[bestouff]

In short :

> Successive governments have succeeded in making Britain less attractive to immigrants. Unfortunately, they may also have made the immigrants who arrive less attractive to Britons. As the number of migrant workers has collapsed, asylum-seekers have become a bigger part of the mix

[pseudo0]

Wow, if only there were a way for a sovereign nation to control the composition of its immigrants... Crazy how this is framed as a factor completely out of their control, rather than the deliberate policy choice that it is.