There’s nothing stopping the Home Office from changing a) how the migration figures are recorded (who counts as a migrant worker vs a foreign student on temporary visa) so they’re more credible and reliable, and b) how migration is actually managed. And yet, instead, we get this kind of nonsense.
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Based on my observations on Eastern European countries, this would be highly unlikely due to labour shortages and higher salaries.
Copper is just bloody awful, as is Starmer for supporting such unnecessary self-harming idiocy.
“Irregular” ~ 30,000.
Vast majority are student visas (paying fees) or work visas (in eg NHS).
Who genuinely cares about these figures anyway - if they stopped reporting tomorrow, who would really notice?
Bigots maybe...
Cooper was quite reasonable on immigration until she took over the Home Office.
It’s just a matter of time until she commissions a fleet of “Go Home” vans to cruise London’s most diverse boroughs.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/yvette-cooper-labour-should-not-be-arguing-to-keep-free-movement-a7463261.html
Must admit, I don’t know much except her appearances on committees where she seemed on top of the detail
Mind you, these committees were on Brexit - and compared to the delusional Brexiters she was questioning, it wasn’t difficult for her to look like she had the brains of Einstein
She’s probably also got her Spads searching the UK for cartoon murals she can order to be painted over.