A report has found that British taxpayers have subsidized foreign students and “economically inactive” unemployed migrants to the tune of £36 billion over the past three years.
An analysis of the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) by the Center for Immigration think tank has found that unemployed migrants who entered the country legally have received £23.74 billion in support from taxpayers since 2020.
An estimated 724,000 migrants aged 16 to 64 who are considered to be ‘economically inactive’ were living in the UK between October and December, according to the latest figures from the ONS. The government defines immigrants as “people who are unemployed and economically inactive.” You have been looking for a job within the past 4 weeks and/or are unable to start a job within the next 2 weeks. ” This is a 16% increase from 623,500 in 2020.
Taking into account international students, the number of foreigners receiving financial support from the government increased from 909,771 in 2020 to 1,135,949 in 2023, an increase of 25%. International students and unemployed legal migrants have cost UK taxpayers a total of £35.84 billion since 2020, according to the Center for Immigration Management. The Express report.
Despite the Conservative government’s long-standing promise to reduce immigration to tens of thousands of people (which senior government officials admit was just election rhetoric and that the party never intended to deliver) Despite this, mass immigration to the UK continues to rise, reaching a record 1.4 people. Millions of foreigners have been allowed into the country in the past two years alone.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage comments on the report Said: “These numbers are staggering. If immigration is making us so poor, real political change must occur.”
Surely they’re not lying: somehow Britain is in recession despite record immigration growthhttps://t.co/Td5l9uDeGc
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Robert Bates, director of research at the Center for Immigration Management, said the report shows that “mass immigration is far from the economic panacea that open borders advocates claim.”
The public has been told ad nauseam by the political class and establishment media about the supposed positive aspects of mass immigration, with open border advocates arguing that open borders were necessary to promote economic growth. . But Bates noted that the largest wave of foreign immigration in history failed to prevent the country from sliding into recession.
“The UK is currently in recession, with per capita GDP falling sharply. Our policymakers believe that one more year of net immigration of hundreds of thousands of people will somehow turn things around. We need to let go of the illusion that we will.”
“We’ve had endless immigration for 20 years, and those with legitimate concerns have only been told it’s an economic necessity. But in reality, now There are over a million immigrants who make no economic contribution to Britain’s coffers and in fact force net drains.”
meanwhile poll consistently Although the public has shown support for deep cuts in legal immigration, there appears to be little appetite among senior Tories to reverse course, with Prime Minister Jeremy Hunt planning to reduce immigration by hundreds of thousands of people a year. He reportedly believes the economic benefits of the addition will make it possible to admit more immigrants. This is to keep taxes high and dig into the debt the government dug into itself during China’s coronavirus crisis.
Immigration and the economy are expected to be the most important issues in Britain’s next general election, which is likely to be a major loss for the Downing Street Conservatives. Even on the BBC I got it. As with the left-wing Labor Party’s defeat in the recent by-election, the Conservative Party’s steep decline is largely due to voter apathy, with Conservative voters staying at home out of a feeling that neither major party is worth voting for. For the sake of being.
Conservative party’s betrayal of voters on mass migration ‘shows corporate and government greed’ https://t.co/dHWeetkj03
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