It’s hard to know where to start. Let’s begin with the incompetence of the civil servants.
They all have super degrees no doubt but most couldn’t find their rear ends with both hands. It’s their none too difficult task to put together last year’s net migration figures.
Their estimate was 740,000, an eye-watering number. They were wrong, as they have just revealed. They failed to take into account 166,000 migrants. That’s a town the size of Oxford or York.
So, the collective number for last year was 906,000. How on earth are doctors, schools, housing, roads going to cope with that kind of influx?
This then led to statisticians and politicians trying to defect the anger from sheer incompetence by trying to find good news in this year’s figures. And they found it.
It said the estimate was 728,000 – the difference between those that left and those that arrived – was 20 per cent down on last year.
Hold up. But how do we know this is an accurate assessment? It got the last one wrong by….20 per cent. Who speaks for us on the Labour front benches to say we share your concerns.
Clearly not Starmer who finds the Chagos Islands (I must be honest I had never heard of them) more compelling than the fact our nation is changing before our very eyes.
We haven’t heard a peep from Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and it’s her department which deals with migration and clearly nothing from David Lammy whose main strength is thinking up vile adjectives to throw at Trump.
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Basically, it’s left to Nigel Farage. That’s not good for democracy.
Reform has only five MPs so doesn’t get much representation on mainstream TV. That means there is not a detailed discussion which worries a majority of the nation.
The reality is those net numbers don’t really tell the story.
How about this stat? In London in 2022 66.5 per cent of all babies born in the capital were born of foreign mothers.
Take a decade of that kind of baby births (and throw in today’s massive net migration figures) and the whole of London will look completely different from today.
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This kind of change will continue in Birmingham where foreign births are running at 43.6%. Manchester keeps those numbers hidden. I wonder why?
Every major town and city in the country should be told to reveal these stats (easily accessed through hospitals) so the locals can see how figures like a million net migration actually change the way our nation looks.
Another shocking stat is that 100,000 migrants have been granted asylum in the last year. What is incredible is that over 70 per cent didn’t arrive by small boats coming across the channel.
I think the Home Office should put out a list showing how these people got here. Then we should invest to block the route. Unless Labour are in charge in which case it will never happen. Starmer is not going to do anything to aggravate the Left.
We have to live with that – or emigrate.