Newly released data suggests the vast majority of jobs created in Britain since the Wuhan virus pandemic have been taken by migrants. The figures, acquired by lawmaker Neil O’Brien from His Majesty‘s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), equivalent to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), show the tax agency had 1.481 million more “employments” on the books in December 2023 compared to December 2019. Non-European Union migrants account for 1.465 million of these.
Only 257,000 more employments were recorded for British nationals, and employments of European Union (EU) nationals dropped by 242,000. “Employments” are not a perfect measure of job creation, as they do not account for the self-employed, and foreigners who arrived in Britain before age 16 are counted in the British figures. Still, they provide a better picture of the state of the British jobs market.
Nationals of some foreign countries have taken many more new jobs than British nationals, with Indian employments up by 488,000 and Nigerian employments up by 279,000.
Notably absent from the above figures are people working illegally, who are not included in HMRC’s records. These are likely substantial, with the black economy in Britain estimated to be worth many tens of billions of pounds.
The Joe Biden–Kamala Harris regime in the United States is overseeing a similar transformation of the jobs market. Its supposed jobs recovery results almost entirely from an increase in migrant labor.
The National Pulse reported earlier this month that native-born Americans have suffered 1.2 million job losses over the past year, while foreign-born employment has risen by 1.3 million.
