Only 8%.............?

[has]

Why do authorities state that only 8% of the GB population are foreigners?

Are they the same authorities that have recently doctored the crime figures?

[black_cat51]

perhaps because it's true. I suspect it largely depends on your definition of foreign

[Peter Pedant]

er - because they are ?

remember the children of foreigners that are born here .... are British
( jus solium )

[pixie373]

From my recent post on a News thread of aog's-

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pixie373

The census figures apply to the UK and not just Britain- so not completely accurate here, but gives 11.3% as foreigners in the UK.

so depends how many in Northern Ireland, really.

[THECORBYLOON]

I doubt the police have much input as to the figures in this instance but what do you say it is and what is it based on?

[has]

That must mean that where I was today, must have all & everyone of these 8% there in this one place at that particular time!!!!!!!!

I will ask our local head teacher whom has two thirds of non-English speaking pupils in her school, what her DEFINITION is!!

[hc4361]

Can we have a link to the 8% statement? What part of the country are you living in?
Where do the non-English speaking pupils in that school come from?

[THECORBYLOON]

Are two thirds of the population of GB foreign then? Perhaps the Office for National Statistics should scrap the next Census and just ask that headmaster?

[has]

Naivety is so common amongst our so-called educated classes. Nobody has a clue as to how many illegal immigrants are in this country.

[sherrardk]

If no one has a clue, how do you know it's not 8%?

[has]

Get in the real world....!

[THECORBYLOON]

What do YOU think the figure is then?

[pixie373]

Sherr - he met over 8% of the population where he was today...

[sunny-dave]

If being British means being a one-eyed racist like 'has', then add me to the foreigners ...

[sherrardk]

I don't understand your point, or are you just generally outraged that foreign people live here? What, if anything, are you cross about?

[gness]

I'm foreign....I live here....don't think I'm a bother.....neither is my daughter who entered England as an illegal....... :-(

[boxtops]

Explain, has.

Many many people with coloured skin (for example) are British nationals, not foreigners, and have lived here for years, or are second and third generation born here. Where were you?

[Maydup]

We have less then 8% in our county and in fact in our whole region. Its a national average so not necessarily applicable to your street or mine.

[boxtops]

It's about 10% here in Kent, but that's by people's own definition of their ethnicity of origin, I wouldn't call that "foreigners".

[jno]

8.3% was the figure in the 2001 census. The latest figure (not census-based) seems to be 11.3%.

[sherrardk]

When we lived in Aylesbury the (technically) catchment school for boy #1 had 21 different first languages. The school he went to was completely 'white'. Here in Hereford there are lots of Polish people, people from Portugal (there must be, there is a Portuguese cafe) and very, very few not white people. There are probably more transvestites here than foreign people (apparently Hereford is a transvestite hot spot).

However, I digress, still not sure what the actual issue is.