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Re:Reasons to come back!! - 27/11/07 21:52
The Telegraph has an article, with alternative figures.
Last year, 207,000 British citizens - one every three minutes - left the country while 510,000 foreigners arrived to stay for a year or more. The British made up more than half of the 400,000 moving abroad - yet only 14 per cent of immigrants were UK nationals coming home.
The figures do not include hundreds of thousands of east Europeans who have come to work in Britain in the past two years.
This is because most are coming for less than 12 months and do not show up on the statistics.
Since Labour came to power in 1997, 1.8m British people have left but only 979,000 have returned, Over the same period, 3.9m foreign nationals have come to Britain while 1.6m have left.
Over the last 20 years, the white British population has decreased slightly while the number of ethnic minority Britons has doubled.
Looking ahead to the next 10 years, the white ethnic group will remain static while the number of Asian non-dependents alone will increase from 1.5 to 2.5 million.
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