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In the UK, the goverment are currently doing everything they can to push the idea that an oversized welfare bill is behind most of the country's current financial woes, and scapegoating immigrants is a big part of that. Unfortunately the Middle England Daily Mail-reading demographic seem to accept this without question in large part; to hear them go, you'd actually think it was housing immigrants in mansions and showering them with gold that caused the bloody recession. Yet this attitude seems to be so deeply entrenched that providing cast-iron figures isn't enough to change the opinions of such individuals. It never fails to terrify me just how much factual evidence people are willing to ignore in order to preserve untenable beliefs.
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