Britain Is Full

I guess!

Although I'd most likely describe it as less bad!

Tighten our controls on visas and the like for a start. Despite the headline stories of people hiding in lorries, the majority of 'illegals' are overstayers, people given legal entry who then fail to leave when that visa runs out.

The BNP and their supporters are, by and large, ignorant scum. However, their message on immigration is striking a chord with people who are usually pretty mainstream. The number of votes they received in the European elections are testament to that. My concern is if the major parties continue to bury their heads in the sand, support for the more extreme political parties will continue to rise.

Countries with the most strict visa controls still have overstayers there is NO WAY to police that, unless you have a bright idea, tagging every non-UK resident like a criminal perhaps? The BNP are striking a chord yeah with uninformed, ignorant people who don't do their own research. And they prey on that.

Crime is also a fact of life, doesn't stop us having a police force that targets those crimes with the high political interest.

The difficulty of an issue should not be the determining factor on whether it is addressed.

Ok lets say the immigration and emmigration figures evened out. How would you stop people overstaying their visas? I hear loads moaning about it but what could actually be done to stop it?

It's not difficult, it's pretty much impossible to stop.

Better controls, more effective policing of those controls, greater efforts to locate the overstayers, streamlined procedures for removing overstayers.

Given the will and adequate resources, I'm pretty sure it would be possible to make it much less easy for people to simply disappear.

Riiiight.

I'm not entirely sure it's people overstaying their visa's - people also get the WRONG visa - a Student Visa, when they aren't actually studying for example.

But we can't deport someone without a passport, so all an illegal has to say is that they 'lost' it. Then, the Border Force has to apply to the embassy of wherever they are from (once they have the details), which could take ages. Though I dunno what can actually be DONE about it

Got to say this is true, it's really not an issue here. Immigrants are rarely mentioned in any Scottish political issues, or ever really.

There are pockets of immigrants (Aberdeen and parts of Glasgow) but the rest of Scotland proportionately doesn't receive as much immigrants as the rest of the UK. Also worth mentioning is the majority of immigrants to Scotland are Eastern European or 'Slavic' which makes them white. Whilst this shouldn't be an issue by all rights, seeing a high amount of non-white people does make people more aware of immigration in this country unfortunately. With almost all Scottish immigrants being white it is less 'noticeable' in comparison with parts of England.

Not excusing any side in this, just clarifying that from a Scottish perspective (and therefore my perspective) immigration isn't as much of an issue as it probably is to England.