I'd go earlier than TJ and say it was Ireland for nurses. It seemed to be a conveyor belt for them. Train in Dublin then to London (get hateful abuse) then onwards. Ireland was probably easily described as a developing nation then.
That was certainly my mum's route out of the real poverty of rural Tipperary. (I remember visiting my grandparents and my grandfather having to take the donkey and cart down for water.
It was struggling, but brexit was one of the biggest nails in the coffin. Along with COVID.TBF the car manufacturing industry in the UK was on it's arse a long time before brexit.
I know a lot of Eu based companies shifted manufacturing, design and engineering work out of the UK, not because they knew what Brexit would do to import/export, but because no one knew.
One bonus for me though, my passport only cost 120 quid since the overseas passport office has closed. Last time it was about three times that. Unfortunately, the krona has slipped sufficiently that its now 1600 sek, instead of the 1300 it would have been.
You've got to love the Brexiteers
Wonder what allowed that issue to happen.
Yeah but a million migrants arrived legally in 2024 alone. Most of those coming with work visas arriving from from India, ****stan... . 😍
Good point, 1 million legal migrants in 2024, puts it in some perspective.
Exactly right. The sea people are annoying but it’s legal migration that’s the real problem.
Are you sure you’re not part of “the problem”?
Yeah but a million migrants arrived legally in 2024 alone. Most of those coming with work visas arriving from from India, ****stan... . 😍
Have you got a direct source for that? It might come in handy.
The overall picture for 2024:
And press reporting of the numbers and breakdown of origins for 2024:
An immigrant myself I tend to see the positives of immigration and even my brexity not fond of foreigners father had to admit the African carers he had were great people. The irony of Poles, Spanish, French etc. going home to be replaced with people from the old empire was not lost on me though, a true Brexit "benefit". 🙂 When seen from this side of the channel, Poland France and Spain have all benefitted from the return of workers in sectors where there are shortages in most of Europe.
As for the boat arrivals, they really are a tiny part of migration and suffer from media hype and stigmatisation disproportionate to their part in migration. I'd give them the right to work and regularise any that took the opportunity to contribute to society whilst keeping their nose clean after ten years. That's what I did but thanks to the EU was able to use a ferry and do it all officially. I crossed the channel both ways recently, once in a flat calm and the other in high winds - not something I'd do lightly in a rubber boat.
As for the boat arrivals, they really are a tiny part of migration and suffer from media hype and stigmatisation disproportionate to their part in migration. I'd give them the right to work and regularise any that took the opportunity to contribute to society whilst keeping their nose clean after ten years.
TBH it is media hype and the whole hotel narrative and a bunch of grifters grabbing it and running with it, the only issue is the weaponisation of your idea is you are facilitating uncontrolled migration and the whole taking our jobs narrative.
Spains just done a variation of it and it’ll be interesting to see how it pans out,we literally have the same issue with boats dumping people.
This was a ‘funny’one last year when they piled up on the local nudist beach,but these types of boats are causing a lot of problems locally and there is a lot of activity happening to stop them.
They require a lot of fuel so the petrol supply chains are being focussed upon.
It’s a interesting one here as the argument of taking our jobs isn’t really valid as the majority of Spanish aren’t working in the fields but the the illegals non-regularised are.
