At the Brexit referendum, the public voted to take back control of the country’s borders. This meant ending free movement with the EU. According to some liberal Conservatives and Remainers, however, it did not mean lowering overall migrant numbers. They contend that the public is happy now that democratic control over immigration has been restored to the UK, and that how many people are admitted under whatever policy MPs decide is largely irrelevant.
That argument, dubious at the best of times, is about to be tested to destruction. The latest visa and asylum figures from the Home Office are extraordinary. The number of work, study and other visas issued to foreign nationals has surged by 83 per cent to 1,115,099 in the 12 months to June. This is on top of the millions of EU citizens who were allowed to stay and work in the UK after Brexit, as well as those who manage to get to the country illegally.
Some will be comfortable with these numbers. Foreign students attending British universities, for example, bring money into the UK, while some industries need migrant workers to function. But it is hard to believe that the scale of this influx will not have consequences. Can public services handle any extra pressure? Where will all these people be accommodated? We are still paying the price for the failure of previous governments to plan for rapid population growth via migration.
The country’s continued addiction to foreign labour also has costs – including, arguably, a lack of attention to the millions of British people who are not in full-time employment. Many had hoped that this, at least, would change post-Brexit. Apparently the Government has other ideas.
It hasn’t. But we now have controlled immigration rather than anyone from the EU just rocking up and us not knowing who they are, why they are here and how long they intend to stay. So it’s exactly what leavers voted for.
See, had nothing to do with being racist or xenophobic, hence why no one is considering it a problem at all.
That’s because parents have brought up a generation of kids who don’t want to have to do manual labour. They have all been to uni and think manual labour is beneath them
We’ll all have to become foreign labour at this rate. It’ll be cheaper to turn the whole of northern France into a tent city and commute into Britain every morning than it will to actually live in this shithole.
Quite the desperate gasp from the fascipaper. Where are all the brexiteers picking all those fields, serving in the cafes and restaurants?
So foreigners were not “stealing the jobs”? That’s not addiction, that’s a necessity. Like breathing…
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At the Brexit referendum, the public voted to take back control of the country’s borders. This meant ending free movement with the EU. According to some liberal Conservatives and Remainers, however, it did not mean lowering overall migrant numbers. They contend that the public is happy now that democratic control over immigration has been restored to the UK, and that how many people are admitted under whatever policy MPs decide is largely irrelevant.
That argument, dubious at the best of times, is about to be tested to destruction. The latest visa and asylum figures from the Home Office are extraordinary. The number of work, study and other visas issued to foreign nationals has surged by 83 per cent to 1,115,099 in the 12 months to June. This is on top of the millions of EU citizens who were allowed to stay and work in the UK after Brexit, as well as those who manage to get to the country illegally.
Some will be comfortable with these numbers. Foreign students attending British universities, for example, bring money into the UK, while some industries need migrant workers to function. But it is hard to believe that the scale of this influx will not have consequences. Can public services handle any extra pressure? Where will all these people be accommodated? We are still paying the price for the failure of previous governments to plan for rapid population growth via migration.
The country’s continued addiction to foreign labour also has costs – including, arguably, a lack of attention to the millions of British people who are not in full-time employment. Many had hoped that this, at least, would change post-Brexit. Apparently the Government has other ideas.
It hasn’t. But we now have controlled immigration rather than anyone from the EU just rocking up and us not knowing who they are, why they are here and how long they intend to stay. So it’s exactly what leavers voted for.
See, had nothing to do with being racist or xenophobic, hence why no one is considering it a problem at all.
That’s because parents have brought up a generation of kids who don’t want to have to do manual labour. They have all been to uni and think manual labour is beneath them
We’ll all have to become foreign labour at this rate. It’ll be cheaper to turn the whole of northern France into a tent city and commute into Britain every morning than it will to actually live in this shithole.
Quite the desperate gasp from the fascipaper. Where are all the brexiteers picking all those fields, serving in the cafes and restaurants?
So foreigners were not “stealing the jobs”? That’s not addiction, that’s a necessity. Like breathing…