“Nigel says” millions of migrants are coming to the EU – our analysis shows he’s right

Brexit Facts4EU.Org’s analysis of EU’s own data reveals 4.7m asylum seekers since Referendum

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Yes, EU’s migrant crisis becomes UK’s ‘small boats’ crisis – again Nigel was correct

In yesterday’s Farage Show on GB News, Nigel Farage conducted an interview in which he predicted that millions of migrants will be coming to the EU over the next few years. His interviewee – a freelance journalist from Italy who clearly had different views on the migrant crisis – disagreed.

Mr Farage’s show is the most-watched news and current affairs programme in the 7pm slot on British television. He outranks the BBC, Sky News and ITN.

Nigel was correct

Overnight the Brexit Facts4EU.Org think-tank team decided to interrogate the official figures from the EU Commission as well as from the Italian Ministry of the Interior. We can reveal that Nigel Farage was right and that in fact he was conservative in his estimates.

From the month after the Referendum until July of this year, with many EU countries yet to report their latest numbers, more than 4.7 million migrants have applied for asylum in the EU. This does not include illegal migrants who entered but did not apply, choosing instead to operate in the ‘black economy’.

Nor does it include the four million Ukrainians who have applied for what the EU refers to as ‘Temporary Protection’.

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1. First-time asylum applications to the EU

From July 2016 (post-Referendum) to July 2023

[Source : EU Commission (Eurostat), 19 Sept 2023.]

Migrant numbers for Italy this year are now three times those for the whole of 2021

Our overnight analysis of the data from the Ministero dell’Interno in Rome shows that illegal migrant numbers entering Italy have just surpassed three times the level they experienced in the whole of 2021.

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2. Migrant arrivals in Italy

01 Jan 2021 to 18 Sept 2023

2021 : 42,750
2022 : 66,237
01 Jan to 18 Sept 2023 : 129,869

[Source: Ministero dell’Interno, 19 Sept 2023.]

We can also reveal that last week – in just one week – 14,106 illegal migrants arrived on Italian shores. The majority are young African men.

Here is what Nigel Farage said in his interview last night

He is of course also right to say that all the UK’s illegal boat migrants come from the EU

In the course of Nigel Farage’s segments on this subject he has frequently alluded to the UK’s boat migrant crisis. In so doing he has mentioned that all of these migrants have come from EU countries. The vast majority now come from France, with the numbers dropping from Belgian shores due to that country’s naval forces intercepting boats.

The UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will be meeting President Emmanuel Macron in Paris today to discuss a closer alignment of the UK with the EU if a Labour government is elected. It is not known whether he will raise the subject of France’s refusal to take back its illegal migrants.

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Observations

An indelicate topic for some

For many years the subject of immigration – legal or illegal – was so delicate it was rarely discussed in ‘polite society’. In areas of North London, where many of the ‘elites’ reside, the subject was avoided altogether, except perhaps to castigate the “racists, xenophobes, and bigots” who raised concerns about it.

Now this subject has become mainstream. The Brexit Facts4EU.Org think-tank team has always reported on the topic, with research using official data from the EU, the UK Home Office, and sometimes from the national statistics agencies of certain countries such as Italy and Germany amongst others.

In his broadcast yesterday evening Nigel Farage continued his long-standing opposition to the increasing problem of immigration on a scale that has been becoming unprecedented.

Being non-partisan, we leave it to readers to decide their views on this. However the facts are what they are, and they support Mr Farage’s assertions last night.

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11. Llwyd , Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 19:16:

All true Gazza. Starmer wants us as an associate member, paying a massive annual budget to the EU once again and having to take our laws from the ECJ. Meanwhile the EU is going to remove nations vetoes soon, they’ll have a CBDC before long (total control) plus a digital ID. It’s basically the Fourth Reich and Starmer is the C**t who is going to lead us there. He should be stripped of his knighthood and imprisoned. Working for a foreign power against the interests of your country is still treason in law.

12. jon iivesey , Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 20:25:

If you ask me, Starmer is being his usual self here. Talking about an "improved" EU trade deal is really just his way of avoiding any real debate. He'll tell us that it's not necessary for Labour to actually argue against Brexit because he can "improve" it, which will play well with voters who are sick hearing about the entire issue, and, no surprises, that also avoids a fight within the Labour Party.
Really we are not talking about Brexit any more, and have not been for a long time. We are talking about domestic politics in a situation where the remainers predicted they would win a referendum, then refused to accept the result when they lost, then turned to lies and evasions to keep the issue open, and now find themselves with voters who definitely don't want another Brexit debate.
When you are faced with that, and you are Starmer, the smart move is to say you won't re-debate Brexit, but you will improve it to get something different and much better. So if Starmer is elected he will pop over to Brussels and come back with a completely re-vamped Brexit deal that will differ by a comma here, and a semi-colon there.
Just like laundry detergent, always "New" and "Improved" and always really the same.

13. Stephen Jenner , Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 05:53:

I wonder at what point habitual Conservative party voters will realise that they are not voting for a conservative party in anything but name, and start looking for a genuine conservative party?
Of course, it might help if the real conservatives ceased to be factionalised as Reform, Reclaim and Heritage, and forthwith agree to coalesce as 'new conservatives', or something... as the Labour Party did with Blair and Brown all those years ago. That agreement was a masterly move by Anthony Blair and led to ten years of 'new labour' government. Indeed we are still suffering from the fallout caused by that shower.

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