The London Evening Standard has conducted a poll and it shows that 71 percent of youngsters aged 16 to 24 years are concerned about the issue of immigration, compared with just 68 percent of those aged 25-39 years.
Pamela Bremner, director of Immigration and Cohesion at Ipsos MORI said, “This poll suggests that employment pressures are being felt by young adults and are influencing the views of this traditionally more immigration-tolerant group.” Almost half (49 percent) of young people believe that new arrivals will damage the economic recovery by taking away jobs from people already living here.”
The research also found that many people believe myths about immigration, as only 7 percent think that Britain has fewer asylum seekers than other countries in Europe, compared to 58 percent who wrongly believe it is higher. With graduate unemployment the highest it has ever been. This is not surprising.
Of course the political editor of the Evening Standard Joe Murphy is right to say that Londoners are the most positive people in the country about immigration as only 6 in 10 think it is a problem and 23 per cent oppose a cap on numbers. More than half (53 per cent) say migrants are needed to help the economic recovery, compared with only 30 per cent nationally.
This is not surprising as London is a city where multiculturalism has its roots and still functioning against the comments David Cameron tried to make following the footsteps of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel that ‘multiculturalism’ has failed in Britain. Londoners are positive as they have learned to live and work side by side regardless of race, colour, religion or language. And as everyone knows new immigrants are needed in Britain with a globalised world people should start thinking and dealing with the evidence that teenager’s are worrying about immigration.
Is there no bias of right wing politics which we see everyday in the media and unfortunately this influences young people’s minds by misguiding them?
It is of course not surprising that the poll shows support for David Cameron’s plan, for an annual cap on the number of workers coming into Britain, from outside the European Union. Some 57 percent back the cap and only 15 percent oppose it.
Prime Minister David Cameron should start worrying that with all his cuts in the budgets there is nothing left for the young people of Britain which promises them a bright future. Soon there will be no escape from all the negative effects of his Coalition Government’s cuts for the youth of Britain.
The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has already suffered as a result of his party’s role; in the recent by-election in which his party came in the humiliating 6th place after the right wing BNP and the anti-EU UKIP which was equally humiliating for the Conservative Party.
The teenagers who now are worried about immigration in Britain will be worrying more about their future and then we will see what will follow.
The question remains in what direction will their grievances take?
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