they're taking our jobs!

Often the argument is also that they are over here to enjoy our benefit system, some people can even argue they are taking our jobs and here to enjoy the benefit system in the same breath.

Not all that many years ago it was the Irish who came over to steal our jobs. Of course in Ireland now, it is the other way around in that the flow of immigration tends to be the other way.

And you would be amazed at the number of Brits abroad I have heard saying they left the UK because of immigration!!