LAST week was dominated by two events: the latest migration statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), and the Autumn Budget from Rachel Reeves.
While Thursday’s ONS figures show net migration falling to around 204,000 in the year to June 2025, the overall inflow remains very high, with 900,000 visas issued over the same period. Some commentators and politicians claimed victory – saying this was proof that Labour is getting to grips with the migration crisis. But look under the bonnet: what is actually happening is emigration, especially of Britons and EU nationals, flattering the overall net figures.
The exodus of British citizens is of increasingly young, trained and highly mobile under-35s. ONS data show a ‘gradual increase in emigration’ with a net 110,000 people in their late teens and 20s leaving in a single year.
These are exactly the people we cannot afford to lose: working-age, often degree-educated, the cohort we rely on to start businesses, pay taxes and have families. Yet Rachel Reeves’s Budget has hit them yet again. No wonder they are increasingly voting with their feet.
The Government has also extended its freeze on income tax and National Insurance thresholds to 2030-31 – a classic stealth tax that drags more ordinary earners into higher bands each year. Student loan repayment thresholds are being tightened or frozen, pulling graduates on middling salaries into higher effective tax rates. In a stagnating economy, the message to young white British professionals is brutally simple: pay more, get less.
Meanwhile, they are being replaced by those from less developed, poorer countries coming here for the same reasons that the young British workforce is driven overseas – for better pay, lower taxes and better conditions.
Migration Watch and demographers (including our co-founder Professor David Coleman, the world-renowned demographer) have long warned that, on current trends, white British people will become a minority in their own country in the second half of this century (by around 2060.) Those projections assume most British-born people stay put. Until these latest figures, we were given to believe around 50,000 net were leaving every year.
It transpires the number is double that. If, in fact, over half a million are leaving every few years, while high inflows continue, the demographic shift will come sooner, with deeper social strain and threats to social cohesion.
This isn’t ‘managed migration’. It is a sure-fire racing certainty: exporting our own aspiring middle class, and importing ever more people to replace them.
That is not a serious plan for a cohesive, prosperous Britain. It ultimately has one outcome – the wrapping up of our nation and the end of Britain as the homeland of the British people.
