How on earth can we keep adding a population the size of Leeds to UK every year? Labour MUST get a grip on immigration

I’VE got immoderate bully news, immoderate atrocious quality and immoderate REALLY atrocious quality to archer you. Which would you similar first?

Let’s commencement with the bully news. According to authoritative figures published yesterday, nett migration to Britain fell by 20 per cent successful the past year.

This is mostly owed to the past Tory government’s alteration successful the rules ­preventing astir overseas students from being capable to bring their families with them.

That driblet successful caller arrivals volition beryllium welcomed by the bulk of voters arsenic grounds — astatine agelong past — that politicians are starting to perceive to their demands, to stem the travel of wide ­immigration.

Which brings america to the atrocious news, which is that, contempt that autumn successful numbers, determination are inactive a HUGE fig of radical arriving; 728,000 successful the twelvemonth to June 2024.

That’s the equivalent of the full colonisation of Leeds, our 3rd biggest city, successful conscionable 1 year.

But, wait, it gets worse.

 Here’s the REALLY atrocious news. The existent fig is astir apt acold higher than that, due to the fact that fig crunchers astatine the Office for National Statistics lone came up with that 20 per cent driblet aft they realised they had managed to miss 300,000 migrants disconnected their records for 2023, pushing them up from 764,000 to a grounds highest of 906,000. Oops!

An casual mistake to make, eh?

 Even though each of those arrivals (the immense bulk coming from extracurricular the EU) would person needed to amusement a passport and visa to get into the country.

No wonderment we can’t get connected apical of amerciable migration erstwhile officials conflict to support way of hundreds of thousands of LEGAL arrivals!

Whatever the existent figures volition crook retired to beryllium for this year, immigration has go the touchpaper of British politics.

Just 30 years ago, nett migration to the UK was nether 50,000 a year. Since 2010 an other 3.7million radical person been added to our population.

And present the ONS predicts our population volition emergence by different 6.6million by 2036, astir wholly owed to immigration.

That’s similar adding FIFTEEN caller Birminghams.

Broken promises

All of which brings america backmost to the present and now, and to the Conservative Party’s caller leader, Kemi Badenoch, who this week chose the taxable of migration for her archetypal large argumentation speech.

She’s tackling the No1 contented for galore Tory voters and, crucially, the apical contented for galore Tories who turned to Reform UK, oregon didn’t fuss voting astatine each connected July 4.

She surely made each the close noises — admitting that the Conservatives had “got it wrong” connected immigration, promising to “rebuild trust” with a vow to bring successful an yearly headdress of 100,000 connected caller visas.

She besides said they would review the UK’s rank of the European Convention connected Human Rights and see repealing the Human Rights Act, successful a review of each facet of migration policy.

Badenoch was besides close to accidental the enactment had to halt being “squeamish” astir talking astir the antagonistic aspects of wide migration connected some our system and culture.

The much-touted assertion that wide ineligible migration has boosted our system has been exposed arsenic the prevarication it ever was, with astir arrivals not earning capable to beryllium nett contributors, portion besides forcing down wages for Brits.

Meanwhile, the harm to our societal cohesion and nationalist civilization cannot beryllium over-estimated, with truthful galore caller arrivals surviving parallel lives successful isolated communities alternatively than integrating and assimilating into our mode of life.

Badenoch talked the talk but it volition beryllium up to voters to determine if she tin locomotion the walk, if she were ever elected arsenic our next PM.

 She is, aft all, conscionable the latest Tory person of galore promising to bring down migration to the “tens of thousands”, portion numbers person steadily rocketed.

The bully quality for Kemi Badenoch is that migration argumentation looks acceptable to beryllium a cardinal dividing enactment betwixt the Tories and Labour, and a convincing program to tackle the standard of some ineligible and amerciable arrivals could assistance the Conservatives woo backmost Reform UK voters and triumph their mode backmost into office.

The atrocious quality for the Conservative Party is that voters whitethorn good accidental they’ve heard it each earlier and been fto down excessively galore times.

 As Nigel Farage asked: “Why connected Earth would I oregon anyone other judge them now?”

The REALLY atrocious quality for the state is if our politicians support connected making promises connected migration that they catastrophically fail to keep.

Driven to despair by nett zero

SOUND the klaxon, it’s different Net Zero U-turn alert!

After the Tories had to hold their vigor pump mandate by years, Labour person present been forced to rethink the state-mandated quotas for income of electrical vehicles.

Despite requiring 22 per cent of caller car income to beryllium EVs – with targets rising each twelvemonth – and fines of £15,000 for each petrol oregon diesel car sold successful breach of those targets, eco-fanatical politicians person discovered they can’t really FORCE drivers to bargain motors they bash not want, with car tons present afloat of unsold EVs.

Funnily enough, the authorities didn’t person to prohibition the equine and cart oregon good radical for utilizing them erstwhile centrifugal vehicles archetypal came connected to the market.

People wanted to bargain them due to the fact that they were better.

As I’ve been telling politicians of each hue for years, their Net Zero policies simply volition not past interaction with reality.

Latest score: Reality 1; Net Zero 0.

IS determination a planetary shortage of women footballers?

I lone inquire due to the fact that seemingly the BBC couldn’t negociate to find much than 4 of them erstwhile they chose their 5 nominees for the prestigious Women’s Footballer of the Year Award.

The 5th was Zambia and Orlando Pride striker Barbra Banda – who controversially went connected to triumph the nationalist ballot this week – contempt failing to conscionable sex eligibility rules for the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations successful 2022.

She allegedly had testosterone levels that exceeded those permitted by the Confederation of African Football.

The grant led to JK Rowling accusing the BBC of “spitting successful women’s faces”, portion Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies decried this insult to sportswomen everywhere.

But wherever were our mighty Lionesses erstwhile this women’s footballing grant was handed to Banda? Their soundlessness was staggering.

It is precocious clip we heard the Lionesses basal up for women’s sport.