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Conservative

7 (35%)

Labour

3 (15%)

Lib Dems

0 (0%)

Reform

8 (40%)

Greens

0 (0%)

Other

2 (10%)

Total Members Voted: 20

[STEMO]

Net immigration figures out today of 685,000.

A 10% drop from the year before:

Net migration to UK fell 10% last year, ONS says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce99y7l741po

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Net immigration figures out today of 685,000.

A 10% drop from the year before:

Net migration to UK fell 10% last year, ONS says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce99y7l741po

1.22 million arrivals.......roughly 530,000 departed.

[Nick W]

Net immigration figures out today of 685,000.

A 10% drop from the year before:

Net migration to UK fell 10% last year, ONS says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce99y7l741po

Adding context to a big scary number? It will never catch on. Nobody wants to know that 685,000 in a population of 68million is a terrifying 1%....

[Nick W]

An important question is why July, and not closer to the deadline in December?
Is there some disaster the PM is expecting in December that he wants to dump on someone else?
Perhaps he's been offered a multi-million £ bung salary in a job where he doesn't have to face a critical public and justify a lack of results. A bit like the Tony Blair Institute

[Sir Tigger KC]

An important question is why July, and not closer to the deadline in December?
Is there some disaster the PM is expecting in December that he wants to dump on someone else?
Perhaps he's been offered a multi-million £ bung salary in a job where he doesn't have to face a critical public and justify a lack of results. A bit like the Tony Blair Institute

I've been pondering this and wondering if there is some kind of 'black swan' event on it's way. 

For example, we are more or less unofficially at war with Russia.  Could that be an official state of affairs in a few months? 

[STEMO]

I'm guessing the 1922 committee had almost enough letters of intent to kick him out. Ask Graham Brady.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Net immigration figures out today of 685,000.

A 10% drop from the year before:

Net migration to UK fell 10% last year, ONS says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce99y7l741po

Adding context to a big scary number? It will never catch on. Nobody wants to know that 685,000 in a population of 68million is a terrifying 1%....

So in thirty, forty, or fifty years where does that leave us?.........bearing in mind where we already are regarding cultural change especially in our 3 largest cities London, Birmingham, and Manchester.

[STEMO]

Net immigration figures out today of 685,000.

A 10% drop from the year before:

Net migration to UK fell 10% last year, ONS says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce99y7l741po

Adding context to a big scary number? It will never catch on. Nobody wants to know that 685,000 in a population of 68million is a terrifying 1%....

So in thirty, forty, or fifty years where does that leave us?.........bearing in mind where we already are regarding cultural change especially in our 3 largest cities London, Birmingham, and Manchester.

It leaves you dead 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Net immigration figures out today of 685,000.

A 10% drop from the year before:

Net migration to UK fell 10% last year, ONS says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce99y7l741po

Adding context to a big scary number? It will never catch on. Nobody wants to know that 685,000 in a population of 68million is a terrifying 1%....

So in thirty, forty, or fifty years where does that leave us?.........bearing in mind where we already are regarding cultural change especially in our 3 largest cities London, Birmingham, and Manchester.

It leaves you dead 

Quite possibly because I'll be 84 in fifty years from now, whereas you are already sitting comfortably in Gods waiting room, waiting for a tap on the shoulder from the big man upstairs.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Rwanda flights are due to start taking off later in July, He knows it aint going to happen and that leaves him a dead duck PM whose party would get completely slaughtered in the polls a few months later.
Its damage limitation.

[dave the builder]

1.22 million arrivals.......roughly 530,000 departed.

that is just the number of the 'on record' official count
how many snuck in while no one was counting       

[Nick W]

Net immigration figures out today of 685,000.

A 10% drop from the year before:

Net migration to UK fell 10% last year, ONS says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce99y7l741po

Adding context to a big scary number? It will never catch on. Nobody wants to know that 685,000 in a population of 68million is a terrifying 1%....

So in thirty, forty, or fifty years where does that leave us?.........bearing in mind where we already are regarding cultural change especially in our 3 largest cities London, Birmingham, and Manchester.

Simple answer: we'll be dead


A better answer requires a question: to get an idea of what's going on, what are the numbers over the last fifty years? The answer to that is they were pretty stable for thirty years from 1960, increasing slightly from 2000, doubling in 2022/3 and dropping again. That's an impressive spike, which must have a reason. Any ideas?

[Sir Tigger KC]

Net immigration figures out today of 685,000.

A 10% drop from the year before:

Net migration to UK fell 10% last year, ONS says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce99y7l741po

Adding context to a big scary number? It will never catch on. Nobody wants to know that 685,000 in a population of 68million is a terrifying 1%....

Well if you want context, 685,000 is not far short of the population of Bristol.

How many homes are there in Bristol?
How many Schools are there in Bristol?
How many GP surgeries are there in Bristol?
How many hospitals are there in Bristol?
Etc,etc,etc

If you abolished Bristol and dispersed all the Bristolians around the UK, no one would take much notice as it wouldn't have much impact on communities around the country, but do it year after year and people start to see the effects in their area. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Net immigration figures out today of 685,000.

A 10% drop from the year before:

Net migration to UK fell 10% last year, ONS says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce99y7l741po

Adding context to a big scary number? It will never catch on. Nobody wants to know that 685,000 in a population of 68million is a terrifying 1%....

Well if you want context, 685,000 is not far short of the population of Bristol.

How many homes are there in Bristol?
How many Schools are there in Bristol?
How many GP surgeries are there in Bristol?
How many hospitals are there in Bristol?
Etc,etc,etc

If you abolished Bristol and dispersed all the Bristolians around the UK, no one would take much notice as it wouldn't have much impact on communities around the country, but do it year after year and people start to see the effects in their area.

You only have to look at the problems not just here in blighty, but across Europe.

France has no end of problems, as does Germany. And just look at the problems in Sweden.

Ireland have also been given a kicking as they have such a small population.

Also...the figure of 685,000 is likely to be rounded up.

The previous year the figure was 606,000 before being rounded up to almost 750,000.

[Doctor Gollum]

Would it be unreasonable for anyone with a title was automatically legally unelectable?