Spluttering my Cornflakes this morning, when this came up on my FB feed. It’s worth a read of the comments.
The Telegraph reporting that over a million immigrants were granted (legal) UK visas last year. The highest number ever, apparently.
Cue purple faced outrage amongst the Faragist Gammonista extremists. “This is not what we voted for” and “send ‘em back to France” are just a few gems.
Strangely, the photo chosen by the Telegraph to accompany the article, has nothing to do with legal immigration. Operation Mobilise the Brexit Cult, is deffo underway.
More than one million UK visas issued in a year as migration hits new high
Home Office data show number of visas handed to workers, students, family relatives and others rose by 83pc in a year
Migration has hit a new high as more than one million foreign nationals have been allowed to live in the UK in a year for the first time.
Home Office data showed that the number of visas handed to workers, students, family relatives and other foreign nationals rose by 83 per cent in a year to 1.12 million, the highest on record, and up 70 per cent on pre-Brexit, pre-pandemic levels.
It comes on top of a
surge in illegal migrants crossing the Channel which have doubled to 24,000 in a year and a near 80 per cent rise in asylum applications since 2019 to 63,100, its highest level for two decades. The cost of Britain’s asylum system has surged past £2 billion for the first time.
Absence of immigration control’
Alp Mehmet, the chairman of think tank Migration Watch UK, said it showed an “absence of immigration control.”
“A record 1.1 million visas to come and live in the UK makes it ever clearer the government had no intention of delivering on their promise to control and reduce immigration,” he said.
The figures show that while EU migration has collapsed with the end of freedom of movement, it has been counterbalanced by a sharp rise in work and study visas for non-EU nationals and their families.
theconversation.com
