*As many as one million migrants arrived in the UK last year, double the last recorded numbers, official figures are expected to reveal.*
*Between 650,000 and 997,000 more people may have arrived in the UK than left in 2022, according to analysis.*
*This would well surpass the previous peak of 504,000, which was set in the year June 2021 to 2022.*
*The rise is expected to have been driven by the influx of Ukrainian refugees, as well as more international students and NHS staff arriving.*
*Pressure is now piling on Rishi Sunak to get migration under control, with senior Tories criticising the government over its failure to deliver on its promises.*
*Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith told The Sun: ‘It looks like it will be a worrying set of figures. It’s going to be a huge problem for the Conservative Party.*
*’We have pledged repeatedly to reduce net migration and haven’t.*
*’A city the size of Leeds coming here in a year might boost our economy but will push down wages, British productivity and make our housing crisis even worse.’*
*Karl Williams, of the Centre for Policy Studies, told The Daily Telegraph that one million is ‘at the very top end of our estimates but by no means an implausible figure’.*
*If it climbs to the highest estimate of one million in one year, net migration would top the combined four years before Brexit.*
*The Home Office has said: ‘The public rightly expect us to control our borders and we remain committed to reducing net migration over time.’*
*The ONS is set to confirm the 2022 migration total on May 25.*
I’m never going to be able to move to the UK 😓
This is absolutely grim. How is this in any way sustainable?
>Between 650,000 and 997,000 more people may have arrived in the UK than left in 2022, according to analysis.
I mean there’s a significant difference between those two numbers.
Numbers with no context.
It includes refugees from the war in Ukraine. That’s about 150-200k, a ridiculous number compared to the rest of Europe !
It includes more people from Hong Kong (that’s a long story). That’s about 150k.
It also includes international students, about 600k !That’s because Europeans don’t come as often anymore, and the Government decided to grant many many more visas to non-EU students and thus a massive increase in numbers (remember, when the UK was in the EU, EU students and workers were not accounted as there was no visa issued etc)
The reality is that:
1. this is not a huge deal, as most of these people will leave in a couple of years, meanwhile the UK economy is in desperate need of workers
2. because EU citizens don’t come anymore (net numbers are now negative, they’re leaving), and were not really accounted before, their replacements by non-EU people grow the numbers and create a false increase in net migration
3. with authoritarianism advancing and climate change ravaging the world, this number will only go up.
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We should be more worried about how to stop wars, build houses and care for the environment…
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We don’t have the space to allow this many per year but you’re racist if you want to talk about it
Don’t the 600,000 students pay a premium to study here? Something like £16,000 per year. £48,000 for a 3 year course plus living expenses…. That’s roughly £28,800,000,000…… Plus living expenses….
I have always said that the Tories LOVE immigration and just use it from time to time as red meat for the masses…
People talking about the 600,000 migratory students leaving when they finish;
a) haven’t read r/ukjobs full of students looking to stay by getting a job
b) aren’t accepting that those students will immediately be replaced by another batch of a similar number of students… so therefore they are in a way PERMANENTLY HERE which for smaller University towns is both great for the economy but also awful for the locals housing market & the resource drain they cause on supplies and council focus of spending in student areas depriving non students.
It’s not black and white but as an island we really should take more consideration for quality of life in cities and overcrowding.
It’s in the tories’ best interests to keep banging on this and not fixing it.
1. Invite Ukrainian and Hong Kong refugees to shelter in UK.
2. Include them in net migration figures to stoke up the gammons.
3. Profit!
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The Tories get to look like big magnanimous heroes for sheltering refugees AND get to politically profit from the presence of those same refugees – its actually quite genius, in a Bond villain kind of way.
And people ask why the NHS is in ruins, why the housing market is so buggered, why the cost of luxuries is so high. The list goes on. Enoch Powell made a good point all those years ago.
Right wing lying shit rags shouldn’t be allowed here
Disclaimer : I am from Hong Kong, moved here since September last year and on course for Citizenship – a bit to go though. I am glad I have just about enough money to have a new life here. Many of my fellow HKers are here too or still planning to come.
Glad to be given the opportunity to settle (should have been much easier if British government gave us citizenship pre 1997 but that’s a whole new story) and we all know we need to contribute in order to stay around as things are not cheap here.
I might be biased but i think we are the assets as we might be the only bunch of people who see the government and country in a good light lol
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*As many as one million migrants arrived in the UK last year, double the last recorded numbers, official figures are expected to reveal.*
*Between 650,000 and 997,000 more people may have arrived in the UK than left in 2022, according to analysis.*
*This would well surpass the previous peak of 504,000, which was set in the year June 2021 to 2022.*
*The rise is expected to have been driven by the influx of Ukrainian refugees, as well as more international students and NHS staff arriving.*
*Pressure is now piling on Rishi Sunak to get migration under control, with senior Tories criticising the government over its failure to deliver on its promises.*
*Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith told The Sun: ‘It looks like it will be a worrying set of figures. It’s going to be a huge problem for the Conservative Party.*
*’We have pledged repeatedly to reduce net migration and haven’t.*
*’A city the size of Leeds coming here in a year might boost our economy but will push down wages, British productivity and make our housing crisis even worse.’*
*Karl Williams, of the Centre for Policy Studies, told The Daily Telegraph that one million is ‘at the very top end of our estimates but by no means an implausible figure’.*
*If it climbs to the highest estimate of one million in one year, net migration would top the combined four years before Brexit.*
*The Home Office has said: ‘The public rightly expect us to control our borders and we remain committed to reducing net migration over time.’*
*The ONS is set to confirm the 2022 migration total on May 25.*
I’m never going to be able to move to the UK 😓
This is absolutely grim. How is this in any way sustainable?
>Between 650,000 and 997,000 more people may have arrived in the UK than left in 2022, according to analysis.
I mean there’s a significant difference between those two numbers.
Numbers with no context.
It includes refugees from the war in Ukraine. That’s about 150-200k, a ridiculous number compared to the rest of Europe !
It includes more people from Hong Kong (that’s a long story). That’s about 150k.
It also includes international students, about 600k !That’s because Europeans don’t come as often anymore, and the Government decided to grant many many more visas to non-EU students and thus a massive increase in numbers (remember, when the UK was in the EU, EU students and workers were not accounted as there was no visa issued etc)
The reality is that:
1. this is not a huge deal, as most of these people will leave in a couple of years, meanwhile the UK economy is in desperate need of workers
2. because EU citizens don’t come anymore (net numbers are now negative, they’re leaving), and were not really accounted before, their replacements by non-EU people grow the numbers and create a false increase in net migration
3. with authoritarianism advancing and climate change ravaging the world, this number will only go up.
​
We should be more worried about how to stop wars, build houses and care for the environment…
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We don’t have the space to allow this many per year but you’re racist if you want to talk about it
Don’t the 600,000 students pay a premium to study here? Something like £16,000 per year. £48,000 for a 3 year course plus living expenses…. That’s roughly £28,800,000,000…… Plus living expenses….
I have always said that the Tories LOVE immigration and just use it from time to time as red meat for the masses…
People talking about the 600,000 migratory students leaving when they finish;
a) haven’t read r/ukjobs full of students looking to stay by getting a job
b) aren’t accepting that those students will immediately be replaced by another batch of a similar number of students… so therefore they are in a way PERMANENTLY HERE which for smaller University towns is both great for the economy but also awful for the locals housing market & the resource drain they cause on supplies and council focus of spending in student areas depriving non students.
It’s not black and white but as an island we really should take more consideration for quality of life in cities and overcrowding.
It’s in the tories’ best interests to keep banging on this and not fixing it.
1. Invite Ukrainian and Hong Kong refugees to shelter in UK.
2. Include them in net migration figures to stoke up the gammons.
3. Profit!
​
The Tories get to look like big magnanimous heroes for sheltering refugees AND get to politically profit from the presence of those same refugees – its actually quite genius, in a Bond villain kind of way.
And people ask why the NHS is in ruins, why the housing market is so buggered, why the cost of luxuries is so high. The list goes on. Enoch Powell made a good point all those years ago.
Right wing lying shit rags shouldn’t be allowed here
Disclaimer : I am from Hong Kong, moved here since September last year and on course for Citizenship – a bit to go though. I am glad I have just about enough money to have a new life here. Many of my fellow HKers are here too or still planning to come.
Glad to be given the opportunity to settle (should have been much easier if British government gave us citizenship pre 1997 but that’s a whole new story) and we all know we need to contribute in order to stay around as things are not cheap here.
I might be biased but i think we are the assets as we might be the only bunch of people who see the government and country in a good light lol