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09/30/2007: "Migration increases to Britain"

Britain's population is growing faster than expected because of the sustained high levels of immigration, government statisticians have said.

A political row erupted yesterday after demographers predicted that a net average of 190,000 people will migrate annually to Britain in the coming years – a sharp increase on the previous forecast of 145,000.

The Office for National Statistics has been forced to revise its projections upwards following the arrival of hundreds of thousands of east European workers, mainly Poles, after the European Union expanded in May 2004. Net migration stood at 262,000 in 2004-05 and 189,000 in 2005-06 and the UK population is now more than 60.5 million. Britain could be home to 65 million people by 2030.

[Who is benefitting from this wave of immigrants? Undoubtedly it won't be the ordinary British.]

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3007143.ece