So much for controlling immigration!

I really don't think that there are tens of millions of 'educated migrants' dying to get into the UK each year. Hyperbole just encourages the ignorant, david

According to govt statistics there were 99,999 (why don't they just say 1 million? ?) applications for work visas in 2017

www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017/summary-of-latest-statistics

Maizie
You misquote me, my question was “ how many million do we want this year”

It is not hyperbole I’ve travelled a lot in Africa and India and almost everyone who is educated and invariably speaks good English wants to get out for a better life. Even if they are educated to degree level, decent work is very hard to find. First choice U.K. but any English speaking nation would do, work visas are a distant dream, tourist visas rare unless you have relatives in Britain.

Some are brave enough to travel illegally to the land of milk and honey, many die on the way, all are exploited by traffickers.

no, but the word is getting around that soon the ports in Calais and other locations will no longer be policed 24/7 by 1000s of French CRS.

Thanks for that link, LondonGranny. Very powerful.

ITV News has figures showing tonnes of food is being wasted, as a shortage of farm workers means some UK crops are not being harvested.

Seasonal migrants from the EU are staying away, fearing a no deal Brexit.

The industry blames the government’s failure to allow more agricultural workers from outside the EU.

We filmed at a fruit farm in Ledbury, Herefordshire, where 87,000 punnets of raspberries were wasted in just a fortnight. It's because they are short of 100 pickers - the majority of seasonal agricultural workers come from Eastern Europe.

Fears about Brexit are one of the major reasons so many are now staying away, but a fall in the value of the pound and improving job conditions in their own countries are compounding this growing problem.

www.itv.com/news/2019-10-04/tonnes-of-british-grown-fruit-wasted-over-shortages-of-eu-workers-amid-no-deal-brexit-fears/

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