Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/10/two-thirds-of-uk-voters-wrongly-think-immigration-is-rising-poll-finds

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 218d (1 reply)

Tories raise net immigration to 1 million per year: I sleep

Labour drops net immigration down to 200k per year: omg why is immigration so high under Labour

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 218d

The tories managed to raise the percentage of immigrant's being illegal... By making it harder to enter the country legally.

doesn't make sense

PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 218d

I was surprised that two thirds of folk here think to be fair.

I gave up thinking years ago. I got bored of the smell of burning.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 218d

Why are we using a picture of illegal immigrants on small boats as a picture to represent a general story on immigration? This is extremely dishonest

theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 218d (1 reply)

It should rise I always find it unbelievable how "anti-immigration" and "population decline" people overlap.

Flisty@mstdn.social · 8 pts · 218d

@theuniqueone @okwithmydecay I don't. The unspoken bit is always race. "I'm anti [brown] immigration and I'm worried about [white] population decline" are not incompatible.

RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 218d (2 replies)

a post-pandemic low

It's peak guardian to ignore that it's still higher than pre-pandemic, and not have a graph in the article. Then have a classic "the poors are dumb" headline https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/longterminternationalmigrationprovisional/yearendingjune2025

makingrain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 217d (1 reply)
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RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 217d

It has more upvotes than down, so it's an improvement over Reddit I suppose...

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 217d

Probably difference between the rate of immigration vs number of immigrants. Number of them is still rising.

fox2263@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 217d

When you’re being smacked over the head with everything that’s wrong in your life is because of immigrants, it starts to set in.

Happened in America