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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 19, 2026
  • #1,716
rob9872 said:
FFS well done for spectacularly missing my point !!!

I've assumed nothing!!!!!! My post asks why the link had been posted on the immigration and asylum thread when it was unconfirmed that he was an immigrant, but don't let that stop you trying to secure a couple of likes from the echo chamber.

I need a break from this place I think.
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Fair enough.
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,717
This is what Farage et al want right?

UK migration could be negative this year
Only three years ago, annual net migration soared to almost 1 million. This year the number of people entering the UK could fall to such an extent that it drops below the number moving in the opposite direction, sending the figure for net migration below zero for the first time since 1993.
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All our problems will be solved!!


The National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a thinktank, likened the effect to Brexit, saying that if net migration fell to zero, it would knock 3.7% off the UK’s annual national income by 2040
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Oh.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,718
Are you still trying to get confused about the different types of migration?
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,719
Nick said:
Are you still trying to get confused about the different types of migration?
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If the number comes down close to zero are all the people who have spent years complaining about high immigration now going to start saying it's just certain types of immigration that's been the problem all along, not the number?


 

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,720
PVA said:
If the number comes down close to zero are all the people who have spent years complaining about high immigration now going to start saying it's just certain types of immigration that's been the problem all along, not the number?


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We have had posts on here previously wanting zero net migration. If we in fact get not only that but net negative migration, happy days surely?

If it comes to pass though, I expect it will come from increasing numbers of people emigrating from the country, more than decreasing numbers of people coming in.
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,721
PVA said:
This is what Farage et al want right?




All our problems will be solved!!




Oh.
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Everyone going to Dubai to avoid Islam wait hold on
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,722
PVA said:
If the number comes down close to zero are all the people who have spent years complaining about high immigration now going to start saying it's just certain types of immigration that's been the problem all along, not the number?


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I have said multiple times over the years I only have issues with certain types of immigration.

It isn't moving the goalposts when you purposely try to merge things to ignore that
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,723
PVA said:
If the number comes down close to zero are all the people who have spent years complaining about high immigration now going to start saying it's just certain types of immigration that's been the problem all along, not the number?


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so if every migrant coming in earned no money it would still be the same figure

makes sense
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,724
Nick said:
I have said multiple times over the years I only have issues with certain types of immigration.

It isn't moving the goalposts when you purposely try to merge things.
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What immigration have you always been against?
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,725
Sky Blue Pete said:
Everyone going to Dubai to avoid Islam wait hold on
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what?
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,726
Grendel said:
so if every migrant coming in earned no money it would still be the same figure

makes sense
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We could stop people who leave claiming benefits
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,727
Grendel said:
what?
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It’s not difficult to understand surely
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,728
Brighton Sky Blue said:
We have had posts on here previously wanting zero net migration. If we in fact get not only that but net negative migration, happy days surely?

If it comes to pass though, I expect it will come from increasing numbers of people emigrating from the country, more than decreasing numbers of people coming in.
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You would think so wouldn't you. And yet.

On your second point, 900,000 less immigrants this year compared with 2023.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,729
Sky Blue Pete said:
What immigration have you always been against?
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It’s not difficult to understand surely
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,730
Sky Blue Pete said:
It’s not difficult to understand surely
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don’t see the context so yeah it’s difficult
 

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,731
PVA said:
You would think so wouldn't you. And yet.

On your second point, 900,000 less immigrants this year compared with 2023.
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How many more people emigrating?
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,732
Grendel said:
don’t see the context so yeah it’s difficult
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fair enough sorry
Have you not heard that Islam is colonising the country?
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,733
Nick said:
It’s not difficult to understand surely
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Lol
I wouldn’t dream of assuming
What immigration are you against?
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,734
Sky Blue Pete said:
Lol
I wouldn’t dream of assuming
What immigration are you against?
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Are we getting to the whole doctors and engineers thing again?

At least if we draft some Afghans in they have just legalised Domestic Violence.
 

Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,735
Brighton Sky Blue said:
How many more people emigrating?
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Hugely up, all those millionaire wealth creators fleeing Comrade Starmer's punitive tax regime
 
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Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,736
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon said:
Hugely up, all those millionaire wealth creators fleeing Comrade Starmer's punitive tax regime
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Patriots
 
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Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,737
Nick said:
Are we getting to the whole doctors and engineers thing again?

At least if we draft some Afghans in they have just legalised Domestic Violence.
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Nope I’m just asking you I know my opinion

So you are saying you don’t want unskilled migration
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,738
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon said:
Hugely up, all those millionaire wealth creators fleeing Comrade Starmer's punitive tax regime
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Also do you have the figures
 

Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,739
Sky Blue Pete said:
Also do you have the figures
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Afraid not, just wanted to make a flippant remark that doesn't really help with anything
 
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Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,740
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon said:
Afraid not, just wanted to make a flippant remark that doesn't really help with anything
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You may be right
 

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,741
Nick said:
Are we getting to the whole doctors and engineers thing again?

At least if we draft some Afghans in they have just legalised Domestic Violence.
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We have also had people saying they don't even want doctors coming in if they're bringing in their wider family.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,742
Sky Blue Pete said:
Nope I’m just asking you I know my opinion

So you are saying you don’t want unskilled migration
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I'm saying I don't want migration that won't ever be economically positive OR from cultures decades behind us.

People give it the doctors and engineers line to distract from a hotel or HMO full of Afghan / Somalian / Sudanese / Eritrean blokes with no intention of working or adapting to the UK culture.

It's non-comparable to somebody who goes through the legal channels .
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,743
Brighton Sky Blue said:
We have also had people saying they don't even want doctors coming in if they're bringing in their wider family.
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Wider family or close family? I mean Wider family could mean uncles, nephews, nieces, cousins etc as opposed to somebody wanting to bring their wife / husband and kids.
 
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LarryGrayson

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,744
Nick said:
People give it the doctors and engineers line to distract from a hotel or HMO full of Afghan / Somalian / Sudanese / Eritrean blokes with no intention of working or adapting to the UK culture.

It's non-comparable to somebody who goes through the legal channels .
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i mean asylum seekers are often running from the laws and society as in their original country thats kind of the point and how do you get here 'legally' if the government wants to kill you its perfectly legal to claim asylum wherever you want so lets drop the illegal immigrants their the ones that stay after there claim fails or havent claimed asylum or overstay visas so stop using uber just eat and the lick and thatll have more of an effect on illegal immigration
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,745
LarryGrayson said:
i mean asylum seekers are often running from the laws and society as in their original country thats kind of the point and how do you get here legally if the government wants to kill you
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You forgot to add the typos? Maybe you should let them all just stay at your house?
 
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Ccfcisparks

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,746
LarryGrayson said:
i mean asylum seekers are often running from the laws and society as in their original country thats kind of the point and how do you get here legally if the government wants to kill you
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spelling on point today!!
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,747
Brighton Sky Blue said:
How many more people emigrating?
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Emigration up only 50k compared to the last year, and about 150k compared to 2023.

Number of Brits emigrating seems to be very constant. The biggest increase in emigration is from non-EU nationals.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,748
Nick said:
Wider family or close family? I mean Wider family could mean uncles, nephews, nieces, cousins etc as opposed to somebody wanting to bring their wife / husband and kids.
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This is from a couple of years ago. Think we'd agree that your parents are close family.

Doctors consider leaving NHS owing to immigration rules

Limitations on dependent relatives may cause surge in staff exiting UK
thedoctor.bma.org.uk
 
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LarryGrayson

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,749
Ccfcisparks said:
spelling on point today!!
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dont matter if i spell well or not people just wanna hear what they wanna hear
 
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Northants Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #1,750
Nick said:
I'm saying I don't want migration that won't ever be economically positive OR from cultures decades behind us.

People give it the doctors and engineers line to distract from a hotel or HMO full of Afghan / Somalian / Sudanese / Eritrean blokes with no intention of working or adapting to the UK culture.

It's non-comparable to somebody who goes through the legal channels .
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Cool. So immigration based on either skills or a points based system.

......as proposed by this government last year

Immigration white paper to reduce migration and strengthen border

Radical reforms to Britain’s immigration system, restoring control to our borders and reducing record-high levels of net migration have been set out.
www.gov.uk
 
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