It isn’t 1.2 million. It’s 670,000 net. How many of them are accompanying the worker is something I am struggling to get specific figures on but there will be partners who can also work, but children who cannot. The figures are distorted because of the number of EU citizens leaving which then leaves gaps to be filled.

33% are though work visas, which if you accept the net figure is 221000. The majority of them are said to be issued for the health and care sectors, so not just the NHS. I know from personal experience how difficult it was to recruit local care staff more than 20 years ago and this has certainly got worse since then. I ended up recruiting abroad, travelling to interview, processing and funding the visa applications and flights and finding accommodation. It was either that or close the business. You cannot function without staff.

Maybe you prefer to see our elderly go uncared for or are in favour of compulsory euthanasia for those no longer able to cope for themselves?

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During our EU membership EU citizens could arrive here, and leave again, freely. I doubt whether the data exists to answer your question but there has been a substantial net outflow to the EU since Brexit with the inflow coming from Africa and Asia. My instinct is that it is broadly like for like but with positive steps being taken to fill vacancies rather than just hope EU citizens would taken them up.

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Ignoring outflows is to ignore a fact.

Cherry picking data to try to make a point is to promote misinformation. Not facts.

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670K is still way too high

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

No it's not, it is stating the fact that there were 1.2 million immigrants. However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

I don’t think anyone disagrees. There are though unusual circumstances which make it quite this high and the determination to take the necessary steps to retrain local people and end the benefit culture is not even being discussed.

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