Quote Originally Posted by Pepe n Pilar View Post
When you combine an ageing population of people needing care and drawing pensions and benefits, with a fall in people of working age who can care for the elderly as well as pay taxes to fund their care, there is only one real solution: paradoxically, more immigration.

The UK needs immigration, combined with the control mechanism provided by a points-based system, to bring in new blood to both boost the working population and care for the elderly and sick.
The UK needs short-term immigration, which the points based system doesn't bring as anyone here on a work visa (or even some student visas) can currently get ILR and hence could retire here which just makes matters worse.

The new system being introduced does help though as only the most skilled get to stay here permanently if they want, the rest can only stay in the UK for a relatively short period of time.