Net Migration: Another record broken

[Magic]

336,000+ in a year. Scenes.

I'm all for migration but how many of the 800k that came here last year were qualified workers?

[Toby]

I'm all for migration

:D

[Kikó]

Record breakers :cool:

[Magic]

I was speaking from the immigrant's perspective.

[Angelsaint]

You are all for migration? Of what? Birds?

[Angelsaint]

Anyway, the point was never to get as much qualified workers as possible.

[DC]

336,000+ in a year. Scenes.

I'm all for migration but how many of the 800k that came here last year were qualified workers?

200k were students, so that's those ruled out.

80k were dependants.

290k for work.

Another 100k "undeclared" (i.e. wealthy bastards)

Rest a mix of asylum seekers and returning nationals (13% of "immigrants" are British who previously went somewhere else to work, we lose approx 200k Nationals to as emigrants each year, and get about half back each year).

[Sam]

200k were students, so that's those ruled out.

80k were dependants.

290k for work.

Another 100k "undeclared" (i.e. wealthy bastards)

Rest a mix of asylum seekers and returning nationals (13% of "immigrants" are British who previously went somewhere else to work, we lose approx 200k Nationals to as emigrants each year, and get about half back each year).

Ouch, victory by statistics.

[Magic]

Where's the victory?

[Giggles]

Where's the victory?

Hanging over your bewildered and beaten corpse.

[Magic]

To assume 100,000 undeclared immigrants are oligarchs that have palaces in Kensington is massively arrogant.

[Pepe]

They are probably all better people than you.

[DC]

To assume 100,000 undeclared immigrants are oligarchs that have palaces in Kensington is massively arrogant.

I prefer facetious.

They're not "undeclared immigrants", they are immigrants that didn't follow typical routes in the UK and don't declare their reasons for being here. Common reasons are wealth, or being in the employ of someone wealthy, travel visas, government employees of foreign states, paid up foreign students (often Masters Degrees), or less than 12 month fixed term visas etc.

There's myriad reasons amongst the 100,000, but re-issuing of visas is included in the year on year "migration" figure (and emigration for that matter).

[Pepe]

Also terrorists init.