Illegal Migrants: A correction
https://www.thesun.co.uk/clarifications/33054976/illegal-migrants-a-correction/
by corbynista2029
Illegal Migrants: A correction
https://www.thesun.co.uk/clarifications/33054976/illegal-migrants-a-correction/
by corbynista2029
43 comments
Well, well, well. I wonder how many people will see this correction compared to the actual article.
> Further, the ‘1 in 12’ figure included some legal migrants, for instance those given indefinite leave to remain and some British-born children of migrants with irregular status.
Total bollocks then, just like everything else they print,
Bets that they knew full well those figures were wrong, but the correction will attract far less attention and the narrative is now out there
This should be on their front page and at the top of the website.
7 days ago, the original [thread](https://redd.it/1i7mhu0) with title “One in 12 in London is an illegal immigrant” got 1.8k upvotes.
In reality, they missed London’s population by 2 million and the ‘1 in 12’ figure included some legal migrants, for instance those given indefinite leave to remain and some British-born children of migrants with irregular status. I wonder how many people who upvoted the article is unknowingly counted as an “illegal migrant”.
We need to do something about the Telegraph/Daily Mail/GB News on this sub.
Shock.
Red top shit rag prints lies.
Can’t wait till this cancer of a print media group dies
For those who don’t want to open a link from The Sun
>A 23 Jan article said that Thames Water figures ‘show’ that one in 12 Londoners are illegal migrants.
>In fact the figures cover only 7 million people, not the full 9 million London population.
>Further, the ‘1 in 12’ figure included some legal migrants, for instance those given indefinite leave to remain and some British-born children of migrants with irregular status.
Edit: [Wayback Machine link](https://web.archive.org/web/20250130105614/https://www.thesun.co.uk/clarifications/33054976/illegal-migrants-a-correction/) too
[https://archive.is/zBPfn](https://archive.is/zBPfn)
I’m sure the Sun has hidden that WELL beyond most people’s feeds.
Curious, what is the actual number? Curious how wrong they were
I mean, I totally agree that a lot less people will see this article compared with the original, but you have to appreciate the fact that they did publish a correction
There should be fines for spreading misinformation, would hopefully make them reconsider publishing bullshit
They also don’t actually correct the number so they just leave it hanging as ‘we said 1 in 12’ it might be different.
Mods, can this get a pin? It’s important that shit like this is seen as much as possible
Still worthless. Anything like this with “up to” doesn’t have much value.
I honestly fucking hate the tabloids in this country.
This is just for legal purposes. The highly educated non inbred people who worship the sun rag who have seen the incorrect article have already solidified it into their knowledge bank. This correction won’t be ready by them or cared
>A 23 Jan article said that Thames Water figures ‘show’ that one in 12 Londoners are illegal migrants.
>In fact the figures cover only 7 million people, not the full 9 million London population.
>Further, the ‘1 in 12’ figure included some legal migrants, for instance those given indefinite leave to remain and some British-born children of migrants with irregular status.
To save you giving them any clicks.
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Surprised they didn’t say the other 2 million are illegals anyway. How would a water company even know
The complete lack of due diligence from them (and others that reported the same) is honestly shite.
That having been said the additional details could completely skew the figures either which way.
Would be good if our government was keeping tabs on this and remaining transparent with the taxpayer.
That information should be pushed out.
Again, the absence of information will cause misinformation to fester, like surrounding the Southport murders.
Fuck the sun, and fuck Rupert Murdoch and his spawn
I never read the original article but either way, it’s still a lot of illegal migrants.
I’ve always said, when a newspaper is compelled to print a retraction or correction, said retraction should be legally required to be on the same page as the original article and occupy the same amount of space as the original article. Let’s throw in a minimim font size as well to stop the “large white space with miniscule text factor”.
Lets see if the thousands of people that upvoted the previous article that was slopped into their feed bags will have anything to say about this correction
Pay to reject cookies?! What cursed design is this?!
Yet you still need to “pay to reject” the cookies on this one.
Twats.
Well, well, well, a right wing shit rag feeds lies and bullshit about immigration to the frothing masses, who’d have thunk it?
I pointed out the maths was stupid when this was first reported. The numbers they were talking about were so alien that it wasn’t feasibly possible to be true to anyone with a bit of awareness….but still people argued and defended it as fact!
They appear to be counting anyone who has the letter z in their name, anyone who isn’t christian, anyone with a tan north of “week in Benidorm” and anyone who wears a sports shirt of a non-English team (including Scottish teams).
No doubt this was tucked away somewhere deep in the physical paper rather than the lie they ran as a major headline
The Sun should apologise for 54 years of misinformation about illegal migrants and many other things
>A 23 Jan article said that Thames Water figures ‘show’ that one in 12 Londoners are illegal migrants.
>In fact the figures cover only 7 million people, not the full 9 million London population.
>Further, the ‘1 in 12’ figure included some legal migrants, for instance those given indefinite leave to remain and some British-born children of migrants with irregular status.
That’s it. That’s the entire article.
I can’t read it unless I accept their cookies or pay to reject them.
Bunch of cunts, that lot.
The criminal vermin haven’t even put up a corrected figure, just the vaguest and weaseliest suggestion that they made a minor mistake.
Funny how the initial article was about 3 pages long filled with figures and stats and the correction is a mere half-hearted paragraph.
I’m a 4th generation ‘immigrant’ (if you _want_ to call me that 🙄) and I totally agree that immigration – especially the illegal kind – is absolutely out of control in the U.K!However, it’s also a fact that subsequent governments have used immigration based fear-mongering as a plaster for their economic failures. When your piss-poor management has driven the country into a deficit, immigration is the quick and easy way to bring in money, fund services and the welfare state all whilst providing a scapegoat for your poor work ethic. But, as we’ve now discovered, poorly managed immigration achieves the opposite and we’ve been left in a worse condition than before all of this started.
The only reason this pathetic tabloid issued this correction is because they were called out on their lies.
So Thames water doesnt charge bills for illegal immigrant houses? How did they come up with this number?
I am sure we are all very shocked that The Sun prints total lies about immigrants and migration
Just as shocked as we are by the eagerness with which some of our fellow redditors hoover the Sun’s shit up
When the whole American ‘let’s take over the government, create loyalist armies and build concentration camps’ comes over here it will be the suns fault.
How are you illegal if you have indefinite leave to remain?
Pay to reject cookies and still receive unpersonalised ads? How utterly shameless. Wouldn’t expect anything different from The Sun.
Companies like the Sun and Daily Mail operate with a budget that includes fines and lawsuits.
They’ve done the maths and have come to the conclusion that they make more money publishing sensational lies and eating the financial penalty than just sticking with the truth.
This was such obviously bollocks. I wonder where the tools are who were defending it.
The people these “newspapers” are aimed at are easily misled, misinformation is a massive threat, these shit rags need to be held accountable for false statistics, and statements. They can print their own bullshit and hate, but printing false statistics needs to be regulated.
Newspapers shouldn’t be allowed to write their own corrections. This one doesn’t even have an explanation of how the mistake was made or even an apology!
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