BigTwerp

Why is it limited to only 100kph? I demand higher speed automobile defecation.

You are correct in the sense that rules for non EU nationals were relaxed under the last government but you still need to be in the occupational shortlist to get in, find a sponsor etc. You also have to remember that being in the EU meant zero barrier to movement or working so in a sense we have replaced no rules for rules.

The current government has closed a lot of loopholes that made it easy to bring spouse or family members on the same visa and are clamping down on student visas generally (because they are being abused) and student visa overstay (because they kind of turned a blind eye to it if former students found a job that would sponsor a visa eventually, even if it took years).

...I also forgot to mention the circa 150000 Hong Kong born British Citizens who had to flee Hong Kong after the purges in 2022 who have settled here.

There's several factors:

It's hard to tell from your link whether people from EU countries that applied for citizenship because Brexit changed their status counts in those figures. That would be a lot of people in 2021, 22 and 23 which iirc was the window to do that.

Similarly a lot of skilled workers from the EU left in that period and were replaced with non-eu workers. The EU leavers might not be counted in net migration.

Students sometimes are counted in migration figures and sometimes not. We have a lot of overseas students and obviously post COVID the figures surged.

A large proportion is healthcare, either in the NHS directly or in care homes for the elderly. Because of our ageing population the health system is expanding beyond the ability to train new care staff.

So... Many factors but definitely not "just letting anyone in".

Lol, I'm from the UK and employ quite a few overseas people. Immigration requirements are categorically not 'loose'.

A properly qualified social worker might actually have a chance of being on the occupational shortage list but I can't think of any trades where and employer would be able to prove they need to hire from abroad and be willing to sponsor the employee.

I think Fair phone with eos is the "least evil" option but you won't be able to use most banking apps or contactless payment.

The $700 you give Google for a pixel is only going to erode your privacy further and personally I wouldn't trust any device made by them, regardless of the OS.

Edit to say you are basically just rewarding their behaviour.

This is something that CoPilot or ChatGPT is actually good at. Depending how messy your data is you might need to several iterations to get what you want and you will need to cross check the results. If you can, use a pdf editor to delete all the information you don't want. I use foxit for this. Foxit can also save a pdf as excel but if the tables are an image or are complex it will not format very well at all.

This is completely at odds with my experience living in India! Does it vary between regions?

Dude, are you ok?