Immigration hit yet another high!

[aveatry]

Well your prime minister doesn't think its a non story like the rest of the RRL Rabid Radicalised Lefties on here --- he is about to address the nation !

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Because Conservatives tightened up student visas last year the changes took place in Jan 2024

Also Conservatives tightened up work visas in April this year

Yes, but Starmer is in charge now. Immigration figures will only go one way. Labour aren't known for immigration control - in fact the opposite. They opened the floodgates.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Well your prime minister doesn't think its a non story like the rest of the RRL Rabid Radicalised Lefties on here --- he is about to address the nation !

The proof of all his bluster will be in the proverbial pudding.

I reckon the small boats will still be coming in significant numbers 12 months from now, 24 months from now, 36 months from now ...

 

[ajohn]

It will because Conservatives tightened up both student visas and work visas

So yes the numbers will be lower

It seems the work visas are being misused so more tightening to come.

Some recollects of the past mentioned by some in this thtead are entirely incorrect.

 

[transam]

Uk needs to seek advice from trump
As to what to do about this immigration caper ??

 

[aveatry]

Unbelievable lack of response from the RRL on here - just imagine the shouts of racist/hates brown people/islamaphoibia - and the rest if one of us or farage had said the same as Starmer - blasted the Conservatives, accusing them of "running an "open border experiment"

 

[denso13]

blasted the Conservatives, accusing them of "running an "open border experiment"

More mismanagement by the Tories, they really were worse than bad at the end.

 

[ellal]

More mismanagement by the Tories, they really were worse than bad at the end.

At the end?

More like from the beginning!

 

[ajohn]

I reckon the small boats will still be coming in significant numbers

So they represent 3% of the total. Are you going to be happy if number reduces to 97% of what it currently is?

The other odd number is 5% of the total are legal asylum seekers that came here via legal means.

 

[aveatry]

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[denso13]

More like from the beginning!

Nah, anyone deserves a chance. There was a lot to complain about during the 14 years, but towards the end it just became a farce.

 

[motorbiking]

Starmer better have a plan. Banning overseas recruitment by firms who don't pay minimum wage, wont even make a dent. 200 firms in something like 10 years.

 

[transam]

Seems like the UK have palmed over some loot to Iraq so as to get them on board over this people smuggling caper

Dare say the money is already in Zurich

 

[ellal]

Nah, anyone deserves a chance. There was a lot to complain about during the 14 years, but towards the end it just became a farce.

They hit the ground running...

By screwing over the young with massive tuition fee rises...

And then by bringing in 'austerity' almost from day one...

They ruined public services deliberately, and those services will never recover...

And thus they were already laying the seeds for the biggest economic/political/social suicide vote in history!

Now labour has had to repeat the tory mantra of 'the UK isn't working'...

Well it hasn't been working for many years!

Although a few years back a lot of European workers were helping the country out...

Now it seems far greater numbers of workers are required from farther away, but it appears that many don't want them either...

It's a total mess!

 

[fillyboy]

They ruined public services deliberately, and those services will never recover...

The only way the Tories could have 'ruined' public services would have been by reducing funding, surely Labour could turn on the money supply tomorrow and the ruination of public services would be automatically reversed.

Why do you feel public services will never recover, you can't have much faith in the Labour Party.