Posted on 11/24/2022 2:18:15 PM PST by RandFan
Nigel Farage said the Conservative Party deserves to be "wiped out" after net migration to the UK hit a new record high of 504,000.
The number for the 12 months to June this year was revealed by the Office for National Statistics this morning and it is 170,000 more than the previous post-war record of 331,000 in 2015.
Mr Farage, the former leader of the Brexit Party, said: "These net migration figures are hard to take in. 500,000 is nearly double the previous record. The Tories deserve to be wiped out."
The ONS said the 504,000 figure was the result of an "unprecedented" combination of events, including the end of Covid lockdown restrictions and the war in Ukraine, with a surge in visas for foreign nationals to live, study and work in the UK.
The record high will pile the pressure on the Government, with Rishi Sunak having recently insisted he wants to see a reduction in overall migration levels - a long-standing Tory pledge.
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Mario! Assenda me; tu sei proprio ‘nu sfaccime!
Destruction of Western civilization.
and he is!
Sink the boats.
The number crossing the Channel by small boats this year was 38000 to the end of October - so a very small fraction of this overall total, most of whom arrive legally by air, rail or ferry.
Yup. Give the order to start sinking the boats, sink a few and they will stop coming.
On the contrary, sinking small boats would do nothing to deter the 450000+ who arrive legally by conventional means.
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