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Promises broken and new records set. And yet, our new Home Secretary shrugs his shoulders and says, “This figure is not showing a significant increase from last year’s figures and is largely in line with our own immigration statistics.”
Eh? What breathtaking nonchalance. In other words, the figures were dire last year and they’re every bit as bad this year. We wonder what Mr Cleverly’s constituents think about it. Or, indeed, the PM’s in Yorkshire?
The statistics released yesterday (23rd) achieved another record. For the first time ever the two-year total of net migration is over one million. In fact, the 2022 net migration of 606,000 has been revised upwards to 745,000. Who’s to say the latest figure won’t be revised upwards in a few months’ time?
Just to summarise the numbers announced yesterday:
- Net migration in the Year Ending June 2023 was 672,000.
- Total net migration for the period 2011 to 2021 was revised upwards by a further 745,000.
- The number of work visas rose by 54% to 586,000 (half of which were to dependants!)
- Study visas rose to 643,000
- Family visas rose by 117% to 82,000.
We put some of this into a chart, take a look here.
All this from a government that promised us in 2019 that overall migration would fall and in the three preceding elections pledged net migration of tens of thousand. In reality, this: Net migration? Record broken. Work migration? Record broken. Student migration? Record broken. Family migration? Record broken. What champion record breakers we have governing us. If only they were records to be proud of.
Read our comment on the news below:
“These figures are truly shocking. They will result in intolerable pressure on our housing and public services. The government have abandoned their promises at the last election and have simply caved in to every pro-immigration pressure group. Indeed net migration is now at four or five times the level of three years ago.
“If this is allowed to continue, Britain’s population could well soar to about 85 million by 2046. This would be equivalent to 18 new cities the size of Birmingham, and would place an intolerable strain on our land, housing, transportation, and public infrastructure.
“Apart from the economic pressures brought by this eyewatering net migration figure, how on earth will we integrate the 1.2 million long term migrants arriving every year? It will only add massively to the problem of integrating the millions of migrants already here.
“The British people have been utterly betrayed.”
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