UK net migration almost halves in 2024, falling to 431,000, ONS estimate

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• Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Great. Can the populists shut the fuck up now?

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I honestly doubt they will. I think immigration could be 0 but as long as they see stories about brown people and “woke nonesense” then they’ll complain. Ultilmately I think their dream, although they’ll never say it, is that they want to ship any immigrants from the past 30 years away.

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• CoastAl@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I saw something on the news about this earlier, its down to a number of people who entered the UK on student and short term visas in 2021 following the “previous policy changes” mentioned here that only gave them a right to stay here 3 years. The “expert” on the news I saw said they have been waiting for years with the anticipation this will happen once those visas expire and people have to leave.

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