ARE they lying to us, lying to themselves or do they just think we’re all stupid? I’ve often felt the need to ask this question about our politicians — and never more so than over the issue of immigration. It’s been a major battleground in politics for decades now and there is no sign that peace will be declared any time soon. Yesterday we got the latest official immigration statistics for the past year.
I could reel off dozens of figures for you right now but a fair summary of the situation is this: there are a HELL of a lot of people coming from abroad to live, work and study in this country. True, the numbers have gone down a bit over the previous year but the figures are all still way higher than they were in 2019 when Boris Johnson was famously elected to “Get Brexit Done” — and that was three long years after 17.4million voted to leave the EU and take back control of our laws and, crucially, our borders.
READ MORE ON IMMIGRATION Every PM in recent years has promised to bring down immigration. And every single one has failed. Some didn’t even bother pretending to try.
I’m old enough to remember when David Cameron promised he would get net immigration down to the “tens of thousands”. Simpler, happier times, eh? These days, that figure is in the hundreds of thousands, with more than a million people arriving from abroad in each of the past three years. None of this has happened by accident.
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