Now The Tough Work Begins…
Only a reduction will sort immigration Illegal Immigration Bill through Commons but still a long way to go. What about jaw-dropping legal migration? The Illegal Immigration Bill has completed its Commons stages and will now move to the Lords, where the government’s task of getting the Bill through intact will be much tougher. The House of Lords is replete with […]
A Passage From India – Explaining The Unexpected Rise Of Indians Crossing The Channel
This week the government disclosed that in 2023 Indians have been the second largest group of people illegally crossing the English Channel in small boats, making up 18 per cent of all crossings. Although the increase in Indians making the crossings had been reported earlier this year, that this remains the case several months into Spring suggests this May […]
They’re Taking Us For Mugs…
You voted for low immigration, so why the delay? Cut immigration, now! According to YouGov‘s latest polling 59% of the public think that immigration has been too high, and only 10% think it has been too low. While a whopping 86% of Conservative voters — many of whom voted the way they did in 2019 believing […]
Suspected Terrorists Enter Britain…
The danger of open borders and collapsed enforcement Why have known terrorists been admitted and allowed to roam freely? They should be under lock and key It emerged this week via the Daily Mail that 19 suspected terrorists were admitted to Britain having entered illegally and claimed asylum. Have we gone completely barmy? Indeed, since 2018, 90,000 […]
From Baghdad To Bournemouth – Granting Refuge To Terrorists
It emerged in the Daily Mail recently that among those who illegally entered the UK in a dinghy last year were 19 suspected terrorists, several of whom are thought to have been members of the Islamic State group. Despite the fact that several of these individuals were already under ‘active investigation’ by other countries when […]
How can the UK stop relying on overseas doctors?
Summary Introduction 1. Medicine is amongst the UK’s most popular higher education course categories attracting tens of thousands of applicants every year who compete for 7,000 limited places in England and around 1,900 places in the rest of the UK. 2. However, the number of places has not kept up with the increasing demand for […]
National Health Service Is A Migration Junky
The scandal of not training enough medics only to steal them from needier countries This week we published new research showing that nearly half of all the doctors joining the NHS in 2022 came from overseas. Also revealed was the number of applicants rejected from medical courses in Britain. This is from the paper: “In 2022, there […]
We Can’t Take These Numbers…
Voters want a reduction in immigration Let’s get back to sensible control Ordinary people in Britain know full well that net migration into the country is too high and has been for years now. The question is not about being pro- or anti-immigration. The issue is the sheer scale. Before Tony Blair instigated radical changes to our […]
Does Britain Think Immigration Is Too High?
Polling is central to modern politics. For governments, it is a means of testing public reaction to policies. More and more nowadays it is done with focus groups to test the popularity or otherwise of policies and pronouncements. Immigration is an area that is particularly tightly monitored by pollsters, because it has long been a core […]
No, Migration Doesn’t Prevent Recessions
Immigration saving the Economy? Nonsense! Following the Spring Budget Statement, media commentators, as well as the usual open-borders and immigration enthusiasts, leapt on the Chancellor’s implied assertion that high net migration will prevent the UK economy from going into recession. We said such a claim was baseless (See here). The claim followed earlier projections from the OBR, derived […]