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Ok, but net migration is still way down:

>An estimated 202,000 citizens from other EU countries immigrated to the UK in the year to September 2018, and about 145,000 emigrated abroad. So EU ‘net migration’ was around 57,000—roughly the lowest level recorded since 2009.

>In the year before the referendum, net EU migration was estimated at 189,000, so there’s been a large fall following the vote.

Obviously other countries are going to make up a higher percentage of those immigrating, but the total amount of immigrants is down according to that article.




Not sure what your quote is supposed to say. It doesn't mention anything about total net migration. This is from Steptember 2022 about immigration to the UK: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06...

If you look at that report you will notice that the main change to net migration was Covid-19 and even with that, it's pretty steady but you can see that EU migration is down significantly but completely compensated by non EU immigrants (page 16).


I was searching for this to reference in my post, lost inside my bookmarks. Thank you.


You're comparing two years which were both when we were in the EU, and also ignoring non-EU immigration, and trying to draw some conclusion from this?




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