The UK: Immigrated to Death, Like Australia, By Richard Miller (Europe)
The situation was well summed up by Brexit leader Nigel Farage with UK immigration figures showing that a record high was hit in 2023, of over 900,000: "this morning we got the latest immigration figures which are horrendous. Horrendous if you want to get a GP appointment, horrendous if you want to travel on Britain's Motorways. Horrendous if you want your kids or grandkids to ever get a foot onto the housing ladder. Horrendous in terms of producing very disjointed societies and communities."
While the Labour government has resorted to the iron fist in the iron glove over previous immigration protests, the next ones need to be more peaceful, not riots, but bigger. Kemi Badenoch, a Black woman, is now leader of the Conservatives, and she may have more back bone at dealing with the immigration flood than past conservatives. She is not woke and being Black and a woman will brush off the moronic "racism" chant.
"New UK immigration figures show net arrivals hit yet another record high of over 900,000 in 2023, but Brexit leader Nigel Farage warns against accepting claims migration is falling this year, citing a history of underestimated initial statistics.
Britain's national statistician has released a new tranche of migration figures and revised previous years' estimates, revealing the year to June 2023 hit another all-time record for arrivals. Net migration, being the total number of all long-term (non-tourist) arrivals minus departures from the country stood at 906,000 people, a remarkable number for a country with a population of — officially, at least — a little more than 68 million permanent residents.
The new year to June 2023 figure is another revision up for the statistic, taking it from the already historically high number of 672,000 claimed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) back in November 2023.
Also published today are the first estimates for arrivals in the year to July 2024, with 728,000 net arrivals said by the statistician to have arrived. The country experienced an estimated 1.2 million new people gross, and of those one million are 'rest of world' arrivals meaning not British returnees or Europeans.
The most common country for arrivals in the 2023-24 period were Indians, the ONS said, numbering nearly a quarter-million. Of the one million non-British, non-Euro arrivals a staggering eight per cent claimed for asylum through, as the modern jargon goes, "regularly" or "irregularly", what would once have been called legally or illegally.
By comparing the first-estimate, uncorrected figures reckoned for 2024 arrivals to the more accurate, and considerably increased 2023 number the ONS has been able to claim that migration arrivals appear to be falling year-on-year. But Brexit leader Nigel Farage took aim at this conceit in a speech on Thursday morning, clearly implying his belief in time the 2024 figure would be revised upwards too.
Saying he was tired of "lies" around immigration, Mr Farage said as he announced the 100,000th member of the Reform UK party and a fresh defection of a former Conservative government minister, that: "this morning we got the latest immigration figures which are horrendous. Horrendous if you want to get a GP appointment, horrendous if you want to travel on Britain's Motorways. Horrendous if you want your kids or grandkids to ever get a foot onto the housing ladder. Horrendous in terms of producing very disjointed societies and communities".
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