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Britain has always been anti-immigrant. Especially the right-wing Brits, who hate immigrants and bloody foreigners, while worshipping the Royal Family (products of German/Danish/Greek immigration) and St George (another bloody foreigner).

There are genuine economic reasons for not wanting unlimited immigration in an economic crisis - and there does need to be a clampdown on unscrupulous bosses and businesses using immigrants as a source of cheap labour. But mostly it's just Britain's national form of prejudice: America has religious and racial bigotry; we have xenophobia. Which is whipped up by the RW press. It was even worse in the good old days of Enoch Powell.