At this point I'd just like to remind readers that we took in one million foreigners last year, which is the highest amount in a year since records began.
Number of visas handed to workers, students, relatives and other foreign nationals rose by 35pc, amid claims of broken Brexit promises
www.telegraph.co.uk
That article is an intentional gross misrepresentation of the real situation.
It includes a photograph of some refugees off the coast of Tunisia. I'm fairly confident they weren't heading for UK.
996,000 were visas granted to workers, students, relatives and other foreign nationals.
Asylum seekers are not granted visas. It's not possible to apply for a visa as an asylum seeker. Visas are time limited. The vast majority will be returning to their own country on the expiration of those visas.
The number of successful asylum seekers was merely 15,500 people. The age, gender, qualifications, familial relatives, situations, etc of those people is not disclosed.
There is no correlation between asylum seekers and visas granted. I repeat: the article is an intentional gross misrepresentation of the reality.
And you see fit to re-circulate that gross misrepresentation, despite its intentional political prejudice against asylum seekers. Is that because you are persuaded by its misrepresentation, or because it fits your "shoot 'em on sight" ideology?
And at the same time, we have five million people on out-of-work benefits.
Last week, I came across a figure so staggering that I was convinced it was wrong: 5.3 million Brits (almost the population of Scotland) are on out-of-work benefits. How could this be, with ministers so regularly boasting that unemployment stands at a 40-year low? How could it be, when a...
www.spectator.co.uk
You think there is some correlation between asylum seekers and out-of-work indigenous people?
Please explain your thinking, if you consider it worth exploring.
Did any of us vote for this?
The vast majority of those visa holders will be working in important sectors of the UK economy, or bringing much needed finance to education. You know the sectors such as NHS, Care homes, Farming and food chains, Education, energy supplies, logistics, etc. Without them many sectors and areas of the UK will struggle to survive.
Maybe you should consider a back-to-nature style of living and go back to your swamp.