To be shocked at the net migration figures currently being discussed

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Yesterday’s figures discussed by the Tories stated that since 2010 the net migration figures to the UK has equalled the size of the population of Wales. Today we were told the figures to June 2023 showed a net migration figure of nearly 1 million for that year, for the year to June 2024 this had reduced to a mere 3/4 of a million. The numbers coming in of the boats per year alone is equal to a large town. AIBU to think this has to stop. We need to immediately crack down on people allowed into this country- limit it to urgently needed highly skilled jobs and start offshore processing (or similar) of the people who are here illegally (basically like many other countries).

We just can’t cope with those numbers. - no wonder our infrastructure is collapsing, we have a housing crisis etc.

I want to hear from the government how they are going to tackle it. We have heard from the Tories now it is over to Starmer.

Anyone who says Britain wasn't built on migration is a total moron.

Of course it was built on migration! How is it possible for it not to have been????
Do people seriously think a group of humans got here at some point in history and that was it, no one else came and added to the population. How the actual fuck would that work?? Is that why everyone is so stupid, they're all incredibly inbred?!

Just for context 750,000 Irish people came to UK between 1845 and 1855. A cookie for anyone who knows why.

Migration Observatory/Unviersity of Oxford is helpful in answering these questions.

migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/migrants-in-the-uk-an-overview/

Thank you.

Sorry, you think this country was 'founded' by Vikings and Romans?! How does that work then? Are you also calling Roman invaders, immigrants, because that's one hell of a rebrand?

@cardibach

"Claiming asylum isn’t illegal. "

True but entering the UK without leave (a passport or equivalent) is illegal under section 24 (B1) of the Immigration Act 1971 which states that person who a) requires leave to enter the United Kingdom and, b) knowingly enters the UK without such leave, commits an offence.

Angela Eagle was on LBC today, discussing the problem.

A lot of people have a problem with those who are here legally, thinking that they contribute to wage depression and housing pressure as they form the overwhelming majority of migrants.

Exactky - and in future it’s likely that we will increasingly need to be self sufficient with food, where’s that going to be grown. We need the countryside for the bio diversity which is needed to make this island inhabitable. We actually need more biodiversity, reintroducing beavers will help with flooding if they help control water flow off high ground. We need more areas of forests to help with co2. Etc etc not to mention the mental health benefits of the countryside.

We can’t cope with all the sewage as it is and our seas are routinely not fit for swimming.

When I see ill informed comments about the amount of spare land we have it reminds me how cut off from nature many people are.

My friend works at our local university, she says there is a problem with many people arriving here from overseas to 'study' they then disappear and never actually finish their course.

Never to be heard from again. Where are all of those students?

She says the government have had to limit numbers from overseas into our universities because they are using it as an excuse to move over here.

Ahh so now we're classing cave people as immigrants! How can you be an immigrant if the country didn't exist at that point? That's not immigration, that's migration.

Thanks that’s made my day.

Totally agree with this
Successive governments have done very little to improve the infrastructure
For example, the failure to invest in social housing is the main reason for the shortage of affordable housing
The immigrants get all the blame though.
Successive Tory governments have deliberately delayed the processing of asylum claims and preferred to blame ‘illegal’ immigration for the problems we face
As others have pointed out, someone seeking asylum is not an illegal immigrant until their application has been refused
Some posters really need to do their research before posting

I completely agree.

Theyre going to make life very painful for the average America.

I do believe it’s USA’s Brexit moment voting him in again.

What the DOGE ripping up of the civil service is going to do, where they fire 50% of the workforce on day one, Argentinian style, well this is going to set fire to America.

If he does even half of what he says he will do, it’s going to be very tumultuous.

And yes Biden has invested in huge public and green projects, which will only come to fruition when Trump is in power…

Amd the real reason for all this global inflation?

Trump spent 6.2 TRILLION during covid to prop up the stock market and the banks.

We’re still living that legacy of such vast quantities pumped into the financial system.

He broke America and the rest of the world while he was at it and yet this man is feted and fawned over.

What?? I genuinely don't understand what you mean. Do you mean that unless you're related to the very first people who ever walked the land in Britain, you're not British?

The daily mail.

UK born young people, who become Neets, are mostly living off mum or dad. They are watching tik toc videos & aspire to be a influencer or on Love Island as a career. They do not want to help the old folks in nursing homes and they don't want to pick fruit, they don't want to learn a trade and they don't want to leave home cos the real world frightens them. Until the UK born youth get real and realise they aren't going to be famous we will continue to rely on migrant labour. Don't blame the migrants, blame Da Yuff.

We’re a bloody island. The mishandling is shocking.

I feel for anyone seeking a better quality of living but this country is on its knees.

Go look at our state run care homes, you will be appalled. MANY of the men and women who paid into the system are downright being neglected. If not worse.

Nope, I'm saying migration and immigration are not the same thing.

I’m guessing the other 90% weren’t as willing to ‘train’ for care roles like PP suggested then. 👀

Ok, could you explain?

YANBU OP

Invite the world in until we have no countryside left to build on, and by then I won't even want to be here.

It's fucking depressing.

They'd be a lot more neglected without all the migrants working in the care homes....

But that proportion is tiny. The vast proportion of migrants are here as students or recruited to do a specific job, with 11% asylum seekers (which includes nearly all "boat people". It's now very difficult to manage in the current economy as an illegal migrant - you can't work legally, can't rent a room, can't claim benefits, can't use the health system etc.

What do you need explained?

open.spotify.com/track/4sXLPgHzJ742DRqms3CSrI?si=Cm0R9Z-KRZGO0l2dgTZHow

open.spotify.com/track/0gqsJm7b3KPSpqA2FsVn53?si=xJdRNyVxRzSJaWfzFRImPg

I don't have words but these do, so I'll let them say it better than i could.