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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“Unconscious bias” is an interesting component of contemporary madleft anti-whitism. It’s founded on the Kafka-trap idea that if a white person thinks he’s not a “racist” then that’s proof that he is. And you have to admire the sheer bovine effrontery of the people who promote such nonsense. But why are white people promoting anti-whitism? It can only be because they’re decadent (in Nietzsche’s sense of a people or individual choosing the thing that will destroy them). Also, when a person gives up on in-group preference, love of one’s own people, love of one’s culture and civilisation, yet is still paid to influence public policy, then that person becomes a danger to those of who haven’t given up these things. In other words, creatures like Baronnes Royall are a danger to our people and our country.
“ then that person becomes a danger to those of who haven’t given up these things”
You can throw in Starmer, most of Parliament & Whitehall into the mix.
Re’ your first three lines. I wonder if Joseph Heller realised he was writing an instruction manual for the ‘woke’ when he penned ‘Catch-22’?
“But why are white people promoting anti-whitism?”
To prove they do not have unconscious bias, but by their own reasoning (such as it is) it shows they are unconscious racists because they are over-compensating trying to prove they are not.
As you say Kafkaesque. In fact mentally ill, I would say.
”….there was “irrefutable evidence” of a link between racism and transphobia and unconscious bias.”
Total cobblers. Not least because ”transphobia” is another made-up nonsense word pushed by the odious Leftards. Meanwhile, maybe the silly woman thinks the security guards that slung five men pretending to be women from the female loos at Butlin’s are racist and deserved to be suspended, simply for protecting women and sticking up for their female sex-based rights;
”Butlin’s has faced backlash after security guards allegedly forcibly removed five transgender women from the women’s toilets.
This took place during a music event at their Skegness resort on October 5.
The security staff are said to have “violently dragged” the individuals from the lavatories, prompting Butlin’s to remove the guards from duty and reaffirm its commitment to being an “inclusive business.”
The removal of the guards has led to criticism, including from author J.K. Rowling, who called on Butlin’s to clarify its stance on women-only spaces.
In a tweet, Rowling said: “Does Butlins think the desire of cross-dressing men to enter women-only spaces is more important than women’s and girls’ right to privacy and dignity?
“Hopefully Butlins will explain their policy, so women and families can make an informed choice about where to go on holiday.”
According to Jae Roberts, one of the trans women involved, the altercation began when a security guard confronted a person with facial hair in the women’s toilet instructing them to leave on the grounds that they were a man.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1960396/butlins-security-guards-suspended-trans-row
Because the security guard went away and returned with 10 colleagues to turf out these impostors, presumably because they wouldn’t leave when asked, I also agree with comments online that there’s more to this than what the MSM are reporting. As somebody says, if these men lie about their sex then what else are they lying about? It’d be interesting to hear from the suspended security team members for their side of the story. These security guards were absolutely in the right. Men do not go to the toilets in groups, so I’ll bet they were having one of their ‘sausage parties’ or perving on women or something, either before or after doing their make-up. It’s autogynephilic men getting their fetishist kicks from invading women’s spaces. Gay men don’t have any interest in entering female toilets. I know what this person’s referring to because there was loads of footage during Pride ( especially from the U.S and Canada ) posted on Twitter but it was too graphic to post on DS;
”Listen.
PRIDE in NYC this year was some of the craziest shit that I have ever seen, and I was born and raised in this shithole city.
That is why I know there is more to this story than these men just wanting to “pee.”
On West 4th this year during PRIDE, MEN were literally fu*cking each other in the street, and NOTHING could be done to stop them.
That is what PRIDE is now.
MEN are doing the most, but NOW…MEN are allowed to do the most in Women’s spaces, and they all get off on it.
Why do you think every gay man in NYC is NOW identifying as a “Trans Woman”?
Every gay man in NYC identifies as Trans and they are doing it because the city gives them full permission to get away with murder.
There was a brawl in the Starbucks on 14th, and it was a Trans Identified Male and a Woman, and he beat the shit out of her in the STREET.
No one said a WORD.
The LAW behind them makes them even more wild than they were 10 years ago.
There is def more to this story.
MEN and SEX.
MEN and SEX.
It is always about SEX with these MEN.
They just want to normalize it so that we all have to get used to seeing them screw each other in the street.
They want bathhouses back.”
Disturbing. A very serious case of the mind derangement virus spreading.
It is disturbing but autogynephilia is quite intriguing actually, once you start reading about it. Though I’m pretty interested in what makes people tick anyway, especially the weirdos;
”Two different types of men change their sex. To anyone who examines them closely, they are quite dissimilar, in their histories, their motivations, their degree of femininity, their demographics, and even the way they look. We know little about the causes of either type of transsexualism (though we have some good hunches about one type). But I am certain that when we finally do understand, the causes of the two types will be completely different.
To anyone who has seen members of both types and who has learned to ask the right kinds of questions, it is easy to tell them apart. Yet the difference has eluded virtually everyone who cares about transsexuals: talk show hosts, journalists, most people who evaluate and treat them, and even most academics who have studied them. One reason is that the superficial similarity of the two types is so striking – both are men, usually dressed and attempting to act like women, who want to replace their penises with vaginas – that it prevents us from noticing more subtle, though also more fundamental, differences. Another reason is that the two types of transsexuals rarely show up side by side, where they would be easily distinguishable… The most interesting reason why most people do not realize that there are two types of transsexuals is that members of one type sometimes misrepresent themselves as members of the other. I will get more specific later, but for now, it is enough to say that they are often silent about their true motivation and instead tell stories about themselves that are misleading and, in important respects, false.
From soon after birth, the homosexual male-to-female transsexual behaves and feels like a girl. Unlike most feminine boys… these transsexuals do not outgrow, or learn to hide, their femininity. Instead, they decide that the drastic step of changing their sex is preferable. They unambiguously desire and love men, especially heterosexual men, whom they can attract only as women… one type of transsexual man is a kind of homosexual man…
Honest and open autogynephilic transsexuals reveal a much different pattern. They were not especially feminine boys. The first overt manifestation of what led to their transsexualism was typically during early adolescence, when they secretly dressed in their mothers’ or sisters’ lingerie, looked at themselves in the mirror, and masturbated. This activity continued into adulthood, and sexual fantasies became increasingly transsexual – especially the fantasy of having a vulva, perhaps being penetrated by a penis. Autogynephilic transsexuals might declare attraction to women or men, to both, or to neither. But their primary attraction is to the women that they would become.”
https://feministwiki.org/wiki/Autogynephilia
It’s notable that people with “irrefutable evidence” never present it. (See: climate change).
”Irrefutable” bestows in of itself verity, so that scrutiny, testing if the evidence is superfluous.
“Irrefutable” usually means “I possess Wise and Numinous Knowledge” (W.A.N.K. for short) “and you people from the lower orders better obey me”.
The common factor in all this Leftie/Wokerie nonsense, is its claims and assertions are unfalsifiable, which follows on from them being unprovable.
If bias is unconscious, therefore not deliberate, then intent cannot be proven, nor its manifestation be identified, and so cannot be falsified.
So-called Man-made climate change cannot be proven, nor can the causal relationship between C02 and temperature. All weather events, too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, normal are attributed as being consistent with climate change. Hot weather confirms climate change, but cooler weather not only doesn’t refute it, it is evidence too of climate change. So this cannot be falsified.
It’s safe ground to make claims and assertions that cannot be proven. The stock answer in defence is: Well you can’t prove me wrong. That’s is not proof they are right.
When a claim rests on non-evidence based belief, ideology becomes dogma, no amount of contrary evidence will be accepted as falsifying that claim.
And as Jonathan Swift commented: you cannot reason a man out of something which he hadn’t reasoned himself into.
An exam that shows full allegiance to the cult, much like the tape recording you submit to when you join the Scientologists. This corrupt divisive PoS and her bovine cabal need to be buried by history.
Presumably, the ‘correct’ answer – the answer students were required to give to score 100% – was ‘Yes’.
Being perverse, I’d answer ‘Yes’ to that question which covers both alternatives.
My real frustration in running my own businesses is that the opportinuty to attend an unconscious bias training course and really enjoy the ‘sport’ is not going to happen !
Hatchet-faced Harpie.
I’d be astonished if more than a tiny percentage of senior University staff/leaders actually believe in freedom of speech.
Read her Wiki bio. The most depressing sort of political mediocrity. Read Spanish at a dismal uni somewhere. Worked as a flower importer and did a secretarial. Then into politics courtesy of the Kinnocks.Failed in every election she stood in.
Swam through the pc world of low ability committees and has been rewarded for just being a loyal apparatchik. Now hoping to run Oxford.
Toby, if I could, I would give you decibels. All power to you, my friend.