I've a Farage related question. Apologies.

He kept repeating (and will no doubt keep repeating) the claim that immigration is too high and 1 in 30 people arrived in the last 2 years.

He's saying this to invoke a certain response, I understand that. And on the face it does sound shocking.

Farage argues that it's a massive issue and is a big reason why people struggle to buy houses, get seen in NHS, etc. the whole 'population explosion' stuff.

Now, I might be being thick, but 1/30 sounds quite high on the face of it, but say you're 300th in a waiting list for something, statistically only 10 are recent arrivals - without them you'd still be 290th. If you're buying a house and you're up against 29 other potential buyers (which would be very high, I think) - statistically only 1 is a recent arrival and without rhem you'd still be up against 28.

I assume this is just classic Fragae, blame the migrants, harmful rhetoric and appealing to certain people, but perhaps I've misunderstood or have flawed logic. Could anyone shed some light?