The Truth About Immigration in the UK 2014 (BBC, HD 720p) 

As an English man from the city of Bristol, I'm definitely feeling the "Impact" of living in a culturally diverse community. I have no choice but to suffer working with friendly, talented, outgoing, attractive and intelligent people from all around the world on a daily basis! I feel as if I'm being punished for the colonial attitudes of my forefathers with this influx of diversity, ideas, interesting shops, beautiful ladies and fantastic food. Only last week did a Polish delicatessen open up in my area; One man working 24/7 selling some of the finest cured and smoked meat money can buy, looking to hire English people and become a pillar of the community. What did I do to deserve such hell? Send em all back! I'm becoming too compassionate, aware and open! I want to be more closed minded and easily influenced by the biased suggestions of the BBC! I want to pay more tax in order to live off of fish and chips for the rest of my life and never speak with anyone from more than five miles away from where I was born!

I stayed in England, learned, worked, paid taxes. Now I live in Hungary again.

If people come "looking for a better life," why can't they make the needed effort to adapt? If they can't adapt, then they shouldn't come. As for the BBC, it's PC to the core and wont call a problem a problem. To them, it's always Brits getting " richer" due to immigrant labor, "doing jobs we wouldn't do", but for how long? And at what social and cultural costs???

The UK would benefit from immigration from Central and Eastern Europe in small numbers. People like the Poles, Germans and Czechs or the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and the rest of white Europeans would assimilate easily into the British society and be indistinguishable from the native Britons in one generation. Muslims however for the most part can't and would not assimilate into the British population but likely will attempt to assimilate and replace the natives by mixed marriages and out-breeding the natives. That is why people from incompatible cultures and hostile religious and political system should never be allowed anywhere in UK and Europe. Mishmash of hostile races and ideologies always invariably sooner or later leads to disaster. Multikulti and diversity is another terminology for invasion.

The issue is not immigration, but mass immigration on an epic scale dictated by the EU in Brussels.

What is all this BBC claptrap about Hindu's, Sikhs, Poles, Romanians, Filipinos etc. Those people come to Britain to work and can come in by the lorry load as far as I'm concerned. It's the buggers who arrive yelling Alluha Akbar and wanting set up (more) Sharia Courts I worry about. Strangely they're absent from this "educational" film. The BBC is obviously unaware that unlike the Hindu's and Sikhs (who do appear in the film), our 5% and rising Muslim population have no interest in integrating, are reluctant to work (as that would mean paying tax to the enemy), [Did you see any in that strawberry field?] have a completely alien moral code which approves forced marriage, rape in marriage, under-age marriage, incest, etc., (the grooming gangs are 100% Muslim), and violence toward unbelievers (over 22,000 deadly incidents since 9/11/2001), are impossible to educate as they can't be taught by non-Muslims, and are so touchy and prone to riot they are permitted by our craven establishment to say openly things that would land a Scotsman in jail. As to the idea that importing more Muslims with their medieval ideology would result in an overall enrichment of this country, I've never heard anything so stupid, deliberately biased and misleading in my life. With the exception of Saudi Arabia, which is on a lake of oil, all Islamic theocracies are oppressive, usually brutal, usually dirt-poor. This not as they imagine because of "Western Interference", it’s because of Islam. If you doubt it, take a look at the success of the only modern democracy in the Middle East, Israel.

Nothing great about Britain anymore, these people don't integrate they hang around in their own groups and don't even speak the language , we should NEVER have joined the EU. We have ALL of the disadvantages and NONE of the advantages.

I'm an immigrant my self and what I see that most immigrants do wrong most of the time it's that they bring their whole culture with them including their customs and habits, as an immigrant I try very hard to speak the local language with a native accent , and more important I do not impose my old customs into a foreign country if you are an immigrant you have to adapt your self to the natives customs and habits, in other words you have to embrase the local lifestyle and habits , this will make your integration to the local society more simple and easy

Once you get to know the immigrants they are mostly nice people... Apart from the Muslims.

What i don't understand is why talk about the Romanians and Bulgarians emigrating to England when there are Africans and Indians a lot over triple the number causing a lot more serious trouble/crimes ? It's a bit like.. ignore the huge other worrying numbers and focus on the smaller ones. Not intelligent at all.

Immigration for economic reasons such as skill and labour shortages makes good sense but open borders into an already overcrowded, overstretched country with an estimated 1000 or more migrants arriving per day while unemployment still stands at well over 2 million follows no sensible logic whatsoever. We still have nearly a million unemployed young people in Britain not to mention shortages of school places. Commonsense has to prevail sooner or later. Before you liberal leftie Guardian readers start hurling insults at me, please firstly consider the logic in my comments. I have nothing against anyone.

Thank Blair, Brown and New Labour!!

A banker, a Daily Mail reader and an immigrant are sitting at a table. On the table there are 12 biscuits. The banker takes 11 of the biscuits and says to the Daily Mail reader, "watch out, the Eastern European immigrant is going to take your biscuit!"

I'm not from the U.K but notice that when he mentions the origins of the immigrants (Afghanistan, Iraq) don't forget the Indian and the Arab people which weren't mentioned in the movie, those are all countries which were invaded by the U.K or have been attacked by troops that were sent from the U.K after it joined forces with the united states. So it's only natural for those people to immigrate elsewhere after their countries have been demolished and continuously being occupied by allied forces till this day. They shouldn't be blamed for migrating in my opinion.

Problem is they tend to form large communities and don't integrate with the Brits. Some don't even know a word of English. They want to live like they live in their country but with the benefits living in the UK guarantees. I say this as an immigrant from the EU myself who has not claimed a single penny in benefits lol

its not the polish people that worry most britons its the tide from non EU countries, russians, pakistani, indian, african. the recent happenings in Syria have opened the door to millions in the middle east and far east, britain is going to be swamped and the NHS and schools just wont cope, they already are struggling. They have lost control.

So if the British people got off their asses and took any job going regardless of how little it is viewed in the peoples' eyes (or in their own eyes), then foreigners wouldn't be needed to fill that economic gap. Sounds like a plan!

Mr Strawberry Farmer says British workers won't pick strawberries. They will, if you pay them a fair wage. But you don't want to do that - you prefer to undercut them with imported scab labour. That's the reality of it.

Just wanting to improve the life of your family, by JOINING British people in their workforce, is no reason to be against them. However, when THEY want to CHANGE your laws, disrespect your government, to make things just like they were in the country they left? That's the time to resist immigration.

I´m Portuguese. This means I´m one of this migrants. However I fully agree with all the measures to control migration. Not only in UK but in all Europe. "In Rome be Roman"... I'm working hard, paying my taxes, heating, sleeping, and living like a British... This should be the main rule in any country. And if necessary to fight for this country I will do it as well.

The idea of hiring translators is to be honest ridiculous. I moved from the UK to Mexico with two young daughters of school age. They had no choice but to learn the language here, and have integrated really well. One has just finished her degree, and the other is top of her class in University. Not insisting on them adapting would have been a disaster for them.

The video title is contradictory, it says “The Truth...”, then says “BBC”. Truth and BBC don’t belong in the same sentence.

Worth watching it! Many thanks for the upload m8!

BBC... already know where this is going

I'm a Finnish guy who visited London for the first time two weeks ago. Was shocked to see how diverse it actually was. The streets, stores etc were all literally packed with immigrants. What have you guys done? At times I felt like I was the only white guy around. The only places that actually felt English were the few pubs and restaurants that I visited. I just never see this happening to my country. We are patriotic enough to keep the scum out. Sure, we take immigrants too, but with moderation.

...I like the presenters questions, straight to the point, best questions ever! Truly well thought out! Well done Nick Robinson and all others that helped in!

When business owners say 'Immigrants work much harder than UK people' what they really mean is 'We don't want to pay minimum wage to our workers nor do we want to treat them like people'

4:45 there is the full answer. I work for an employment agency and this is a full truth for hundreds of farmers, food production plants, construction sites and many others which offer a simple and low payed jobs. I remember in 2009 our agency was offering a job in a food packing plant near Berwick upon Tweed - a place affected by a very high unemployment, one of the highest in Britain and it was recession this time. We wanted to offer a job for the locals first and we asked the Berwick jobcentre for help. They sent us a whole bus (40 people) of young local jobseekers and you know what? After 3 days there was only 1 person left. We also employed other locals directly and there was the same problem. The money we offered was absolutely the same for everyone.There are whole industries in this country depend on immigrants because they can not find workers among the British. Send them home and stop food production, construction, transport and logistics and many others.They will never pay much but someone has to do these jobs anyway. I don't belive that this businesses will find employees in this country.

I would like to point out a lot of british companies like employing non british workers. due to one simple fact cheaper labour resulting in bigger profits. so what I am basically saying is " brits are being sold out, by there own"

this is a very informative documentary. It explores this issue in great depth. Well done. And thank you.

simply awesome documentary, great work!

You cannot call it good or bad, you can call it moving forward.... I am born in Romania and I still live here but it's not my home. My home is Planet Earth, we are all humans and we all share a planet. I hate when people label one another by any criteria like skin color, religion and even the place you are born. Sure, economy, culture and many other things differ but I think that is a good thing because we can learn from one another. I also think we have to help changing bad ideas trough education. The lack of education leads to bad and anti-social behavior and that is the real problem and avoiding this problem is not going to solve it. Thanks, Nick, 23 years old romanian dude who wants globalization.

listen to al those EU countries complain when we say we are full, now how big are their countries compared to the UK? yes we are just a tiny island and we are way too full

It is not rocket science, the Tory's has stripped staff from the very service needed to fight illegal immigration, of course they have, cheap labour for their supporters agencies and factory owners. Everyone knows it has been out of control for years now and we will struggle to ever get back the way we were. These tories have sold our streets out for cheap labour, and you can bet these people are NOT living on their doorstep.

I'm sad for what the UK once was.

You often hear the catch-phrase "We are a nation of immigrants" get bandied about as a defense for letting anyone and everyone inhabit your land. This is a ludicrous comeback. The human animal is inherently migratory. The Indians migrated into North America just as the Vikings did and the Spaniards and eventually the rest of Europe. The Indian is no more "native" than the European. Where this whole "We are a nation of immigrants" fails tremendously is that it does not account for the distinct and unique character of various waves of immigration. In other words, the immigrants that entered America in the early parts of the last century are not the same as the waves of immigrants entering the nation today. So to generalize all immigration is a not-so-cunning defense of what is in my opinion a corrupt policy that has been allowed to degenerate into a social illness. People, just because it's human nature to migrate does not mean I should allow every miscreant, criminal and root digger to convert my suburb into a ghetto. That's just stupid and I'm surprised people have tolerated this excuse for so long. No, what makes a nation is cohesion and strength. That's what defines a nation, people. Not this "we're just a diverse blanket made of many fabrics" horsepucky. No nation was ever consolidated and rendered mighty by that line of logic.

It's worse here in Vancouver Canada. Every 3rd citizen is of non western descent!

great show. good job ☺ on topic

One thing was not presented correctly in this documentary. They call gypsy people Slovaks like if this was their main trait. No, they are first gypsies and then Slovaks. They live in many other EU countries and they basically act similarly everywhere - most of them, not all. Slovakia is a beautiful country with very good people, which struggles with gypsies of its own. It is them who are typically known for lacking social skills, basic hygiene standards, often a will to work and only expecting money flowing to them for nothing. For many of them to work is a shame and they seek any other ways of getting money. I appreciate the film makers tried to avoid labeling people based on their skin colour, in a bid to avoid being named as racists, but things have to be presented correctly. Most white Slovaks are not acting like what you have seen on the streets of Sheffield, but most gypsies do act like that anywhere. It is an ethnic with its specific traits, which really does clash with general European standards of culture. If you ever came to Slovakia and see its true face, you would understand how misreporting this documentary was.

England is a small old country and it is not a good idea to encourage immigration like Canada and USA.

These guys were everywhere in the world, They were in India illegally for 150 years, now facing illegal immigration is nothing but a taste of their own medicine.

I really like the video, I want to show it in my class but I was wondering if you know where I can get the subtitles for the video? Thank you.

It is an exhaustive documentary. In 2000 I travelled to Canada enroute to London Great Britain where I spent few days and to meet my elder son who was studying business and living with a relative. The heatro airport was too congested. The metro looked me old fashoniond and I had to change two trains to reach my destination in Eastern London.The next day I wondered the Oxford street, Trafalgar Square. My relative took me to South Hall to his jewellary shop in his car. He told me that he was paying taxes yearly 45000-50000 pounds. Travelling in metros and double deker buses with my son as a guide, I enjoyed a lot. It is worthwhile to go to England.

Viktor Orban Hungarian president said, "that it's time for Poland to seek for being a superpower". Do you know what I mean? In the Middle Ages, Poland was the richest country in Europe. It was also one country in the world which conquered the Moscow and stay there for over 5 years. Poland was a very open country for immigrants. Many immigrants were coming to Poland at that time including Scots and Englishman. Even one district in Gdansk today called a New Scotland. Ii will be good if the BBC interviewed with some people as Norman Davies. He has a lot of knowledge about Poland. He also wrote a good book "Goods playground" with one I Recommend to everyone. You could find him on RU-vid too. The German historian Hans Henning Hahn said that in the 19th of century the same opinions about the Germans have in Europe as today about Poland. What I Will wrote a lot. Poland today is a much better country than it was 10 years ago, and if you polish people return today with all your experience, education and other things with did you get in GB Poland will be a superpower in Europe again.

Remember that England means Land of the Angles, a Germanic tribe of immigrants. The English language is a fusion of German and Norman French. Genetics prove high levels of Viking and Roman blood. Britain appears to be a Celtic name, from Gallic French immigrants. The earliest known name was Albion. How many can claim to be 'Albionese'? The real problems here are the instability of the boom and bust economy, belief that expectation/rights are some kind of privileged birthright and imbalances in education/welfare/employment/pay etc.... If those problems were sorted out, there would be few complaints. Immigration would hardly be an issue. Nor would emigration.

Never underestimate the ability of people to hide problems.... :/

Australian prime minister Turnbull said: “It is not compulsory to live in Australia. If you find Australian values, you know, unpalatable, then there’s a big wide world out there and people have got freedom of movement,” He is a man with backbone and a sane mind. Not like the foolish liberal European leaders.

The amount of immigration in UK and other western countries reached mad level. I myself am from Czech republic and dont like this; I believe UK has right to restrict immigration even if it would include Czech people (who actually rarely immigrate to UK). I think Czech republic has good luck of not being so much populated by immigrants and I think we have opportunity to learn from UK mistakes - provided that UK will not try to force us to repeat them in act of solidarity or support of multicultural ideals. Globally, I believe immigration is damaging economies at least in eastern europe. If Mr. Brooks, the strawberry farmer, wanted to have his strawberries picked, without cheap labor of eastern european immigrants he would have to pay much better salaries to locals to motivate them to come picking strawberries to his farm. That would increase his cost and would create a good opportunity for farmers in Romania, who could start their own farms and export strawberries to UK. This would result in establishing local businessmen in Romania and jobs for Romanians in Romania. However, the current model using immigrants to pick strawberries has simple effect: Mr. Brooks has no need to increase salaries, he can keep low price of his strawberries, so for Romanians in Romania, no opportunity arises, just misery and hope to become UK immigrant. If a farmer in Romania would have started a strawberry farm, he could not hope in selling his strawberries to UK, because UK has cheap strawberries due to work of Romanian immigrants. The only Romanian businessmen are those who organize import of goods from UK and other countries, because local economy does not provide opportunity to create local businessmen running farms or factories - local people are very poor, so goods would have to be sold at very low price to people and return of investment in building farm or factory would be very bad, whilst import from UK is much more efficient than starting local factory: the goods imported from UK are so cheap - no wonder, because they are manufactured by low paid immigrants, many of them from Romania! The circle of misery and no exit closes...

I am surprised English people seems to have forgot the massive contribution Polish and Czech\Slovakian soldiers have given during WWII. Many of them died for the Union Jack...

I wonder what's the name of the song at this moment 28:00?

From my experience the Poles who settled in Britain after the 2004 EU economic migration are diverse in many ways. They include farmers, skilled workers, unskilled workers, middle-class, and intellectuals; Catholics, Converts to Islam, and atheists; Silesians, Cracovians, and Warsawites; socialists and conservatives; racists and politically correct; rural dwellers and townsfolk; rich and poor; decent folk and criminal anti-social scum; ones who's grandparents fought for Poland alongside Britain in WW2 and those who's grandparents actively collaborated with Nazi Germany. They differ in mentality, views, customs and physical features. A majority had been from farming stock in Poland, and most arrived seeking economic opportunities.

once apon a time the british colonised most of the known world.... now in a strange twist of fate, the world is now coming back to colonise Britain... dont know about you but i call it Karma.

You think the Brits have it bad? Try living in California or Texas....

To sum up, what is the main meanings in the film. Is it fore or against the immigration?

What a fucking mess we are in ..

if immigration is good for the economy then the economy needs to change

Nick Robinson knows if he wants to keep alive a career at the BBC, or broadcasting in general, the program has to come down in favour of mass immigration. Dissent is forbidden. To paraphrase Voltaire - if you want to know who your true masters are, think about who/what you can't criticise.

at 44:19 I thought hello was gonna play 😂😂😂

I can't watch this any longer. So sad at how the UK has been shafted by our politicians.

If the BBC says its the truth then it must be the truth.

I am a specialist in the metallurgical industry. I've never had a problem finding a job in Europe (Germany, Belgium, France, or Germany too), but never in my profession met a representative of Muslims. Why? If they do not want go to work, someone fills this gap. Indeed, East Europe, flooding the UK. But first take back Muslims benefits , then either return to home or will go to work. Problem solved !

Ever notice the people who live in places with wonderful weather somehow can’t feed themselves but then in places with the harshest winters and you would think would be nearly impossible to make it, they’re fine

at 32m 48s MP David Blunkett say's "We were on the side of the Angels " Bless !

It's all about race , Those who say different are either stupid or afraid .

I think, Britain should enjoy their multiculturalism. This gives them very high reputation all over the world. Britain have almost foreign people from all over the world. I am dreaming that one day, my country is also multicultural like UK and USA. This means power.

Very interessting and Thanks .

The question is not whether Britain has too many immigrants but rather LONDON. Rest assured by venturing outside greater London it's immediately obvious (with the possible exception of certain parts of Birmingham and Manchester) the rest of the country is still predominantly white British.

Enoch Powell was a visionary. He must be rolling in his grave at the state of our country.

The issue is though that if you were to stop immigration entirely or greatly reduce it in a short period of time it would greatly affect the age distribution of the UK. Unless we're careful, we could findo ourselves in a similar situation to Japan or China with too many older people and not enough young to support them.

This is a very comprehensive report on British immigration. I wonder how many people in the comment section actually watched this video in its entirety before sharing their views.

I'm just so curious what's gonna happened if one day all of us (eastern europeans) decide to escape UK suddenly, all of us at the same time. What's gonna happen whit the economy here? Regards

Its a shame that such people exist today, people in Britain are afraid that the foreign workers are taking their jobs, have you guys considered making yourselves employable? Are your children ready to attend colleges? Are you willing to give up the benefits you get from government and wake up early in the morning to work hard for the day or two? I have seen that many young Brits do not want to work hard at school or college, they are afraid of considering subjects like Maths, Physics etc as their main course, while their counterparts from countries like USA, China, India and Brazil are working their asses off to learn the complex subjects and make themselves employable. How are you supposed to fill in talented jobs with such weaklings from Britain who do not know what the value of PI is. I ask have you guys got talented surgeons, scientists, programmers professors etc? Have you? Do you guys really think people in Britain have the balls to consider the above professions? Wake up people, the problem lies within you, being born in a developed country doesn't entitle you to a better job or a life you would have to work hard especially in well developed countries. I imagine that in future the world will be a place where rich countries will have intelligent people from all over the globe and there will be cut throat competition, so embrace yourselves, this has already started in well developed countries and it will spread out to the rest of the world. Intelligent and well educated people make countries and grow economies, your governments might be protecting you now, but sooner or later you are going to see reality in the eyes.

Rather than blaming the immigrants #Brits should blame their ancestors who followed the path of imperialism. This is bound to happen. What goes around comes around.

The question remains: Why is it that a glass blower in the UK earns 6 times what he would earn in Poland?

It's not about "we shouldn't fear immigrants", UK is used to having immigrants, immigrants who came to work and assimilate into their new country. It's about immigration being out of control, through a number of factors. Not enough jobs, housing, schools being over-subscribed, welfare system at the brink of implosion and the strain on the NHS. It is insane to think that any country, especially one as small as England, can take in an unlimited number of immigrants and migrants. If there is enough employment, housing, schools, welfare benefits etc., a country still needs to keep a cap on immigration and migration, for the sake of their own citizens and society at large.

what I dislike about the imperialist power is that they go to the colonies take their wealth, and then they leave the colony poor and then they get mad when the bees fly to the Queen's Nest.

What a wonderful thing is hindsight! There were many who could foresee the state of affairs we now face decades ago, but the ruling classes have always made sure of an endless supply of cheap labour. In the days when it was common place for the indigenous population to have very large families there was no need for mass immigration to supply that cheap labour. Once birth control was understood and available we had a never ending policy of immigration,whether the majority of people wanted it or not. We were never asked. It seems politicians and economists can only think in terms of expansion, and never sensible balance. The reason for that I suspect is because expansion allows them time to cover up former errors of judgement on fiscal policies. Where would the Treasury be without expansion. It,s called kicking the can down the road.

The thing about uncontrolled migration......Picture ink relentlessly dripping into a glass of water.Its not going to end well for the initial resident water not to mention the eventual and inevitable overflow.

How many immigrants are there in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland compared to England?

i'd rather suffer and be poor most of my life then live in a country where im a minor

Here in the us is not as bad as in the uk. Most of our immigrants are from central america but they're not violent.

Irgendwer me Zusammenfassung davon?

I see arguments about strawberries, curry, etc., and I hear, "If we can't exploit cheap labor and people from third world or developing countries, WHAT WOULD WE DO?!?"

"The people of the country weren`t asked about it or told about it" Well said Michael Howard ! Never a truer sentence spoken.

Immigration done legally is acceptable. Any other way should have a death sentence

who watched this 2 minutes before the lesson @elliot

Germany, Spain and France have the largest “positive net migrant stocks” with the rest of the EU (which means they host more intra-EU migrants than they send). Romania, Poland and Portugal have the largest negative net migration stocks with the rest of the EU (which means they send more intra-EU migrants than they host). The UK has a small net migrant stock with most individual EU countries, with the notable exceptions of Poland (net migrant stock of +518,497 meaning many more Polish people live in the UK, than British people live in Poland) and Spain (net migrant stock of -340,299 meaning many more British people live in Spain, than Spanish people live in the UK).

cheap immigrant workers for maximization of share holder's profits, yuck...

i'm not british i'm canadian and i lived in london england in 1992 i loved it was great when i came back to london in 2008 i couldn't find one white proper english speaking person it's like london has turned into this big pile of garbage from all around the world immigrants ruined london britain is a great country it is the birthplace of the gentleman and monty python's holy grail lol any way i love england and i hate to see whats happening to it now and i can only imagine how the english people feel about this

Why do utube put up certain people's comments on a video iv neither watched ???

There are plenty of skilled British people in the UK coming from the old manufacturing industries. I learned to blow glass from an old British glass worker. He lost his work when the local factory closed down but his skills are still there. All I had to do was find some facilities and ask for instruction. He could have been hired along with so many foundry workers and welders.

I am an unemployed Englishman who would love a job on the farm , i cant get one

UKiP, vote.

Jesus what a mess in the streets!! Unbelievable..!

Notice the merry, cheerful music... Well all is jolly. What seems to be the problem?

I would like to see an increase in immigration....its enriched the UK immeasurably...of course, the challenge is to make pluralism work ...many of the comments here are just tired old racists who aren't capable of appreciating anything or anybody...

How the hell do you expect people to integrate into British society when they're being discriminated against??

Great advice for you. If you don't want all the Polish people to hate you, don't say they are form Eastern Europe.

I want to move there, anyone know the best places to find well paying welding jobs?

Can I get free housing, welfare and benefits in all the other EU countries if I want to immigrate? No? Well then this is not fair. No one should get welfare benefits, free housing, hospitals, medical care etc. unless they have contributed for 10 years. This is not fair on the indigenous tax paying population. No benefits then the immigrants wont want to come. We have plenty of British people that are out of work and many that live permanently on benefits and don't want to work. There are doctors from countries like Poland that come to pick strawberries for better wages. This is not good as it is draining Poland of professional workers. We are being selfish if we only import them for our own good. Muslims, who want to change our Western way of life, be mean to their women and stop our freedoms, shouldn't be allowed in at all as this is treasonable to our way of life.