Isn't allowed by whom exactly? Simply allow immigrants to vote. Have no work permits, thus working as cheap labor? Give them permits.

It's appalling how people pretend that they don't have anything against immigrants but they are against illegal immigrants as if the paperwork for legal work is a natural phenomenon and they can't do anything about it.

> Simply allow immigrants to vote.

You've just given me a great business idea. Votes for hire. I bet I could charge a fortune, and I would only have to pass a small fraction of that on to the immigrants I employ.

Why is that different to money for votes?

Simple - money for votes requires registered voters. My scheme - erm, "business plan" - just needs unregistered immigrants! Way easier to enact, because they're undocumented to begin with!

It's not.

> Isn't allowed by whom exactly?

To be clear, as suggested by the rest of your comment, it is currently not allowed due to various political reasons. Nobody is arguing ideal situations, only reality.

Why even have permits then? Just get rid of the permit system altogether.

There are probably many million starving African desperate to work a job like trash-man or food packager. Competition for lower skilled jobs will become fierce, but I guess competition is a good thing.

Yes, changing even the tiniest thing is basically destroying everything.

I agree. Why would the government be the first step of HR? As if the companies can't choose the right employees for themselves and they need to go through the state bureaucracy so that they don't hire a lumberjack from Bangladesh as a JS developer in Bristol.

If you’re in the UK legally you can vote.

As someone who is legally in the UK (more than a year), this isn't true. It might apply to the citizens of some countries (like the EU).

Yep. Only British, EU, and Commonwealth citizens living legally in the UK can vote. Those of us from anywhere else in the world can't vote until we fully naturalize.