NSS - new citizens will need somewhere to live.

[vetran]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-borders.html

Migrant population boom 'will require 156,000 new homes a year' as Tories demand action over inflows projected to add 6.1m to UK numbers by 2036

[Paddy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-borders.html

Not the Brexit you voted for then....

[vetran]

Not the Brexit you voted for then....

Well if we had remained in the EU immigration would definitely be higher. Goodness knows why the Conservatives or Labour think the electorate want massive immigration. Why anyone thinks a rise in population without the required services will suit anyone they are mad.

I suspect Reform will do well at the election.

[Zigenare]

Well if we had remained in the EU immigration would definitely be higher. Goodness knows why the Conservatives or Labour think the electorate want massive immigration. Why anyone thinks a rise in population without the required services will suit anyone they are mad.

I suspect Reform will do well at the election.

And in other totally unrelated, no connection whatsoever, don't think of even linking the two issues, there's nothing to see here news...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68159001

[SueEllen]

And in other totally unrelated, no connection whatsoever, don't think of even linking the two issues, there's nothing to see here news...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68159001

There are too many and some of the immigrants are coming to care for them.

[dsc]

1. stop ready the daily heil
2. look at the gov visa program and think how many people will come and why

[mattster]

Well if we had remained in the EU immigration would definitely be higher. Goodness knows why the Conservatives or Labour think the electorate want massive immigration. Why anyone thinks a rise in population without the required services will suit anyone they are mad.

I suspect Reform will do well at the election.

What are your grounds for thinking this, given net migration has more than doubled since Brexit and wasn't showing an upward trend beforehand?

I'll admit I don't actually know why migration has increased so dramatically in the last couple of years but the figures suggest a huge increase in non-EU (new points system?) and a decline in EU (from a lower base to begin with).

[tazdevil]

What are your grounds for thinking this, given net migration has more than doubled since Brexit and wasn't showing an upward trend beforehand?

I'll admit I don't actually know why migration has increased so dramatically in the last couple of years but the figures suggest a huge increase in non-EU (new points system?) and a decline in EU (from a lower base to begin with).

Migration is going up because we're an attractive target for economic migration and we're a soft touch compared to most other nations and we speak English the international lingua franca and they have mates who've already got here and want to build their communities at our expense. Brexit put a brake on EU migration but did nothing for bogus asylum seeking. Without Brexit immigration would be higher because that Brexit brake wouldn't be there and we'd need to take our fair share of overall EU asylum seekers.

[mattster]

Migration is going up because we're an attractive target for economic migration and we're a soft touch compared to most other nations and we speak English the international lingua franca and they have mates who've already got here and want to build their communities at our expense. Brexit put a brake on EU migration but did nothing for bogus asylum seeking. Without Brexit immigration would be higher because that Brexit brake wouldn't be there and we'd need to take our fair share of overall EU asylum seekers.

Wrong on every substantive point.
Asylum claims account for 6% of UK immigation in the most recent figures, work and study ~ 70%. It is the latter two categories that are rising.

[vetran]

There are too many and some of the immigrants are coming to care for them.

You know immigrants grow old and get sick? Using them as cheap labour doesn't fix the problem.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-s...migrant-health

Their cultural practices increase risk of birth defects
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/birth...n-uk-1.1356317

Marrying your first cousin doubles the risk of birth defects.

They commit crime, it seems quite a lot in Switzerland according to figure 2. More than the indigenous population.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.u...her-countries/