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Beware The Burnhamwave
Britain is still living with the consequences of the “Boriswave”: the unprecedented surge in migration produced by Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit immigration system. Net migration peaked at 944,000 in the year to March 2023. Although it…
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Weak Budgets and Even Weaker Borders
This week, the Chancellor told us his Budget would bring “breathing space for today, fresh hope for the future”. On immigration, it is anything but. Buried in the small print is a collection of liberalising…
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Dither, Delay and Pay The Price
The Home Office has found a novel way to deal with a deadline: ignore it. The Critic reports that the internal 14 October date for announcing Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) reforms has disappeared, with…
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Stop This Madcap Rush Towards National Hara-Kiri
For years, politicians, officials, corporate lobbyists and many academics have insisted our nation’s prosperity depended on ever-escalating levels of mass migration. Migration Watch has argued against this and for years said that low-skill, low-pay immigration…
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Robots, Not Migrants
Britain cannot build a prosperous future by propping up inefficient, outmoded and struggling businesses by giving them a free hand to import cheaper migrant labour. For too long, politicians have gone along with employers’ demands…
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The Shabanawave Approaches
Whatever moniker it ends up with, we have no doubt that the ‘safe and legal routes’ for asylum seekers announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood this week, will not stop the boats. Nor will it have…
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Don’t Get Distracted
For all the headlines, political rows and television footage, you could be forgiven for thinking that Britain’s immigration problem begins and ends with small boats. It does not.
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A Serious Problem Deserves A Serious Debate
There was something revealing about our Chairman, Alp Mehmet’s, appearance this week before the Public Bill Committee considering the Government’s Immigration and Asylum Bill.
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The NHS Must Break Its Dependence On Overseas Recruitment
Overseas recruitment allows governments to postpone the investment needed to attract and retain staff here, and should be treated as a policy failure to overcome, rather than justification to continue the failure.
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For Boatload, Read Planeload
This week, UK Border Force escorted a single inflatable dinghy into Dover carrying 230 people. The boat broke a record set just seventeen days earlier. And no wonder – the French authorities have adopted a hands-off approach, allowing dinghies like this to set off to be collected once they enter British waters.
What Do We Mean By The White British?
It is amazing what journalists and commentators will pretend not to understand for the sake of creating a story. On Radio 4 this week Nick Robinson pressed Rupert Lowe on whether the King qualifies as a White Briton. While Fraser Nelson dismissed the whole notion of the White British becoming a minority as “a trope designed to go viral on social, to be repeated uncritically by shysters”.
England’s Housing Crisis and Immigration
Migration Watch has long warned of the impact of mass, uncontrolled migration on Britain’s housing market. In January this year, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published a response to concerns about a new government scheme to build houses for migrants:
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Some questions are simple to ask and simple to answer, yet remain central to the national debate over migration. Questions such as, “Do some migrant groups offend at higher rates than others and how do these compare with overall population size?” are straightforward and should be easy to collate. Other countries manage it. For example, Denmark’s (left-wing) government publishes these figures, showing that conviction rates for violent crimes among recent migrants are a staggering 40 times higher than those born in Denmark. Perhaps this gives a clue as to why our government has made it so damnably difficult to establish the comparable figures for Britain?
We Warned Them: Indian National Insurance Exemption Extended
This week, with minimal fanfare, the renegotiated UK–India trade deal came into effect – and buried deep within it was confirmation that the much-criticised National Insurance exemption for seconded Indian workers has been extended from three years to five. The Indian government has briefed domestic media, telling them the deal will “ease temporary entry for business visitors, transferees, investors, service suppliers and independent professionals”.
One In, Fifteen More In: Britain’s Chain Migration Crisis
Home Office figures released this week show chain migration stemming from the disastrous care worker visa (a major component of the so-called “Boriswave”, the surge in migration as a result of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s immigration policies) remains a serious problem.