The problem with your argument is that the examples you give are individual extreme cases, and it is unfair on the vast majority of people who come here, work hard, pay their taxes, and put the money back into the British economy. That's the problem with generalising, you pick one or two examples and then tar everyone with the same brush.
It is like saying all wimbledon supporters are racist xenophobic thugs. Or leftie pinko woofters for that matter.
Would you agree that some people coming to this country are actually of massive benefit sometimes? Take for example the shortage of midwives in the 1950s. This was a huge problem for the country when just as the baby-boomer era was starting, women were having to give birth unassisted in the hospitals due to lack of staff. So the doors were opened to qualified midwives, and literally hundreds came over from the West Indies, and they saved quite a few lives in the process. Likewise today there are massive shortages in other areas like qualified construction staff (surveyors, engineers, fire strategy engineers etc.). And also people who will work for the minimum wage in agriculture. Or clean your house or whatever. Economic migrants only move to another country when there is work and wages to be earned. Whether that is because of a lack of qualified staff, or because the people living in the country are too lazy to do the job can be argued about for ever. Take your average corner shop. Do you really think there are many British people willing to put in the 16-18 hour days, 7 days a week to run such ventures? The people who do these things are true entrepreneurs, they work their asses off, the money goes back into the economy, it creates more jobs, and good luck to them in my opinion.
As for the whole foreign owned company thing, tough shit. That is globalisation, and I haven't seen you complaining about all the companies/businesses owned by British people which have a monopoly in other countries. You can't be duplicitus - either foreign ownership is allowed, or it isn't - and if it isn't there will be a hell of a lot more British people out of work if British run companies wouldn't be allowed to control the massive tranches of foreign business that they do.
Stop assuming that anything and everything 'foreign' is bad. It isn't. The days of Britain controlling half the world is long gone, and rightly so. Accept that this is just another little country on this little planet, and it is no better than any other one.
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