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Half A Million More Foreign-born Arrive In Past Decade Than Previous Ten Years
Despite promising cuts in immigration, the government has overseen even higher levels than under Tony Blair or Gordon Brown during their time in office. New datafrom the 2021 Census (carried out during March of last…
Learn MoreAsylum Seeker Hotel Costs In Context
Over the past few decades, the numbers relating to government spending only seem to rise and rise. This can be quite de-sensitising. Eventually, an exasperated taxpayer might even be forgiven for caring little for ‘just’…
Learn MoreThe Abuse Of Modern Slavery Laws By Asylum Seekers
Key points 1. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 was passed in order to combat modern slavery in the United Kingdom. Since 2018, 15,977 UK nationals (3,195 per year on average) have been referred to the…
Learn MoreIrregular Immigration Behind The Broken Asylum System
The latest irregular migration statistics released on 25th August for the year ending June 2022 revealed the extent to which irregular (what used to be termed illegal) migration, feeds the broken asylum system, since nearly all those entering…
Learn MoreNumber Of People Per Illegal Boat Has Shot Up Five-fold Over Past Five Years
As the government has prevaricated and revealed its impotence on tackling boat arrivals, more than 2,500 boats have breached our borders. And new figures reveal that the average number of people per boat has risen five-fold since…
Learn MoreOverwhelmed, Abused Asylum System Costs You £2 Billion In Taxes As Illegal Boats Mount
New statistics released by the Home Officereveal just how costly, overwhelmed and abused our asylum system has become as illegal boat crossings have skyrocketed. More than 60,000 have arrived illegally by boat since January 2018 and…
Learn MoreAll-time High Immigration: Record 1.1 Million Entry Grants To Live In The Uk
The Home Office released visa, asylum and immigration statisticspertaining to the year to June 2022. These reveal a large increase in immigration since before the pandemic, with an astonishing 1.1 million visas granted for people to come…
Learn MoreOpen Letter To Conservative Leadership Candidates
Below is the text of an open letter sent to both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, highlighting the support for reducing overall immigration among the British public-as revealed by our recent polling data. The Right…
Learn MoreConservative Voters Strongly Favour Reducing Immigration
New polling conducted by Migration Watch UK demonstrates significant public support for reducing immigration into Britain. Despite claims in recent years that after Brexit the British public are now softer on immigration and its impact,…
Learn MoreThe Conservative Record On Immigration
A report on the Conservative record on immigration was issued by Migration Watch UK today. The report finds that the Conservatives struggled to bring order into a situation in which the numbers had run out of control and the system was close to chaos. Despite the limitations of a coalition
Guardian Article Fails To Live Up To Its Own Calls For Honesty In The Immigration Debate
Perhaps surprisingly, under their ‘sustainable business’ section, the Guardian have an article by an ‘arranger’ of cleaning services. She makes several of the usual straw man arguments including that the alternative to mass immigration is stopping immigration. It isn’t – it is about a manageable scale. She also calls for honesty on
Swiss Referenda On Immigration
Summary 1. Some press reporting has implied that the recent Swiss referendum has reversed an earlier decision to impose restrictions on immigration. This is not so. The referenda 2. In February 2014 the Swiss people voted on a proposition “Against Mass Immigration” which was in favour of their country: 3. The Federal Council has
The Impact Of Immigration On Population Growth
New calculations by Migration Watch UK in a paper published today show that net migration has accounted for about 84% of the UK’s population increase over the past decade. The official publications of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) state that, on average, 57 per cent of UK population
Higher Education Is In The Rudest Of Health, So Why Suggest Otherwise?
By Sir Andrew Green Chairman of Migration Watch UKConservativehome Blog, 22 November, 2014 The UK is one of the most attractive countries in the world to come to study. But if you listened only to Mark Field, the Conservative MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, you might be forgiven for
Comment On Cream’s Revised Report ‘the Fiscal Effects Of Immigration To The Uk’
1. CReAM have now published a revised version of their paper first put out in November 2013 on the fiscal effects of immigration to the UK. The original CReAM paper was given extensive media coverage and flourished as conclusive proof that immigration was a fiscal benefit to the UK, and