omg, ok ... so deluded was the correct answer.Like you, I don't know if the people depicted are asylum seekers refugees or economic migrants. What was it that made you assume that the people in the picture where refugees? Was it because the word refugee is more emotive than the word immigrant? Were you deliberately trying to blur the line in the hope that you could claim that Farage wants to turn his back on those in genuine need? Was that it?
My interpretation is that the picture was used to illustrate the fact that there are currently large numbers of people on the move from one country to another. When people move in the numbers that we are currently seeing, it does not allow the countries who receive them to grow their population naturally through a steady increase in birthrate. This inevitably puts an un-natural and on un-planned pressure on services and infrastructure. I think we are seeing this pressure in doctors waiting rooms, school classroom sizes, and social service type activities being unable to cope with a rapidly rising work load. This I would call a route to breaking point unless some form of population control is implemented.
We cannot take in every single person that wants to come to this country. The fairest way to put in place controls to allow people to move here based on merit. That may be skills based, genuine asylum or other specified factor. In a nutshell, what I am saying is that controls need to be put in place and the current chaotic system ended.
I don't know if leaving the EU will achieve this, but as things stand today continued membership doesn't seem to offer much hope. I can't see the logic in continuing along a path that has failed to deliver. Whenever I meet a problem in life, I try something else. If that doesn't work I'll try a different approach and I think that is what the EU referendum offers, a chance to try something else.
Immigration is a big concern to a karge section of the population, many of who are recent immigrants into the UK. I know that a similar number of people share the opposite view, but that does not mean that it is racist or wrong to hold these concerns.
David Cameron, rightly or wrongly, pledged to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands. That was popular. Hiwever, he has failed in the most spectacular and high profile of ways. People see this and believe that he has failed because of the EU.
WE ARE NOT AT BREAKING POINT BECAUSE OF IMMIGRATION, if you even think we are at breaking point (which I don't think we are) its because of a lack of investment in the services you've talked about. An influx of people who pay taxes and input into the economy is a benefit to the system not a drain on it.
What kind of economic migrant (the one's from the EU have a legal right to come into this country) forms queues like this. NONE
You do realise the word immigrant and refugee are two separate things. A refugee is by definition an immigrant. However an immigrant isn't necessarily a refugee. Look at the picture, they are clearly not white european, the photograph used was of migrants crossing the Croatia-Slovenia border in 2015. It was chosen for a reason, and if they wanted a queue of people to show that Britain is full... why not use a photograph from Britain, of a packed classroom, or waiting room? Because they wouldn't have had the desired impact, which is clearly, brown people are coming! Be afraid!