🚨 The top takeaways from the demography and migration #Census2021 results 🚨

A thread 🧵 In the past decade, the non-UK born population increased to 16.8% of the total, an increase of 2.5 million in just 10 years 📈

Of these, just 136,000 declared themselves short-term residents.

Using points-based systems to 'control' immigration was Tony Blair's approach.

How did that work out?

The new MAC report highlights the previous failure of such policies when tried in the UK.

They often rely on applicant characteristics that are hard to verify... A problem with the PBS introduced from 2002 to 2010 was lack of any cap on numbers (unlike Australia now)

Essential for govt to keep caps in place going forward....

'The space occupied by buildings and roads has grown more than 10% in the past decade...

(Not surprising given rapid population growth of 400,000 per year, chiefly driven by sky-high immigration)

'Now ministers are planning a construction boom'... thetimes.co.uk/article/built-… Danny Dorling, an Oxford professor, said: “In absolute terms this is very likely to be the largest increase in the number of square miles that have been tarmacked or paved over in any decade in British history.”

He said the UK was going the way of LA by giving into urban sprawl.

Some these are corollaries of Brexit - e.g. changing of rules on EU criminals to use the tougher standard that applies to non-EU citizens. Anything that prevents dangerous criminals from coming can only be a good thing but this has been touted for years, ie. since 2017...

https://twitter.com/ConHome/status/1201433613880975360

News of a requirement for electronic travel authorisation is rehash of something which we have known about since at least 2017. Not 'new announcement'. As the @Conservatives note, it was also detailed in the 2018 White Paper. Here's our 2017 paper on ETIAS migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper…