On the Migration Watch UK website there is a statement on its front page that I think sounds rather funny. ‘A migrant arrives almost every minute but they leave at only just over half that rate’, sounds like it takes them a minute to get in but only half a minute to get out. Probably they intend to achieve the opposite message of what they are saying there.
And also their sums are wrong. The figure for net migration they give of 163,000 per year for 2010 has dropped a bit since then but even using that number, that is 18 per hour, not the 30 per hour that one every two minutes would be. One has to be constantly vigilant about statements put out by those with an axe to grind.
And when the migration watch website says that a new home has to be built every seven minutes to accommodate the influx, well that is based on two rather spurious assumptions, one is that there are no empty properties in the country, which is not true, and the second is that there are 2.1 people per dwelling, which there may be in the respectable middle-class households occupied by people who follow Migration Watch, but in the language of those same people one is tempted to say, ‘Ah, bless!’
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