Immigration fuels biggest population rise in 75 years
https://www.telegraph.co.uk//news/2024/07/15/immigration-fuels-biggest-population-rise-in-75-years/
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Immigration fuels biggest population rise in 75 years
https://www.telegraph.co.uk//news/2024/07/15/immigration-fuels-biggest-population-rise-in-75-years/
Posted by WeightDimensions
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Immigration fuelled the biggest rise in the population in England and Wales for at least 75 years, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed on Monday.
The population rose by almost 610,000 to 60.9 million between mid-2022 and mid-2023, the biggest increase since 1949, when records began.
The ONS said the growth was largely down to record levels of net migration, which stood at 622,000 for the year to mid-2023.
The impact of immigration was even more marked because of the negligible growth in the domestic population due to a declining birth rate and rising death rate due to the ageing population in England and Wales.
The number of births fell by 21,900 to 598,400, while the number of deaths rose by 24,000 to 598,000.
This meant the natural change in the population – the difference between births and deaths, dropped to 400, its lowest figure for 46 years.
The data follow figures released last week which showed a 34 per cent fall in the number of foreign workers, dependents and students moving to the UK following a visa crackdown announced by Rishi Sunak last year to reduce net migration.
A large quantity from a country actively supporting russia’s war effort, time for trade sanctions
But it’s not causing any issues with housing, infrastructure, health care or anything else at all right? Nope not a single issue at all.
Then a lot of people on the centre and left can’t get their heads around why Farage et al get such a high proportion of the vote, and just labels everyone who votes that way ‘racist’ or xenophobic.
These people need to wakeup and realise that immigration does affect quality of life in certain areas and communities, it affects social cohesion, and access to services.
The sooner you get over your biases, the sooner the left and the centre can get on top of the issue, and utterly castrate the likes of Farage.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone though.
Before Brexit we had Freedom of Movement which worked both ways. Workers would come for a while, and then move somewhere else in the EU if they pleased.
Now it’s insanely expensive to migrate to the UK, but still far easier for non-EU citizens with the points based system, so the people migrating here are more permanent.
The UK needs to shut its borders to anyone without a family connection in the UK, a legitimate asylum claim, a student visa, or a work visa for a profession facing a labor shortage.
The demographic switch is close to being flicked. Deaths nearly above births and there’s really no way back from that.
We can’t sustain an ever more ageing population with a shrinking workforce.
It’s the Telegraph, I’m not giving them a click.
Are they talking about legal immigration of people arriving with work visas?
Can we get 5 mil a year please? At this point the only viable solution is acceleration towards collapse.
I’m just here to say hello before the really chaotic comments start flooding in.
It might cause some problems with the housing. Already lots of homeless people in London
It is interesting that we can increase the population by so much and still have a critical shortages of workers in key sectors. There is something very wrong with the system as designed.
But there are some idiots in U.K. politics subs who seem to think it’s not the issue and that immigration does not fuel other issues such as housing.
This is why people are moving to reform. I don’t like it. But it’s the truth. Not like reform can fix it though lol