Do Migrationwatch exaggerate?
No. We obliged the Home Office, under the government’s freedom of information rules, to release their information on Migrationwatch. Here is the text of an email from one Home Office official to another sent on 29 July 2003: I have made this point many times before but can we please stop saying that MW migration forecasts are wrong. I have pointed out before that MW assumptions are often below the government actuary’s department’s high migration scenario. And here is a quote from an editorial in The Times of 23 August 2004: Once an electorate loses faith in the reliability of evidence on which decisions are made, no amount of persuasion can restore faith in the system. This would be the real damage of any Home Office revision of the Office for National Statistics. And this is why Migrationwatch is right to raise the alarm.
