Immigration fuels biggest population rise in 75 years

https://www.telegraph.co.uk//news/2024/07/15/immigration-fuels-biggest-population-rise-in-75-years/

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  1. Article Text –

    Immigration fuelled the biggest rise in the population in England and Wales for at least 75 years, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed on Monday.

    The population rose by almost 610,000 to 60.9 million between mid-2022 and mid-2023, the biggest increase since 1949, when records began.

    The ONS said the growth was largely down to record levels of net migration, which stood at 622,000 for the year to mid-2023.

    The impact of immigration was even more marked because of the negligible growth in the domestic population due to a declining birth rate and rising death rate due to the ageing population in England and Wales.

    The number of births fell by 21,900 to 598,400, while the number of deaths rose by 24,000 to 598,000.

    This meant the natural change in the population – the difference between births and deaths, dropped to 400, its lowest figure for 46 years.

    The data follow figures released last week which showed a 34 per cent fall in the number of foreign workers, dependents and students moving to the UK following a visa crackdown announced by Rishi Sunak last year to reduce net migration.

  2. A large quantity from a country actively supporting russia’s war effort, time for trade sanctions

  3. But it’s not causing any issues with housing, infrastructure, health care or anything else at all right? Nope not a single issue at all.

  4. Then a lot of people on the centre and left can’t get their heads around why Farage et al get such a high proportion of the vote, and just labels everyone who votes that way ‘racist’ or xenophobic.

    These people need to wakeup and realise that immigration does affect quality of life in certain areas and communities, it affects social cohesion, and access to services.

    The sooner you get over your biases, the sooner the left and the centre can get on top of the issue, and utterly castrate the likes of Farage.

  5. It shouldn’t surprise anyone though.

    Before Brexit we had Freedom of Movement which worked both ways. Workers would come for a while, and then move somewhere else in the EU if they pleased.

    Now it’s insanely expensive to migrate to the UK, but still far easier for non-EU citizens with the points based system, so the people migrating here are more permanent.

  6. The UK needs to shut its borders to anyone without a family connection in the UK, a legitimate asylum claim, a student visa, or a work visa for a profession facing a labor shortage.

  7. The demographic switch is close to being flicked. Deaths nearly above births and there’s really no way back from that.

    We can’t sustain an ever more ageing population with a shrinking workforce.

  8. It might cause some problems with the housing. Already lots of homeless people in London

  9. It is interesting that we can increase the population by so much and still have a critical shortages of workers in key sectors. There is something very wrong with the system as designed.

  10. But there are some idiots in U.K. politics subs who seem to think it’s not the issue and that immigration does not fuel other issues such as housing.

    This is why people are moving to reform. I don’t like it. But it’s the truth. Not like reform can fix it though lol

  12. So, is it now good or bad that the population is rising? I’m confused. One day we’re doomed because the population is rising, another day we’re doomed because people aren’t having enough kids. The consensus seems to change every week. 

  13. If your work offers private healthcare fucking take it now

    It’s the young I feel sorry for. Us older folks had more of everything because there were less people in the country. What did they think would happen by opening up the floodgates in such a tiny island?

    Everything is a fight and a scramble now from housing to healthcare. Even a day in a theme park or at the beach is a joke. Always someone wanting to be where you are standing

  14. What a lot of these articles do not touch on is the rapid demographic and cultural changes we have seen in our country over the last few decades, mainly because politicians and media outlets are too scared to discuss it for fear of being called racist.

    We are now seeing the fruits of Labour’s initial mass immigration policy and the Tory’s continuation of it during the 2010s and 2020s. Birmingham is now 30% Muslim and certain Birmingham constituencies are electing MPs to the Houses of Parliament solely because of a foreign conflict thousands of miles away. Political candidates, especially women, are being harassed and intimidated in certain areas as well, mainly by people of a certain demographic and religious persuasion – look what happened to Jess Phillips during her speech after getting elected.

    And this is the kicker:

    > The impact of immigration was even more marked because of the negligible growth in the domestic population due to a declining birth rate and rising death rate due to the ageing population in England and Wales.

    God knows what the 2031 Census is going to look like. Crumbling public services, little sense of community or nation, kids can’t get on the property ladder, higher education is a scam for the most part, declining standards of living, stagnant wages, and yet we continue to bring in hundreds of thousands of foreign people who all need to also use public services and get accommodation, it’s so ogre.

  15. We adopted an economic doctrine (neoliberalism) hostile to creating the conditions within which people would want to have children. The same ideology demands an ever increasing workforce to fuel profits.

    People didn’t have enough children and the system adapted by using foreign labour.

    The problem is the underpinning ideology, I see a lot of people bashing immigrants themselves but people voted for the 14 years of the party that was the biggest proponent of the ideology causing the issue. It seems unfair to blame the immigrants themselves when it was our democratically elected government that put them here.

    We need to invest in local communities and encourage common ownership in those communities, build houses, fund childcare, improve workers rights and truly invest in our public services.

    People will start having children in higher numbers again when they feel their lives are secure and stable.

  16. Oh yes, tickle my xenophobic prostate harder daddy telegraph!

  17. As long as there are sheep, there will be shearers. And naturally, all of the UK’s problems are solely due to immigration. Good luck in your struggle! 😊✌️

  18. But the tories said brexit would stop immigration, we’d control our borders? then they promised they were the only ones able to sort immigration…

    yeah, so many people believed that absolute bullshit, when all the tories did was line their own pockets, and keep their rich friends rich.

  19. Most economists seem to be agreed that America’s dramatic immigration rise has been the real fuel for its economic success over the last few years. Not an economist myself, so I can’t defend that, but I’ve read it in The Economist and in The Financial Times and so it must be true, right? lol

    The point being: this really ought to be good for the UK economy, all things considered. Eventually.

  20. The last 14 years of Tory mismanagement and wilful disregard of infrastructure combined with an obsessive policy of privatisation hasn’t contributed at all.

  21. I was part of a discussion yesterday with some people from around the world, someone from Jordan was talking about how immigration into the country is extremely difficult, even when married you cannot necessarily achieve citizenship.

    They said this was done to control the people incoming and protect the culture that everyone has as well as living standard.

    I do not think that the uk should be that strict but I find it interesting that a place like Jordan is thinking about its current citizens first and ensuring that the living standard and values they enjoy are withheld.

    Looking at our own country now, even I can see a vast change from the early 90s to now, I am only in my early 40s but am becoming almost nostalgic for how different it was a short time ago. I am all for diversity but when it causes struggles amongst people as well as a health service which is on the brink of bursting, then things need to change and we need to be more harsh oh who arrives.

  23. Now you know why Rishi called the election early.

    Finally broke the million. That’s worth another 5% swing to Reform – add the 2024 summer dinghy invasion figures coming out, and a winter election would have been total wipeout.

  24. We will see far right nationalism gain more and more in the polls, the lefts refusal to address immigration for what it is, is playing into their hands.

  25. Hey ho. At least the lazy obese people can get their nuggets without leaving the house!!

  26. Now do a breakdown of where all these immigrants come from and how many are legally coming here for work and stuff

    It might be a shocker but I’m willing to bet most of them aren’t coming from dinghy’s and are very legal :]

  27. Does anyone have any recommendations on decent rope? I’d like to get off this shitty rock.

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