A decade after the Brexit vote, YouGov has conducted a large-scale survey of the nation’s attitudes towards migration. Their work shows that the British people are significantly more negative about the subject than they were in 2016. On each occasion, people were asked ‘do you think the level of immigration over the past ten years has been good or bad for Britain?’ In 2016, a third of us thought it had been ‘mostly bad’, and 38 per cent said it was ‘both good and bad’. Now, 43 per cent of us said ‘mostly bad’, and just 29 per cent said ‘both good and bad’. Notably, the opinions of 2016 Remain voters have shifted the most: almost twice as many of them now say that migration has been bad for Britain.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, really. Not least because the migration Britain has received since 2016 was of a far greater scale and of far worse quality than between 2006 and 2016. In the last decade Brits have watched successive governments oversee what is functionally an illegal migration partnership between the UK, organised crime groups and migration extremist NGOs. Under this system, over 207,000 illegal migrants, almost all men or teenage boys, have sailed out into the Channel on ‘small boats’ before being met by British Border Force vessels and safely transported to English shores.
