Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "UK net migration from 2022 revised up from 606,000 to a record 745,000" video.

  1. Yet again, CH4 playing silly buggers with statistics. That labour interview was abysmal. 39% of immigration is students. 39% an increase on the percentage since the last election. 39% of 745K (only the net figure not even the full immigration figure) is 290,550. Indeed the revision to the net migration figure largely came from student vjsas. The actual number of student visas in 2022 was 468,000. That's more than TWICE net migration from before the last election on student visas alone. Every student visa has a pathway to stay, it's the new back door to immigration run by the universities whom have gone from earning a few tens of millions or in some cases hundreds of millions, to BILLIONS, a 10000% increase in university revenues. That's what's behind those figures, massive student immigration that no one wants to talk about. Labour know that, they know immigration numbers are going to keep growing, that they need to keep growing. That's why they refuse to suggest even a ballpark for immigration numbers. When asked where the social care workers would come from if not abroad, perhaps the most important question asked, labour dodged the question completely and started talking about wages instead. Because the reality is simple, local people don't want to take oldies to the toilet and wipe up after them. Certainly not the kinds of people you'd want to be looking after your grandparents or parents. Raising their wages won't help. Any you do managed to recruit would be one less person of the right kind going into healthcare or other shortage industries. I wonder where Tories and Labour imagine that extra pay is going to come from? National run social care isn't getting more money, and how do private entities respond to higher labour costs? They raise their prices. All that achieves is pushing more people from private social care into the already failing national social care. That would cause a real crisis. All because some clueless politicians on both sides of the aisle wanted a number to decrease but were too gutless to go after it where it makes the most impact with the least disruption. Student visas. The university lobby, now flush with money and power, would go after them if they tried. So they go for low hanging fruit that is quite literally propping the economy up.
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