Immigration Lies EXPOSED: The Numbers That Blow the Government’s Spin Out of the Water
- Philip James
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Work visas make up just 14%—the rest is a taxpayer-funded free-for-all.
Walk down any high street in Britain and you’ll meet people struggling with soaring rents, collapsing public services, and endless tax hikes. Yet ministers keep chanting the same empty mantras like 'Migration boosts Britain.' But when the real numbers finally emerge into the daylight, they reveal a very different picture—one of a system built on spin; denial; and a gigantic hidden bill dumped straight onto the shoulders of ordinary taxpayers.
Between June 2024 and June 2025, the UK threw open its doors and issued a staggering 702,000 visas. A tidal wave. And here’s how it breaks down:
98,000 Work (Main Applicants)
89,000 Work Dependents
301,000 Study
63,000 Family
96,000 Asylum
54,000 Other
Strip away the political gloss, and the truth is stark: just 14% of all arrivals were actually coming here to work. A former Home Office insider doesn’t mince words: “People assume migrants come to contribute. These numbers prove most aren’t.”
This isn’t a system—it’s a free-for-all.
Anyone who ever felt like Britain was being taken advantage of? Congratulations—you were right. Because when the financial breakdown hits the table, the scale of the disaster becomes impossible to ignore.
The median full-time UK salary is £39,039, producing about £7,411 a year in income tax and National Insurance.
Multiply that by the 98,000 migrants actually working and you get roughly £726 million in revenue. Fine.
Now look at the other side.
There were 96,000 asylum claims in the same period. While the government dithers over processing, you—the British taxpayer—pay for every bed, meal, lawyer, hotel room, and bureaucratic delay.
In 2024, the annual cost per claimant was a jaw-dropping £25,200.
Total cost: £2.49 BILLION.
That’s over three times the entire annual tax contribution from the migrant workforce.
In other words: every worker who comes here isn’t covering costs—they’re being swallowed whole by a runaway asylum system that no one in power seems willing to confront.
Economists whisper what politicians won’t dare say publicly: “You cannot run a system where taxpayers lose billions while ministers brag about being ‘open and compassionate.’” Critics warn the asylum system is “financially suicidal,” but ministers continue smiling for cameras while the country bleeds cash.
This isn’t immigration. This is mass-scale assault on Britain's prosperity disguised as humanitarianism. And while ordinary Britons scrimp and save through yet another year of rising costs, the government continues to confiscate British taxpayer's and giving it to anyone who comes here.
