Prime Minister Rishi Sunak admitted immigration is “too high” today as he faced a backlash over figures laying bare record numbers arriving in the country – 1.2 million total, 606,000 net in 2022, according to official figures released today. The Mail has more.
Long-awaited statistics showed net migration was 606,000 across 2022. That was far higher than the 488,000 level for 2021 – even though that was upgraded by 91,000 in the latest official publication.
The jump was fueled by arrivals from outside the EU, largely coming to study or work, as well as to seek refuge from chaos in Ukraine, Afghanistan and Hong Kong.
Although slightly lower than some had feared, the eye-watering level – roughly equivalent to adding the population of Bristol or Glasgow in a single year – sparked a furious political row over the Conservative manifesto pledge that “numbers will come down” from the 226,000 in 2019.
Under David Cameron and Theresa May there was a commitment to bring the long-term net migration figures into the tens of thousands, and one of the selling points for Brexit was ‘taking back control’ of borders.
Tory anger at the situation was evident in the House of Commons this morning, with warnings that voters will not tolerate the “unsustainable” situation.
Speaking on ITV’s This Morning, Mr. Sunak said: “Numbers are too high, it’s as simple as that. And I want to bring them down.”
But Mr. Sunak stressed he had “inherited” significant levels, suggesting he was still aiming for the 266,000 [sic] from the manifesto. Pressed on whether immigration is out of control, he replied: “Well, no, I think the numbers are just too high.”
The premier said measures put in place this week to stop most foreign students bringing dependants “are significant”.
In a glimmer of encouragement for Mr. Sunak, analysts at the Migration Observatory suggested that net migration might be on the way down, having peaked at 637,000 in the year to September.
Among other developments with a raft of government figures released today:
- Nearly one-and-a-half million visas were issued in the year to March 2023 to people coming to the U.K. for work, study or family reasons, or through one of the Government’s settlement schemes. Nearly 200,000 of those were to Ukrainians;
- For the first time asylum seekers were included in the immigration statistics, with 76,000 people applying in 2022, up from 53,000 in 2021;
- The backlog of asylum cases has hit a new peak since comparable records began in 2010, with 172,758 people waiting for an initial decision at the end of March, up 57% on the previous 12 months;
- Just 1% of Channel boats arrivals over the past year have had an initial decision on asylum applications;
- Home Office minister Robert Jenrick told the Commons that some universities are “in the immigration business” rather than teaching and education;
- Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been accused of “going to ground” after she dodged appearing in person to respond to the figures. Instead her allies have made clear she wants more drastic steps to curb numbers, and has faced resistance from Cabinet colleagues concerned about damaging the economy.
Will the Tories ever actually deliver on their longstanding manifesto pledge to reduce immigration to pre-Blair levels? Will voters ever trust them enough again to give them the chance?
Too many Tory ministers seem to be convinced mass immigration is necessary for economic growth. However, as Peter Lilley points out in the Telegraph: “Far from boosting growth, the highest level of immigration in our history has been accompanied by our slowest productivity growth on record”. Even the UN International Labour Office has, Lilley says, stated that immigration is no substitute for investing in the native workforce: “What may begin as a temporary shortage of trained native workers can be made more permanent by attempting a quick fix from migrant labour. Importing migrants into a sector whose employers are complaining of insufficient trained natives will exacerbate (rather than alleviate) its native shortage.”
Lilley notes that the NHS is propped up by foreign doctors and nurses, not because Brits don’t want to do the work, but because “we turn away tens of thousands of British applicants every year because training places are rationed. The NHS prefers to let poor countries do the training”.
More workers mean a bigger economy, Lilley agrees – but, crucially, “our standard of living only grows if productivity per head rises”, which can only come from more capital investment per head and improving skills. Yet, perversely, “mass immigration reduces the incentive to invest, acquire skills and offer training”.
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“Will the Tories ever actually deliver on their longstanding manifesto pledge to reduce immigration to pre-Blair levels?”
Of course not. They have never meant it.
“Will voters ever trust them enough again to give them the chance?”
Yes. Labour will get in next time, and after one or two terms people will tire of them and vote the Tories back in, the Tories who will be promising the usual stuff, and then will do left wing stuff when they get into power.
Another Conspiracy Factist as truth. The Great Replacement. The White English are being erased. On purpose.
We voted Brexit. What we got was a half baked Brexit, net zerotard, Rona fascism and completely wide open borders. None of this is by accident. All designed to get rid of the plebes who voted Brexit with Musulmans, Africans, Hindus and anyone else who will ‘vote the right way’ next time (when there is a ‘vote’ to rejoin the German Reich).
Yep and who is orchestrating this Great Replacement??…
The Neo Bolsheviks are in town…
Ashkenazi Jews, you mean.
Yes.. say it out loud..
The Kalergi Plan.. for those that haven’t heard of it look it up. Its the planned Great Replacement of the white race in Europe.
Not conspiracy.. a fact.. and they give a prize every couple of years to those who’ve acted in the plans best interests. Blair and Merkel have won it.. now I wonder why..
It certainly does..
I bet Gaz is disappointed at such a low number, he must be fuming that we are turning into 30’s Germany.
Lilley was one of only 5 MPs who voted against the Climate Change Act.
Lilley was one of only 5 MPs who voted against the Climate Change Act.
Lots of young women in my village in short-sleeved tops and either shorts or short skirts today.
But the government is busily importing lots of savages from cultures where that constitutes an invitation to gang-rape
Yes.. with IQ’s below room temperature.. a real boon for the economy then.. not!!!
1.2 million is five times the population of my home city. It’s more than a tenth of the population of urban London and almost a tenth of the metropolitan London area. Here’s an idea: let all these people stay. Let them bring their families.
Meanwhile, the rest of us should move to whatever landmass they’ve deserted and start a new England built on natural law and common law that recognises reason and objectivity!
The number of patients registered with my GP practice has increased by 10% over the last 3 years: internal white flight is real.
We’re f***ed, basically! I wish there was somewhere I else I could move with my elderly parents. I’m 48 and this is not the country I grew up in: it’s some overcrowded, backward, anti-reason, dystopian hellhole. When the Soviet Union existed, at least there was the West as the beacon of liberty towards which one could flee. Now the West is a sewer and there seems to be nowhere anyone can flee. Somewhere in South America, perhaps? Somewhere on the vast continent of Africa? Ironically enough, some out-of-the way city in Russia (not any of the obvious ones) is probably the best place to go – except our leaders have made sure the Russians hate us.
On Rumble, watch Glenn Greenwald’s tribute to his recently deceased husband, David Miranda. Miranda was detained in the UK under anti-terror laws and subjected to a horrific twelve hours at the hands of British authorities because of Greenwald’s connection to Edward Snowden. Miranda was so outraged at his experiences in British custody that he turned from being an ordinary civilian to major up-and-coming Brazilian politician, wanting to stop his country resembling this one. It makes you realise what a dreadful, repressive hellhole the UK is. Miranda’s remark next time he came to this country was ‘F*** you GCHQ!’
I can’t see myself growing old and dying in this country. I can see myself dying younger than I should – and broke – in this country. I love England, but my long term survival will likely require me to flee it.
Uruguay.
Good climate and Spanish isn’t difficult to learn.
Along with SE Brazil and NE Argentina it is still very white.
Isle of Man if you don’t want to go too far with your parents? Has its own rules, non-woke, low tax.
If they can travel, Chiang Mai Thailand has dementia care for westerners, better than here, I hear with 24 hour care.
Once you get to 50, various retirement visas open up to you around the world where you can live in a far cheaper country to stretch your pension. Or if you can get a digital gig, be a digital nomad eventually.
All’s not lost yet!
Yes! Digital nomad is a good good idea for a video editor, given that much of the work is from home now. Toughest thing for me at the mo is that virtually all the businesses I’ve worked for down the years have moved into woke capital, spouting all the same platitudes and a lot of my other work is politically slanted to the Davos Deviant mindset. I sit there biting my tongue in frustration as people spout catastrophist fantasy and opinion as fact. In my ideal world, I’d make videos for people like Breitbart, the Daily Sceptic and Daily Wire.
I saw the way the wind was blowing in UK with ‘Blair’s Britain’ in the late 90s, so when I was offered an early retirement package in 2001, I grabbed it with both hands, sold up in Essex and flit en famille to Spain with two junior school age offspring. I fully understand your sentiments regarding what’s happened to the UK and can empathise with them entirely.
We were lucky to ‘throw two sixes’ in choice of destination and property; not everyone is so fortunate. Wherever you decide to emigrate to, I’d advise rent for six months as a trial.
Good luck, and remember to turn the lights out when you leave.
Utterly unsustainable. Financially, practically, philosophically.
Why is there this false narrative about ‘needing people to work’. We have 4.5m claiming out of work benefits. How about we get them off their arses..?
Importing hundreds of thousands of third world cast-offs is deliberate and is intended to destroy Britain and its civilisation, its history and all that we stand for as a people. Some of these soldier age men will at some point be turned against us and at that point we either fight or take the knee literally because the future is slavery.
This isn’t politics it is the implementation of the reset as envisaged by the Davos Deviants – Gates Soros, Schwab, Fink, Carnage Carney, the Rockefellers and Rothschilds and all the rest.
There is no comfortable or peaceful way out. Ultimately our future will only be settled by the spilling of blood.
And I repeat – our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
Well said Hux.. they are being brought in to destroy Britain. There is NOT another reason..
Thanks George
Yes it was just in the news here how the immigration office can’t cope with the volume of applicants, though they state they aren’t all from asylum seekers. I’m interested to know how it is in other European countries.
”The Dutch immigration and naturalization office, IND, indicated it is barely capable of coping with current work levels, and will advocate for “fundamentally different choices in migration policy.” In a report released on Tuesday about the office’s state of affairs, the service warned that it is “reaching its limits.” The government expects more than 70,000 asylum seekers to arrive in the Netherlands this year. The capacity to handle all of those requests is currently insufficient.”
https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/23/dutch-immigration-office-buckling-pressure-calls-fundamental-changes
Can’t speak for other European countries but immigration into France is massive and out of control. They are shipping them out into the French countryside now.
Just the other day I passed a group of black youths (late teens early twenties) hanging outside the village hall. This is an agricultural area,nothing else goes on.
So.. one things for sure, none of them are here to work the fields, and they are collecting benefits paid for by French workers..
Yes I knew that France is in a dire state. I’m wondering if all of mainland Europe is as bad. Where on earth is the cut-off point though? I know Ireland are also getting rammed with migrants and I’ve seen videos of people protesting as they’re housing them in small villages and there’s been reports of decidedly iffy behaviour. I realise not all of these people are bad or intent on making mischief, some will be legitimately trying to start afresh in a safe and secure country, but there has to be a cap on them and it only takes a few bad apples to spoil the barrel then it’s a case of gathering up the pitchforks as tensions inevitably rise.
I don’t think there’s a limit. I reckon the plan is to keep shipping them in until there’s an explosion.. then they’ll maybe try something like marshall law.
Who knows, but I bet there won’t be a fairy tail ending to this, it’ll be something ugly..
This made me laugh from the Dutch news today. I don’t know where they pluck the ”100,000” figure from but I’m very confident the number is way higher. I wonder if feelers have been put out and TPTB are getting their feathers a wee bit ruffled. It would make sense as Rutte has never been less popular, according to the news here.
”The conspiracy theory suggesting that the world is secretly controlled by an “evil elite” poses a threat to the democratic rule of law in the Netherlands, according to a report released on Thursday by the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD). The Dutch civilian intelligence service estimated that approximately 100,000 people in the Netherlands have subscribed to this form of anti-institutional extremism to varying degrees.
This “evil-elite-narrative” advances the notion that an “evil elite” including governments, judiciary, media, the scientific community, large corporations, and police aims for global dominance at the national and international levels, the AIVD stated. This narrative is “factually incorrect,” the organization said in its report.
They warned that if an increasing number of people continue to propagate it, trust in institutions could erode, with “a risk that the democratic legal order will slowly but surely come under pressure.” This could foster a “parallel society” where faith is lost in both institutions and people.
The “evil elite” narrative is currently the most popular narrative among extremist groups in the Netherlands, which finds resonance among a diverse range of people, extending from right-wing extremists to Islamic extremist groups. The AIVD estimated that approximately 100,000 people in the Netherlands have, to varying degrees, subscribed to these beliefs.
The AIVD stressed that this anti-institutional extremism is not inherently synonymous with right-wing extremism. Despite some overlap in their beliefs, anti-institutional extremists do not necessarily hold anti-Semitic views or endorse white supremacist ideologies.”
https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/25/evil-elite-conspiracy-theory-thousands-believers-netherlands-report
“democratic legal order”.. haha.. you’ve got to laugh, who the feck do these people think they’re kidding. There’s only one way to deal with this and it doesn’t include voting more of the treasonous tw@ts into office..
And speaking of what power the unity of people can amass, thereby threatening TPTB and big corporations, accomplishing significant things and driving change, this is heartening news. Over in the U.S Target have suffered a ‘Bud Light’. Due to their disgustingly inappropriate clothes and accessories on sale for kids on the run up to Pride, they’ve lost 9 billion dollars in a week through people boycotting them. Result!
”As of early trading on Thursday, however, shares of the company were trading off 1% at $141.76 — capping a weeklong tumble that has shrunk the “cheap chic” discount retailer’s value to $65.3 billion.
That amounts to a 12% drop that has shaved a whopping $9 billion off the company’s market capitalization.
Target said on Tuesday it was removing some items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month after intense backlash from some customers who confronted workers and tipped over displays.
“Since introducing this year’s collection, we’ve experienced threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety and well-being while at work,” Target said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.”
Target said that customers knocked down Pride displays at some stores, angrily approached workers and posted threatening videos on social media from inside the stores.”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/25/target-loses-8b-in-week-since-boycott-calls-over-pride-collection/
You have to ask yourself.. who has the power to push big corps/companies into doing this sh1te. This perversion didn’t come out of thin air, there are people with real power behind this stuff, in the financial field and media. Now I wonder who that could be..???
Talk about ”Paint the whole world with a rainbow..”, how does outdoors company The North Face fit in with drag queens? Well I guess they’ll have rainbows all over their tents and sleeping bags..
Nothing escapes the clutches of the rainbow people.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Csl3BZINw7v/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading
Yeah.. they’ve stolen the primary colours, and the beauty of the rainbow, just like they stole the word ‘gay’ which in my childhood meant happy and carefree..
“queer” is another hijacked word as in “How queer?” to express that something is unusual. Then it was an insult, then it wasn’t an insult. Why not take it back and use it as you see fit?
One term the Community got spot-on was “Pride” because as the phrase goes, it comes before the fall. The situation does indeed seem to be heading towards a precipice.
It’ll be on corporate PC lockscreens to cat treats as they pledge their allegiance to Money or the Trojan Horse ideology. It’s been progressing for years.
This is a good explainer of the Corporate Equality index ( CEI ) and why we’re seeing so many brands pushing this woke ideology and Z-lister celebs. And it’s all George Soros’ fault again, surprise surprise. Same names keep cropping up time and again..
”Executives at companies like Nike, Anheuser-Busch and Kate Spade, whose brand endorsements have turned controversial trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney into today’s woke “It girl,” aren’t just virtue signaling.
They’re handing out lucrative deals to what were once considered fringe celebrities because they have to — or risk failing an all-important social credit score that could make or break their businesses.
At stake is their Corporate Equality Index — or CEI — score, which is overseen by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ political lobbying group in the world.
HRC, which has received millions from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation among others, issues report cards for America’s biggest corporations via the CEI: awarding or subtracting points for how well companies adhere to what HRC calls its “rating criteria.”
Businesses that attain the maximum 100 total points earn the coveted title “Best Place To Work For LGBTQ Equality.” Fifteen of the top 20 Fortune-ranked companies received 100% ratings last year, according to HRC data.
A company can lose CEI points if it doesn’t fulfill HRC’s demand for “integration of intersectionality in professional development, skills-based or other training” or if it doesn’t use a “supplier diversity program with demonstrated effort to include certified LGBTQ+ suppliers.”
James Lindsay, a political podcaster who runs a site called New Discourses, told The Post that the Human Rights campaign administers the CEI ranking “like an extortion racket, like the Mafia.
It doesn’t just sit back passively either. HRC sends representatives to corporations every year telling them what kind of stuff they have to make visible at the company. They give them a list of demands and if they don’t follow through there’s a threat that you won’t keep your CEI score.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/inside-the-woke-scoring-system-guiding-american-companies/
Spot on George. There is a co-ordinating body at work somewhere.
Thanks for this Mogs. Heartening news.
Birmingham is my City , both my parents (born in early 1920,s) familys are from the Digbeth area , all had relatives & friends involved in the two wars , I worked on inner city schools in early 1980,s with just a few white kids in each ! Today I drove through Quinton a B,ham Suburb, the same demographic is now there ! All big uk city’s are completely changed forever, we were used in those wars & now we are being F-cked up the proverbial everyday by the Chunts in control !!!…
It’s not my city anymore .
Rishi denies that immigration is out of control, therefore he must be saying it is within his control. So, Rishi, either control it or stop pretending you want to.
” Will the Tories ever actually deliver on their longstanding manifesto pledge to reduce immigration to pre-Blair levels? Will voters ever trust them enough again to give them the chance?”
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.
The problem we have (demonstrated only too well over the past 3 years of Covid lies) is that the vast majority of the electorate are certifiably insane.
In every town all over the country we see people appearing out of thin air at a remarkable rate. We see people clearly from somewhere south of the Sahara just materialise. Not there yesterday but here today.—- Why do we have a census? It is there so government can get an idea of how to plan ahead regarding resources, eg schools, hospitals, surgeries, housing etc etc. ———–All of these people just appearing out of thin air will have to live somewhere and presumably that will be in a house. ———Where are all of those houses going to come from? Are they also going to appear out of thin air? How many people do politicians of all parties think can comfortably live in the UK, which is now the most densely populated country in Europe? ——80 million? 100million? 120 million?
Un-elected Sunak will take up his US green card when he’s ruined this country.
There is no difference between the destructiveness and duplicity of the Tory Party and those who put a cross next to a Tory candidate on a ballot paper.
All of these young male immigrants invading the UK should be volunteered to assist in the independence War in the Ukraine. They would get accommodations, clothing, fed and skills training. UK could stop sending so much cash. This would also help eleviate trying to house all these men. I wonder what effect this would have on immigration numbers?
Will the Tories ever actually deliver on their longstanding manifesto pledge