Immigration crisis in UK from 2017 to 2024 & our vanishing countryside

 

I wrote about the following crisis in 2017 and got plenty of stick for my troubles.  

My blog was entitled…

Official: Extensive immigration is killing our countryside and chocking up our towns – and it’s going to get worse!

https://pat-regan.blogspot.com/2017/02/official-extensive-immigration-is.html 

I stated in 2017… 

‘Why is it that they shout so loud about needing more housing? Who actually needs it? Escalation of immigration means that Britain will need to accommodate as many as 243,000 new households each year for the next 22 years, according to the Department for Communities and Local Government. It has been projected that an extra 5.3 million new properties could be needed to meet the growth in population, and an extra 2.4 million of the new homes will be needed for migrants alone. Migration Watch (an independent and non-political UK think tank) has claimed that the current forecasts are lower than actual net migration numbers, meaning housing demand from migrants has actually been understated. It was also discovered that new immigration controls will have to be phased in after Brexit takes place, raising fears that it may take years for the number of new arrivals to fall.’

'Massive UK housing needs – basically to accommodate more immigrants. UK bleeding to death as the politicians look on. Shallow-minded politicians with NO concern for Britain’s countryside and its native population continue to shout “WE NEED MORE HOUSES.” and our lovely UK green spaces vanish faster each day.'

Today in 2024 it would seem that predictions regarding the badly – managed immigration catastrophe have indeed come true. 

So, people really think this government runs of common sense, do they? Here are a few extracts from a recent national press release. 

The number of foreign workers handed permission to come to Britain by the Home Office surged to a record high last year. 

More than 616,000 visas were granted to overseas workers plus their dependants – soaring 46 per cent year-on-year, new figures show. Across all types of visas – excluding tourists and other visitors – the Home Office granted permission for 1.4 million people to come to Britain, marginally higher than in 2022 but nearly triple the 519,000 a decade earlier. Former home secretary Suella Braverman described it as a ‘national disaster’ and called for a cap on numbers.

Former home secretary Suella Braverman described the rising numbers as a ‘national disaster’ and called for a cap on numbers ‘This cannot go on: we don’t have enough homes, GPs or schools to support this level… Britain will be unrecognisable if this carries on. It’s not what the British people, including me, voted for.’ She added. 

My sympathy, as a long – time eco-campaigner, has always been with our vanishing UK countryside, which cannot be expected to take the massive amounts of new houses needed to deal with the growing immigration crisis.