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Originally Posted by The Monkey
Is the immigration really that big? The right-wing populists in this country at least always tend to vastly exaggerate the number of annual non-European immigrants.
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It`s no bigger than many other similiar EU countries and in some cases smaller countries such as Sweden (population wise) take in more immigrants legal or non-legal per % of the population than the UK anyway, that is certainly based on stats that I saw some time ago. Countries like Canada and Australia take in far more immigrants than the EU anyway, so the right wingers in the UK tend to greatly exagerrate this to garner support, the whole thing is then made worse when rags like the Daily Mail also harper on about the same thing.
Its also been shown, that for the amount of people that come into the UK, a similiar amount leave as well. The amount of Brits that move overseas is a huge amount anually.
By the way, I just saw that you were based in Sweden, is my example of using Sweden correct?