Some extraordinary figures on population growth were released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday, with few comments from the BBC and much of the mainstream media.
Between 2011 and 2021, the population of England and Wales increased by a staggering 3.5 million, or about 6.6 percent. During this period, net migration was usually carried out by more than 200,000 people a year, sometimes more than 300,000, so it is not difficult to understand the main causes of the rapid expansion.
Most of the population growth occurred in southeast London, parts of London (up 22.1% in Tower Hamlets, but down 9.6% in Kensington and Chelsea), and eastern England. Cent. Cent.
Imagine a city as big as Nottingham. Then something as big as Bristol. Add birmingham. Then Manchester and Liverpool. Dive into Sheffield while you’re in it. The combined population of these large cities is roughly equivalent to the population growth of England and Wales in just a decade.
Isn’t it strange that vast areas of the country have been built and tarmaced, especially in the already crowded south and east, to respond to the surge in population growth? Are most of them caused by immigrants?
The government is very active in the number of asylum seekers crossing the route in small boats. Curiously, however, most have noticed an increase in the number of legitimate migrants arriving in the country, while much time and energy has been spent discussing asylum seekers. not here.
Should we be surprised by the dire shortage of homes when at least half of the demand for new homes is occupied by immigrants, according to the forensic analysis is unmatched and excellent MigrationWatch?
You also don’t have to look far to explain the pressure on schools, hospitals, and general practitioners that millions of people have experienced first hand in most parts of the country. The decade of population growth of 6.6% was also a decade of austerity and government cuts.
Some people may say that I’m referring to the pre-Brexit past. One of the main purposes of leaving the European Union was to regain control of the border so that immigrants could be regulated and controlled.
Yes, we certainly “regained control”. The government is in charge of our borders. However, partly due to the pandemic, there is no reliable up-to-date number, but unlikely, immigrants may be running at levels close to record levels.
The difference between net immigrants for the year ending June 2021, that is, those leaving the country and those arriving, was 239,000. That number was probably slightly limited by the influence of Covid. However, it was still higher than the net immigrants in 2012 or 2013.
The National Bureau of Statistics’ net immigration figures for the 12 months to June 2022 are unknown until the second half of the year, but are arguably much higher than they were a year ago.
According to another Ministry of Interior statistics, visas were distributed in large numbers in 2021. Students are 432,279, family visas are 280,776, and jobs are 239,987. Overall, EU immigration has declined sharply since Brexit, but non-EU immigrants have increased significantly.
What surprises me strangely is that there was little public debate about the apparently soaring statutory immigrants, given that they were very distressed on this issue before the 2016 EU referendum. about it.
In contrast, the government has been very exercising on the number of asylum seekers crossing the strait in small boats, and if the European Court of Human Rights could turn down the interfering European Court of Human Rights, send some of them to Rwanda and ourselves. I’m going to convince the judges of that transporting them is not inhumane.
Of course, the government has the right to worry about cross-channel transitions. That number is by no means important. It is known that 28,526 people crossed by small boat last year, and this year it could reach 50,000.
On the other hand, some universities are very mediocre, but more than a quarter of them are doing their best to attract as many international students as possible.
In addition, this is an evil deal organized by ruthless human smugglers who put asylum seekers on non-sea-resistant boats, putting them at risk of being captured or drowned.
So that’s a big problem. Curiously, however, most have noticed an increase in the number of legitimate migrants arriving in the country, while much time and energy has been spent discussing asylum seekers. not here.
These will put further pressure on public services that are already collapsing, as well as those that are unlikely to meet the manifesto’s goal of building additional 300,000 homes a year by the government by the mid-2020s. There is no doubt that it will be applied.
I, of course, do not dispute the labor shortage that foreigners and increasingly non-EU workers are willing to meet. Despite some remnant-inspired promotions, under the government’s new point-based system, employers are easy to recruit workers abroad for relatively low-paying jobs.
On the other hand, some universities are very mediocre, but more than a quarter of them are doing their best to attract as many international students as possible.
The business model of these reputable learning centers relies on attracting thousands of students from abroad. Believe it or not, about 30 percent of students at a university, Liverpool, are Chinese.
But what is good for companies that are willing to hire hard-working foreign workers and for universities that rely on students from abroad is not always in the best interests of our already overcrowded islands.
If net immigrants exceed pre-Brexit levels in the next few years, it’s not surprising that paying voters may be hell.
In many parts of England, people are fed up with overkill and underfunded public services, and they don’t want to see more strips in their neighborhood materialize.
In particular, the government has given up on those who are not officially classified as unemployed, despite frequent welfare payments, but who can encourage them to return to the labor market with a wise combination of candy and whip. And it seems. It is believed that there are millions of them.
But for employers, an endless pool of ambitious and hard-working workers who are decent and vigorous across the world, although not necessarily a very high-paying job than attracting long-term underemployers. Immersing in is much easier.
Four days after the June 2016 referendum, a prominent politician wondered in his newspaper column whether “people who voted for vacation were largely driven by anxiety about immigrants.” Of course, it was Boris Johnson.
I’m afraid he made a lot of mistakes if he tried to downplay the importance of many Leave voters in regaining control of our own borders.
Is it too cynical to suggest that the government welcomes the kind of movement that is happening? People are encouraged to believe that it is tackling the issue of channel crossing, while it is actually ignoring a more alarming wider view.
The government may be able to avoid it for some time, but sooner or later what is actually happening will begin to sink. If net immigrants exceed pre-Brexit levels in the next few years, it’s not surprising that paying voters may be hell.
Many of them would reasonably ask: what was the point of regaining control if we ended up with something worse than before?