Government Refuses to Publish Data on Crime and Welfare By Immigration Status or Nationality
The Government is refusing to publish data on crime and welfare claims by immigration status or nationality, making it impossible to ascertain the impact of immigration on society and the economy, says Matt Goodwin on Substack. Here’s an excerpt.
There was a truly remarkable revelation in the U.K. Parliament this week and one you probably missed. … [It] was quietly made by a renegade Conservative Member of Parliament during a committee discussion about immigration, with Nigel Farage and Reform MPs looking on. What was the revelation? Well, brace yourself because there wasn’t one but a series of bombshells, each one more mind-boggling than the last and each one underlining how it’s not populists who are stoking misinformation — it’s the elite class.
The revelations — by the respected and rigorous Neil O’Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby, and Wigston — really are devastating.
He pointed to not just a Government but an entire political system that is either deliberately concealing masses of information from voters about the impact of immigration, or is doing so through sheer incompetence.
Just look at what he revealed:
The Department for Work and Pensions has stopped publishing data on welfare claims by nationality, making it impossible for anybody to ascertain the impact of immigration on the welfare system (and the cost)
HMRC has stopped publishing information on the tax paid and tax credits received by nationality, again making it impossible to build up an accurate picture of how immigration is impacting on the national economy
the Home Office is now refusing to answer detailed questions about the immigration status of people who are imprisoned in U.K. prisons, making it impossible to gather information on how, if at all, immigration is impacting on crime rates and imprisonment
even worse, the Home Office actually has these data but its is deliberately refusing to publish them
the Home Office does not collect either nationality or immigration data on those people who are arrested on these islands, again making it impossible for us to know how, if at all, immigration is impacting on crime and social order
the Home Office does not reveal, in detail, what it is spending on hotel rooms and accommodation for illegal migrants in the asylum system, once again making it impossible to verify, dispute, or support claims being made
the Home Office says it does not know how much it is spending on loans to refugees which is, once again, taxpayer money
As I pointed out on Twitter/X, in a tweet which has now been viewed by nearly 400,000 people, this, not populism, is what is breeding distrust among voters.
Either the elite class is completely incompetent, or it is deliberately concealing this information from you, the taxpayer, knowing full well that if this information was collected and released then it would likely confirm people’s suspicions about the damaging effects of illegal and legal immigration on their society – as data in other countries are already doing, including Germany.
What we have then is an out-of-touch elite class that is simultaneously accusing voters of suffering “misinformation” while concealing this very information from them! How can ordinary people be misinformed when the state refuses to make critical information like this available to all? What are elites scared of?
Stop Press: Low-paid migrant workers cost taxpayers more than £150,000 each by the time they hit state pension age, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, the Government’s tax and spending watchdog.
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Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago
They do no crime. They sit in the bed and then they are at breakfast all day drinking tea and musing about the good life Angels with dirty faces. And by the way if you open your mouth you will get two years in jail.
How long before Blair and Mandelson’s Freedom of Information Act is altered beyond recognition. A Foreign Office civil servant a long time ago privately at a social function agreed that it was widely considered to be one of the best acts of Parliament ever made for its benefits to the country.
Claphamanian
1 year ago
If this data demonstrated that the migrants/immigrants were an economic benefit to the UK it would be an advantage to publish it to defuse the claims of the ‘populists’.
There’s a story on the Daily Telegraph front page about how every low-skilled migrant costs the UK taxpayer £150,000. That’s by the time they hit state pension age and is according to the OBR.
Yes good point. —-We have heard Labour/Lib Dem/Greens etc always claim how immigration benefits society. Yet here we have information that confirms the very opposite buried in case the migrants supposedly get upset and suffer anxiety, and in case we get a bit angry and the government has to lock us up for venting it.
It benefits society if you believe that the country is inherently evil and must be destroyed to replace it with something ‘better’ (centrally-planned).
You missed the Tories out of your list culprits!
Shame Neil O Brian has only found the nerve to speak out now. His party demonstrated beyond all doubt they are as bad as Lab//Lib and Greens.
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago
They work according to a comletely differnt calculation. Essentially an effort to maximise population numbers because that mximises power. And to have them as dumb as possible the newcomers and hopefully compliant. Other countries laugh at England in how easy it is for them just to sent their worst criminals to the UK and they will be mopped up for cheap labour. If you really knew how much your government was betraying you then you would bring about a revolution overnight.
Of course this is deliberate and not incompetence, the shady gits! What, you didn’t think Labour would ever be transparent about such things did you? Having said that, the Tories were surely no better at sharing this rather important information with the British public presumably? Well if it’s not migrants jumping the queue for social housing it’s these newly released prisoners being prioritized over law-abiding citizens, or that’s what the Khant thinks should happen anyway; ”Sadiq Khan has chosen to wade into the debate over our wrecked criminal justice system. He’s been quiet on the subject since the conclusion of a “successful” Notting Hill Carnival last month that only resulted in the killings of two people, so it’s just in time. This week’s mass early release of prisoners is an ideal pretext for some common sense on strategies to stop them returning there and London’s Mayor, a former criminal defence lawyer had a big idea – prison leavers should jump the housing queue, because this would stop them reoffending. Khan is unfortunately right on the basics. Releasing prisoners to homelessness is one of the key drivers of reoffending. Not content with housing people in jail conditions you’d hesitate to put livestock… Read more »
Even prisoners take priority over the elderly and homeless, it seems;
”Shabana Mahmood revealed in the Commons on Tuesday that inmates at risk of being homeless after their early release could be housed in taxpayer-funded hotels – once space has run out in community accommodation.
She said she had given probation directors the freedom to make “alternative arrangements”.
The move has sparked fury online, with one person saying: “So you’ve let them all out with nowhere to go and I believe they are being put up in hotels at taxpayers expense? UNBELIEVABLE! Freeze the elderly and probably get them killed by reoffending prisoners who ironically will be cosy and warm. This government is shameful.”
Another person said: “So the government are putting released prisoners up in hotels at the taxpayers expense. Now we know where the winter fuel allowance money is going.”
Posted on Dr Mike Yeadon’s Telegram channel. I have been pointing out for most of this year that 2024 will probably be the last year in which we see elections in this country and clearly others see the same for the USA. No wonder Kneel talks with such certainty about a period of ten years to “Change” Britain.
Brilliant——-The Political Class, especially Labour are to be trusted even less than we already did trust them, which was NOT AT ALL. —This one sentence sums up how utterly pathetic these people are. — “an out-of-touch elite class that is simultaneously accusing voters of suffering “misinformation” while concealing this very information from them”!
At least you know where you stand with Labour…..the Tories are slimy, devious fraudsters that knife you in the back.
Hester
1 year ago
Its called replacement, in reality they are creating a slave class who will vote for them because they let them in and gave them priority over the indigenous population.
Iain McCausland
1 year ago
The UK is now Airstrip One – a giant laboratory for the New World Order. When this nation succumbs completely as it surely will with its dumbed down proles and university educated useful idiots, the rest of the world will follow suit.
West Yorkshire Police issued a warning in our area to keep doors locked when in the house. The reason was that a local Hotel, around a mile away, had flung open its doors to illegal immigrants. Another Hotel also did the same.
Crime soared including a couple two doors away being robbed in the middle of the day whilst they were in the back garden enjoying the sun during one of the Illegal Incarcerations.
Two-Tier Police were fast enough to charge anyone out walking but not a non-white with a bag of swag of course.
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
The refusal obviously indicates exactly what is the data. Are these people total idiots?
Heretic
1 year ago
But the government have NO RIGHT TO REFUSE to publish this data, as one of the founding members and biggest funder of the international OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP. UK government censured for a lack of transparency and accountability | Politics News | Sky News “The global coalition for transparency and anti-corruption has put the UK “under review”, heightening concerns about the government’s commitment to openness following a series of scandals.” “In a letter to the government, seen by Sky News, the Open Government Partnership said the UK had failed to live up to its pledges to improve transparency and accountability.” “The rare intervention means the UK will become the ninth of the international coalition’s 78 members to be placed under review, joining a list that includes Bulgaria, Malawi, Malta and South Africa.” “The Open Government Partnership has no power to impose punishments, but the news has come as a shock, as the UK played a key role in the group’s foundation in 2011 and is currently its biggest funder, donating £6.8 million over three years.” “One of the country’s leading advocates of open government told Sky News he was stunned by the decision, saying: “This is shameful”.” “Kevin Keith, chair of… Read more »
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They do no crime. They sit in the bed and then they are at breakfast all day drinking tea and musing about the good life Angels with dirty faces. And by the way if you open your mouth you will get two years in jail.
Labour effing democracy.
And I write that being deliberately multibiguous.
How long before Blair and Mandelson’s Freedom of Information Act is altered beyond recognition. A Foreign Office civil servant a long time ago privately at a social function agreed that it was widely considered to be one of the best acts of Parliament ever made for its benefits to the country.
If this data demonstrated that the migrants/immigrants were an economic benefit to the UK it would be an advantage to publish it to defuse the claims of the ‘populists’.
There’s a story on the Daily Telegraph front page about how every low-skilled migrant costs the UK taxpayer £150,000. That’s by the time they hit state pension age and is according to the OBR.
Yes good point. —-We have heard Labour/Lib Dem/Greens etc always claim how immigration benefits society. Yet here we have information that confirms the very opposite buried in case the migrants supposedly get upset and suffer anxiety, and in case we get a bit angry and the government has to lock us up for venting it.
It benefits society if you believe that the country is inherently evil and must be destroyed to replace it with something ‘better’ (centrally-planned).
You missed the Tories out of your list culprits!
Shame Neil O Brian has only found the nerve to speak out now. His party demonstrated beyond all doubt they are as bad as Lab//Lib and Greens.
They work according to a comletely differnt calculation. Essentially an effort to maximise population numbers because that mximises power. And to have them as dumb as possible the newcomers and hopefully compliant. Other countries laugh at England in how easy it is for them just to sent their worst criminals to the UK and they will be mopped up for cheap labour. If you really knew how much your government was betraying you then you would bring about a revolution overnight.
Of course this is deliberate and not incompetence, the shady gits! What, you didn’t think Labour would ever be transparent about such things did you? Having said that, the Tories were surely no better at sharing this rather important information with the British public presumably? Well if it’s not migrants jumping the queue for social housing it’s these newly released prisoners being prioritized over law-abiding citizens, or that’s what the Khant thinks should happen anyway; ”Sadiq Khan has chosen to wade into the debate over our wrecked criminal justice system. He’s been quiet on the subject since the conclusion of a “successful” Notting Hill Carnival last month that only resulted in the killings of two people, so it’s just in time. This week’s mass early release of prisoners is an ideal pretext for some common sense on strategies to stop them returning there and London’s Mayor, a former criminal defence lawyer had a big idea – prison leavers should jump the housing queue, because this would stop them reoffending. Khan is unfortunately right on the basics. Releasing prisoners to homelessness is one of the key drivers of reoffending. Not content with housing people in jail conditions you’d hesitate to put livestock… Read more »
Even prisoners take priority over the elderly and homeless, it seems;
”Shabana Mahmood revealed in the Commons on Tuesday that inmates at risk of being homeless after their early release could be housed in taxpayer-funded hotels – once space has run out in community accommodation.
She said she had given probation directors the freedom to make “alternative arrangements”.
The move has sparked fury online, with one person saying: “So you’ve let them all out with nowhere to go and I believe they are being put up in hotels at taxpayers expense? UNBELIEVABLE! Freeze the elderly and probably get them killed by reoffending prisoners who ironically will be cosy and warm. This government is shameful.”
Another person said: “So the government are putting released prisoners up in hotels at the taxpayers expense. Now we know where the winter fuel allowance money is going.”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/fury-homeless-inmates-released-from-prison-early-taxpayer-funded-hotels/
Just another cockup.
‘A government of service’?
Serving who?
Slightly Off-T
https://www.infowars.com/posts/top-economist-martin-armstrongs-computer-warns-2024-will-probably-be-our-last-election/
Posted on Dr Mike Yeadon’s Telegram channel. I have been pointing out for most of this year that 2024 will probably be the last year in which we see elections in this country and clearly others see the same for the USA. No wonder Kneel talks with such certainty about a period of ten years to “Change” Britain.
Brilliant——-The Political Class, especially Labour are to be trusted even less than we already did trust them, which was NOT AT ALL. —This one sentence sums up how utterly pathetic these people are. — “an out-of-touch elite class that is simultaneously accusing voters of suffering “misinformation” while concealing this very information from them”!
At least you know where you stand with Labour…..the Tories are slimy, devious fraudsters that knife you in the back.
Its called replacement, in reality they are creating a slave class who will vote for them because they let them in and gave them priority over the indigenous population.
The UK is now Airstrip One – a giant laboratory for the New World Order. When this nation succumbs completely as it surely will with its dumbed down proles and university educated useful idiots, the rest of the world will follow suit.
….the western democracies I presume you mean.
West Yorkshire Police issued a warning in our area to keep doors locked when in the house. The reason was that a local Hotel, around a mile away, had flung open its doors to illegal immigrants. Another Hotel also did the same.
Crime soared including a couple two doors away being robbed in the middle of the day whilst they were in the back garden enjoying the sun during one of the Illegal Incarcerations.
Two-Tier Police were fast enough to charge anyone out walking but not a non-white with a bag of swag of course.
The refusal obviously indicates exactly what is the data. Are these people total idiots?
But the government have NO RIGHT TO REFUSE to publish this data, as one of the founding members and biggest funder of the international OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP. UK government censured for a lack of transparency and accountability | Politics News | Sky News “The global coalition for transparency and anti-corruption has put the UK “under review”, heightening concerns about the government’s commitment to openness following a series of scandals.” “In a letter to the government, seen by Sky News, the Open Government Partnership said the UK had failed to live up to its pledges to improve transparency and accountability.” “The rare intervention means the UK will become the ninth of the international coalition’s 78 members to be placed under review, joining a list that includes Bulgaria, Malawi, Malta and South Africa.” “The Open Government Partnership has no power to impose punishments, but the news has come as a shock, as the UK played a key role in the group’s foundation in 2011 and is currently its biggest funder, donating £6.8 million over three years.” “One of the country’s leading advocates of open government told Sky News he was stunned by the decision, saying: “This is shameful”.” “Kevin Keith, chair of… Read more »