“The British public demand a clamp-down on migration”
🌍The truth
🔵An overwhelming majority of the British public support people being able to take refuge here.
A 🧵/1.
“The British public demand a clamp-down on migration”
🌍The truth
🔵This century* there’s never been a British majority negative toward immigration. The current figure is 26%.
*Since the European Social Survey began in 2002. /2.
“The British public demand a clamp-down on migration”
🌍The truth
🔵In the last 30 years* there’s never been a British majority worried about immigration as a key issue. Except for one brief moment in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum.
*Ipsos MORI chart starts in 1993. /3.
“The British public demand a clamp-down on migration”
🌍The truth
🔵British attitudes to immigration, over three decades, have broadly correlated to the size of the refugee population in the country. Except for a peak of negativity in the run up to the 2016 EU referendum. /4.
“The British public demand a clamp-down on migration”
🌍The truth
🔵British attitudes to immigration have broadly correlated to the rate of population growth/ net migration. Except for a peak of negativity in the run up to the 2016 EU referendum. /5.
“The British public demand a clamp-down on migration”
🌍The truth
🔴They don’t. /6. End
P.S. 1st tweet: 56% agree with: “Most foreigners who want to get into my country as a refugee really aren't refugees. They just want […] economic [benefits], or […] our welfare services”. They’re wrong, as Lord Kerr has pointed out👇
Why might they think it? So hard to say 🙃
P.P.S. 4th & 5th tweets: the “peak of negativity” mentioned is the “salience” of immigration, ie: the extent to which it is seen as a key issue.
As the European Social Survey chart shows, negative attitudes to immigration fell consistently from 2006.
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