A North Yorkshire councillor has blamed environmental damage, such as poor water quality, on immigration and the UK’s birth rate.
Coun Mark Crane, a Conservative who represents Brayton & Barlow and who is also the former leader of Selby District Council, made the comments during a debate in Northallerton today about how the council can improve water quality across the county. At the meeting, Coun Crane, suggested the problem is partly caused by the environment and infrastructure being unable to cope with the number of people now living in the country from overseas.
” According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of babies born in England and Wales has been steadily decreasing for the past decade. In 2022, it dropped to its lowest level in two decades. The ONS says net migration, which is the additional number of people entering the country, was 606,000 people in 2022. It put the high number down to refugees entering from Ukraine and Hong Kong.
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