Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
It really, honestly was a miscalculation more than anything else. They genuinely thought the eastern european migration would be far smaller and more gradual. The motivation was a gradual change in the demographic to expand the workforce over the next two decades and look after the millions of old *******s we are stuck with.

That and to push labour costs down in certain sectors.
A miscalculation?

A miscalculation is when a barmaid gets someone's change wrong, not when a Prime Minister lets millions of migrants in, thus fundamentally altering a society's demographics in the space of a decade.