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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I dislike your headline “The Real….”.
“Yet another real….”
would read a lot better.
Thank you Chris for your time putting this informative item together. Every piece of pushback against the madness is important.
Accurate satellite data measuring sea ice extent was gathered throughout the 1970’s as it was critical for managing the nuclear deterrent. It clearly shows that the ice extent reached a peak in 1979 – the year, strangely enough that records used for climate propaganda begin. Including this data would show there has been nothing remotely unusual going on with Arctic sea ice extent.
Raise this point and you’re met with handwaving and muttering about incompatible datasets. Funny how this hasn’t stopped alarmist academics stitching together datasets from ocean buoys and ship intakes, or tree rings and thermometers (Mike’s ‘Nature’ trick), or satellite Microwave Sounding Units and surface thermometers, or weather balloons and computer models.
Something with mentioning here: The definition of ice age is a time during which permanent surface ice sheets exist. Consequently, we’re currently living in an ice age that’s possibly receding.
Additional fun fact: One of the reason why people believe in antrophogenic climate change is that – according to some mathematical models of ice ages – the current interglacial period (the holocene) should have ended already. Ie, weren’t it for terrible influence humans have on the climate, we’d all be again hunting mammoths on glaciers by now.
Obviously, the idea that these models could be wrong never crossed anybody’s mind.
The earth has been in an ice age for at least 2 million years, we just happen to be in a relatively short lived interglacial period and what most people call an ice age is a glacial period. Taking a long term view (thousands of years) we seem to be heading into the next glacial period all be it with ups and downs along the way. The paleoclimate record shows various warm periods over at least the last 4,000 years e.g. Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period etc. Our current warm period is simply the latest in a long succession of warm and cool periods, however it appears that each warm period is slightly less warm than the previous one, so the temperature trend over the last 5-6,000 years is slightly downwards.
“He adds that satellite images and recordings going back to 1993 show sea levels rising at a mere 1.2 inches per decade, and this is not significantly different to typical rises recorded since the mid-1800s.”
Chris, interesting but 1.2 inches between now & 2100 is about 27cm which earlier in the article you state was “false & easily disproven”, which is it?
Assuming the 1,2 inches per decade is correct, it would be 23.37cm by 2100, ie, 3.36cm less than 27cm. That should count as disproven.
We have tide information from e.g. Newlyn, going back several hundred years, showing little growth in sea levels. 1993 is just the blink of an eye. There are far too many conclusions being drawn from data that doesn’t cover anything like a truly representative period of time.
Climate has nothing to do with the ‘Climate Emergency’. It is just a convenient group of stuff you can’t measure and which never seems to happen where I live, used as a tool to make us feel guilty for our lives of affluence and abundance.
Once we are both anxious and guilty, as many are, then it becomes easy to sell us any old snake oil of wholesale societal change to some romanticised version of 12th century feudalism. A world where, for no particular reason, other that it is the ideology of the WEF and the Club of Rome and others, our economies and societies have to be completely trashed in order that they can be replaced with something ‘better’.
Unfortunately, the ‘something better’ sounds considerably worse to me, yet our governments plough on implementing this treason, without reference to the citizens or gaining their approval. Just ‘here’s the next step’, necessary because of the crisis we just caused. These people are dangerously insane.
Feudalism is still a Marxist term referring to an economic system where the primary means of production is land and not capital but where land is no longer worked by slaves but either by free labourers for a wage or by serfs bound to it. Whatever the usual shady entities are suspected to be really about, it’s certainly not going to be that.
The Climate Change propaganda originates with the UN and is their chosen method of forcing down the living standards of affluent western countries and transferring taxpayers’ money to the 2nd and 3rd world.
It’s a form of “levelling down” on a global scale – with a Global Elite running everything. A Global Animal Farm.
Any National Leader who doesn’t support the Climate Change propaganda will never be allowed to join the Global Elite Club and (if possible) will be removed from Office.
Quote “the jab wasn’t a vaccine, it was an intelligence test” and the same applies to climate change and EV vehicles.
Would like to see this headlined on all msm.
We’ll know we’re winning when stories such as this make it into the MSM.