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There are actually credible and competent analysts looking at the data.

www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...
The average main applicant who received a visa 2019-2023 made about 45% more than the average person in the UK. The average dependent who received a visa 2019-2023 made about 25% less than the average person in the UK. The average person who received a humanitarian visa made about 33% less than the average person in the UK. When we take a weighted average of all categories of 2019-2023, the average new migrant who arrived 2019-2023 made £24,881 in FY 2023-2024. This is about 4% more than average earnings - even when I have made optimistic assumptions about native-born earnings and excluded any self-employment income for migrants. It is difficult to see how admitting people who outearn the native-born would be catastrophic for public finances, particularly given that the British state need not pay to educate them. The data certainly does not seem to suggest this cohort is a “ticking time bomb” for British public finances
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
The other BS line we will hear is “only Trump could have agreed a deal with Putin”…which actually should be “only Trump could have betrayed democratic Ukraine.
August 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM