Just been reading UKIP propaganda saying "in the last 12 months immigration figures were 625,000"
As the following table from MigrationWatchUK (hardly known
for a positive approach to immigration) shows: Net migration,
(immigration minus emigration) was 298,000 year ending September 2014. Why did UKIP use a misleading higher figure ? I can hardly guess.
Net migration form the EU over which UKIP say the UK has ‘no
control’ was 162,000 out of 500,000,000 UKIP says have the presumptive right on
entry ! (0.0003%, one in every 31,000)
One wonders what the other 499,838,000 are waiting for before coming over to steal “our” jobs whilst simultaneously ”living” on benefits.
One wonders what the other 499,838,000 are waiting for before coming over to steal “our” jobs whilst simultaneously ”living” on benefits.
Meanwhile, almost as many
British people 137,000 went to live elsewhere in the world as came to live in
the UK. UKIP seem confused about whether they will cap immigration, will
they cap emigration too ?
All Citizenships
|
British
|
Non-British
|
EU
|
Non-EU
|
|
Immigration
|
624,000
|
82,000
|
543,000
|
251,000
|
292,000
|
Emigration
|
327,000
|
137,000
|
190,000
|
89,000
|
101,000
|
Net Migration
|
298,000
|
-55,000
|
353,000
|
162,000
|
190,000
|
So actually the number of people coming to the UK from the EU is 1/4 of the figure UKIP implies and given that 2-3 million British people who live in other EU countries will lose their right of residency if we leave the EU and be sent back to the UK, presumably net immigration that year will be 2-3 million.
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