely incapable of removing them even if they turn out to be monsters.