“Net immigration has quadrupled since 1997 to 237,000 a year.
A migrant now arrives nearly every minute.”
Assuming the first figure is accurate, the above stated “fact” is wrong.
60 minutes in an hour
24 hours in a day
365 days in a year
Total minutes in a year: 60x24x365 = 525,600 minutes
If we do get 237,000 new immigrants a year that’s one immigrant every 2.22 minutes (about 2 minutes 12 seconds).
Throws the entire article into doubt if the person who wrote it can’t even do basic maths.
I did a search for recent immigration figures, but the articles I found report various figures, where are the latest official government figures?
David
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