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The Real Economic Cost of Mass Migration to the UK

In this video I dig into the economic impact of mass migration on the UK, asking whether decades of high net migration have genuinely boosted GDP per capita, productivity and living standards, or whether they’ve simply masked a debt-fuelled, flatlining UK economy. Using original government policy papers, House of Lords reports and economic analysis from the Blair and Boris Johnson eras, I challenge the establishment narrative that “immigration always grows the economy” and look at what has really happened to growth, wages, public spending and debt since the late 1990s. This is the third video in my series on legal migration to the UK. In this episode I show how the thinking behind mass migration policy was built inside a political and academic echo chamber, where migration liberalisation was treated like trade liberalisation and migrants were modelled as identical “economic units” – with almost no serious consideration of remittances, capital outflows, foreign ownership of UK assets, or long-term pressures on housing and public services. I’ve read around 400 pages of historical government and think tank documents specifically for this video – including work from the Home Office, HM Treasury, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee and later reviews under Boris Johnson. My goal is not to re-package AI summaries or partisan talking points, but to compare the promises made about mass migration with the outcomes we actually see in GDP, debt, employment and public spending. We’ll look at how 50–60% of UK GDP growth since the early 2000s has effectively been debt-funded, what the numbers look like once you strip out that debt, and how this sits alongside an increase of roughly 8 million migrants and 6 million more people in employment. I also explain, in plain English, how government bonds, gilt yields and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) interact with an unproductive economy that leans heavily on migration and public spending instead of investment and innovation. I have no political or corporate affiliations and no vested interest beyond trying to align UK policy with reality and the long-term prosperity of British citizens. If you value long-form, evidence-based analysis on UK immigration, economics and politics, I’d really appreciate it if you: Subscribe to the channel Like the video if you find it useful Share it with anyone who’s trying to understand what mass migration has really done to the UK economy CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 02:10 - UK Economy 09:26 - Blair Era Migration Policy 28:47 - House of Lords on Mass Migration 34:15 - Boris Era Migration Policy 42:32 - Summary #ukmigration #massmigration #ukeconomy #immigrationpolicy #tonyblair #borisjohnson #ukimmigration #economicimpact #remigration #ukpolitics