UK is one of the most attractive destination for people who want to study as well as who want to settle there. One of the prime goals for students is to work in UK post their studies and finally settle there. It's main drawers are Asian and African countries. I have had friends in the UK, who had completed their Ph Ds and again did a Ph D in the UK, just so that they are able to work there and finally settle in UK. I am not saying that this wrong, given the excellent work culture as well as the standard if living UK offers compares to any South East Asian or African countries.

UK attracts people from all walks of life. If you have taken the taxi in UK, you would have found that majority of them are either from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka. African and Indians not standing far. I used to occasionally meet taxi drivers who had travelled all the way from Pakistan, Iraq or Afghanistan, illegally crossed the border via France and made it to the UK. Although they do not hold a British passport they live life without having to worry much, as they believe as long as they do not get involved in any trouble, the local authorities don't bother them. After all they form a vital part of the UK's workforce who do the low end jobs which the British citizen wouldn't care to do. I was able to sense their importance when on a Muslim festival, there was a huge shortage of taxi's and the reason I heard from other taxi drivers was the festival that was on-going.

UK's immigration policy has been the weakest as compared with Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other prosperous EU countries for the very fact that the UK needed the vital workforce to sustain it's self, what with policy as Job seeker's allowance, which don't push the jobless Britisher to aggressively seek employment.

What with policy as these, A recent survey highlighted the British population as the most lazy! Now that the migration to the UK from non-EU countries has reached to such an extent that even the jobs that the Britisher's are willing to accept are being taken up by migrant's the British Government has resorted to drastic measures to curb unchecked immigration.