Now don't forget, you can do a lot with stats, including make one set of figures back up two contrasting conclusions.

15 years ago, the so called "man on the street" wouldn't have given a stuff about migration within the EU, as he would be more concerned about people coming in from certain countries outside the EU, who had alien ideas to the existing culture, in some cases totally at odds with this culture. In other words, some German workers are hardly going to cause problems over here.

Of course, the politicians and right-ons in the "meejah" would scream raaacist at the man in the street for daring to express such opinions.

Now things are different and the flavour of the month on immigration seems to be people from poorer EU countries coming here due to the generous benefits system, and to boot these people aren't exactly welcome in their original countries (Romanians are delighted with who are leaving).

There are though a number of things which must be considered:

1. The government can't do a thing about EU migration. Not a single thing. The entire population of the EU could decide to come here, our systems would totally collapse, but we could do nothing.

2. The government can do things to limit non-EU migration, hence certain new restrictions on spouse visas for one, which we're all aware of on here.
Little footnote to this, I work with some pakistani guys, it is causing absolute havoc in their community, BUT they are finding ways around it. I can even think of a loophole you could drive a tank through, which really only that community could use, but I'm not saying to anyone in case it hasn't been widely thought of. I'll tell by pm if anyone is really interested, but it's not rocket science at all.
None of these guys have suggested that one to me, their ideas are buying into kebab shops and setting up businesses. Seems businesses are passing hands like library books. Anyway...

3. This is possibly the one many in the media are overlooking, but bizarrely Vince Cable has picked right up on it. Less people are leaving the UK. This is going to skew the governments targets.
Now there was a comment in the Daily Mail (sigh!) where someone suggested everyone leaving is so called British cultural, and everyone arriving is completely different, which would lead to Britain being a totally alien country in a few decades. This Mail reader suggested leaving for Canada like he did (He fails to see the irony here).
How do we know though who is leaving and who is coming in?
For all we know, those leaving could be entirely "kebab shop owners" who have made their money and are now buying mansions in Kashmir (This actually happens), or they could be Poles going back home to start families.
Those coming in could be Brits who emigrated to Australia, and have realised it's not the dream they thought it was, and Britain beats Australia for quality of life and social culture after all.

We just don't know