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We are an independent group raising awareness of the social and economic impact of mass migration. 📈 🇬🇧 Join the fight for lower immigration 💪

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Migration Watch@MigrationWatch·
A Moroccan man who arrives in Britain via small boat and claims asylum will be given taxpayer funded accommodation, taxpayer funded food, and taxpayer funded spending money. Under this plan, he will be asked to repay a very small fraction of that taxpayer funded largesse, capped at £10k, if he finds work. A British student who works hard and wins a place at a top-tier university will leave with £47,900 in debt, appreciating at a 6.2% interest rate. Once he starts work, he will pay this loan plus taxes to fund the welfare given to the Moroccan asylum seeker. This is a grossly unfair system.
Home Office@ukhomeoffice

Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood will be granted the power to determine how much refugees must pay back for their housing and financial support. The amount can be adjusted to ensure fairness to taxpayers and that migrants aren't forced into destitution.

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Charlie
Charlie@charliecolecc·
Such an incredibly important point that often gets completely ignored. While critics say ILR changes are unfair to migrants, there is never any concern given to the British public who have voted for lower immigration for decades and consistently been ignored.
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Guy Dampier@dampierguy

In @Telegraph I argue that delaying access to benefits won't save us from the costs of the Boriswave. We need to move ILR from 5 to 10 years and to bring in tougher rules so that only those who are fiscal net benefits can apply for it in the first place. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/1…

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Migration Watch@MigrationWatch·
Pro-immigration ideologues pushed for mass uncontrolled migration, despite the British people repeatedly voting to reduce migration. Now they are complaining that any attempt to fix the problems they contributed to would not be "democratic". You couldn't make it up!
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Pimlico Journal@PimlicoJournal·
🚨NEW: When discussing Britain's demographic circumstances, we often look to the census. But that information tells us more about the past, than the future. To see the Britain of tomorrow, we must look to the children of today. ✍️: @charliecolecc 📖: pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/for-a-vision…
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Migration Watch@MigrationWatch·
The migration disaster of the last thirty years was completely predictable. Ultimately, low skilled migrants and their dependants cannot be allowed to obtain Indefinite Leave to Remain - the cost to British taxpayers is simply unaffordable.
𝙏𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧@tempestvista

2002: Alistair Darling was "unconvinced of the need for any form of low skill entry route" and pointed out that using "migration as a temporary solution whilst other longer-term solutions" were prepared would require Gov to "force people to return to their country of origin".

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Guy Dampier
Guy Dampier@dampierguy·
Spain expected to regularise 500,000 illegals. Think tanks expected 800,000. Now they think (including relatives) there are 3 million. The EU funded Measuring Irregular Migration (MIrreM) project thought there were 2.6-3.2 million illegals in 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪 🇬🇷🇮🇪🇮🇹🇳🇱🇵🇱🇪🇸🇬🇧 combined.
EL MUNDO@elmundoes

La Policía eleva a 3 millones los inmigrantes regularizados con sus familias #Echobox=1784006386" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">elmundo.es/espana/2026/07…

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Kathy Gyngell
Kathy Gyngell@KathyConWom·
A tribute today to @MigrationWatch, the think tank that has never taken its eye off the ball. Co-founded in 2001 by Lord Green and Professor David Coleman, and carried for years by its Chairman @AlpMehm, Migration Watch has repeatedly asked the unfashionable questions and has laid bare hard facts on both legal and illegal immigration when others have simply chosen to look the other way. Britain owes them one. And their work is not yet done. Please follow. conservativewoman.co.uk/migration-watc…
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Andy
Andy@PositivFuturist·
> Taxi company in Hounslow > Renames itself to be a Pizza company 200 miles away in Devon > Gets a license to sponsor visas and does that for a year > Goes back to being a taxi company > Home office never checked the company exists (it doesn't) or that the sponsor they granted it to entirely changed location and business. Legal migration is a complete scam - the idea that we should never deport people here legally when this is how they're doing it is a joke. Basically any migrant can throw up a limited company and sponsor limitless clients - anyone on earth who can afford their fees can enter the UK.
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Kathy Gyngell
Kathy Gyngell@KathyConWom·
@AlpMehm Thank you Alp so much - what to say. You are the hero never giving up on shining light on Britain's ever deepening migration crisis. I have been honoured to publish you on TCW
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Pete North
Pete North@FUDdaily·
Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, but I've just made some further updates to manifestoproject.org and, when you take the website as a whole, it's pretty damn good. I'm fully aware there will be serious errors and omissions because it's simply not possible for any individual to demonstrate a full spectrum of expertise on every subject area, but that was never the point of this. The point is that this didn't cost very much to produce, and it didn't absorb all that much time. All that was really required was a structured approach. Given how vital policy development is for the purposes of building credibility, consistency and internal expertise, the parties of the right should be deeply embarrassed by their complete negligence. It's even more damning given the resources and access to expertise they have that I don't.
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Migration Watch@MigrationWatch·
Algerian predator Ramzi Barkat was "caught red handed" assaulting a woman near Buckingham Palace. Staggeringly, the Metropolitan Police let him out on bail for a YEAR - despite Barkat "presenting a continuing danger to the public". Britain has a two-tier policing system.
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Migration Watch@MigrationWatch·
If Pakistan will not accept the return of a paedophile rapist Pakistani, perhaps Britain should not accept any further arrivals from Pakistan?
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford

Exclusive: Pakistan has said that it will not take back the Rochdale grooming gang leader under any circumstances, meaning he is likely to spend the rest of his life in the UK Shabir Ahmed, 73, was released from prison last week after serving 14 years of a 22-year sentence for 30 child sex offences. Andy Burnham, the prime minister in waiting, has said that “victims must come first”, adding: “I want this vile criminal out of the country.” Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, will next week announce changes to the 1971 Immigration Act, which prevents Ahmed from being returned to Pakistan. However, even if Mahmood succeeds in changing the law to close the loophole — a process that requires legislation and is likely to take months — Pakistan has been clear it will not take him back A senior official at the Interior Ministry in Pakistan told The Times: “Pakistan will not take him back. He relinquished his Pakistani nationality, and he left for the United Kingdom before 1971. There is no question of Pakistan accepting his return. “The offences were committed in the UK, and he has already completed the prison sentence imposed by the British courts. He has spent the overwhelming majority of his life in the UK. He belongs there, and this is a matter for the British authorities, not Pakistan. There are no formal discussions or negotiations taking place with the UK regarding this case.” thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

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Charlie
Charlie@charliecolecc·
It is worth noting that until very recently, UK authorities like the OBR used to assume migrants arrived age 25 and brought no dependants with them. They also only modelled the fiscal impact of migrants 5 years from arrival date, but most migrants can only access welfare after they acquire Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), which most migrants can get after being in the UK for 5 years. Highly flawed to say the least.
Xavier MacDuff@xvrmdf

All our economic cost-benefit analysis of migration is broken if in the real world each employed migrant is bringing along numerous dependents.

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Adam Wren
Adam Wren@aswren·
You know what’s really annoying about this is that the British left outfunds the right by a factor of probably something like 20-1, much of that from international sources like Soros, Bloomberg, Clinton foundation, etc. Not to even mention all the taxpayer money they get
Bloomberg@business

Political donors will need to wait a year after returning to the UK before they can give more than £100,000 ($133,510) as part of a proposed crackdown on offshore political finance that threatens to hit Nigel Farage’s Reform UK bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Migration Watch@MigrationWatch·
Why is receiving a donation from overseas "warp[ing] our elections" and "sow[ing] division", but importing millions of people from Commonwealth countries, who are allowed to vote in British elections from the moment they arrive here, is completely ignored?
Darren Jones MP@darrenpjones

Foreign money has for too long been trying to warp our elections and sow division in our country for its own vested interests. We’re cracking down with tougher checks on those trying to buy and sell our democracy. If you want to donate money to our politics, you will have to prove it’s legitimate. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

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