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This is a red herring, they could easily control the economic migration, which has very little to do with intl human rights, they just choose to ignore it because business always pushes the "labour shortages" because they want to lower labour costs as much as possible.

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It amazes me that the "labour shortage" argument is still in play. You'd think after years of importing tens of millions of people someone might have asked, "have we fixed the labour shortage yet?".

The headline says that this year was the largest increase in population since 1962. That increase was 1% or ~600,000 people.

There will always be a labor shortage as long as labor costs are greater than zero. /s

It does not have to be zero. It just has to be less than the marginal profitability of a new hire. Those can converge at a number higher than zero.

I was being sarcastic. But yes you're right.

Out of interest to you have the numbers or a breakdown of the figures? I haven't seen them.

Number of economic migrants? They're not really recorded that way afaik. But let me know what you're looking for, and I'll see if I can find it somehow.

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