Observations

There are many issues arising from Facts4EU.Org's analysis above

It is perhaps worth starting with Priti Patel's Home Office, which has been the constant target of many commentators and journalists. We share some of these concerns but on the matter of the processing of applications from an extraordinary number of foreign applicants for the right to live and work in the UK, we can only take our hats off. Some of the policies may have been wrong, but no-one can argue they have not been carried out efficiently.

It must be remembered that Government departments were still of the Remainer persuasion that around half the actual number of EU citizens lived in the UK, than in fact was the case. Sadly, Facts4EU's repeated and detailed reports were ignored.

That said, they have done a remarkable job in dealing with over 6.5m applications and in processing 96% of these. This is particularly impressive when readers consider how many extra applications have been received as a result of the United Kingdom's typical leniency in extending the deadlines and then even allowing half a million more applications after the final deadline had passed.

It's now time the Remainer lies stopped

During the Referendum campaign the figure used for EU citizens in the UK was 3 million and the number of UK citizens resident in the EU was put at 1.2-1.5 million.

We consistently produced reports showing this was not the case, and in the end the EU and British civil servants have admitted the truth. The UK Home Office says that so far more than 6 million EU27 nationals have applied under the UK’s permanent settlement scheme whereas the EU says there are only 0.89 million Brits living in EU27 countries. The EU benefited far more from free movement – by a factor of 6 to 1 – than did the UK.

We continue to believe that facts like ones which we have shown above – from official EU sources – are important.

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