text: The complexity of this issue- who benefits, who loses from mass immigration into the UK- is almost never rationally and dispassionately debated. We are up against human nature. Having made up our minds-largely based upon emotion- we look for evidence to support our view. And we dismiss evidence that points the other way. As posts here indicate we are all of us always "patrolling the boundaries of the normal" (a phrase that I read somewhere that fits) and looking to exclude someone from our good graces. This issue touches on people's deepest instincts and upon their sense of their identify and for many (righty or wrongly) it's felt as an attack upon their ability to earn a wage. My instinct is that immigration brings a net benefit- in a variety of ways- but I recognise that there are costs, too. And as a salaried and housed middle class man I don't pay those costs. Both sides in this argument must desist from name-calling and look to debate the evidence rationally