#EUreferendum Little England or achieve "control" and engage with the world.

A lazy analysis of the Brexit (out) campaign is they are against immigration or even worse closet racists. This is wrong. Brexit are not "little Englanders" who want to pull up the drawbridge.

Brexit is seeking your vote because they want to be able to CONTROL immigration - which is a completely different thing and entirely honourable, objective and logical.

This is how I see it :

• Access to the EU market is conditional on accepting free movement of labour.
• The EU is the only trading block in the world where free movement of labour is a condition of trade. It is an experiment. Evidently it is not working. Evidently the numbers are having a negative impact on many communities.
• Why is it not working. It is not working because we cannot plan. We have no control on the numbers that come in from the EU and there is every prospect of thousands and thousands more if we stay in the EU. This is putting unacceptable pressure on communities, housing, social services, school places and the NHS. It is also undermining wage rates - particularly at the lower end - because there is an over supply of certain types of labour and we have people in this country who cannot get jobs. 
• It is also not working because the government in attempts to control immigration overall (as pledged because of pressure of numbers) have had to make it more difficult for people from outside the EU to come here as we cannot control the massive (and mainly unskilled) numbers from the EU. Consequently we are making it harder or turning away skilled people - Indian doctors or South African scientists or Philipino nurses.
• Brexit argue what we need is an Australian type points based system - where we choose the people we want, in the numbers we want to fill the skill shortages we have available. It is just not true Brexit is anti migration or racist. It is just commonsense that we should be able to plan and control who is coming in and why.

So finally can we put this argument to bed. It goes like this. Without migrants we might have more hospital beds available but there will be not enough people to look after patients because there are currently 50000 migrants working in the NHS. This is the Stay position. It is how they try to justify uncontrolled migration from the EU. The reality of the Brexit position is - if we need additional people to work in the NHS in the future - we can bring them in from anywhere in the world as part of a controlled points based scheme. So there is no logic or credibility in the STAY campaign arguing Brexit would mean our services would fall apart. All it means is we would have control and have a fair system - a fair system for all citizens of the world that want to come here - rather than an unqualified uncontrolled right to just EU migrants.