From highlighting all the refugees who hitch hike across europe unmolested to claim asylum in the UK, through the scandalous reporting of the migrations of the EU accession states, what other conclusion could they arrive at ?
Not once, NOT ONCE, has a government minister said anything to challenge the public's perceptions. They have accepted this bilge as the status quo becuase, undoubtedly, focus groups decided that to challenge this by doing the right thing, wouldn't go down with target racist groups. So they sowed the breeze... and here we are, keep to the Fen Causeway
There's a lot of emphasis on "competition for council houses" but distortions of the private rental stock are problematic too. Of course, the government are much more interested in "cracking down on benefit fraud" than looking into this kind of illegality...