Die britische Nettomigration fiel im Jahr 2024 auf 431.000, was gegenüber 2023 um fast 50% ging

Looking forward to reform voters coming along and chipping in with „it’s not enough until it’s a net negative million“. At least they’ve got a plan to make Britain so unpleasant that everyone wants to leave.

Just getting my popcorn ready for when people inevitably say ‘it’s not down enough!’.

Nearly 50% drop is significant however you look at it. The Tories and Labour will both claim victory, but it doesn’t matter, down is down.

Devil’s in the details, but interested to see old Nige’s retort to this as migration is pretty much all he has.

It’s interesting that Labour might actually be the ones to hit net migration in the tens of thousands.

But aren’t these the result of Rishi’s policies ?

Net migration? Does that just mean more people are leaving the country?

In what world is bring 950k people into your country IN ONE YEAR a logical or sane thing to do? This is completely bonkers.

 You mean all the students who started 3 year courses in 2021 have now gone home?

What a shock. Who could have predicted this?

The net migration figures were fucked up by covid and the byzantine way the ONS calculates them. They went negative in 2020 because the students were all sent home at once, then they reentered in 2021 but there were no balancing departures until 2024. The spike in the last three years was largely artificial and the figures are now reverting to trend.

Pretty sure the ONS knows this but won’t admit it because it would highlight the fact their stats are basically useless.

Well du’h.

That was literally the plan.

Replacement of the retirees and damage from Brexit.

It isn’t difficult to work out how this works.

It’ll have to go back up again in a few years as the number of people leaving the workforce skyrockets again. And the inheritance from the boomers causes younger people to leave as well as the traditional retiring population.

I genuinely get the feeling labour have finally got the message and are listening to the electorate. I can’t remember the last time a political party actually carried out the will of the people. I hope it lasts and people take notice in the next election.

Funny how Labour get the credit when something good happens but blame the previous government for anything bad.

However, this is for the whole of 2024, the Tories were in government for half that time and I don’t recall many new Labour policies around migration that were in effect for much of that year.

So in this case I think most of the credit is due to the Tories.

Very interesting reading the „but, but, but“ comments in this thread already. I wonder what the prevailing talking point will become in the next few days… Reform will obviously need their line of attack regardless of what happens.

They can’t argue with the facts though. It has come down massively, and new policies were announced recently to drive it down even more. It will probably be super low by the time the next election comes round. Think they’ll reveal their colours and start talking about mass deportation instead?

Oh look who is actually bringing down net migration. A political Party that does not need a scape goat to distract the public from their real policies.

Will the UK press let the public know as net migration falls under Labor? What do you think?

No, I am pretty sure that Murdoch with continue to lie until the scum that take Russian money and run around the country shouting „FISH!“ and „Small Boats“ and actually need as big an immigration problem as possible to keep them in the headlines, get control of the UK and finish stealing anything that might still be worth weighing in.

This is a good start if it’s actually accurate. I remember a net migration number being adjusted after someone got the numbers wrong. If Labour could actually score a 250k net year, it would be really impressive. But yes, from me I would only be actually happy with sub 100k or even gold standard net zero. But this is a good start.

This, along with Labour’s announced changes, makes me think they will hit their immigration targets.

That won’t please Reform voters, still, I imagine.

There’s about 130,000 vacancies in the care sector. Whose going to do these jobs? Thanks Starmer for failing to care for our elderly1

To play devil’s advocate, what makes up the 400k drop? If it’s 400k wealthy individuals, then it’s a bit of a disaster for the economy. If it’s 400k potential deliveroo drivers, then it’s a huge win.

This needs more publicity, labour are doing a decent job with this so far, and decent is the best adjective that has been used to describe the government in decades.

I’m not surprised Jenrick is unhappy with it. He probably prefer 150 million, the same amount he tried to cost the country while housing minister before parliament stepped in.

Edit: my mistake he didn’t almost cost the country 140 million, it was 150 million.

The coping mechanisms and narrative spins we are about to witness from people with certain political leanings, that are unable to admit when „the other side“ make positive change, is going to be huge.

Prepare for a wave of propaganda to overshadow this.

As usual no one reads the article.

The drop is mainly down to changes in laws the conservatives introduced, mainly blocking student dependents from coming to the UK.

Students are not the migrants that reform and their voters particularly have a problem with.

So long as no one actually reads the details it’s a win for labour.