Britain has too many migrants to keep track of – crisis is spiralling & Labour MUST do more, expert says
Fraser Nelson, an expert, said today that the problem is out of control and that Labour needs to do more to prevent it from getting worse.
According to recent statistics, net immigration reached a staggering 906,000 last year as the population of Britain continues to rise.
Mr. Nelson warned that the amount of arrivals is “completely unsustainable” on Never Mind the Ballots.
Additionally, he chastised the Home Office for not monitoring the entire number of foreigners entering the nation.
Today, the border numbers for 2022–2023 were significantly increased from the 740,000 first estimate that was made public in May.
“Everyone got this migration forecast completely and utterly wrong,” Mr. Nelson stated.
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“It suggests that no matter what you think the number is going to be – the real number is going to be a lot higher.”
According to the top journalist, Labour “will have to do more” to control the border.
He stated: “For instance, it was not so much the individuals entering on their own as it was their dependents that caught the Conservatives off guard.
“It totally threw them off, even their husbands, the relatives they were bringing in, and even the pupils.
“There are a few things that need to be changed, such the spouse’s income threshold.
“Recommendations to raise this to the mid-30,000s have not yet been approved by the government.
“But I think they’re probably going to have to.”
Employers are IGNORING unemployed Brits as migrant population soars – no wonder millions are on benefits
By Fraser Nelson, Analysis
Boris Johnson’s own plan was derailed by his immigration position.
The former prime minister ought to have turned the Brexit vote into a political agenda.
That was very simple. You would have told companies, “Look, you’ve been filling your workforces with relatively inexpensive migrant labor up to this point.” You’re paying unskilled salaries for a competent job—look at the care facilities. This cannot continue.
We will therefore immediately shut down the immigration tap going forward. Whether you like it or not, you will have to teach British personnel, automate processes, or raise wages. However, you must make use of the enormous amount of underutilized labor in the UK economy.
That would have been extremely challenging and would have placed Boris in a tough situation. Businesses would say things like, “We can’t find care home workers.”
And as a result, the Conservatives gave in. They bowed in to employers’ demands for immigration rather than having the guts to impose any sort of change to a more unified economic paradigm.
In retrospect, it seems obvious to me that this was the time when a hard but essential shift to a higher-wage, higher-skilled economy could have occurred.
An economy that compelled firms to consider Britain’s own unemployed, including those receiving illness benefits in addition to unemployment payments, and determine what steps they could take to help them find new jobs.
The fact that three million individuals are receiving illness benefits would have been a disaster twenty years ago. We couldn’t have expanded the economy in any way.
However, we’re accustomed to saying, “Let’s just increase immigration if there are worker shortages.”
Due to demographic shifts, a sizable pool of immigrants from all over the world—not only those from the EU—are nevertheless eager to enter the country.
However, this means that companies can essentially disregard the British work list.
Furthermore, it permits British politicians to disregard the British work list, which is the worst.
On Monday of next week at 8 p.m., Fraser Nelson will deliver a new documentary about sickness benefits and how they are trapping those they are meant to help. After the episode airs live, you may watch it on Channel 4 and on demand.
The net migration figures for June 2023–2024 this year are 728,000.
About 1.2 million people entered the UK in the last year, mostly through legal channels but also by small boats, and 479,000 of them departed.
It indicates that net migration has decreased by 20% annually, primarily as a result of policies put in place by the previous Tory administration.
They include a higher pay threshold for foreign workers and a ban on care workers bringing family to the UK.
Despite being high by “historic standards,” net migration is “beginning to fall,” according to the ONS.
However, given that net migration was about the size of a city the size of Nottingham, today’s statistics will lead to calls for even stricter border controls.
In the meantime, government spending on asylum seekers increased from 3.95 billion to 5.38 billion last year.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has promised to increase returns in order to curb the skyrocketing cost of hotels for migrants.
However, after the election, the number of asylum seekers in hotels has risen, rising from 29,585 on June 30 to 35,651 on September 30.
With work and study visas being the most common pathways, legal migration accounts for the largest portion of all arrivals.
With 240,000 people crossing the border last year, Indians were the most popular nationality to come.
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Following them are 120,000 Nigerians, 120,000 Pakistanis, 78,000 Chinese, and 36,000 Zimbabweans.
Following Brexit, the number of people arriving from the EU now makes up a very small portion of the total.
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