Wednesday, 22 April 2015

UKIP says every in the EU wants to live here so why have only 1 in 31,000 come this year ?


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.
 
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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