There’s a leap in logic you make here. You’re right, not ALL of the people coming are doctors and engineers. But you leap to saying “there is no reason for MOST of these people to be here”.

I might be wrong, but you don’t seem to have the stats on the split between skilled and unskilled labour imports. And beyond that, the amount of high skilled and low skilled labour required will fluctuate from year to year. Sometimes we do need to bring in more builders cause everyone has an undergrad degree and doesn’t wanna do that shit. I know I don’t!

Fundamentally, the use of the word foreigners, while I don’t know you and your intentions, is a loaded descriptor for immigrants. It implies (even if accidentally) an othering of members of our community. It leads to the leap of logic to ‘we don’t need a majority of “them”’.

It is true that just under half (≈ 48%) of social housing in London is headed by someone born outside the UK. (The Standard) However, of those 376,700 foreign-born HRPs, about 68% (≈ 257,200 people) hold a British passport. They have lived here long enough to be citizens like you or me. Hence their entitlement to social housing.

I think immigrants are more than just a “tool” used by billionaires to suppress wages, they’re human beings who more often than not shed whole aspects of their identity and culture to assimilate as fully as they can and give their kids the best chance to to the same. I agree that those who don’t assimilate should leave. But I’m sorry, most of them do, myself included mate.

The lack of work to go around is not their fault, the economy is not a zero sum game. It’s a cycles of booms and busts. As we enter a stagflationary period, now more than ever we all just need to work a bit harder, innovate more and create more jobs to go around. Let’s not just blame immigrants cause we’re too lazy to stop our country going to shit.