It’s the great unspoken success of the UK that kids with a migrant background outperform native-born kids at school, despite a widespread perception that somehow they are a problem for schools

You and your logic. There was I thinking that foreigners only came to the U.K. to sit around all day sponging off the welfare state.

The great unspoken success of the British Right is to convince us that the people doing all the work are spongers and that the spongers are in fact doing all the work

I don't think this is true AFAIK, there is a large maj of people upset about immigration in every EU country, and the US, and probably Aus and NZ as well (not in Japan, cause Japan doesn't allow them in in the first place) we need to deal with this root cause before whining but i have no idea how

Well they’re pushing at an open door but that doesn’t make what I said less true

People find it very easy to get upset about immigration but for very inconsistent and often completely self-defeating reasons. There always has to be a scapegoat and they are the easiest target. It used to be single mothers