know anyone leaving?
Feb 19th 2018, 3:56 pm
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Re: know anyone leaving?
For anyone who's interested, the following (cited) article demonstrates how rapid immigration was since 1997. Writer is emeritus professor of demography at Oxford.
https://briefingsforbrexit.com/migration/
Quote:
The rise of immigration, in numbers and in public concern, was crucial to the Brexit vote. Until the late 1990s there had been an uneasy political consensus to limit inflows. Although trending slightly upwards, annual net immigration was then about 40,000. As soon as elected in 1997 the Blair government began to dismantle that consensus. First, pleasing its minority voters by removing the ‘primary purpose rule’ intended to filter out fake marriage applications. A more fundamental revision followed in 2000. That was to welcome inflows now regarded, on slight evidence, as being essential to the UK economy, rescuing it from population ageing and increasing ethnic diversity, now regarded as an essential asset, not as a problem as hitherto. According to the Blair aide Andrew Nether (2009), one of the aims of the New Labour policy of opening up the UK to mass immigration was to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’, promoting permanent ethnic change to the permanent advantage of Labour’s aims. In its first aim at least that policy has been highly successful, more so, it seems than its authors envisaged, according to Watt and Wintour (2015). The new policy provoked a rapid upsurge in migration which continues to reach record levels. 3.3 million immigrants came to the UK from 2001 to 2014. (Figure 1).
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Many problems of this growth, and resentment about it, arise straightforwardly from the pressure of numbers. UK population had nearly stabilised in the 1970s and 1980s. Birth and death rates were then in balance; in some years more migrants left than arrived. There were even very small falls in population from 1975-78 and in 1982. Annual growth in the 1980s was 0.02%. New Labour’s New Immigration changed all that. Between 2013 and 2014, UK population increased by nearly half a million (491,000) or 0.77% per year, one of the fastest rates of any industrial country. Net immigration contributed just over half (54%) of that growth, and to 58% of growth since 2001 (Figure 2).
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Why does all this matter? There are two chief objections to large-scale immigration in the British context, setting aside economic arguments. First that it is driving population growth and size to unsustainable levels, and second that it is rapidly changing the composition of the population in ways highly unpopular and damaging to the social structure.
So, people still want to argue that immigration isn't the main problem behind the housing shortage or the overburdened social services? Or that it was a major motivation behind Brexit?
Below is another study on immigration and the (then upcoming) EU vote (written by a research fellow at Oxford). It shows there's a directly relationship between growth in immigration and increasing euroscepticism:
"The relationship between immigration attitudes and opposition to the EU has strengthened greatly in recent years, in direct response to the dramatic growth in immigration from, specifically, the 2004 EU accession countries. Recent immigration from Bulgaria and Romania is likewise accompanied by a markedly increasing level of concern about immigration. This spiral of alarm and negativity will clearly have an influence on the outcome of the EU referendum vote."
https://whatukthinks.org/eu/immigrat...-rising-storm/
https://briefingsforbrexit.com/migration/
Quote:
The rise of immigration, in numbers and in public concern, was crucial to the Brexit vote. Until the late 1990s there had been an uneasy political consensus to limit inflows. Although trending slightly upwards, annual net immigration was then about 40,000. As soon as elected in 1997 the Blair government began to dismantle that consensus. First, pleasing its minority voters by removing the ‘primary purpose rule’ intended to filter out fake marriage applications. A more fundamental revision followed in 2000. That was to welcome inflows now regarded, on slight evidence, as being essential to the UK economy, rescuing it from population ageing and increasing ethnic diversity, now regarded as an essential asset, not as a problem as hitherto. According to the Blair aide Andrew Nether (2009), one of the aims of the New Labour policy of opening up the UK to mass immigration was to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’, promoting permanent ethnic change to the permanent advantage of Labour’s aims. In its first aim at least that policy has been highly successful, more so, it seems than its authors envisaged, according to Watt and Wintour (2015). The new policy provoked a rapid upsurge in migration which continues to reach record levels. 3.3 million immigrants came to the UK from 2001 to 2014. (Figure 1).
....
Many problems of this growth, and resentment about it, arise straightforwardly from the pressure of numbers. UK population had nearly stabilised in the 1970s and 1980s. Birth and death rates were then in balance; in some years more migrants left than arrived. There were even very small falls in population from 1975-78 and in 1982. Annual growth in the 1980s was 0.02%. New Labour’s New Immigration changed all that. Between 2013 and 2014, UK population increased by nearly half a million (491,000) or 0.77% per year, one of the fastest rates of any industrial country. Net immigration contributed just over half (54%) of that growth, and to 58% of growth since 2001 (Figure 2).
...
Why does all this matter? There are two chief objections to large-scale immigration in the British context, setting aside economic arguments. First that it is driving population growth and size to unsustainable levels, and second that it is rapidly changing the composition of the population in ways highly unpopular and damaging to the social structure.
So, people still want to argue that immigration isn't the main problem behind the housing shortage or the overburdened social services? Or that it was a major motivation behind Brexit?
Below is another study on immigration and the (then upcoming) EU vote (written by a research fellow at Oxford). It shows there's a directly relationship between growth in immigration and increasing euroscepticism:
"The relationship between immigration attitudes and opposition to the EU has strengthened greatly in recent years, in direct response to the dramatic growth in immigration from, specifically, the 2004 EU accession countries. Recent immigration from Bulgaria and Romania is likewise accompanied by a markedly increasing level of concern about immigration. This spiral of alarm and negativity will clearly have an influence on the outcome of the EU referendum vote."
https://whatukthinks.org/eu/immigrat...-rising-storm/
Last edited by DXBtoDOH; Feb 19th 2018 at 4:02 pm.
