By Lucy White
With the Boriswave, we often hear figures such as, “net migration was 906,000 in 2023” and “net migration was 729,000 in 2024.” However, what we do not hear, and what is not discussed enough, is the fact that net migration is those who arrived minus those who left, equals those who stayed. Hence, it is more important to understand who is coming into the country and who is leaving. Disastrously, the reality is that millions of non-Western migrants are arriving, while Brits and Europeans are leaving.
Net Migration Equation:
Those who arrived (gross migration)
- those who left (emigration)
= those who stayed (net migration).
Case study: UK long-term migration in the year ending June 2024
Who arrived?
In 2024, a total of 1.2 million migrants came legally to the UK long-term. (Long-term refers to people entering or leaving the UK for at least 12 months.)The key question is, where did these migrants come from?
According to the Office for National Statistics report, 1,034,000 of them, which is 86% of the total, came from “non-EU countries.” However, “non-EU countries” has become synonymous to “third world countries” when it comes to immigration into the UK.
This is because the top five nationalities arriving to the UK in 2024 were as follows:
Indians (240,000)
Nigerians (120,000)
Pakistanis (101,000)
Chinese (78,000)
Zimbabwean (36,000)
These 5 countries alone accounted for 45% of total immigration into the UK in 2024.
By contrast, only 58,000 Brits and 116,000 Europeans came to the UK in 2024, which was 5% and 9% of total immigration, respectively.
Not forgetting illegal migration
While 1,034,000 non-EU (non-Western ) migrants came to the UK legally, we must not forget those who arrived illegally. A total of 38,784 illegal migrants were detected entering the UK in the year ending June 2024. It is important to note that this figure only includes the illegal migrants who were recorded; there are likely to be many, many more. The top nationalities of illegal migrants that year were from Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, Turkey (all Muslim countries), as well as Vietnam, Albania, India and Sri Lanka.
Who left?
In 2024, a total of 479,000 people emigrated from the UK. The majority of people who left were Brits and Europeans, accounting for 60% of the total. 79,000 Brits left (16%), and 211,000 Europeans left (44%). In contrast, 189,000 non-EU migrants left, which was 40% of the total.
Who stayed?
In 2024, net migration was 729,000 people. Shockingly, there was net negative migration from both Brits and Europeans. While 58,000 Brits arrived, 79,000 Brits left, meaning that overall, there were 21,000 fewer Brits in the UK. Similarly, while 116,000 Europeans arrived, 211,000 Europeans left, hence there were 95,000 fewer Europeans in the UK.
A key consideration is, if there was net negative migration of both Brits and Europeans, how was the overall net migration still 721,000? This figure was entirely dominated by non-EU migrants.
While 1,034,000 non-EU migrants arrived, only 189,000 non-EU migrants left. Overall, an additional 845,000 non-EU (mostly third world) migrants stayed in the UK in 2024.
Therefore, net migration was, in essence, entirely comprised of non-EU (non-Western) migrants in 2024.
Implications
While there was a total of 116,000 fewer rits and their fellow European neighbours in the UK in 2024, there was an additional 845,000 non-EU migrants, 86% of whom were from non-Western countries.
Importing hundreds of thousands of third world migrants into the UK has profound implications on the country, for a nation is its people. A nation cannot be the same if the Brits and their European neighbours who form Western civilization are replaced by aliens from entirely different cultures.
Depth of the problem—they cannot stay here forever.
The current problem is that migrants who arrived on a visa have a clear route to British Citizenship. After living in the UK for 5 continuous years on a work visa, migrants can apply to Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). ILR grants foreign nationals the right to live, work and study in the UK without any time limits, along with access to welfare benefits and healthcare. Just 12 months are receiving ILR, foreign nationals can apply for British citizenship, which would allow them to stay forever.
There should not be a clear route from visas to British Citizenship.
Visas—> Indefinite Leave to Remain —> British Citizenship
Unfortunately, the Government hands out British citizenship like confetti, with a total of 269,621 citizenships handed out in 2024, equating to an average of 739 a day. The top three nationalities receiving British Citizenships were Indians (24,456), Pakistanis (22,611) and Nigerians (13,083).
Solutions
The Boriswave must be reversed with urgency. To reverse the Boriswave, migrants should leave when their visas expire or are revoked. Indefinite Leave to Remain should be abolished because we simply cannot afford to spend billions of pounds granting access to our entire welfare system for millions of new migrants. Moreover, we must stop granting British citizenship to migrants who come from alien cultures; many citizenships should be stripped, too. In a nutshell, approximately 5.5 million migrants, predominately from non-Western countries, have arrived in the UK since 2021. This was a terrible mistake made by incompetent government policies, which must be reversed as soon as possible
.
It is not enough to simply stop immigration with zero net migration. The UK must embrace Remigration with net negative migration of non-EU (non-Western) migrants. If millions of non-Western migrants arrived in such a short time, millions can leave too.
Read our British Remigration Policy Platform Here
The British Remigration Policy Platform (BRPP)
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This piece is an accompaniment to my recently released British Remigration Policy Platform (BRPP).
Lucy White proudly serves her country as our UK Policy Fellow focusing on policies for Remigration and Demographic Security in Great Britain. She is a Public Policy Graduate from the University of Cambridge.
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