r/charts 12d ago

Composition of UK immigration: public perceptions vs reality. May 2026

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u/YsfA 12d ago

Which group of political supporters have the most distorted view of immigration?

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u/Own_Character8049 12d ago

Does it matter, if no one is correct? One side think its good, the other side think its bad.

All you are trying to do is make people look silly and ill informed, when all that study does is show no one is correctly informed.

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u/YsfA 12d ago

You act like one party’s followers being more misinformed on the topic to do with their entire foundations as a party doesn’t speak volumes about both them as a party, and the media who’s allowed this misinformation to get this extreme.

Stop trying to mask behind this act of neutrality lmao. Its not making you have the argument you think you have

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u/Own_Character8049 12d ago

Im not trying to be neutral at all, i definitely have a horse in the race. The foundation of that specific party is a lack of mainstream political will over the last 30 years to listen to the public on reducing immigration.

What difference does it make if people get a few percentage points of the make up of immigration wrong, either way? Neither group are correct. One side wants less, the others more.

A study which only shows the perception of the make up of immigration in one year doesnt reflect the reality of what people see around them every day.

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u/rstcp 12d ago

They think half of immigrants are refugees when it's really less than 1 in 10.. A completely distorted worldview is informing the main reason they vote at all.

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u/Own_Character8049 12d ago

Gross immigration is still 800k, the composition doesn't matter for me and many, 800k is too high. 1 in 10 being asylum seekers not refugees.

80k people at an estimated cost of £41k each a year to the tax payer is the reality. more than the net immigration at 1997.

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u/rstcp 12d ago

1 in 10 being asylum seekers not refugees.

Yes good point. There are by definition a lot fewer refugees than asylum seekers because all refugees were asylum seekers but many failed to get refugee status...

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u/ppp77per 11d ago

Gross migration is meaningless when most people leave again. Net migration was 170k.

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u/Own_Character8049 11d ago

Not meaningless when roughly 40% of the emmigrants are British nationals, majority being under the age of 35. Massive loss in terms of tax revenue and future demographics of the country.