Who needs reality?
I guess I’m glad to hear that we are not the only country in the grips of irrationality:
When Shabana Mahmood, Britain’s Home Secretary, announced restrictive new measures last week aimed at cracking down on legal immigration, she used dire language to bolster her case.
“The pace and scale of migration in this country has been destabilizing,” she said in a speech to Parliament. She warned of “unprecedented levels of migration in recent years” and vowed that with her new policies: “That will now change.”
In fact, it already has.
Official data released Thursday showed that net migration to Britain fell sharply in the 12 months leading up to June, to 204,000 people, down from the previous year’s total of 649,000.
Those numbers continue a downward trend in Britain. Net migration — the number of people who arrived, minus the number of people who left — almost halved in 2024, the result of tougher rules announced at the end of the previous Conservative government, and of changes in global migration patterns.
Overall, net migration to Britain has now plunged by almost 80 percent since its peak of nearly a million people in 2023.
I guess it takes a while for change to sink in. But the result is that everyone reacting to something that’s already over and the policies are counterproductive. The UK may end up getting that clown Nigel Farage as a PM which is almost as bad as electing Trump.