Chameleon Magazine

 🏛️🪙Nearly 500 migrants a day are now signing up for benefits, with a record 1.3 million foreign nationals on Universal Credit. The headlines scream “invasion,” but let’s pause the fear-mongering orchestra and play a different tune: what happened to all those skilled professionals we were promised? Apparently, the doctors and teachers are here — but stuck filing paperwork instead of filling positions.

🧾 From Immigration to Application: The Great British Benefits Tour

Remember when politicians assured us the UK needed immigration to fill critical roles in healthcare, education, and skilled trades? Well, apparently the nation rolled out the red carpet… straight to the Jobcentre. A record-breaking number of migrants are on Universal Credit, suggesting that rather than wielding stethoscopes or whiteboards, many are clutching DWP forms.

So what gives? Are the promised NHS saviours buried in bureaucracy? Are language barriers or qualifications tied up in Kafkaesque red tape? Or — and hear us out — has the UK become really good at importing potential and really bad at harnessing it?

Here’s the kicker: the same ministers who bragged about a “points-based system” are now side-eyeing their own system like it borrowed their charger and never gave it back. Meanwhile, tabloid readers clutch their pearls as if these benefits are being dispensed in gold bars.

And let’s not ignore the economic elephant in the room: if the UK economy can’t efficiently integrate new arrivals into meaningful work, that’s not a migrant failure — that’s a state failure. You don’t blame the car for not starting when the engine’s been stripped for parts. 🧠🔧

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Why are we so good at attracting migrants and so bad at giving them a fair shot at the jobs we supposedly needed them for? Are these benefit figures a scandal — or a mirror reflecting deeper dysfunction in the labour market? Smash that comment button and weigh in 🗣️💥

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