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Lol a million immigrants, that's the net inflows the U.K is getting a year with a 60 something million population.
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Wrong. There has never in the history of the UK been a year in which net migration has reached 1 million.

Really? "Estimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest that total net migration was 171,000 in 2025. This figure is lower than net migration levels during the 2010s and represents a sharp decline compared to the year ending March 2023, when net migration peaked at a historical high of 944,000 (Figure 2)."

So we're gonna treat 944000 as less than a million I guess? If we also count illegals, as we should since they exist and keep arriving, that year was probably around a million. Even if we don't count them - it's very close to a million.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/lo...

So to sum up : 2023 alone had (almost) the entire Chinese immigrant population come into the UK.


TLDR: the original statement was false, and not justified even with cherry-picked data.

LOL. OK it was 944000 , I was off by 56000 people. You're right, the comparison to China was totally acceptable /s



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