More than half of Britons back Suella Braverman’s claim that the surge in small boat Channel migrants is an “invasion”, according to a poll of nearly 2,000 people.
The poll, for the Migration Watch think tank, found that 51 per cent supported the Home Secretary’s wording when asked whether it was accurate to describe the arrival of 109,000 migrants illegally on small boats since 2018 as an “invasion”.
Mrs Braverman provoked outrage when she told the Commons nearly a year ago: “The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion of our southern coast – and which party is not.”
The poll figures, based on a sample of 1,851 adults, found that 29 per cent disagreed with the contention, while 21 per cent said they did not know. It also divided on party and class lines, with 66 per cent of working class participants agreeing, along with 77 per cent of Conservatives and 78 per cent of those who backed Brexit.
The polling follows a hardening in language over the past month by Mrs Braverman, who warned of a “hurricane” of mass migration threatening the UK in her Tory party conference address, and claimed during a speech in the US that “multiculturalism” in the UK had failed.
Immigration is likely to be a key issue and clear dividing line between Conservatives and Labour in the run-up to the next election as the Government seeks to operationalise its plans to detain any migrant who arrives illegally in the UK and deport them to Rwanda. Labour has committed to scrapping the Rwanda policy.
The survey, by People Polling conducted on Oct 5, also found that 52 per cent of the public considered Channel migrants to be a “security threat”, with 20 per cent saying they were not. Among Labour voters, there was a narrow 38 per cent versus 35 per cent majority against such a view.
Just under half, 46 per cent, believed that illegal migrants were “mostly bad” for the country. Fewer than one in 10 – seven per cent – thought illegal migrants were “mostly good” for Britain.
More than half of those polled believed that European judges should not be able to override the UK Government on immigration, compared with just one in five (20 per cent) who agreed that they should.
Opposition to the European judges’ role was most pronounced among Conservative supporters (78 per cent against), pro-Brexit voters (72 per cent) and skilled C2 voters (60 per cent).
Rishi Sunak will face demands from within his Cabinet and Tory backbenchers to quit the European Convention on Human Rights if the Supreme Court rules that the Rwanda policy is unlawful on the basis that it could lead to the human rights of deported migrants being breached.
Odd I wasn’t consulted on this, was all of the UK polled?
2000 people isn’t the UK.
Odd that they’re complaining of being serious while this is happening on their watch over the last… 13 years
51% of people they asked over the age of 60 walking out of a shop with the daily mail under their arm
“The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion”
You have been in power for 13 years and the numbers get bigger every year, do these people even think we are buying this anymore
Whenever you see a report about a poll, always ask these questions:
1. Who commissioned the poll? What are their goals? What result do they WANT to see?
2. What was the question being asked?
The Telegraph hasn’t published what the actual question asked was. PeoplePolling are reportedly the pollsters but they haven’t published the poll on their site (yet). But some of their recent work includes polls for SexMatters and GB News which suggests which end of the political spectrum their customers generally come from.
Hardly surprising. I mean most “britons” judging from their political decision making over the past decade appear to be as thick as shit. So its hardly a swinging endorsement.
The Tory playbook:
1. Cut funding for asylum seeking services
2. Rack up a huge backlog of illegal migrants
3. Forced to spend a shit ton of money on housing them
4. Blame them for overexpenditure
5. “More than half of Britons back Suella Braverman claim that migrant crossings are an ‘invasion’ “
A poll of 2000 people? Ran by “migration watch” like im fairly sure the local homless lad who sits outside the co-op is more reliable.
Absolute garbage from the telegraph running cover for the govt, the absolute state of the UK press.
I find it interesting that this subreddit seems to welcome an influx of asylum seekers from MENA nations, whereas r/europe appears to be up in arms at the problems such an influx has caused.
It’s not surprising – the Tories have been talking about “swarms of migrants” since at least 2015, while doing everything in their power to not address the underlying causes. It’s just a shame that the British public seemingly aren’t intelligent enough to see through the Tory bullshit.
I’m not clicking the link.
We’re they telegraph traders that voted
Well, I’m sure a poll conducted by *Migration Watch UK* was conducted with unassailable rigour in regard to the neutrality of the opinions gathered.
She is absolutely right even though the Lefty morons will disagree (loudly)
Poll conducted by MigrationWatch a think tank that’s anti-immigration. Absolutely no chance of bias there.
Potentially hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will be refugeed across europe, should we take them in as well? Morally i say yes because they are fleeing genocide and are genuine refugees. Charity has limits though, especially during economic downturns, its not sustainable for us to keep taking economic migrants in at these levels nor can they be integrated to society without social upheaval and unrest. Nor do we have the infrastructure and services to support them.
Global stability is decreasing and climate change is driving migration, it will likely get worse in the coming decade. Now would probably be a sensible time to pull up the drawbridge and lock the gate.
What happens when the government blames immigrants for all of their failures for over a decade?
This is all part of the plan. You’ve gotta be blind to miss it.
Blame foreigners for the fact that we’re shit at running the country, then position ourselves as the only people nasty enough to deal with the foreigners.
Member when brexit was going to solve the immigration issue?? Yeah how did that work out for ya?
The British electorate needs to smarten the fuck up.
“an occasion when a large number of people or things come to a place in an annoying and unwanted way”
I would agree with that definition.
These are largely bogus economic migrants, not people seeking protection from persecution.
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More than half of Britons back Suella Braverman’s claim that the surge in small boat Channel migrants is an “invasion”, according to a poll of nearly 2,000 people.
The poll, for the Migration Watch think tank, found that 51 per cent supported the Home Secretary’s wording when asked whether it was accurate to describe the arrival of 109,000 migrants illegally on small boats since 2018 as an “invasion”.
Mrs Braverman provoked outrage when she told the Commons nearly a year ago: “The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion of our southern coast – and which party is not.”
The poll figures, based on a sample of 1,851 adults, found that 29 per cent disagreed with the contention, while 21 per cent said they did not know. It also divided on party and class lines, with 66 per cent of working class participants agreeing, along with 77 per cent of Conservatives and 78 per cent of those who backed Brexit.
The polling follows a hardening in language over the past month by Mrs Braverman, who warned of a “hurricane” of mass migration threatening the UK in her Tory party conference address, and claimed during a speech in the US that “multiculturalism” in the UK had failed.
Immigration is likely to be a key issue and clear dividing line between Conservatives and Labour in the run-up to the next election as the Government seeks to operationalise its plans to detain any migrant who arrives illegally in the UK and deport them to Rwanda. Labour has committed to scrapping the Rwanda policy.
The survey, by People Polling conducted on Oct 5, also found that 52 per cent of the public considered Channel migrants to be a “security threat”, with 20 per cent saying they were not. Among Labour voters, there was a narrow 38 per cent versus 35 per cent majority against such a view.
Just under half, 46 per cent, believed that illegal migrants were “mostly bad” for the country. Fewer than one in 10 – seven per cent – thought illegal migrants were “mostly good” for Britain.
More than half of those polled believed that European judges should not be able to override the UK Government on immigration, compared with just one in five (20 per cent) who agreed that they should.
Opposition to the European judges’ role was most pronounced among Conservative supporters (78 per cent against), pro-Brexit voters (72 per cent) and skilled C2 voters (60 per cent).
Rishi Sunak will face demands from within his Cabinet and Tory backbenchers to quit the European Convention on Human Rights if the Supreme Court rules that the Rwanda policy is unlawful on the basis that it could lead to the human rights of deported migrants being breached.
Odd I wasn’t consulted on this, was all of the UK polled?
2000 people isn’t the UK.
Odd that they’re complaining of being serious while this is happening on their watch over the last… 13 years
51% of people they asked over the age of 60 walking out of a shop with the daily mail under their arm
“The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion”
You have been in power for 13 years and the numbers get bigger every year, do these people even think we are buying this anymore
Whenever you see a report about a poll, always ask these questions:
1. Who commissioned the poll? What are their goals? What result do they WANT to see?
2. What was the question being asked?
In this case, the poll was commisioned by the think tank [Migration Watch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Watch_UK), an explicitly anti-immigration think tank, founded by [Lord Andrew Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Green,_Baron_Green_of_Deddington), who was given his lordship by David Cameron.
The Telegraph hasn’t published what the actual question asked was. PeoplePolling are reportedly the pollsters but they haven’t published the poll on their site (yet). But some of their recent work includes polls for SexMatters and GB News which suggests which end of the political spectrum their customers generally come from.
Hardly surprising. I mean most “britons” judging from their political decision making over the past decade appear to be as thick as shit. So its hardly a swinging endorsement.
The Tory playbook:
1. Cut funding for asylum seeking services
2. Rack up a huge backlog of illegal migrants
3. Forced to spend a shit ton of money on housing them
4. Blame them for overexpenditure
5. “More than half of Britons back Suella Braverman claim that migrant crossings are an ‘invasion’ “
A poll of 2000 people? Ran by “migration watch” like im fairly sure the local homless lad who sits outside the co-op is more reliable.
Absolute garbage from the telegraph running cover for the govt, the absolute state of the UK press.
I find it interesting that this subreddit seems to welcome an influx of asylum seekers from MENA nations, whereas r/europe appears to be up in arms at the problems such an influx has caused.
It’s not surprising – the Tories have been talking about “swarms of migrants” since at least 2015, while doing everything in their power to not address the underlying causes. It’s just a shame that the British public seemingly aren’t intelligent enough to see through the Tory bullshit.
I’m not clicking the link.
We’re they telegraph traders that voted
Well, I’m sure a poll conducted by *Migration Watch UK* was conducted with unassailable rigour in regard to the neutrality of the opinions gathered.
She is absolutely right even though the Lefty morons will disagree (loudly)
Poll conducted by MigrationWatch a think tank that’s anti-immigration. Absolutely no chance of bias there.
Potentially hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will be refugeed across europe, should we take them in as well? Morally i say yes because they are fleeing genocide and are genuine refugees. Charity has limits though, especially during economic downturns, its not sustainable for us to keep taking economic migrants in at these levels nor can they be integrated to society without social upheaval and unrest. Nor do we have the infrastructure and services to support them.
Global stability is decreasing and climate change is driving migration, it will likely get worse in the coming decade. Now would probably be a sensible time to pull up the drawbridge and lock the gate.
What happens when the government blames immigrants for all of their failures for over a decade?
This is all part of the plan. You’ve gotta be blind to miss it.
Blame foreigners for the fact that we’re shit at running the country, then position ourselves as the only people nasty enough to deal with the foreigners.
Member when brexit was going to solve the immigration issue?? Yeah how did that work out for ya?
The British electorate needs to smarten the fuck up.
“an occasion when a large number of people or things come to a place in an annoying and unwanted way”
I would agree with that definition.
These are largely bogus economic migrants, not people seeking protection from persecution.