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@pre@boing.world
2026-05-22 09:13:15
Content warning: Migration UKPol

People are saying the public are massively uninformed because they think migration is going up even though actually net migration has gone down so much it's frankly a threat to the economy.
But the people don't think the way the statisticians think. When they are asked "Is migration going up" they say, "Yeah, sure, lots of extra migrants are turning up every year."
And they are NOT wrong. Net migration is still a positive number. The number of immigrants in the country is still increasing.
The idiots correctly think the press is just pulling a fast one. Doing some numbers trick to pretend the number of immigrants is going down when it is in fact still going up.
The idiots are wrong about whether immigration is good or bad, they are wrong about the reasons they want it to be lower, it is terrible news that net migration has dropped so much.
But they aren't wrong about the press trying to pull the wool over their eyes and trying to trick them into thinking it's going down when in fact it's just going up slower.
#migration #ukpol

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-05-15 09:09:47

#GitHub ➡️ #Forgejo #Migration Script in Bash