It's up to Guido's usual standards, I see. Adding the short term immigration number to the long term immigration is adding apples and oranges and gives a similarly useless number. His point that "Remain are spinning that short-term migrants somehow don’t count – yet they still use the NHS, they are still a burden on public services, still claim benefits. The churn of short term migrants also means that the demand is a constant" is truthy but it's far from accurate when used with the numbers as he adds them up since any short-term migrant is only here for a number of weeks out of the year you cannot simply add their number to the long term migrant number and act as if they have a similar impact. Moreover, it's reasonable to assume that anyone who is only here for a few works is unlikely to claim benefits, unlikely to use hospital care and unlikely to place their children into our education system while they're still going to be paying tax so they're likely to be even greater net contributors to our state than long term migrants and thus very far from being the 'burden' Guido imagines.
