Republic Logo

Tags

asylum-seekers - banks - banks and bankers - BBC - Boris Johnson - bureaucracy - Cameron - capitalism - citizen - corruption - crime - Democracy - economy - EU - Europe - freedom - G20 - Gordon Brown - Government - Home Office - housing - immigrants - immigration - jobs - Labour Party - Law - London - monarchy - MPs - nanny-state - offenders - parliament - police - Politics - protest - punishment - recession - sleaze - society - terrorism - Tories - Tory - UK - unemployment - workers

IMMIGRATION: did you know?

SIX KEY FACTS

  1. Net immigration has quadrupled since 1997 to 237,000 a year.
  2. A migrant now arrives nearly every minute.
  3. We must build a new home every six minutes for new migrants.
  4. England is already the most crowded country in Europe (except Malta)
  5. Immigration will add 7 million to the population of England in the next 20 years – that is 7 times the population of Birmingham.
  6. To keep the population of the UK below 70 million, immigration must be reduced by 75%. Government measures so far may reduce it by 5%.