Promises broken and new records set. And yet, our new Home Secretary shrugs his shoulders and says, “This figure is not showing a significant increase from last year’s figures and is largely in line with our own immigration statistics.”
Eh? What breathtaking nonchalance. In other words, the figures were dire last year and they’re every bit as bad this year. We wonder what Mr. Cleverly’s constituents think about it. Or, indeed, the PM’s in Yorkshire?
The statistics released yesterday (23rd) achieved another record. For the first time ever the two-year total of net migration is over one million. In fact, the 2022 net migration of 606,000 has been revised upwards to 745,000. Who’s to say the latest figure won’t be revised upwards in a few months’ time?
Just to summarise the numbers announced yesterday:
- Net migration in the year ending June 2023 was 672,000.
- Total net migration for the period 2011 to 2021 was revised upwards by a further 745,000.
- The number of work visas rose by 54% to 586,000 (half of which were to dependents!)
- Study visas rose to 643,000.
- Family visas rose by 117% to 82,000.
We put some of this into a chart, take a look here.
All this from a Government that promised us in 2019 that overall migration would fall and in the three preceding elections pledged net migration of tens of thousands. In reality, this: Net migration? Record broken. Work migration? Record broken. Student migration? Record broken. Family migration? Record broken. What champion record breakers we have governing us. If only they were records to be proud of.
This is what Migration Watch said about the news:
These figures are truly shocking. They will result in intolerable pressure on our housing and public services. The Government has abandoned its promises at the last election and has simply caved in to every pro-immigration pressure group. Indeed net migration is now at four or five times the level of three years ago.
If this is allowed to continue, Britain’s population could well soar to about 85 million by 2046. This would be equivalent to 18 new cities the size of Birmingham, and would place an intolerable strain on our land, housing, transportation and public infrastructure.
Apart from the economic pressures brought by this eyewatering net migration figure, how on earth will we integrate the 1.2 million long-term migrants arriving every year? It will only add massively to the problem of integrating the millions of migrants already here.
The British people have been utterly betrayed.
So, what is the Government going to do about it?
Well, after his mouth-dropping opening gambit, our Home Secretary went on to say:
The Government remains completely committed to reducing levels of legal migration while at the same time focusing relentlessly on our priority of stopping the boats.
With respect, Home Secretary, this really makes little sense. But note the attempt to steer the issue onto the Channel.
The fact is, net migration is over 20 times the number currently crossing in dinghies, while legal inflow of 1.2 million to year-ending June is some 45 times bigger.
The Government appears not to have any understanding of what the problem is and won’t even accept that it is a problem, so why should it have an inkling of how to go about solving it? Instead, it gaslights us and attempts to divert attention to the boats (which, for the record, it has also failed to stop).
The British public have had enough of being lied to and treated like fools. If the Government wants to keep its promises and convince us that it means business, it could start by:
- Raising the Skilled Worker salary threshold to £45,000 (as advocated by Suella Braverman)
- Restoring the Resident Labour Market Test that required employers to recruit from settled workers whenever possible
- Removing low skilled occupations from the Skilled Worker visa.
- Capping student migration
- Ending the two-year post-study work visa
- Going back to face-to-face interviews in the applicants’ country.
Alp Mehmet is the Chairman of Migrationwatch U.K. Find Migrationwatch and Alp on X.
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Meanwhile, the comments below the DT hit piece on Geert Wilders are overwhelmingly in favour of this development.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/23/geert-wilders-so-radical-banned-from-uk-dutch-elections/
Far Right when used by the leftist zealots is meaningless. Tommy Robinson is not the devil, his Oxford Union address from 8 years back is thoughtful, powerful and worryingly on-the-nose regarding what we’ve been seeing here since October 7th.
Suella Braverman was correct. We do have a two-tier police system.
For those who have never watched the TR Oxford Union address, it is extremely interesting and thoughtfully presented – highly recommended. It was a classic example of a ‘deplorable’ surprising his audience with an unusual degree of moral courage and honesty. His recent film ‘Silenced’ is also a must-see, if you can find it. Telling the truth very definitely makes one an ‘Enemy of the State’, if it involves race or religion… or Covid.
I’ll never understand why anyone would still harbour any expectations of the current political system being there for the people. Seriously, stop it.
“New Home Secretary is Not Grasping the Scale of Public Anger on Immigration”
The last one did, that’s why they got rid of her!
He does have a firm grasp on Serco and its very lucrative payments into his bank account to keep the flood gates wide open.
She hasn’t resigned from the party though has she.
The fact it takes so long to publish the data and it is then found to be seriously in error says a lot about the incompetence which is rife throughout government.
Private businesses big and small have to produce accurate financial data with many more moving parts that the immigration numbers. Government controls (sic) and issues Ann visas and it runs the Borders Force (double six) so why can’t they run the numbers the first day after month end?
In addition to the suggestions for control, make it work permits not immigration visas. If Borders have no record of timely departure send out to find them and chuck them out with a fine and re-entry ban. Their sponsors would also be penalised and prevented from sponsoring again.
Globalist = Remainer = open borders = cheap labour = happy CEOs = more political donations
Honestly this is beyond the pale. We are talking about numbers that will have real time serious detrimental effects on peoples lives and millions are already in a sitution of crisis with rising rent and mortgage costs. Of course in this instance they know what they are doing. Some people use the word ‘treason’ but it is much much worse than that. This isn’t an act of sedition it is the expectation that the population will just sit back and do nothing as everything about their country and culture is destroyed. Are they going to build half a million new houses every year or provide for the rises in healthcare and education demands? Obviously not; no extra funding even for local authoritites hit hardest. This is utterly disgusting. I don’t understand why any faith in the political class persists.
if anyone remonstrating against mass immigration isn’t by now a member and activist of a centre Right party can we take them seriously? If in conversation with acquaintances and they start grumbling about immigration and its effects I ask them what they are doing about it; hushed silence follows with the clearing of throats the an admission that they are doing nothing . I politely then ask then ask ‘why not?’ Silence and then they usually change the subject.
Despite us all getting behind Geert for his stance on limiting immigration over here, in reality his hands are pretty tied as to what he can do in practice due to EU laws. Massively frustrating, to say the least;
”Dutch voters gave Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration platform a historic win at the ballot box this week. But, under existing laws, very little the PVV says it will do about migrants is possible.
“The Netherlands has hope… the people of the Netherlands will get their country back and the tsunami of refugees and immigrants will be limited,” Wilders told a cheering crowd at a Scheveningen cafe after the announcement of the general election results on Wednesday night.
But unless the Netherlands leaves the European Union, the Council of Europe and UN conventions, Wilders’ options are limited.
“There’s basically nothing he can do that won’t get shot down by the courts,” says Jeremy Bierbach, an immigration lawyer in Amsterdam.
The vast majority of migration law, from students to refugees, falls under the the European Union. And, despite what the PVV’s party programmes claims, countries cannot simply opt out.
Wilders, who has been in politics since 2006, is almost certainly aware that his policies are at odds with existing law. He could try to push forward with them anyway and then blame judges for being at odds with the will of the people, something that’s already been seen in Britain and the United States.
Or, Wilders could convince the country to “Nexit” the EU, the Council of Europe and the various United Nations treaties he doesn’t like. While his probable coalition partners may share some of his anti-immigration views, they don’t share his isolationism.
It took five years for the Britain to leave the European Union. Even Rutte was unable to keep a coalition together for that long.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/wilders-immigration-platform-mostly-not-legally-possible/
On the last article on Wilders just yesterday the Sceptic seems to have decided to allow no more comments. ——This is the first time I have seen that on Daily Sceptic. I hope they have not had their fingers rapped, and I am hoping it is just an anomaly in my own browser. ——Maybe you can let me know if you have noticed this. —Cheers.
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Thanks for your reply. Even though you have decided not to say WHY you took the decision to take no further comments on this article. ——-But that is ok because I have a pretty good idea. We all must watch our p’s and q’s regarding speech on this issue. ———–This is what Wilders is trying to explain to everyone. All it takes for evil things to occur is for good people to remain silent. Silencing people who tell the truth is not a good way forward.
Like Britain those on the centre Right are possibly reluctant to get involved in activism unlike the Left who relish activism and know it is the only way to get your way.
We might have to face a grim reality in the acceptnce that is is already too late. But that doesn’t necessarily mean total defeat just a re-examination of what victory might look like. That is the most important thing. You might say we gained victory with the vax, I think that one is in the bag, but that victory represents a higher victory and maybe if enough people achieve it then immigration could solve itself given that most people prefer to live in the land that they hail from. Free-thinking became a necessity for many. There is a serious issue though at the moment with the depletion of the workforce due to vax injuries and other people having to care for the vax-injured. Immigration can solve some of these issues. At the lower end it can make up menial and manual labour and at the higher end there are plenty of science graduates in the developing world who are lookng for a job. But you can’t replace those who work in jobs which require a high level of communicative competence. It is such cold and cynical model that most people have a hard time even believeing that it prevails.
The political establishment all over Europe know. ——-They do everything they can to silence and suppress and pretend mass immigration is not causing massive problems. Especially if you are a women or girl walking alone. They are complicit in the abuse of their own women because they put multicultural dogma and one world government FIRST.
What connection, emotionally or culturally, does the New Home Secretary have to these islands?
This is the danger of popular culture. Lets say the television news told you up until 2007 that the neoliberal dream was the end of all strife. I am not joking there were even books that talked about that era as the end of history. And then lets say you found out later that you were sold a bill of goods. If you’re a canny person you won’t have any problems following intellectual trends and finding a niche. For most people this was never an option. They went to work, received good news when they heard it because it was always rare, they hoped that if they worked hard enough and everyone did their bit that it would be alright. Didn’t turn out that way but we have been subjected to a hundred years of scientifically-crafted propaganda. We should be happy that there is any dissent left at all.
Cleverly is a bog-standard thick-as-mince and utterly corrupt grifter.
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There is no economic need for any immigration.
Mehmet is being far too weak.
They always have been at MigrationWatch.
The numbers next year will be even higher. For one thing they need to disguise the drop out disability figures and this is the best way to do it. Honestly where will you draw the line? 2 million a year? A doctor’s appointment in three month’s time? Seriously I am a British person but I have lived in other countries and if this was going on in any one of them there would be revolution overnight. Why the masochism? Okay you feel bad about the empire but this is just too much.
https://x.com/goldingbf/status/1727990820521869602?s=48&t=z-QEFmo-T7EyF1VraAWbsg
Rubbin our firkin noses in their shyte.
Is Cleverly just another race baiting, anti White person? He sees no problem with the indigenous people of these islands being invaded and overwhelmed by people who have no connections with our culture or traditions. I suspect that, deep down, he doesn’t like us but pretends so he can infiltrate the system of power.
He, and others, had better beware. We are angry. Ireland is a warning.
They really don’t want the world to see what’s going on…
Isreal murder 60 journalists/press in 60 days.
https://youtu.be/8pNt3VZuqP8?si=VdwZbp-Ub1QxdTWR
Yes all you down tickers, this IS what the Israeli state does..
This IS what the terrorist state of Israel does but you refuse to accept it.
JFK….murdered by CIA Israel/Mossad.
911. CIA Israel/Mossad
7th Oct.. CIA /Israel Mossad.
https://cpj.org/2023/11/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
As of November 25, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 53 journalists and media workers were among the more than 15,000 killed since the war began on October 7—with over 14,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel. The second-deadliest day for journalist deaths occurred on November 18, with five killed; the deadliest day of the war was its first day, October 7, with 6 journalists killed.
This isn’t a failure, it’s deliberate.
The Globalist project to level down the Western nations to 2nd world levels …… whilst trying to raise the 3rd world to 2nd world levels with money extracted from Western nations …. is working a treat.
Just import millions of 3rd worlders and the job is done.
Our nations’ societies are being deliberately destroyed by the importation of millions of poor immigrants who will NEVER make a genuine contribution and you are being deliberately impoverished.
Cleverly by name but not by nature!
He looks like a vacant empty vessel!
Acts like one too, no one home? “Hello” knock knock, “hello!?”
They know precisely what they are doing! The problem is no matter who you vote for the result will be the same. For decades people have been demanding less immigration and every party who comes to office claims they will do something about it then reneges on their policies. When will people believe me when I say democracy is a sham?
Remember – If voting changed anything they’d abolish it!
“The problem is no matter who you vote for the result will be the same.”
Yes, correct if you vote for establishment parties.
Nobody needs to vote for establishment parties who is concerned about mass immigration and its effects on our society, our prosperity, our general happiness and security.