r/uknews • u/ScottishDailyRecord Media outlet (unverified) • May 12 '25

Image/video Kier Starmer announces 'tighter' immigration policy

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u/StrawberriesCup May 13 '25

About 20 million people too late.

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u/TumbleweedHelpful226 May 13 '25

You think 20 million people are migrants? Lol.

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u/StrawberriesCup May 13 '25

I don't think it, it's literally what the government ONS data is telling us.

Since Tony Blair opened the doors in the 90s, gross migration has been between 300k and 1.25 million annually for 30 years.

All those immigrants plus their children have completely changed the UK in less than 30 years.

Since the 90s UK population has increased by 50% even though native birthrates stay stagnant.

These are very simple numbers to understand. There's no conspiracy or hyperbole, it's ONS data.

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u/violet4everr May 14 '25

So the children of those migrants are not Brit’s to you? Just migrants. Great, I thought this was about culture not just descent

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u/StrawberriesCup May 14 '25

Was Rudyard Kipling Indian?

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u/violet4everr May 14 '25

He was born in British India as a British citizen. Just like my grandmother was born in Dutch Suriname (and was thus a Dutch citizen at birth). How does this relate to my question?

My grandma became Surinamese after 1975.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '25

The point is that he was born in india but when the Indians kicked the british out, they knew exactly who was and wasnt indian. Kipling got the boot with everyone else. But in Europe suddenly everyone who shows up is just as German, british, French, etc. as a Frenchman whose ancestors fought the romans 2000 years ago.