{"id":1443377,"date":"2022-04-18T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1443377"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:45:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:45:52","slug":"bojos-brexit-blunder-migrant-worker-visas-increase-by-25-per-cent-non-eu-migration-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bojos-brexit-blunder-migrant-worker-visas-increase-by-25-per-cent-non-eu-migration-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"BoJo&#039;s Brexit Blunder: Migrant Worker Visas Increase by 25 Per Cent, Non-EU Migration Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbojos-brexit-blunder-migrant-worker-visas-increase-by-25-per-cent-non-eu-migration-surges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1443377&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239972431-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Boris Johnson\u2019s post-Brexit immigration scheme has resulted in a massive upswing in immigration from Africa and Asia, while the number of migrants from the European Union declined.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than fulfilling the desire of Brexit voters to reduce immigration to the UK, the number of work visas granted to migrants last year increased by 25 per cent over to the pre-Brexit and pre-pandemic year of 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s liberal points-based system has come with it a steep rise in migrant workers from Africa, India, and the Philippines and a decrease of migration from the European Union, according to Home Office figures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/huge-rise-in-non-eu-migrants-to-britain-037qpx3x0\">obtained<\/a> by <em>The Times of London<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The paper of record reported that\u00a0239,987 work-related visas were granted in 2021, only ten per cent of which were afforded to workers from the EU. The Home Office figures show an increase of over twenty per cent in migrants from outside the EU reaching Britain after obtaining the updated skilled worker visas introduced by Johnson\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Skilled Worker Route, which came into effect in January of last year, has removed many regulations involved for foreign workers to come to the UK, including scrapping the requirement for British businesses to provide proof that they could not find a native worker to fill a position before looking to outside the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The post-Brexit law also increased the number of professions considered to be \u201cskilled\u201d to include jobs such as bricklayers, chefs, \u00a0electricians, healthcare workers, and welders.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Give British Workers a Chance!\u2019 Think Tank Bashes Plan to Import Millions of Workers During Economic Crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mlrb6mZRR9\">https:\/\/t.co\/mlrb6mZRR9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1311602147587481600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To add insult to injury to British workers, the Johnson government also removed the caps on most visa routes, meaning that there is effectively no limit on the number of migrants who can come to the country. According to <em>The Times<\/em>, the points-based immigration system has so far opened up half of all jobs in the UK to foreign competition through the lowering of salary and skill standards for foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Broken down by nationality, migrants from Nigeria represented the largest increase of skilled worker visas granted over 2019, surging by 161 per cent from\u00a03,918 to 10,245 in 2021. Migrant workers from Pakistan rose by over two thirds, and Filipinos increased by over 50 per cent during the same time period.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Indians were granted the most skilled worker visas, receiving\u00a067,839 last year, a 14 per cent increase over 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Migrants from the Americas did actually decline, with a fall of about a quarter due in large part to Chinese coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the massive increase in non-EU migrants, professor of economics at King\u2019s College London, Jonathan Portes said:\u00a0\u201cThere was always this question about whether Brexit would result in a reduction in immigration or a switch or some combination of the two.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe original Theresa May plan was very much aimed at the former \u2014 at reducing immigration from the EU by ending free movement, while having only very limited increases in non-EU migration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system we have ended up implementing is much more about the switch rather than the reduction because the new system is considerably less liberal for Europeans because the end of free movement but it\u2019s considerably more liberal on a number of dimensions for the non-EU for both work and student visas.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stop Mass Migration or Britain Will Face Societal Breakdown: Report <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CK73bD7RX5\">https:\/\/t.co\/CK73bD7RX5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1430126489937190917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>While the points-based system was said to be inspired by the Australian model of immigration, the Johnson government refused to put in place any hard caps on the number of migrants allowed into the country, which some, including the Migration Watch UK think tank, have long-warned would fail to deliver on the Brexit promise of reduced immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Breitbart London in 2019, Alp Mehmet, the chairman of Migration Watch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/12\/10\/watch-conservative-party-run-scared-refusing-reduce-migration\/\">said<\/a> that the Tory Party claim that the system would reduce immigration was \u201cnonsense\u201d, saying that \u201cit\u2019s going to do no such thing. Unless they intend to include the sort of elements in the system that will reduce numbers and that\u2019s having caps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA cap on the number of workers coming in. The Australians have it, why not we\u2026 if we are going to introduce that sort of system?\u201d Mehmet questioned at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative Party has long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/12\/07\/poll-big-majority-brits-concerned-mass-migration-cite-pressure-nhs-schools\/\">pledged<\/a> to cut net migration from\u00a0\u201cthe hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands,\u201d making the promise to the public prior to the 2010, 2015, and 2017 general elections. However, this was never fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>In a revealing statement in 2017, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2017\/05\/17\/osborne-boasts-tories-never-intended-keep-immigration-promises\/\">admitted<\/a> that the Tory Party never actually intended to cut migration, saying that despite their promises to the public, they were never in favour of\u00a0\u201cthe pledge in private and all would be glad to see the back of [it]\u201d and added that the party could have reduced non-EU based immigration but refused to.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UK Ethnic Minority Population Has Doubled to 13m, Over One-Fifth of General Pop: Report <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NExNb5DnBx\">https:\/\/t.co\/NExNb5DnBx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1419955722104623105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson\u2019s post-Brexit immigration scheme has resulted in a massive upswing in immigration from Africa and Asia, while the number of migrants from the European Union declined. 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