{"id":82455,"date":"2025-05-18T08:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82455"},"modified":"2025-05-18T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:03:51","slug":"we-are-not-overwhelmed-by-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/18\/we-are-not-overwhelmed-by-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"We are not overwhelmed by migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was worth sharing, from BueSky:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-82456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-07.59.07-550x694.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-07.59.07-550x694.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-07.59.07-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-07.59.07-768x969.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-07.59.07-317x400.png 317w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-07.59.07.png 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The idea that there is anything exceptional about the number of people living in the UK who were not born here is quite absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Most successful countries have many more people born outside their countries living in them.<\/p>\n<p>Migration is normal, healthy, and wealth-generating.<\/p>\n<p>So what are we making a fuss about? Or is it really that the Cult of Nigel really is all about racism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was worth sharing, from BueSky: The idea that there is anything exceptional about the number of people living in the UK who<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/18\/we-are-not-overwhelmed-by-migrants\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,204,16,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-economic-justice","category-ethics","category-fascism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82457,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82455\/revisions\/82457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}