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Can Brits criticize immigrants taking jobs, when 10% of Brits work abroad?
I've added some arguments to "UK Immigration, Economics and Pensions" by Vexen Crabtree (2007), and added a new opening paragraph to the conclusion on that page. It reads:

Firstly, the values of freedom and fairness dictate that we should allow a wide flow of immigrants into Britain. Ten percent of Britons live or work abroad, so we can hardly argue against free migration. We are ourselves poor at foreign languages, so it is also unfair if we were to hypocritically criticize foreigners for living here without being good at our language. The free migration of open labour markets benefits entire economic regions. The opposite, the nationalist raising of labour barriers against foreigners, has the same effect as trade tariffs: to distort the market, reduce wage efficiency and balance and to harm the economy as a whole. Ironically, attempting to secure local jobs for local residents has the effect of shrinking the economy, therefore reducing the long-term number of overall jobs. Strongly reducing immigration and stopping foreign workers is not worth the economic instability and the loss of freedom and would be hypocritical, given the numbers of Brits that migrate.