Don’t be fooled, the government is not winning the immigration battle…
MIGRATION WATCH UK
On Thursday, there was an all but congratulatory headline in the Times:
“Number of visa applications falls by more than a third”.
“The recent figures from the Home Office signal a drop in net migration — but some claim that French sailors are handing migrants life jackets before they cross”.
The number of visa applications has fallen by 37%, to 772,000, in the year to March, down from 1.24 million in the previous 12 months. Net migration (728,000 in the year to June 2024, which was also lower than the 2023 record high of 906,000) is expected to “tumble”.
Of course, the expected falls are welcome. But there is a hell of a long way to go. The falls are a direct result of the measures the Tories belatedly put in place and largely follow the withdrawal of the right to bring dependants from students coming for one-year master’s courses and care-worker visa holders, also the increase in earnings thresholds for skilled workers and family visas.
Nothing this government has done so far will reduce immigration. Migration will continue at damagingly high levels for so long as it does nothing to tackle and constrain immigration.
The sheer scale of immigration has now reached the point at which it is changing the nature of our country and threatening serious social tensions. We are already seeing the damaging impact of uncontrolled immigration while also importing divisions and conflicts relating to foreign lands. The riots last summer are an indication of some of the underlying tensions that already exist. The rapid population increase and resulting change of our society will have severe social and economic impacts with serious implications for the future stability and cohesion of our country.
The immediate pressures are without precedent. As we have already mentioned, UK net migration in 2023 was close to one million—nearly the population of the city of Birmingham. The provisional figure for the year to the end of June 2024 is approaching 750,000.
Furthermore, and please forgive us for banging on about it, but bang on about it we must. The 30 years between 1991 and 2021 saw the proportion of “white British” in the UK fall from 95% to just under 75% while the ethnic minority quintupled. In the twenty years between the 2001 and 2021 censuses the overall population increase was 8 million of which nearly 7 million was due to migrants and their children.
The government is now on its knees—praying this time, not taking it—hoping that net migration will come down to manageable levels. Yvette Cooper wants to believe the liberal economists and mass-immigration-cum open borders zealots, who say net migration is tumbling. Really? The assumption that net migration will settle at an annual 340,000 from 2029 is for the birds. But even if it does, with population increase now being driven solely by migration—remember, the ONS has said that by 2032 (the next census will be in 2031) the population will have increased by a further 6.2 million of which 6.1 million will be due to immigration (migrants plus their children.) As things are, all population increase will come from migration. Indeed, it already is…
Meanwhile, the birth rate of the“white British” population has fallen sharply. The reasons for this are not clear but, if it stays very low, and if immigration were to continue at much higher levels than the hoped—for 340,000 per annum, we simply get to the day when the “white British” become a minority a few years sooner than we will if annual net migration were to settle at around a third of a million. Children born to native British parents would be a minority in schools much earlier.
There is no public support for immigration on anything like this scale, nor has there ever been. Indeed, the public have never been asked if they wanted immigration on such a colossal scale. They most certainly don’t.
Illegal migration
A quick summary: The boats are still crossing illegally, numbers are higher than ever (6,800 so far this year, 158,000 since 2018), the backlog is growing and hotels are full and getting fuller.
Meanwhile, France does zilch to help stem the tide…
X Posts (formerly “Tweets”) of the week
This is a remarkably courageous speech in the House of Commons from Katie Lam, Conservative MP for Weald of Kent. Before you click on the link, please be aware of graphic language that some may find disturbing. We found ourselves welling up as Ms Lam bravely fought to maintain control of her emotions. We failed. It’s one of the finest speeches you will hear from a politician.
Here are two X posts commenting on the government’s decision effectively to bin the five inquiries into the rape gang affair, one from Andrew Neil and one from Sir Trevor Phillips.
And a post on X that we think important to repeat from time to time to remind ourselves of what we were promised and what we got.
They have repeatedly lied to us. First Labour, then the Tories now Labour again.
Will politicians ever keep their word? pic.twitter.com/OfTTksK5oH
— Migration Watch (@MigrationWatch) April 10, 2025
MWUK in the media
Alp quoted in the Daily Mail here.
Alp on Talk discussing various immigration issues with Alex Phillips. You can watch the full interview below.
Our articles of the week
A longish read—but worth it—from the brilliant Karl Williams writing in Cap X. Karl, cleverly, draws parallels between Britain’s immigration policy of 1709 and now.
“…since 1997, government after government has broken promises to control and reduce immigration. Net migration totalled 68,000 in the 25 years before 1997; in the following 25 years it totalled 5.9 million. It reached 906,000 in the year ending June 2022. More than two-thirds of voters consistently say immigration has been ‘too high over the last decade’, and yet current policy – on education, on safe and legal routes and even on work visas – still locks us in to net (legal) migration of at least 340,000 per year for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, on illegal migration, international commitments preclude the Government from changing the law to take the actions necessary to stop the small boats and forestall bogus asylum claims.”
Read the excellent article in full here.
We also liked this from the terrific Matt Goodwin writing in the Conservative Woman. He covers a lot of ground in his usual balanced but hard-hitting, no-nonsense way. If you haven’t already, do sign up for his newsletter, Matt and Migration Watch are pretty much on the same page on immigration—legal and illegal.
What can you do?
Do write to your MP. Let them know how you feel about the harm runaway immigration is doing to our country. Tell them to push the government, in heaven’s name, to get a grip.
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SOURCE: Migration Watch UK newsletter
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