Home Office figures show 180 visas were issued to family members of Cameroon migrants for just 12 workers

Another Brexit bonus! Thanks Boris and taking back control😂

Nandalot

Thank you, MaizieD and NotSpaghetti , for giving us some factual information about this. I do wish that the divisive rhetoric in the mass media would stop.

When there is news about people from Cameroon, it's OK to post a picture of refugees in a boat?

Would this apply to perhaps news about football teams...any old sporting picture will do. Rugby possibly?

The figures came from the Home Office.

MaizieD

The article in question is factually wrong

Economist Jonathan Portes corrects the figures on BlueSky:

‪Jonathan Portes‬
‪@jdportes.bsky.social‬
· 19h
Click bait racist bullshit from the Times/Chris Philp.

12 Cameroonians did not sponsor 15 dependants each.

12 new work visas were issued to Cameroonians.

180 visas were issued to dependants of the (many thousands of) Cameroonians *already here.

He further points out:

The journalist to whom this was credited has accepted this is both garbled and wrong and said that it will be corrected. Let's see..

bsky.app/profile/jdportes.bsky.social/post/3mpysbrty5227

Thanks MaizieD. It’s always good to have a few facts, although it spoils the “story” for those with an agenda.

Overall immigration is actually down, and far fewer care workers are getting visas. The NHS and the Care System, depend on migrant workers to keep functioning.

I can’t imagine many Care Workers “laughing all the way to the bank”. It’s a hard job and poorly paid, as everyone knows.

NotSpaghetti

I confess that when I got paid I have occasionally laughed all the way to the bank, Cossy

🫣🫣 Haha

When my pension goes in , I laugh all the way to Aldi.

Primrose53

The figures came from the Home Office.

The figures have been misused misinterpreted. The article writer has acknowledged this and said they will correct them.

From AI

A key caveat is that the 180 dependants were not necessarily accompanying those 12 new workers. Dependants can join Health and Care workers who arrived in earlier years, so it is not correct to conclude that each of the 12 workers brought 15 family members. The Home Office statistics record visas issued in the period, not family groupings.

As Portes pointed out.

Yes it's good that it isn't true Cossy.

MaizieD

The article in question is factually wrong

Economist Jonathan Portes corrects the figures on BlueSky:

‪Jonathan Portes‬
‪@jdportes.bsky.social‬
· 19h
Click bait racist bullshit from the Times/Chris Philp.

12 Cameroonians did not sponsor 15 dependants each.

12 new work visas were issued to Cameroonians.

180 visas were issued to dependants of the (many thousands of) Cameroonians *already here.

He further points out:

The journalist to whom this was credited has accepted this is both garbled and wrong and said that it will be corrected. Let's see..

bsky.app/profile/jdportes.bsky.social/post/3mpysbrty5227

Thanks for the facts from more reliable sources MazieD.

I'd never heard of the EasternEye newspaper in the original link- had to look it up. Apparently it's Asian owned and better known for publishing the annual Asian Rich List and Asian Business Awards annually.