The Conservative Party has been accused of betraying its Brexit promises after it was revealed that the government has allowed in a record number of non-EU migrants.
Britain’s ‘Conservative’ Party government allowed in a record number of non-EU migrants in 2021, a report published on Thursday has revealed.
According to the head of the organisation who penned the report, the government’s failure to curb migration represents a betrayal of the promises made by the Tories before the Brexit vote, with officials having previously claimed that they would work to lower numbers once the UK escaped the European Union.
According to a report by Migration Watch UK, the government has in fact done the opposite of what they had promised to do, with the number of people coming to Britain from outside the EU hitting record levels in 2021.
Overall, more than 830,000 arrived in the UK on long term visas that year, which the organisation notes as representing a number greater than the entire population of Leeds.
Of this number, only five per cent were reportedly from the European Union.
“The inflow from overseas is now huge and rising,” said the organisation’s chair Alp Mehmet regarding the study.
“We are seeing the opposite of what the government promised in 2019. Rules were meant to be tighter with numbers coming down.” he continued.
“Immigration is now running out of control as longer-term entries skyrocket,” he also noted, before going on to say that the immigration hike combined with the explosion in asylum claims showed that “the public were duped” by those in power.
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The Migration Watch report also criticised the seismic rise in illegal immigration, saying that the number entering the UK without permission has tripled since 2018, with the organisation putting the number of illegal arrivals at around 35,000 for 2021.
Some of that number can be put down to the large number of boat migrants dangerously crossing the English Channel in small boats that year, with previous figures putting the number of illegals who entered the country in 2021 via that method at over 28,000.
Such illegal landings have since continued well into 2022, with boat migrant arrivals once again at record levels in 2022 compared to the previous two years of the crisis.
This is despite desperate attempts by the Conservative Party to curb arrivals, deploying harebrained schemes such as threatening to send arrivals to Rwanda seemingly in the hopes it will dissuade more migrants from landing on the shores of Dover.
However, these schemes appear to be somewhat half-baked, with the Rwanda relocation plan seemingly only being built to transport 300 illegals to Rwanda every year, a drop in the ocean compared to the tens of thousands likely to arrive in this year alone.
What’s more, migrants who claim to identify as ‘transgender‘ may be able to dodge being given a one-way ticket to the African nation entirely, with an “Equality Impact Statement” finding that sending such migrants away might not be possible as it could be in breach of their human rights.
Both of these problems may not matter in the long run though, with it remaining unclear whether the Tories will be able to push the deportation scheme through the various legal challenges and sabotage attempts to the point that it could be operable.
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