1.2m immigrants into the UK in 12 months? What IS the Government thinking?

The latest immigration figures are so bad we're breaking them into a three-part report

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A Facts4EU 3-parter on legal UK immigration, illegal immigration, and the effect on the UK population, using the latest official data

Brexit voters wanted to “take back control” – yet the Government simply hasn’t. Yesterday at 09.30am (Thurs 23 Nov 2023), the Office for National Statistics released its latest data on immigration into the UK.

This revealed a shocking 102,000 rise in the number of long-term legal migrants entering the UK, bringing the total in the 12 months to June 2023 to 1.18 million.

A Brexit Facts4EU.Org Three-Part Series

We cut through the volumes of data to answer three questions :-

Part I – How much has ‘legal’ immigration risen? (This report)
Part II - How much has illegal immigration risen?
Part III - What has been the effect on the UK's population?

1. The scandalous increase in legal immigration

In today’s report we summarise the position on ‘legal’ immigration, as at 30 June 2023. These numbers are staggering.

In tomorrow’s report we will update our previous reports on the volume of illegal immigration, mostly from illegal migrants in President Macron’s France setting off from the French coast in small boats and then being escorted across the English Channel by the French Navy and then the RNLI and UK Border Force.

Finally in Part III we will show the effect of all of this on the population of the United Kingdom, as a direct result of government policies over recent years.

As in previous reports, we believe all these numbers to be chronically understated, based on our analysis of HMRC records of National Insurance numbers which have been issued. Even the ONS themselves admit they are evaluating how they collect data on this key issue, and which has been woefully inadequate for many years. Nevertheless we present a summary of the figures they released yesterday.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

1. Legal immigration in the last five years

2019 : 219,000
2020 : 89,000
2021 : 488,000
2022 : 606,000
2023 : 672,000
TOTAL : 2,074,000

[Source : Office for National Statistics, 23 Nov 2023.]

2. The breakdown between EU and non-EU immigration

12 months to June 2023

Non-EU immigration : 968,000 (+102,000 or +11.8%)
EU immigration : 129,000
Returning UK nationals : 84,000
TOTAL : 1,181,000

And it gets, MUCH worse

The numbers contained in the datasets provided by the Office for National Statistics and from the UK Home Office are so bad it is hard to know where to stop. However, here is just some of the breakdown that we think readers have the right to know. What follows comes from the UK Home Office, also released yesterday. This data is more current than that of the ONS and covers the period up to the end of September 2023, rather than the end of June.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

3. Types of visas granted to immigrants

12 months to Sept 2023

A) Work visas

335,447 work visas granted (2.5 times more than prior to the pandemic in the year ending September 2019)
250,297 grants to dependants of people who had been granted a work visa
Proportion of all work-related visas granted to dependants : 43%

B) Study visas - students

486,107 sponsored study visas granted to main applicants (almost double the pre-pandemic year ending September 2019)
133,237 of these were granted to Indian nationals, nearly 5 times higher than in the year-ending September 2019
108,978 of these were granted to Chinese nationals

C) Dependents of students

152,980 of all student visas were to dependants of students (almost a quarter : 24%)
This is over 10 TIMES the number of dependents in the pre-pandemic year to Sept 2019

The effects of all this legal immigration on the people of the country

The Daily Telegraph’s Allison Pearson summed this up in typically succinct style on Tuesday

“Where would you put 15 Birmingham's on this small island of ours?”

This is an incisive question. Mrs Pearson went on to write :-

“Whatever smoke and mirrors the Government deploys to hide its addiction to mass immigration, there are hard facts that can’t be disappeared.
“At least a million people will have been added to the British population in the past two years at a time when our public services are under terrible strain and you have more chance of dating Tom Cruise than of seeing a dentist.”

It seems to be a fact that those who run our country – whether in government or via their positions in ‘Establishment’ organisations - and who dominate our lives through their continued and strong influence, have remained resolute in their desire to grow our population to produce artificial growth in national GDP.

Observations

"We will reduce immigration to the tens of thousands"

Readers will recall the pledge by our new Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron when he was Prime Minister, to reduce net immigration to "the tens of thousands". Not only did this never happen, he never even came close to honouring the pledge.

As if this weren't bad enough, numbers have rocketed since then. Let's be clear: if this happened in a public company then those in charge would have been fired. Because we're talking about politicians and civil servants, however, no-one will lose their job as a result of this fiasco.

The numbers we have analysed in our report above are so bad they almost beggar belief. As Allison Pearson pointed out, we're talking about the equivalent of 15 Birminghams entering the country in recent years. We will look at the impact on the population of the United Kingdom in Part III.

Tomorrow, however, we will update readers on another aspect of immigration - that of illegal migrants entering on small boats or in the back of lorries from Macron's France. The numbers may be smaller than from the legal routes but in some ways they are equally troubling, as we simply don't know who the majority of these people really are, as they deliberately jettison their identity papers before arriving.

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Reader Comments 21

1. Sparky , Friday, November 24, 2023, 06:52:

Immigration is higher than above, 2022 was revised upward to 745,000.
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Birminghams, has a population of 1.1 million, so not sure how DT sums works. Might have been better to compare to Belfast.....no forget that one, Belfast is still in the EU.
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I agree immigration is too high, the UK is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, something like 34. My BIG issue with this is that immigration was a big driver for voting for Brexit, unbelievable.

2. Have You Wondered , Friday, November 24, 2023, 08:32:

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Is the bottom line, these facts depict the substandard quality and insincerity of government toward the electorate?
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But hey! we voted for them (well - most of them)
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Westminster needs an enema.
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3. LuxuryBalloon , Friday, November 24, 2023, 09:23:

It seems the establishment has ‘taken back control’ after Brexit: keeping our unemployment figures artificially low by massively increasing the number of people working in the public sector and allowing vast numbers of immigrants from India and Nigeria to enter the UK to work in the health care/social care.

4. David , Friday, November 24, 2023, 09:56:

When we were in the EU, we were obliged to accept immigration from other EU countries with no control over the numbers,
owing to the EU's freedom of movement rules.
We only had control of immigration from non-EU countries which we have never properly controlled.
When we left the EU, we were no longer obliged to accept unlimited numbers from other EU countries.
The trouble is this useless Conservative government has failed to control immigration full stop, whether it be from EU or
non-EU countries.

5. Sparky , Friday, November 24, 2023, 11:06:

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research predicts that by 2035 the economy will be between 5-6% smaller than it would be if we had not left the European Union. This means that if it were not for Brexit our economy would be much stronger than the economic picture presented by the chancellor in the autumn statement.”
According to the group, Brexit is already costing each person in the UK about £850 a year and the situation is only going to worsen. The cost is set to reach £2300 per person, per year over the next decade. In a report released last week, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) estimated that this will increase to 5 to 6% of GDP a year (around £115-135 billion at today’s prices) by 2035.

6. Gazzablack , Friday, November 24, 2023, 11:27:

5, Sparkless
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Another bunch of 'Septic Pegs'
They couldn't predict snow in the middle of a blizzard.
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Let's face it, if Germany, France and Italy hadn't left the EU their economies would have been 5% to 6% larger than they are now.

7. Sparky , Friday, November 24, 2023, 12:16:

Research from the University of Bath’s School of Management found that cognitive skills including memory, verbal fluency, fluid reasoning and numerical reasoning, were correlated with how people decided to vote.
The research used a nationally representative sample of 6,366 individuals from 3,183 couples collected as part of a large survey called Understanding Society.
They found that, of the people with the lowest cognitive ability, only 40% voted Remain, whereas 73% of those with the highest cognitive ability voted Remain.
“This study adds to existing academic evidence showing that low cognitive ability makes people more susceptible to misinformation and disinformation,” lead author Dr Chris Dawson said.

8. KB , Friday, November 24, 2023, 12:21:

One very important thing to bear in mind, when getting excited about these figures.
The ONS is changing how it counts the numbers. The previous method was unbelievably amateurish (probably intentionally so).
The immigration numbers were based on surveys at airports. People were asked "do you intend to stay in the UK permanently ?", and if they answered "no" they were not counted as an immigrant.
However some awkward people noticed that there were serious discrepancies with other data, for example the well-known one is the number of national insurance numbers issued per year. Facts 4 EU even ran articles on this.
So before we get too excited, what might be happening is that the reported immigration statistics are getting nearer the truth than they used to be. It could be that the previous years have been seriously underestimated, let's not forget that.

9. terence patrick hewett , Friday, November 24, 2023, 12:29:

Meanwhile, in the real world, Dubliners are not best pleased with the utopia created for them by EU membership.

10. NH , Friday, November 24, 2023, 13:03:

I am definitely against this level of immigration and I don't believe it is good for the UK. However comparisons with the EU immigration are incorrect. Work Visas are initially limited to 5 years and linked to a single employer. There are minimal salary levels and they do not have access to public funds. Similarly Student Visas also have restrictions. EU immigration had no restrictions. Any EU citizen could come to the UK claim benefits after a very short period of being employed and then receive the same rights as UK citizens. Many were on minimum wage so the did not provide a net contribution to the UK and others had long criminal backgrounds.
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7. Sparky, "Low Cognitive Skills"
I am surprised any body would give this report credibility by repeating it. The report is totally arrogant and completely ignorant of human abilities. Vast numbers of people around the world who may be considered to have "low cognitive skills" have gone on to be hugely successful. Far more successful than the academics who produced this report or the people who are so arrogant they have repeated it. "Common sense" and "suggestibility" have nothing to do with any academics definition of "cognitive ability". There is a huge amount of evidence that people considered to be "highly intelligent" constantly make stupid mistakes. The authors of this report are desperate, ridiculous and should be ashamed of themselves.

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