When are we going to get control over migration numbers?
MIGRATION WATCH UK
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released their revised figures on net migration for 2024, and have proudly announced that immigration has fallen by nearly 50% to 431,000. While the government will breathe a sigh of relief, this is no time for celebration.
Remember when 100,000 was too high…?
Just to break this down a bit further:
- ● Net migration – the difference between inflows (immigration) and outflows (emigration) – was 431,000.
- ● Immigration was 948,000.
- ● Emigration was 517,000.
Net migration may have fallen but the inflow is still eye watering at not far off a million. The fall is mainly due to an increase in emigration. Much of the fall is also because more EU and British nationals have left than have arrived (113,000).
Immigration – legal and illegal – remains alarmingly high and out of control. Today’s statistics underline the dire situation we are in. Net migration is now not only the driver of our exploding population, but it is also pushing us ever closer to the point when the proportion of native British in the population will fall below 50%.
If immigration – the inflow – is to be reduced, the only effective way of doing it is to introduce a cap. Set reasonable limits – both overall and by sector and apply firm control. Higher qualification and earnings thresholds will help to maintain standard but in the end ways will be found to ensure workers, students and dependants qualify for the visas they apply for. Extensions of visas and the granting of indefinite leave must also be firmly controlled. This must also be accompanied by changes to the legal framework and distancing from the international treaties and conventions that tie our hands and prevent us from removing those with no right to be here.
But, in short, no cap, no control; without imposing a limit on immigration, we don’t know where we want to go, never mind how to get there. Net migration should be no more than we can cope with and at levels that don’t mean we British identity is disappearing a little less quickly than is now likely. It must also be at a pace that allows to plan for things like housing, the NHS, and – as Emma Taggart wrote for The Telegraph this week – our water supply. We’ve been warning about this for over a decade.
Illegal migration
Wednesday 21st May saw 828 migrants cross the Channel in small boats. This is the highest level of daily crossings so far this year, smashing the previous record of 705 on 15th April by more than 100.
You can keep an eye on all of these facts on our Channel crossing tracker, which was the first of its kind and still the best.
X Posts of the week
Karl Williams of the Centre for Policy Studies has put together a great thread on the key facts of the ONS statistics. One of the headlines – “around 1 in every 25 people now living in Britain has arrived here in the last four years”.
Nick Timothy MP gave a speech admitting that the record of his party – the Conservatives – on mass immigration was a failure, and has damaged the economic, social and cultural environment of Britain.
MWUK in the media
Almost a year ago, in July last year, our President, Lord Green of Deddington made an intervention in the House of Lords about the huge impacts of mass migration, along with the complete failure of the Conservatives to control both legal and illegal immigration and the apparent indifference from the new Labour government on this most important issue.
This video now has more than 350,000 views on our YouTube channel and a timely reminder of the establishment to get a grip on the most important issue of our time.
You can watch it below.
Our articles of the week
Responding to these latest ONS statistics, Nigel Farage MP wrote for The Telegraph about how unsustainable these numbers are:
“At the start of the pandemic, the NHS backlog for consultant led elective care was at 4.6 million. Now, that number stands strong at 7.46 million.
We cannot progress and grow as a country if mass immigration continues to cost the British taxpayer £14 billion a year.
Just 30 years ago, around 7 per cent of our workforce was foreign born. Today that number stands at over 21 per cent.”
Jake Scott wrote for The Spectator about how the government’s Immigration White Paper will hand over power to determine targets for immigration numbers to unelected bodies (especially quangos).
Also for The Spectator, Karl Williams urges us to keep perspective: “By any reasonable historical standard, net migration of 431,000 is still a massive number – it is seven times the average rate of the 1990s and 100,000 higher than in 2015, when public anger about immigration led to Brexit.”
Starmer’s admittedly very brave admission that we risk living on an “island of strangers” seems to have come a little late – nearly half of us already feel that we are. Read the write-up in the Daily Mail on this polling.
As mentioned above – as we keep warning – The Telegraph published a story showing that the growth of our population, driven entirely by immigration now, is straining our water supplies. Pointing out that, since the last time we had a reservoir built in 1992, Emma Taggart writes:
“There are 10m more people living in Britain now than in 1992, and the increase has largely been fuelled by immigration. The lack of investment has placed growing pressure on the country’s water supply, an issue now in acute focus as the UK heads for its driest spring on record.”
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SOURCE: Migration Watch UK newsletter
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