I'm sorry, but anecdotal experiences are but a tiny pixel of the whole picture. I could just as easily described how catching a train in London that was so overcrowded you could almost tell who was and who wasn't wearing deodorant, or how it took four hours to get from Gatwick to the M1 J10 before I could go above 40mph. Surely having a congestion charge points somewhat to there being a problem with overcrowding.

Probably a little bit of both, at least until the strain on services has eased.

Ahhh my dream at school was to be in a class with only a dozen or so pupils....only happened for a few months when I landed in a tiny village. For the rest of my school days, in the 60s and 70s there were at least 25-30 kids in the class.
I got referred to a consultant as a kid in the early 70s, I remember my mum moaning about the 3 month wait.And in the 80s I had a 6 month wait. Our GP was an immigrant actually, just remembered that, he lodged with us for a while after he came in on a boat ....from Cork

So out of interest, on what date did the MILLIONS of immigrants arrive?

God grief, it's as if the voice of my 97 year old grandfather is back from the grave talking about those 'coloured' people.

My children are still in class sizes of 12-15, and both my husband and I have seen a consultant within a week or so of seeing our GP recently.

So that's a couple of things less to blame those damn immigrants for eh?

Good grief x2.
That's really living in the mythological past, Major.

rubbish & you know it, then again

according to the GMC in the UK near 40% of doctors & nurses are from outside the UK which are needed to fill the void. Now if only the UK could stop the emigration

NHS hires up to 3,000 foreign-trained doctors in a year to plug staff shortage | Society | The Guardian

On school class sizes, not so - back when I was in primary school living in a metropolitan area, it was always 40/class in an all boys school, my wife confirms it was the same in hers also.

On a GP to specialist consultation - it was never quick, months as I remember it back in the 50's early 60's

I will close the door behind me.

You're as bad, if not worse an 'old codger as I am

now, come on, you can't close the door on this one, after all you opened it, so, do enlighten us more with what you know about mass immigration numbers to the UK, after all ...'Knowledge is the adornment and protection of the Empire'

While you're at it, just for the heck of it - when was it you last lived as an ordinary resident in the UK?

Likely life in general, including the healthcare is better in Cyprus than the UK - it sure is for me living here in the colonies

Britain's 50 years of immigration mapped: How Blair's decision to open the borders to Eastern Europe changed the face of the UK
Fifty years of immigration mapped: How Blair’s decision to open the borders to Eastern
More than a third of all migrants living in Britain are now white Europeans - including over half a million Poles - a new government study has revealed. Overall, there are 7.5 million people living in England and Wales who were born outside the UK - making up some 13 per cent of the population. But where previously Britain's migrant population was dominated by ethnic minorities from Commonwealth countries - mainly the Caribbean, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India - almost a third are now registered 'white' and moved to the UK from the continent. Before 1981, 485,000 migrants moved to the UK from the Indian sub-continent - more than twice the number of Europeans. Between 1981 and 2000, the numbers arriving from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh had fallen slightly to 420,000 - but were still more than those moving to the UK from the continent. However, in the years after 2001 the number of migrants from the EU rocketed. Overall, around 1.5million migrants moved to the UK from Europe - compared to just 600,000 from south Asia.

OK, not bad

so have some fun to see just how real immigration is.

click on the tab marked...

Map: Total Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country

International Migration Statistics | migrationpolicy.org

as a percentage of population

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List...on#2013_report

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So about 150,000 a year as an average. When do you judge the point "before the millions came" when life was so much better for you?
As I said before we do need more controls now, but what is your suggested solution to those already in UK??
Those ethnic minorities who came in the 60s/70s are now reaching the end of their lives!! Does this make the situation better or worse??

Ditto. My class at primary school had 40 pupils. My class at grammar school had 30.

I do remember a time, in the fifties and early sixties, when to see your GP you just went along at surgery time and waited. But I also remember waiting lists to see a consultant running into years rather than months during the seventies and eighties.

My primary school class had 42 - 41 native (and white) Brits and one refugee from the war in Cyprus. I think themajor is recalling some mythical England - a nation of immigrants over centuries I might add - that never existed as he tries to portray it.

Here's another non EU citizen that'll be adding to the numbers of migrants by the end of the year.

Thanks for the welcome

Hopefully me too but are we exempted because we have British Roots and married to Brits and totally self-sufficient?

No I think you get 'counted' too.