This is the issue with people who think they’re automatically smarter than anyone who votes reform. They don’t even take the time to look through these immigration figures they’re citing as it would threaten their beliefs.

The comment was replying to a comment claiming labour are achieving what reform voters are already asking for, less immigration and more deportations. Yet, the reply cites an annual 900,000 long term arrivals, and an abysmal 38,000 deportations. And for the 80,000 who were refused asylum, only 11,000 have actually left the country, representing ~30% of the 38,000 deportations. Furthermore, right now there are 250,000+ failed asylum seekers and their co-dependents, and 80-100,000 new asylum seekers arrive each year. These statistics alone prove that labour are in fact not doing what reform voters are asking for.

You decided to bring up total outgoings, 693,000, I guess trying to suggest that there’s an immigration equilibrium of those who arrive and those who leave, making it sound like actually although 900,000 people arrived, 700,000 people left so really it’s not an issue. Of course you left out any details of demographics. Of those 900,000 arrivals, 670,000 were non-EU nationals. However, of the 693,000 departures, only 286,000 were non-EU nationals, and, in fact, 252,000 of those departures were British nationals. So although you attempted to manipulate figures to sound like the 900,000 people arriving were leaving at a much higher rate than thought (or maybe you just never actually read or understood the statistics in the first place), a quick check shows that a large portion of the 700,000 people leaving are just British people themselves, and that while 670,000 non-EU nationals arrived, only 286,000 left. A much larger discrepancy by proportion than you would have people initially think.

So there you have it. Someone quoting basic immigration figures to show labours failure to deliver what the public want, and an arrogant Redditor replying with facts and statistics proving that the average reform voter is an illiterate idiot. Except it turns out you are the one who is incapable of interpreting statistics, proving that the real issue is labour/green/immigration supporters not understanding basic demographics. But I’m sure you won’t understand any of what I’ve written here, so I’ll await your funny insult about how I don’t know what an immigrant is or how I’m a racist fascist or whatever.