Immigration levels

[JamesWales]

Announced today, that they have revised the figures for next migration up to906,000 people in 22-23. 728,000 in 23-24, so 1.6 million people in two years, all whilst we have complete control over it. (This isn't about illegal immigration).

Starmer accused the Tories of running an "open border experiment".

Worth noting that net immigration for decades was essentially zero and nearly always between -50,000 and +50,000 a year. Started rising under Blair and levelled out about 200,000 a year then rose to 300,000+ after the 2009 financial crisis, so 900,000, 700,000. These are all wholly unprecedented figures

Estimates entirety of the Windrush generation is 500,000 over 23 years..

We are building about 200,000 dwellings a year..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3degx4029ko

[The Bloop]

Re: Immigration levels

Politicians have done a great job in getting the public to focus on just the small boat crossings, which account for about 7% of the total, rather than the policies which have allowed the net figure to get so out of control.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Immigration levels

We needed the immigration in the late 1990s

Since the Tories have taken over , 2010 , its rocketed ......whilst all the time they have placed the race card and blamed labour

The news tonight showed Cameron....may ....Boris....sunak .....all talking shit about reducing immigration and blaming labour whilst under their tenure immigration has exploded

Laughable to hear the Tories including cruella von ritchoven bravermaen slagging off labour when it was actually 900,000 under them

Absolute bunch of tossers

They have some brass neck that lot

I hope if reform have any use its to strangle them out of seats and hand the keys to labour and the liberals

[JamesWales]

Re: Immigration levels

We needed the immigration in the late 1990s

Since the Tories have taken over , 2010 , its rocketed ......whilst all the time they have placed the race card and blamed labour

The news tonight showed Cameron....may ....Boris....sunak .....all talking shit about reducing immigration and blaming labour whilst under their tenure immigration has exploded

Laughable to hear the Tories including cruella von ritchoven bravermaen slagging off labour when it was actually 900,000 under them

Absolute bunch of tossers

They have some brass neck that lot

I hope if reform have any use its to strangle them out of seats and hand the keys to labour and the liberals

Was desperately hoping this wouldnt be a party political thing. All the above applies to what Blair and Brown said too.

The point is what the heck are Labour (as the current govt) gonna do about it?

I read in one of the articles, that of those that came to the UK in one year, 170,000 were under 16. That's about 6,000 classrooms!

The numbers now are extraordinary and not in any way comparable to the era that any of us grew up in.

I really do think dealing with this spans across the political spectrum, and was pleased to see how seriously Starmer talked about it today, although I am doubtful of how successful he will be

[Eric Cartman]

Re: Immigration levels

I'm not saying it needs to be this high but the reality is to have:

- Triple lock and 12k state pension to be paid per year to people living longer than ever.

- increasing retired cohort.

- decreasing workforce.

- no radical thinking about wealth tax

Migration has to fill the hole or income tax has to massively rise for everyone. It's an impossible balancing act. Brexit was a vote to decide where they likely came from.

From a politics POV, this probably helps Starmer a lot as it takes away and obvious Tory attack line.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Immigration levels

Was desperately hoping this wouldnt be a party political thing. All the above applies to what Blair and Brown said too.

The point is what the heck are Labour (as the current govt) gonna do about it?

I read in one of the articles, that of those that came to the UK in one year, 170,000 were under 16. That's about 6,000 classrooms!

The numbers now are extraordinary and not in any way comparable to the era that any of us grew up in.

I really do think dealing with this spans across the political spectrum, and was pleased to see how seriously Starmer talked about it today, although I am doubtful of how successful he will be

Piously saying you hoped it wouldn't become party political is a bad look for someone who only voices opinions from one side of the left right divide. There is not a new Government of any shade in the world that would not seize on figures which show that the previous lot, who promised a certain figure as a maximum number, had, in fact presided over a rise more than nine times that target - it's such an obvious open goal.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Immigration levels

Was desperately hoping this wouldnt be a party political thing. All the above applies to what Blair and Brown said too.

The point is what the heck are Labour (as the current govt) gonna do about it?

I read in one of the articles, that of those that came to the UK in one year, 170,000 were under 16. That's about 6,000 classrooms!

The numbers now are extraordinary and not in any way comparable to the era that any of us grew up in.

I really do think dealing with this spans across the political spectrum, and was pleased to see how seriously Starmer talked about it today, although I am doubtful of how successful he will be

The Tories have increased immigration way above 200 k since 2010 .....they came in promising to reduce it

Every single year under them it has rocketed to the huge figure of 920 k as they left office

Increased immigration ....which they used to attack Labour.....is out of control .....on their watch

Absolutely hypocritical hogwash and I hate reform but hope they stick around at 15 percent to keep the liars and fraudsters like braverman , Patel and the new idiot in the bronze medal position , where they deserve to be

[Rjk]

Re: Immigration levels

https://x.com/Haggis_UK/status/1862109292800680322?t=dNfPvRkUimt4gQMoTPMxRQ&s=19

here's a decent breakdown of the immigration numbers, quite interesting I thought

[JamesWales]

Re: Immigration levels

Piously saying you hoped it wouldn't become party political is a bad look for someone who only voices opinions from one side of the left right divide. There is not a new Government of any shade in the world that would not seize on figures which show that the previous lot, who promised a certain figure as a maximum number, had, in fact presided over a rise more than nine times that target - it's such an obvious open goal.

Pious is a strange word, especially when I've started a thread on a topic that is not party political and said I agreed with the PM on it and by implication criticized the last govts failure. It's a fat more balanced introduction to a topic than most manage on here thank you very much!

It is an open goal, I agree, although I think the chief beneficiaries will be Reform, or Labour if they can get a grip on it.

What do you think of the figures though?

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Immigration levels

Pious is a strange word, especially when I've started a thread on a topic that is not party political and said I agreed with the PM on it and by implication criticized the last govts failure. It's a fat more balanced introduction to a topic than most manage on here thank you very much!

It is an open goal, I agree, although I think the chief beneficiaries will be Reform, or Labour if they can get a grip on it.

What do you think of the figures though?

I’m out of line with modern thinking on immigration I think because I don’t have a problem with mass immigration if it means that jobs the residents in the country won’t do get done. I’m not having a go at UK residents who will not take on some jobs there because I’ve been guilty of it myself.

I can remember going to somewhere close to Ross on Wye as a teenager to spend a day picking strawberries - I seem to remember it was on the day England played Brazil in the 1970 World Cup when Gordon Banks made “the save of the century, so we worked for less than a full day because we wanted to get home for the bfootball. I would have been fourteen with a body that I would have thought would have been able to cope with picking strawberries and other fruit for six hours, but I was wrong because I spent the following day recovering from it and decided then that doing such work once was enough for me.

So, if it takes 900,000 from abroad to get onerous physical jobs or low paid construction and care jobs done, then I’ve no problem with it. As for illegal immigrants coming over the channel in “small boats”, I’m for any humane method which reduces and, hopefully, eventually ends this shoddy practice which only benefits those who rake the money in.

[Wales-Bales]

Re: Immigration levels

https://x.com/Haggis_UK/status/18621...QMoTPMxRQ&s=19

here's a decent breakdown of the immigration numbers, quite interesting I thought

Have you got the EU data for comparison?

[az city]

Re: Immigration levels

I’m out of line with modern thinking on immigration I think because I don’t have a problem with mass immigration if it means that jobs the residents in the country won’t do get done. I’m not having a go at UK residents who will not take on some jobs there because I’ve been guilty of it myself.

I can remember going to somewhere close to Ross on Wye as a teenager to spend a day picking strawberries - I seem to remember it was on the day England played Brazil in the 1970 World Cup when Gordon Banks made “the save of the century, so we worked for less than a full day because we wanted to get home for the bfootball. I would have been fourteen with a body that I would have thought would have been able to cope with picking strawberries and other fruit for six hours, but I was wrong because I spent the following day recovering from it and decided then that doing such work once was enough for me.

So, if it takes 900,000 from abroad to get onerous physical jobs or low paid construction and care jobs done, then I’ve no problem with it. As for illegal immigrants coming over the channel in “small boats”, I’m for any humane method which reduces and, hopefully, eventually ends this shoddy practice which only benefits those who rake the money in.

Well said. I am a believer in no borders. We are all members of the human race and should be treated equally.

The bonus of immigration to the UK is it is currently the main source of GDP growth.

[Rjk]

Re: Immigration levels

Have you got the EU data for comparison?

no l, I would be at all surprised if they haven't seen similar increases from some sources(although presumably not the reduction of internal EU migration as they still have shengen)

I thought it was very interesting how tiny a percentage the small boats represented - given the way it's portrayed you hear of 900k people arriving here and immediately picture lots of rubber dinghys arriving - when in reality most of them are on Student visas.

[LeningradCowboy]

Re: Immigration levels

Well said. I am a believer in no borders. We are all members of the human race and should be treated equally.

The bonus of immigration to the UK is it is currently the main source of GDP growth.

GDP per capita hasn't increased in the last three years and is still lower than it was before COVID.

A rapidly increasing population in a country with a stagnant economy is not a happy mix.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: Immigration levels

Announced today, that they have revised the figures for next migration up to906,000 people in 22-23. 728,000 in 23-24, so 1.6 million people in two years, all whilst we have complete control over it. (This isn't about illegal immigration).

Starmer accused the Tories of running an "open border experiment".

Worth noting that net immigration for decades was essentially zero and nearly always between -50,000 and +50,000 a year. Started rising under Blair and levelled out about 200,000 a year then rose to 300,000+ after the 2009 financial crisis, so 900,000, 700,000. These are all wholly unprecedented figures

Estimates entirety of the Windrush generation is 500,000 over 23 years..

We are building about 200,000 dwellings a year..


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3degx4029ko

We need some high-paid working immigrants, we are getting shit loads of the opposite.