Hello - this video has proved remarkably controversial. We'll discuss our editorial decisions in making this video in full on The Editorial, our podcast where we talk about any channel-related controversies (here: www.youtube.com/@TLDRpodcasts), but we thought we should say one thing here: Some people have said this video should be more balanced, and that we should have talked about the "cons" of immigration. To be clear, in this video, we do NOT say that immigration is a good thing, nor do we propound the "pros" of immigration. Rather, we say that that UK citizens are generally more pro-migrant than is often suggested, and that the UK is relatively good at integrating migrants (or at least, that's what's implied by the data). Nonetheless, thank you for watching, and we hope you still enjoy the video.

750k immigration whilst making 150k homes a year is not a good thing, no. The UK are not good at immigration.

More people being in favour of a 'fair' immigration system can easily mean more people want asylum seekers to be returned to France, where they were perfectly safe. The word 'fair' is far too open to interpretation to decide it means pro-immigration.

UK is so great that the english are trying to leave the UK, good job

Polls from this year say brits want less immigration, as they have for decades, one poll saying brits are okay with the level of immigration is an outlier not the norm. Brits not wanting discrimination of those living here does mean they want more immigration also.

The uk is a mess. - With love from your convict friends in Australia.

Uk companies rather keep wages low by bringing in migrants rather than risk profits by paying a decent wage and employing Brits.

All sides of all arguments disliked this lol

My parents brought my family here in the late 90’s. The reason then was: 1. You got help from the government like housing, benefits etc so you can land on your feet; 2. The native people are open, decent and welcoming if you are law abiding and your kids will get on in this country if they follow the rules and work hard; and 3. Work is plentiful, and you don’t need licenses and paperwork etc to make a living like you do in France and Germany etc. I am very worried about working class natives in this country though… I think they are getting a raw deal. I don’t want them to fall behind. It must be extremely grating to see foreigners like me come here, get free education, healthcare etc and become a professional, buy a home, start a family etc that they can’t afford because they were born in a council estate or deprived area with a culture of failure, abandoned by their own government. It’s not ok. The government needs to prioritise them now. I say this as a migrant myself, because it needs to be said.

To be fair its a bit odd to say Britain gave Hong Kongs residents "generous and populous scemes". They literally were a part of Britain until the 90s when they were given to China. It would indeed be odd to me if the UK didnt give every single Hong Kong resident the option to go to the UK and help them with money, they were and many are british citizens.

I don’t wanna sound like the flood of brexit geezers suddenly entering the comments section but in fairness you’re being a little dishonest. The Tory rhetoric on small boats isn’t landing simply because the Tories are in government and the vast majority of governments in the Western world are unpopular right now due to the cost of living crisis (and in the UK some other factors but the difference isn’t enough to change the overall dynamic). As for the rise of the far right in Europe, even if Reform UK isn’t polling as high as say the AFD, in terms of growth rate I’m pretty sure the rise of Reform UK has been far more dramatic. Not that the main point of the video is wrong or anything, but exaggerating details only hurts your case.

Imo generalizing "immigration" to one massive category of people is pointless. You need to split it up by migration motivation. Worker migrants, study migrants, family reunification migrants, asylum migrants. For example, I think strengthening the welfare state is most important. So I like worker migrants that are net payers in the welfare state. I don't like asylum migrants or low-skilled migrants because they generally are a net drain on the welfare state. So I'm both for and against migration. And with an aging population you can't afford to be lenient.

There is no way this is true 😂. I think most people in the UK realise we can't keep going the way we are because let's be honest we can't even look after our own.

housing crises, unfunded nhs, low wages, crime up and stretched public services. yeah its going fantastically

"Real good at immigration" - what does that even mean? We need sensible policies that cater to the reality of infrastructure, public services, etc.

This video was interesting but seemed to cherry pick pretty random* stats. *where random is used very charitably. Lumping immigration and asylum seekers together seems bizarre. I think it might be prudent to carefully reconsider the data selection used to put this video together and to evaluate whether the conclusions of the video lead the fact finding or whether the fact finding lead to the conclusions.

The chart about U.K. cities being less segregated actually proves the opposite. Leicester, Bradford and Birmingham are the most diverse cities in the U.K. and are the most segregated. York, Liverpool etc are less diverse and have lower segregation for now but are moving to the direction of Leicester. London as usual bucks the British trend

'Possibly' good for the economy but terrible for the average Brit.

They are not all asylum seekers most are illegal immigrants,they are not the same thing.

Britain is way too expensive to live in. Migrants who arrive legally from poorer countries usually are well off or have well off parents. People don't realize but there are plenty of rich people in poor countries. So I'm not surprised to see these stats.

1 in 6 people in the uk were born abroad.. just that simple fact should be enough to make people want to stop all migrates. A country needs diversity but 1 in 6 is far too much

Look who is in charge

....'The UK looks like one of the most anti-migration countries in the world'. From the attitude of a majority of the people in UK, yes, not from the government's outlook! I don't know where these surveys were obtained from! I am yet to hear Brits say that immigration has been beneficial to the UK, although nobody wants to admit that all services, including NHS, care sector, transportation, retail and hospitality sectors would collapse, if there was no immigration. People in power know that it is easier and less expensive to import doctors, nurses, skilled engineers, hospitality staff and others, rather than train home grown skilled professionals.

Why are we classing native Brits struggling in schools compared to immigrants as a good thing?

Hi, can you all do a behind the scenes video? Like what your workflow looks like from research to recording to graphics? I’m pretty impressed with how fast you crank them out, can you show us how?

Can anyone help me understand the graph at 1:04? The bottom axis isn’t labelled and I’m really not sure how to read it.

0:45 Nice Dads Army imagery. 🙄 _"Who do you think you are kidding von der Leyen"_ 😂

My city is becoming way more segregated, what are you on about?

As a "legal" immigrant to the UK, it is exceptionally expensive to actually get to and stay in the UK. With the visa fees, nhs fees (on top of nhs taxes) and the upcoming fees for an IRL its frustrating to see how many illegal immigrants come in and dont contribute to the economy while still having access to public services and funds...

As a (legal) migrant living in the UK I find the immigration related procedure of the UK very convenient (especially in comparison to other countries)...

This is a surprising take and I don't live in the UK at all. The UK being a magnet for immigration because it has less stringent ID requirements than Europe for example is hardly a good thing. Then you've got the business - scams to be more accurate - like universities which revolve around charging immigrants and would-be immigrants fees they can't afford.

This is not immigration, this is replacement

What proportion of immigrants' "same salary" is sent abroad ?...

Great video, now let’s see you talk about the negatives about immigration to keep the discussion balanced!… or is that not allowed?

No longer should we be ashamed to speak out for ourselves, to put our priorities first. Vote for a better future for yourself, vote reform.

We are really poor at Training and education. So we have massive skills shortages, we're also very unhealthy so many are not fit to work. Even our much heralded Premier League is packed full of overseas players !

Not mentioned is the UK's language advantage. English is the world's 'Lingua Franca'. Envision a migrant having to learn Swedish, Dutch or German to integrate vs. already knowing English quite well.

TLDR: “Wow you’re really good at this!” Britain (head in hands): “shut up…” 😭

Repeal the "multi-cultural" aspects of the race relations act -- preserve the multi-ethnic...

Why are most your soruces taken from twitter?

That chart at 5:36 is incredibly misleading, you should be very wary of using an axis that doesn't start at 0.

I know there was a survey of European cities including London and London came out as one of the most diverse populations and also the most integrated.

Survey outside of M25 will be opposite to this guys points 😂

As a Fellow European, I must say this: We told you so.

This video was a bit disingenuous... most Brits think immigration is significantly less than it actually is. I'm from an immigrant background and the UK is too pro migrant

No 🙄🫤

I love how the first minute of the video shows that the rest of the video is full of lies.

First minute is a pretty comphrensive argument made against the rest of the video

The whole framing of these statistics is strange. For instance the "immigration is the most important issue" graph also happens to coincide with other issues like housing becoming unaffordable for huge sections of the population or the slow-motion collapse of public services becoming obvious including the NHS. Or over much of the recently polled period, even the media firestorms over Rona, or Ukraine, or Israel. Many of these issues would be viewed in a poll as "different" to immigration, but they are unavoidably tied directly to it. Mass immigration is indeed a primary cause of the domestic problems listed (although, not the only one). Also as the migrant population explodes, you're diluting the poll results with people who aren't British, especially if these polls are conducted in places like London, Birmingham, Leicester etc. which they probably are, given that large cities are the easiest places to obtain relevant sample sizes. Also RE: the thumbnail. No, largely they don't "love Britain" in the sense that early American immigrants loved the ideals of America and wanted to expand the young nation and its culture. They love free money and a relatively easy life, they live as they lived at home, just transplanted into an area that someone else made wealthy. You can tell because they name their kids whatever they would have at home, teach them the same values, eat the same food and fly the same flags.

"Because there are not that many conservative voters left" !!! I laughed so hard at this one. It is funny because it is true. Thanks

It just shows that employers care more about cheap labor and diversity above anything else.

I think it also has to do with the fact that the UK is far more multicultural than any other EU country. Like it is easier to integrate various people when you have doing exactly that for the past 300 years.

Might the rise in acceptance of migrants have something to do with that fact that 1/6 of the population are migrants and 1/5 are of recent migrant background?

Integration of immigrants are actually much better in um than many European counterparts, partly because English is already spoken by a lot of people arriving and there are less barriers to integrate, pls a lot are from previous colonies. There is less of a glass ceiling in the workforce too, Sunak and lots of politicians are from different backgrounds (try finding a minority in France and Germany)

I’ve heard from multiple people who moved into the UK recently, that immigrating there for non-EU highly skilled ppl has been made significantly easier since brexit, as the labour market was decreased so much it is now difficult to find workers without migration

These statistics surprise me. I’m not saying they’re inaccurate but they do not match the anecdotal evidence I come across. My question would be that, are immigrants included in these opinion statistics? When you say something along the lines of “brits don’t mind living next door to a migrant” (I forget the exact quote) are immigrants included in the pole? So would the rising proportion of migrants increasing account for the rising level of positivity regarding migration to Britain?

Sneaking a Windrush generation reference in at the end when we know it deserves its own video 🤷🏽‍♂

You should’ve made this a 2 part video the pros and cons like you’ve done before.

UK is good at integrating? M8 go look at the state of English cities 😂

I think that the costs and benefits survey is a misleading measurement. British people tend to be polite and a bit reserved when they are asked directly. Look at the brexit referendum, all the polls indicated that the UK would stay in the EU, however when it came to voting the British public went in the opposite direction.

you mean sunak droping the min wage required ..so 224.000 indians could come and work in the care homes ..with familys to follow ( im sure india ) had a say in that with sunak and family.with sunak giving 2.1 billion to indian good causes .. but to be honest indians are very hard working ..but the schools/hospitals/homes built/local councils cannot cope with that many at once..( the boat people are a diff thing ..not many familys came in the boats )

The problem is that the public let themselves get conned into thinking the problem is the minority of people arriving illegally via boat. It's only highlighted in the public dialogue to serve as a distraction from the far more impactful perfectly legal immigration that's going on, which serves to further overburden public services, constrict the housing supply and saturate the labour market.

Suella claiming to be against multiculturalism while also being the daughter of extremely multicultural immigrants herself is RICH 😂😂

I remember the excuse for being in the EU as being unable to control immigration, even though non-EU was always twice the size of EU group.

i wanna go to Iceland and live in a cozy cottage for a while maybe then i wouldn't be in a constant crisis i would read lots of fun books there.

This is not to sound offensive but most people of colour like myself could've told you the difference between the Brits and continental Europeans is quite stark. When I'm in the UK I feel invisible, like being part of the furniture. But upon visiting several european countries, I'm constantly reminded that I'm different. Anyone with this experience can tell you that this can be manifested in both positve and negative ways such as stares or random curiosity. Side note, despite being quite mixed, I was suriprise by the amount of segregation in Paris which I thought would be the continental equivilant of London.

One massive difference I’ve seen in the uk is 4th and 5th generation ethnic migrants who are basically brits, they used to get vexed at me when I’d ask them so where are you from thinking they also came from abroad xd. The new migrants I feel have ways to still go but even second and generation migrants here are really well integrated and there is no pressure to be British leading most of them to just naturally become British. I came here as part of some work years ago, I’m a mechanical/aerospace engineer and fell in love with the English countryside. Moved to Scotland recently and still love the country going hiking the weather and everything. Don’t think I’d move back home to the states where everything just feels so shit even if I could get a much higher salary there.

As someone who lived in leicester for uni, it's strange to see it up there as one of the most segregated cities in the country. I was very aware of the different cultures in Leicester and that was actually a big plus to me, but people still got along well and I never felt out of place or like I'd stumbled into the wrong neighbourhood.

As a resident of Spokane, I found the fact that we were included on that infographic as interesting as the data on the infographic itself

Did you guys enjoy your Saturday march?

Every time you make an immigration video you miss the mark. You think that cherry picking some random survey you are going to push "the message": I would say that most of people here are center, left-center in terms of ideology. And we've been brainwashed for 20+ years, but you know what? People are fed up. I don't need any bulclrap survey I just need to go out in my city, Barcelona, and see it for myself. And the only data I'm going to rely is crime statistics, se*ual assault rates, and overall economic impoverishment in high migrant areas. And I think I speak for millions upon millions of europeans.

Did you forget to colour grade your footage?

I'd like to respectfully disagree. Edit: He changed the title so my comment makes no sense :(

Usually the more migrants are in a country, the higher the number voting in favour of immigration as those immigrants have larger proportion of say in the matter. Vast majority of them are in favour, while the rest can be divided. And in the end of the day, even if majority of population would be against, no government in UK would close the doors.

I would kill for a news channel thats actually unbiased

I feel like Britian, for all of its flaws, is one of the few places outside of the Americas where an immigrant can be deemed a local if they assimilate enough. You can’t be an imperial center (even a former imperial center) if you are freaked out by people don’t look like you.

Just a note on all the graphs shown in this video - because the legend is coming up last, it's impossible to know what they're trying to show without pausing as soon as it shows up. If you're not going to linger on these animated graphs once they're complete, put the legend up from the start.

And how’s that going for them?

It does seem immigration is partly driven by how stupid we are in many ways, which is quite funny and should perhaps make us look at ourselves as individuals rather than foreigners and/or institutions particularly if we have an issue with it.

As a Canadian (a country that has long been and remains a deeply pro-immigration country - albeit with some patches of resistance mostly outside of urban areas in ethnically and linguistically homogeneous communities, not least in Québec), I have to say that this report does correspond to my sense (admittedly from afar) of how well integrated immigrants are in the UK compared to continental European countries. It's frankly struck me as deeply ironic that so many prominent Tory politicians are themselves from immigrant backgrounds (albeit UK-born if I understand correctly). This is not unfamiliar to me: I identify as a Canadian Tory and take some pride in the fact that our "blue tribe" here is just as welcoming and supportive of immigrants into the fold as other parties here. Given how many immigrant electors there are in this country and how instinctively conservative many of them are, we really have no choice in any event. What we DON'T have here is a nativist "Reform UK" party: even our party of the same name from back in the 1990s - when the Canadian Tories fractured into different regional tribes, divided mostly by ideology and the "national question" - was as pro-immigration as any other Canadian party at the time.

*_*The U.K is unsurprisingly keen on survival & preservation*_* -- go check on salman rushdie & see how keen he is...

Isn't it ironic that throughout the anglosphere,The only country that has trouble integrating is the UK.

Why isn't anybody in this comment section understanding that this video isn't saying that immigration is good or bad just that brits are surprisingly pro immigration and pretty good at integration

As a UK business owner (SME), I can reassure you that a few very profitable companies make the headlines (and create impression that everyone is spitting money), while the majority of the companies, like 90% of them have very tight margins and cannot deliver high quality products/services with these types of margins. As a result, higher quality labour at lower cost would really help companies to reinvest and deliver better products/services to consumers. Generally, UK is a very competitive market and most of companies must re-invest profits or they will be killed by a competitor who reinvests (again excluding some cash cows that make the headlines). So it is a popular but wrong argument that businesses should pay fair wages and pocket less profits. If there were fat profits, in a competitive market like the UK, 10 competitors would immediately pop out to take these margins from you (again except a few industries making the headlines, where barriers to entry are high and it is hard to take their margins).

This is about classical liberalism -- as calibrated on the liberties of the many majorities -- not by the anarchy of a few oligarchs...

First you do a lot of mixing different topics, like pro-immigration policies, metrics that show immigrants are doing well, and pro-immigration views of the public, and treat all of them as the same topic. Then there's the issue... that you really only spent 40s answering the question in the title.

There has been more immigration into Britain in the past 20 years than the past 2000 combined. Yet we were never asked. Consecutive votes for Conservative governments & the Brexit vote was, at least in part, driven by claims to reduce migration. Instead the opposite has happened. A referendum on whether to reduce net migration to below 50,000 a year is the only way to see what the British people want and hold the government accountable to deliver against it.

I'm a French who lives in UK and the illegal migration is a real issue who must be dealt with has it has terrible impact on people opinions by pushing them towards the far right.

Looking at the comments shows that we need one thing - better data, cos this must be inaccurate as hell

The conflation of immigrants and illegal immigrants drives me demented

Our visa scheme is quite mad. Aussie highly qualified mate could only stay for 2 years unless sponsored. He paid higher tax and NI along with his NHS levy but found it hard to stay. But a cheap low tax deliveroo driver can get a visa for life and bring family over it seems. Whole system needs a rethink.

My intuition on the matter of immigration is that it is a net benefit to the UK, but those benefits are not distributed across the UK evenly.

The fact that immigrants are outperforming natives across the board is not a sign of a good immigration system. Instead, it shows just how badly we are failing the natives. Additionally, as you say, poorly educated immigrants are employed in favour of poorly educated natives. These people's parents and ancestors have paid-in and built the country that we have today, and yet we are importing people to replace them. That is a shameful statistic! All this video shows is that British immigration is good for the immigrants, not that Britain is good at immigration.

At 1:05 min, rejected asylum seekers in France, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands no longer receive any money. In Germany, those rejected receive a tolerated stay and continue to receive their money. That's why the costs are shifting; in Germany the most is paid.

You mixed multi-ethnic with multi-culturalism in this video. Suella Braverman is culturally british. You could then debate if its just the "dominant" culture you associate with and then you pepper it with cultures received from family and/or experience - but this is the real source of the issue.

This video leaves me astonished...I lived in the UK for seven years and I never felt welcomed by the locals, just tolerated because I was working and therefore contributing to the economy.

I'm all for fair immigration policies, but I suspect many that do want to come to the UK, do so because the UK is a soft touch on these policies, also, corporations want to keep wages down and the irony is, since Brexit, the UK needs every advantage it can get, migrants that are willing to do the jobs others don't and for far less money is a competitive advantage, not saying it's the right thing to do but the UK is a lot more lax on its rules when it comes to immigration compared to other European countries. The irony in all this is that Brexit was supposed to be a big selling point in reducing immigration, in the end, we ended up with more. The real problem for the UK, even with immigration, if the UK pushes that too hard with lower wages, you'll end up with Brits complaining about stagnant wage growth, then there's also the chance the EU will put traffic on goods from the UK to cancel out the benefits of those low wages, the end result, the UK ends up losing out on two fronts, lower wages and no benefits from the cheap labour with our biggest market.

Here's some food for thought. I've taken the following directly word for word from the Conservative manifesto and data from the Office for National statistics: 2010 Immigration 604,000, emigration 339,000, net migration 256,000 Conservative manifesto: "We will take steps to take net migration back to the levels of the 1990s - tens of thousands a year, not hundreds of thousands." 2015 Immigration 664,000, emigration 334,000, net migration 329,000 Conservative manifesto: "Our commitment to you: keep our ambition of delivering annual net migration in the tens of thousands, not the hundreds of thousands" "We will tackle people trafficking and exploitation. We will ease pressure on public services and your local community. We will protect British values and our way of life. We will promote integration and British values" 2017 Immigration 644,000, emigration 395,000, net migration 249,000 Conservative manifesto: "We will reduce and control immigration." "But with annual net migration standing at 273,000, immigration to Britain is still too high. It is our objective to reduce immigration to sustainable levels, by which we mean annual net migration in the tens of thousands, rather than the hundreds of thousands we have seen over the last two decades". 2019 Immigration 772,000, emigration 553,000, net migration 219,000 Conservative manifesto: "There will be fewer lower-skilled migrants and overall numbers will come down. And we will ensure that the British people are always in control." 2022: Immigration 1,234,000, emigration 489,000, net migration 745,000. 2023: Immigration 1,405,000. Keep in mind that those entering are usually foreign and those leaving are often British - you can see why 'replacement theory' has so much traction We also know that 15% come in on 'skilled' work visas, and 85% have no job and come in as dependents etc. They are a net drain on the economy, going into low paid jobs and take more out of the system than they put in. This demolishes the 'skilled workers argument'. Even most of those who do come in on 'skilled workers' visa, turn out not to be skilled but end up in low paying jobs. Often using fraudulent certificates of qualification, (there's a thriving business in fraudulent nursing qualification from Nigeria). One should also mention the elephant in the room. 42% of the 10 million foreign born residents in this country came in the last decade. Since New labour came to power 26 years ago we have had more immigration into this country than the previous 2,000 years combined! (I'm not saying Labour and LibDems would any better, I'm just pointing out why voting for any of the main parties will do nothing to stop the flow). The actions of all political parties have blatantly undermined democracy. If you vote for any of the main parties you will get more of the same - promise one thing and do the opposite.

Think you make half of this up

How many immigrants were polled in that YouGov poll vs native Brits?