Migrants try to board a smuggler’s inflatable dinghy in an attempt to cross the English Channel, on Ecault beach in Saint-Etienne-au-Mont, near Neufchatel-Hardelot, northern France Picture: Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP
The U.K. experienced the steepest increase in immigration among the liberal democracies last year, according to new data from the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD). Their annual report shows 746,900 individuals arrived in Britain legally in 2023 — a 52.9 percent surge on the previous year’s total of
488,400.
The dramatic rise occurred under the Conservative government, though the trend is expected
to persist with Labour’s Keir Starmer, now in office, showing signs that he imtends to abandon any pretence of trying to control immigration.
The figures highlight that the U.K. experienced the second-highest
raw number of arrivals, trailing only the United States, which recorded
1.2 million migrants. This significant increase continues a trend that has brought a 110
percent rise in U.K. immigration since 2019, reflecting the disastrous family-linked migration policy of the last Labour government which allows immigrants, once granted residency status, to bring their entire family to Britain.
These unprecendented levels of immigration are causing an unsustainable increase in population.
Family reunification has been a key driver of the U.K.’s immigration spike, which climbed by 60 percent in 2023 to 373,000. This accounted for 70 percent of the rise in family-linked permits, largely tied to health and care worker visas. Policy shifts this year now prevent new care workers from bringing relatives, a move intended to curb numbers, but Brits are skeptical after experiencing all-time highs for consecutive years.
Our Prime Minister, a former human rights lawyer has appointed as his Attorney General another human rights lawyer, and they both have a record or successfully using the Geeva Convention on Human Rights to prevent deportation of people who had entered this country illegally.
The U.K. also issued more student visas than any other OECD country, with nearly 450,000 granted in 2023.”
Meanwhile Ubergruppenfuhrer SStarmer was trying to spin the arrest of a 44-year-old Turkish man suspected of being a supplier of small boats as a “significant piece of the jigsaw” in tackling Channel migrant crossings but “I’m not pretending it’s the silver bullet”.
With close to 20,000 migrants having made this perilous journey since Starmer entered office just four months ago, SDP leader William Clouston dismissed the one-off arrest as “a trifling matter compared with the colossal incentives Starmer’s Labour offers illegals,” including “the British social wage and welfare system for life.”
Indeed, reports suggest the UK government's efforts to control immigration have been so successful that for every pound the British state spends
on immigration enforcement, it spends £9 (€11.78) on supporting and
accommodating asylum seekers.
Dominic Cummings, who was chief advisor to former Tory PM Boris Johnson, went further, describing Starmer
as a “clown” for claiming that the nabbing of “one irrelevant
middleman” will make a difference while “the government is [also]
handing out private medical care to illegal immigrants.”
The suspect in the boat supplying case was detained at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam on Wednesday after a joint investigation by Dutch and Belgian authorities and the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA).
He is suspected of shipping dinghies and engines from Turkey and storing them in Germany, before they are moved to northern France for crossings.
The man is facing extradition to Belgium over charges of human smuggling, the spokesman added.
Political scientist Matthew Goodwin said he will “happily bet anybody in Westminster that this one people smuggler will be replaced by another people smuggler within days,” given the amount of money—literally thousands of pounds per migrant—involved in the business. Goodwin added that “we are playing Whac-A-Mole and calling it government policy.”
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