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Ok but an additional Brit so costs more resources... I understand immigration can be more "sudden" it's harder to plan for, but planning needs done anyway.
Dutch people integrate and vanish. Because if we wanted to be among Dutch we'd stayed in the Netherlands :p
Joking aside, I don't integrate well with Dutch football hooligans either. And I'm part Northern Irish by now but I won't integrate to the orange Vs green politics (ew!)
What really is it that we want out of integration? :)
JWestland
It's not necessarily about costing more comparatively to native, but that an additional person inevitably uses more public resources - there is then a counter that generally (net) they'll generate more, but it's still a cost.
The integration point always really bugs me tho. Firstly, I don't know where this rose tinted memory of commonwealth citizens being warmly welcomed has come from. Paki-bashing didn't sound all that cuddly to me. Second, it takes at least 2 generations on average for people to integrate. Until the relatively recent exodus of young French to the East End, they always went to West London to band together in their enclaves, home counties folk move to Putney, people from Norfolk stay put and interbreed- humans tend to move to places with people they can relate to... it's just what we do. Moreover, I've yet to meet a second generation Irish person who still doesn't self-identity as Irish. Why the fuck to people think that everyone else is suddenly going to "integrate" overnight.