Say one thing, do another? The government’s record rise in net migration

[Neo]

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By Ros Atkins
BBC Panorama








Think back to the 2019 election campaign. Quite reasonably, you may not remember every detail of the Conservatives' manifesto - but perhaps you do recall one promise: to reduce immigration.


Think back further, to 2016 and the Brexit referendum. Then there was a promise to "take back control" of the UK immigration system. And since it left the EU in 2020, the UK does have more control.


But the numbers of people who've moved here didn't go down, they went up.


Since the Brexit vote and the Conservatives' victory in 2019, the 12 months to June 2022 saw the fastest population growth since the 1960s. Current projections from the Office for National Statistics put the UK on course for 74 million people by 2036 - six million more than there are today.


You'd be well within your rights to ask how that could be? The answer, according to the ONS, is largely immigration.


And one aspect of immigration has received huge amounts of attention from the government and the media. Statement after statement, story after story, has focused on migrants crossing the Channel in small boats - and the government's efforts to stop them.


Indeed you'd be forgiven for thinking small boats are a major part of why immigration is up. But they aren't


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68626430

We've known the Tories haven’t done anything to stem migration to the U.K., and they will be damned just like Blair’s Labour government!

[dinosaur]

What? You've got a uniparty! Just like we do!

But seriously, this immigration/migration/refugee thingy has to stop. If these people can't make their own countries better, how the hell does anyone think bringing or allowing them into ours makes our countries better? This is total insanity.

It's like a flood. You know the rising water is bad, but after it destroys everything in its path, you're left with 2 feet of silt that takes decades to get rid of, and the next flood comes before you finish cleaning up after the previous flood.

[Big Wheeler]

Politicians are damned liars.Who'd a thunk it?The UK population has been totally betrayed and our culture is changing already.
All our illegal immigrants throw documents or I/D into the sea.They are who they say they are.Cream of the crop indeed.

[Physics Hunter]

What? You've got a uniparty! Just like we do!

But seriously, this immigration/migration/refugee thingy has to stop. If these people can't make their own countries better, how the hell does anyone think bringing or allowing them into ours makes our countries better? This is total insanity.

It's like a flood. You know the rising water is bad, but after it destroys everything in its path, you're left with 2 feet of silt that takes decades to get rid of, and the next flood comes before you finish cleaning up after the previous flood.

You have a way with words, a good way...

[Neo]

Apparently the U.K. population has grown by 7.5% in ten years.