Endless references in media coverage today to the rapid increases in net migration in recent years and often too little explanation as to why: (i) keeping UK HE/social care afloat and (ii) an attempt to deal with post Covid labour shortages/supply chain inflation.
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When does that whole "mustn't relitigate Brexit" standing order expire?
We hear all the time about the people coming in but we NEVER have enquiries about who is leaving and why
Almost as if the Windrush abuses never happened.
Almost as if last summer's anti-immigrant racist riots never happened.
@adambienkov.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Different numbers?
We will discover in due course if the mythical 'care worker shortage' is real, or just a product of low wages.
Fuck them all.
… post Brexit
… post Brexit
you’re welcome 😬
Labour would not have done the same as the Tories as the referendum would not have taken place.
Instead of individuals arriving to fill jobs, whole families needed to migrate to fulfil the Tories’ requirements
Yes we are an island of strangers. I no longer recognise the Labour Party.
Another impact of the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Brits from EU, which is part of immigration in the government published numbers by the way.
About 79,000 'Brits' left 🤔
I was referring to the entire post Brexit period
And due to Brexit we have more Brits returning from the EU (many being deported by Spain or Sweden) and a lot fewer leaving Britain for the EU.
This has an impact on net migration.
A lot of those coming back are now of an age when living in a French Chateau is not quite as attractive 🤔
Leavers Inc. Farage bleating about no deal & to "just get out" putting massive pressure on govt.
Tory govt does ZERO PHASING out on FOM. Therefore incoming 100ks of non EU migrants
Leave politicians have a lot to answer
As an older disabled vulnerable person with no family, no close friends, no support network of any kind, no social worker, they'd only know I was dead when they came to evict me for unpaid rent.
V scared for my future.
As a child of migrants, I have never felt so unwelcome in the country of my birth. Not since the 70s anyway.