11 million immigrants since 2000. When I

We don’t necessarily need immigrants to do these jobs, but we need to make the jobs more attractive to people already here. There are many unemployed people who could go into these jobs. Caring for our elderly is an important job, and people doing the role need to have more training, better pay, have at least basic qualifications. As it stands too many people are in the roles who do not provide good care because they’re uneducated, minimum wage and unsuitable for caring roles. They’re in them because generally, the employers have difficulty attracting people and so it’s people who are doing it because of the minimum skills required. Until recently, when I’ve had experience of having relatives in these care homes, I’d no idea just how bad the standard of care is in these places.

I think that's why the government have proposed stopping people bringing family members. Some brought grandparents, parents etc and many don't contribute adding to problems with care, NHS etc. Come to work, but really do we need all the family too, unless people agree to pay for them. That seems reasonable.

That's... not how the population count works.

More older people LIVING longer because in previous cohorts the older generations died sooner.

These older people now were not the existing older people then - they were the younger working aged population. Then as they have aged and more babies are born and yes some migration, the population has grown instead of staying at static levels.

Think of it as one in (born or migrated) and one out (died). The one's out are fewer therefore creating the bulge.

Whether other countries do or do not accept UK citizens is nothing to do with us. Who we let in is our choice.

I do not advocate not allowing Brits to emigrate, but if they're doing so to aoid tax there should be a clawback if they ever choose to return.

OP… tell me you support Fartage & the far right…that’s probably where you got your crazy figures from. Better go & check your flag hasn’t blown away in the wind.

Yes, I'm guessing my request will be ignored, but I will wait a bit and see if evidence can be supplied.

Stay in their own countries and try to improve things there?

Do you think other countries should remove all their immigration laws and let us access their benefits systems too?

Good luck with that!

It is clearly not going to be the unskilled migrants is it? Or the large numbers of others who do not work but just add to our tax burden.

Thats a failure of infrastructure planning & investment.

Just checking... so then Brits should also not be allowed to emigrate? Cool.

Have you got a source for this claim - I would like to see it. Thanks

Clogged roads, packed public transport, high housing costs and ever less open space and countryside does, however.

Yep. How to tax AI replacement, that’s the biggie. Plus what to do if there’s too many unemployed. Immigration and always increasing won’t be the main driver.

We haven’t been able to feed ourselves for decades but Labour seems intent on undermining food production completely.

There’s no easy answer to that. Maybe more education about the reality of what’s awaiting them here. People coming in who have no skills or no command of the English language are going to end up potentially jobless or exploited or living on the streets. I recall watching something some time ago where some immigrants were being interviewed who weren’t aware of the reality, having been sold the dream, and that they wouldn’t have come here had they known.

We’ve also seen a dramatically aging population. Less babies are being born and more people are aging with longer lifespans. This has led to many gaps in society more people are retiring out of the workforce that aging in. Who is going to those jobs and pay the taxes that keep society going and fund the pensions. Also all those people who are growing old and frail need the be cared for. There is more pressure on the nhs and demand on the caring professions. We need immigrants to do those jobs and pay the taxes to fund them.

I’m not sure. I do know they paid privately in Australia for tests, etc. They also want to
die here and not in Australia. Which I can sympathise with but as I say can they just “slot” back in to NHS care? I think the answer is yes.

For elderly Americans who may have to
pay here it will still be less costly than in the states.

"Even if" "Let's say" are not indicators of fact

They could employ some of the thousands of uk trained doctors who have been left unemployed this year as a result of giving equal priority to any doctor who wants to move here.

Some of that population growth is due to people living longer.

Off the top of my head net migration since 2001 is more like 5-6 million.

The recorded figures show

The population of England and Wales continued to grow in the year to mid-2024, reaching an estimated 61.8 million people (61,806,682). The size of the population increased by 706,900 (1.2%) from mid-2023.30 Jul 2025

Undocumented people would just be a guess though.