About
Why this exists
The UK immigration debate is broken. It runs on anecdote, emotion, and competing claims that never have to face a systems-level reality check. People argue about migration numbers without confronting what happens to NHS staffing if you cut them, or what happens to housing if you don't build alongside them, or what happens to the tax base if working-age population shrinks.
Britain 2036 exists to force those trade-offs into the open. It's a policy simulator that lets you act as the UK government — set immigration targets, adjust NHS spending, choose housebuilding levels, allocate budgets — and then watch the consequences unfold across interconnected systems over 1 to 10 years.
The goal is not to tell you what to think. It's to make the costs of your preferences visible.
What this is — and isn't
This is an educational tool and civic experiment, not a forecasting engine. The outputs are projections based on a documented set of causal assumptions — not predictions of what will happen. Every relationship in the model is inspectable on the methodology page, and every assumption is open to challenge.
It is not affiliated with any political party, campaign, think tank, or government body. It does not receive funding from any organisation with a position on immigration policy. It is not trying to prove that any particular approach is correct.
How it works
The simulator is built on a causal graph with 72 directed edges connecting 29 policy levers to 17 output metrics across six domains: healthcare, housing, economy, labour markets, demographics, and political stability. Baseline data is drawn from ONS, OBR, NHS England, the Home Office, and other UK public data sources.
The full technical specification — including every edge, magnitude, lag parameter, and known limitation — is documented in the methodology page.
Who built this
Britain 2036 was built by Andy at Netamity, a web development studio based in the UK. The project grew from frustration with a public conversation about immigration that rarely engages with the structural trade-offs involved.
Get in touch
For questions, feedback, press enquiries, or collaboration proposals: andrew@netamity.com
If you believe a specific part of the model is wrong, the best route is the Challenge the Model form — it's structured so we can act on your feedback directly.