May 26, 2024
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that net migration for calendar year 2023 was 685,000.
Immigration continuing on this scale will lead to population increases totally beyond our capacity to provide the housing, services and amenities needed. Existing strains and stresses on infrastructure and services will be made worse. While the resulting rapid demographic change will impact the nature of our society and ancient communities and make integration nigh on impossible.
Migration Watch UK were right to call for urgent action to reduce net migration to well below 100,000, by imposing a cap on immigration, in our latest briefing paper. A cap is the only way to control immigration.
Commenting, Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said:
These net migration figures are the latest evidence of a massive, and avoidable, policy mistake. We warned the government that they would rue the day they introduced the scandalously loose points-based system. They chose to listen to vested interests instead. The next government must quickly get a grip of out-of control immigration, introduce a cap and reduce the present, catastrophically high immigration levels.