300,00 a year is the good old days of New Labour.
It now nearly a million a year, give or take. Mostly from India apparently.
Is that a real, independently verifiable number and not just one of the 64% of statistics that is made up on the spot?
As the entire population is about 68million(babies, children, adults, pensioners) 1million p/a 'mostly' from India would be visible from space . Round here most of the recent immigrants are eastern European and have moved into the traditional shitty parts of town.
From the ONS.
A quick skim through their published figures for long-term immigration reveals that the 'mostly Indian' in the post I questioned is either misunderstood, deliberately provocative or both. It states that the number of work-related is 116k and study-related is 127k. If you add them together, 243k is not
most of 1.2million. An important number I'll leave you to look for is the number of students who stayed once their studies were concluded. Dependents are not included in those figures, and that's where a real 'problem' might be found.
Another important figure to note is the 475k
emigrants(79k of them British nationals) in the same time period.