Good article. Another thing that doesnt get enough consideration from Govt & the Migration Advisory Committee is the age of immigrants. Pensioners cost hundreds of thousands of pounds once you include the pension, benefits, NHS care, social care, local govt services etc etc.
An asian student tells me that often immigrants bring their parents over on a family via, and initially look after them, but then once they get ILR they move out and get benefits, including housing benefits, minimum income guarantee, NHS, social care etc.
Also, the income an individual requires to get a work visa should be proportional to age. Someone 45 might only have 20 years in work - how much must he earn to pay enough tax to cover the cost of his retirement?
"But in practice migration has surged to ever higher and now record levels, driven in recent years by short-termist policies which deliberately increase low skill low wage migration.
Rishi Sunak shows far too little urgency in fixing this, and Keir Starmer certainly wouldn’t."
Keir Starmer would presumably be more likely to pay more to social care workers, reducing the need for cheap immigrant labour. He might well be more likely to fix this.
I do not agree with a lot of government policy on migration eg the nonsense on illegal migration and asylum seekers, but this piece is well argues and thought through highlighting legal migration is the issue in reality. Policy based n evidence and data is always better than policy based on politics
Great article. It's clear as day that many universities are simply selling a backdoor to a working visa and a path to citizenship, it's outrageous and must be stopped. Furthermore the fact that a nominally Conservative government enabled this, against, as you say, the advice of a bunch of left wing academics on the MAC is flabbergasting, or would be to anyone not already familiarised with the mendacity of Boris Johnson.
Excellent analysis, despite the efforts of our fiercely disloyal officials to prevent useful data being released.
Good article. Another thing that doesnt get enough consideration from Govt & the Migration Advisory Committee is the age of immigrants. Pensioners cost hundreds of thousands of pounds once you include the pension, benefits, NHS care, social care, local govt services etc etc.
An asian student tells me that often immigrants bring their parents over on a family via, and initially look after them, but then once they get ILR they move out and get benefits, including housing benefits, minimum income guarantee, NHS, social care etc.
Also, the income an individual requires to get a work visa should be proportional to age. Someone 45 might only have 20 years in work - how much must he earn to pay enough tax to cover the cost of his retirement?
"But in practice migration has surged to ever higher and now record levels, driven in recent years by short-termist policies which deliberately increase low skill low wage migration.
Rishi Sunak shows far too little urgency in fixing this, and Keir Starmer certainly wouldn’t."
Keir Starmer would presumably be more likely to pay more to social care workers, reducing the need for cheap immigrant labour. He might well be more likely to fix this.
I do not agree with a lot of government policy on migration eg the nonsense on illegal migration and asylum seekers, but this piece is well argues and thought through highlighting legal migration is the issue in reality. Policy based n evidence and data is always better than policy based on politics
Thank you Neil O’Brien. I’m not your constituent, I live in Winchester.
I hope a shorter version of this is made widely available to the papers.
I hope you follow Migration Watch, they are very well informed..
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It’s good to learn what the heart of the Conservative Party is.
Mass low wage immigration, ghettoism and tax breaks for the rich.
This is very, very good
Great article. It's clear as day that many universities are simply selling a backdoor to a working visa and a path to citizenship, it's outrageous and must be stopped. Furthermore the fact that a nominally Conservative government enabled this, against, as you say, the advice of a bunch of left wing academics on the MAC is flabbergasting, or would be to anyone not already familiarised with the mendacity of Boris Johnson.