Net migration has decreased from 649,000 to 204,000 in the year to June 2025

It’s due to changes in the immigration rules, originally introduced by tories. Many Uni’s are struggling.

We've had an exodus of tax payers last year?

I know. My point wasn’t about who would want to come at the moment, it about who a country should try to attract. You can attract them with higher tax than Dubai, as long as it’s not cripplingly high and as long as you offer other benefits like a safe environment, a free society and cultural opportunities like theatres, exhibitions and sporting events. Britain is strong on the last of these, but its ranking for the others has taken a big hit over the last 5 years.

Surely people who leave the UK are always highly skilled? High housing costs & wage stagnation make the UK very unattractive to young people.

Dubai has 0 personal tax. Why would young high earning professionals come to the UK to get low wages and pay high taxes, while being tarred as benefit scroungers and told to leave as soon as they get old?

What about gross migration? We’ve had an exodus of taxpayers over the last year. Unfortunately most migrants are not entering high tax paying professions. Also, most British citizens come home after spending some years working overseas, whereas most immigrants to the U.K. never leave. They grow old here. The he most financially beneficial immigrants are those that countries like Dubai attract: fit, healthy, professionals of working age who leave before they become a burden on the taxpayer.

https://fullfact.org/immigration/british-national-migration-revisions/

The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since.

Its not a question of what I like, I think the whole demographics thing is complete horseshit. It lends to this fantasy that the white race is about to die out.

How many people of Northern white European live in South Africa alone? Around 4.5 million. That's more people than Birmingham , Manchester and Leeds and Glasgow put together.

We currently have not even half that many Africans here in the UK.

That's just South Africa, forget the millions of whites all over Africa. Or the 100's of millions in the USA alone, and the millions in Australia and other parts of Africa and Asia.

Guess what? All those people left Europe, every last one of them, for 'a better life'

and despite no real change in the amount of people leaving- just the numbers coming dramatically coming down, that's how fucking net works

Number of Britons leaving the UK higher than previously thought | Politics News | Sky News

The number of British nationals who left the UK last year has risen from 77,000 to 257,000, according to revised immigration statistics.

That’s not really robust evidence though, is it?

At my language class in France.
Sorry if I didn’t make that clear. And I am well aware that the jungle still exists.
Having actually met some of the young men (and it was all young men) on their way to the uk I shared what I saw and heard. Sorry if you don’t like it!

Excellent news. It’s a start, but there is still a very long way to go before ordinary people start to notice the difference as they go about their daily lives. In terms of the numbers of non British-born people in the country, we need to get back to the position of 20 years ago. Only then will the political situation start to change.

You can just see Daily Mail recalibrating , (judging by the comments on here)

Immigration down 70% but ...but...still too many single dark men coming !!

(and despite no real change in the amount of people leaving- just the numbers coming dramatically coming down, that's how fucking net works) The new headline will be-

Great White replacement, our best white people are leaving in their droves and being replaced by dark rapists !!

Fuck, I want to leave this country, its sick and broken.

The young men I met at my language class (all from Africa who had been shipped to our local town after The jungle at Calais had been cleared a few years ago)

Are you serious? Are you saying Calais clearance of 'the jungle' (which very much still exists and always has, clearing away tents and makeshift homes once a month does little) a few years ago led to migrants getting 'shipped' to your local town. As in a coach came and picked them all up and they were all granted entry to the UK ? They aint illegal then .

I've heard everything on Mumsnet now.😆

Huge outward migration from the UK at present. I don't think it says anything good at all.

https://x.com/EdConwaySky/status/1993995645070545042

With their mums presumably.

It says they are doing low skilled jobs NOT that they don’t have skills or professions. I would guess that the vast majority are not the lowliest. Those guys don’t escape or make the journey successfully because they don’t have the resources to do so.

Are the majority of immigrants refugees arriving in boats?

I find the inter-European squabbling over this very strange. The solution clearly can't be that it's a zero sum game, there's a fixed number of people who just arrive on the coasts and the issue is one of redistribution between the countries after having accepted this inevitability...

Me too!

To be fair, Ukraine was set up as a legal route so people could come here through airports etc.

People coming on boats can't do this - hence the calls for 'safe and legal routes'.

It’s not a ‘ton’ anywhere in that agreement. Hence ROI, Germany and others having the same issues. The numbers are very low for everyone.

I'm not sure which of my posts you are commenting on?

I think the Dublin agreement is often quoted as the anti-Brexit 'gotcha' - but as far as I'm aware, we didn't use it nearly as much as people might have imagined pre-Brexit. And EU countries are all struggling with immigration so it's clearly not as easy as sending everyone back to the first country they arrived in.

But they're are doctors and nurses trained in the UK who can't get jobs because of worldwide recruitment into the NHS. Its one of the reasons for the doctors strikes. We've trained these people at huge expense then they can't get jobs. Minimum wage jobs being done by immigrants mean no minimum wage jobs for British young people starting out, students needing to too up their loans, people who need pay time work, young peolle who need work excoriating, and yes, people who decide they would rather not work but should be made to. We cannot continue importing people we then have to pay more benefits to. This was Boris Johnson doing and the whole ' Boriswave' will be eligible for benefits this year.

And quality control....? Numbers aren't everything.

@TeenagersAngst could that be though because of the Dublin agreement which meant as part of EU we had the right of send back - something people forget about - when we were in Denmark they used this and did a ton of repatriations of people regularly who had arrived without appropriate visas -