These numbers are bananas

The latest immigration numbers from Brexit Britain

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One big reason why Britain’s Conservative Party is in power is because it promised the British people it would lower overall immigration.

This is what Boris Johnson and the party said, in their manifesto at the last election. “There will be fewer lower skilled migrants and overall numbers will come down”.

But, as I’ve already detailed (here, here, and here), things did not exactly turn out that way. They turned out very differently.

Instead of lowering immigration, instead of reshaping Brexit Britain around a high-skill, high-wage and highly selective immigration policy, instead of attracting the ‘best of the best’, the Tories delivered something else entirely.

A low-skill, low-wage, and largely non-selective immigration policy which is taking more out of Britain’s economy than it is contributing.

The Tories, in short, lied. They lied to the country. They lied to their own voters. And they lied to the millions of people who took a punt on Brexit and then the party because they believed what their leaders were saying.

Now, based on new figures, released yesterday, we can see just how much they have misled the country, just how much they’ve doubled down on mass immigration —a policy which is not supported by the vast majority of British people.

Here are the latest, mind-boggling numbers in Britain’s evolving experiment with mass immigration. Here’s what is actually happening out there in the country. And here are some charts which really bring home just how quickly and radically Britain is now being transformed.