You could try to blame it all on Johnson, but Truss took over in September 2022, and Sunak in November 2022, so Sunak had nearly 8 months to implement policy that would affect the immigration numbers… (View Post)

The world will need women to have more babies if we want to avoid demographic collapse. Yes. There are broadly two ways in which you might attempt to achieve that. 1. You could reduce personal freedo… (View Post)

A country cannot endlessly import more workers* to avoid the demographic transition. That challenge is coming. Immigration will only delay it. * Unless you only give them temporary residency rights a… (View Post)

Hmm. The initial estimate for YE June 2023 was 740,000 but this was then revised upwards to 906,000. If you compare the initial estimates then the decrease is only 2%. Is this a reasonable comparison… (View Post)

One political question Britain may eventually have is whether opposition is mainly to high levels of net migration, or to high levels of immigration. It would be possible to have high levels of immig… (View Post)