but a very visible number have shot themselves in the foot being so rude, obnoxious and ungrateful that the UK had to take drastic action.
Oh just put a sock on it. Blame it on some misbehaving individuals. What a BS! If anything people had enough of immigration, mass immigration and Poles were convenient scapegoats, white, Christian, European. Various people can have a go at them without being called racist or without a feeling that somehow having issues with immigration or immigrants means that they are not progressive, liberal minded, virtue signaling young buckos as they have thought.
Even British government used Poles to winking to the people saying we are with you, we feel your pain and singed Poles and Eastern Europeans out as the sole problem precisely for the very reason that Poles are not a problem and are integrating very well.
Also they used the EU as an excuse believing that majority of the populace has a firmly pro-EU stance.
At the same time playing the game - oh we cannot control influx of immigrants because the EU regulation won't let us. Which is clearly a lie. Britain is not a part of the Schengen agreement, there are provision in the EU law that allows to deport people from EU who commit petty crimes or are not working.
While at the same time tiptoeing around Pakistani or other Muslim immigration, or immigration from outside the EU, which is all time bigger than from the EU countries.
The point is that British ruling class as a whole is/was on board with immigration and in favour of immigration while most of the people is/was not. All that big dance around it stem from the fact that there was no real debate about immigration. British ruling class has done absolutely unholy mess out of it. Hoping that PC and the liberal mass media will carry them over the line once more as the plebe is too stupid, too lazy, ignorant and unruly to really understand what is what. Even worse they might have no rational arguments at all.
Also plenty of progressivists who are reluctant to talk about immigration other than in superlatives because that marks them in their own circles as racists, a right wing extremist. Those are to be shun and marginalized . They could only open and vent against Europeans which really are used by them as a substitute for mass immigration.