My husband and I came to the UK over twenty years ago as legal immigrants. We had to work from day one as there was a stamp in our passport saying 'no recourse to public funds '. We were interviewed abroad and had to provide sheaves of documents. We have always worked and have just paid off our mortgage. This country has changed drastically in these twenty years. It's unrecognisable in many ways. Mismanagement by successive governments on a criminal scale. We came from a banana republic type country only to find we are now living in one again. It's tragic in so many ways.
So did my wife around the same time. When the elite weaponise mass migration to change a country they dislike, they do no favours for those who came here legally AND feel a sense of good will and loyalty.
I came across a useful categorisation of migrant attitudes recently, either on the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters or New Culture Forum. There are:
(a) those who came here legally AND feel a sense of good will and loyalty
(b) those who are indifferent, like former Tory minister So What Javid whose response to rapid demographic change in London was "so what"
(c) those who are openly hostile like the London Mayor and former Scottish First Minister
It is neither racist nor irrational to welcome the first, not want too many of the second and resent the third.
Given the high population density of the UK we should welcome the first only in so far as their arrival does not contribute to an increase in the population.
The collapse of the UK is analysed and tackle head by Dr David Starkey in a Triggernometry interview with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster… it’s well worth a 1 1/2hour listen. Prof Starkey’s concludes the UK is heading to an Argentine destruction… Bankruptcy. Watch out for the IMF hovering in the wings!
Working-class people have been aware of this con from the very beginning when Blair instigated the policy, because working-class people were at the sharp end, bearing the brunt of all of this nonsense, watching their earnings potential and their living standards collapse, due to poor immigrants competing with them for wages, housing and medical services, but THEY did not matter, because they were unimportant, what really mattered was that the wealthy could gain access to cheap labour, in order to increase their wealth. Ex-Chancellor Phillip Hammond stated this recently, when he called for more immigration in order to keep wages down, letting the cat out of the bag.
There has not been a radical awakening to the damage immigration has inflicted on the British economy, nobody cares about that, what HAS stirred the Elite into a navel-gazing confusion is the Labour Government and its policy of moving poor immigrants into wealthy areas. The Elite had no concern for the hideous destruction of the pillars of everyday life for millions of ordinary British people, as long as it did not affect them; they simply looked out of the window of their luxury car at the deteriorating, graffiti -ridden, filthy city centres as they passed by, happy in the knowledge that THEY were safe in their ivory towers amongst the leafy suburbs, with lots of money accumulated to pass on to their children to help them buy similar properties and ensure their success. How that has changed now though! Labour has been assiduously following Angela Rayner's orders to house immigrants in the heart of suburbia, renting and buying properties to enable this policy to flourish, and literally 'rubbing the Right's nose in diversity', bringing all the benefits of mass, poor immigration into the heart of the the leafy shires, with more to follow as she forces social housing to be built on the Green Belt.
Just take a walk through a wealthy, up-market village in the Home Counties now and observe the number of immigrants who are evident, look at the local news and see how city-type crimes -muggings, house break-ins, drugs and shoplifting are flourishing, and it is easy to see why the Elite have suddenly discovered that mass immigration actually made us poorer, not richer. They may be asking what benefit millions of Deliveroo riders, zooming here and there on their scooters with 'L' plates displayed, are to society? Millions of poor immigrants, many working illegally, are delivering take-aways, washing cars and painting nails, contributing nothing whatsoever to the economy, nor to society, while availing themselves of medical treatment, social housing and education, creating massive problems like road congestion, housing shortages, the destruction of social cohesion and access to medical treatment.
The chickens are coming home to roost, and according to the brilliant Dr David Starkey, Britain will soon be bankrupt and will need to be either bailed out by the IMF, or (and) an extreme Right-wing government will be needed to slash public spending and cut taxes, ala the current Argentinian administration, which is exactly what happened after we had our previous Socialist paradise under Wilson and Callaghan, which brought Thatcher to power. Anyone with a walnut for a brain could see that mass immigration was impoverishing Britain; the poor immigrants pay hardly anything in taxes or NI, but because we have a welfare state, they are a massive drain on the economy, only benefiting the wealthy, who have become immensely rich on the back of this exploitation. Remember the old adage 'there is no such thing as a free lunch'? Well, those wealthy citizens who benefited from the exploitation and who are not rich enough to leave are going to have to cough-up and pay the bill, and they do not like it!
I need to add to your list of crimes sexual assaults on women and rape. Also, murder of innocents who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am so angry about how we have been subjected to everything that we knew years ago was going to happen.
So true. I am baffled as to why the Labour Party, of all people, who you would think would be up in arms at the treatment of women by certain immigrant communities, turns a blind eye to rapes and grooming gangs. Again, my guess is that it mainly affects working-class areas, so is of no importance to the wider picture, that one that paints all immigrants as wonderful and the working-class as moronic racists.
David Starkey makes this point; if you give preference to one racial group over another, then it obviously means that another racial group is suffering discrimination. Most large companies are signed-up to DEI policies, which means that 40% of their employees must be of a racial minority; this inevitably means that the company is less efficient, because staff are not picked on merit, but on colour and ethnicity. There is another dimension to this too, one that has a further detrimental effect on the indigenous population, and that is that DEI quotas are driving immigration, because companies struggle to find enough staff from ethnic minorities to fulfill these quotas, so they scream that they cannot recruit staff and so recruit them from abroad, effectively throwing white British people on the scrap-heap in favour of immigrants. The Great Replacement is a FACT.
I often ponder this, but I think that it is due to Socialist principles - a country without borders, all workers are equal etc, plus they are terrified of being labelled 'racist'. Look at the NHS, where there is a 9m waiting list, yet the unions are not pushing for it to stop treating foreign people who have never paid a penny into the system, effectively killing British people who have paid into the NHS all of their lives.
Why would any young native Brit want to work hard when they see how much legal (questionable) or illegal immigrants get for free and why would any of them want to fight for this country when they see crime and certain protesting groups hating the people that pay for them. Mass Immigration must be stopped and stopped quickly, it’s causing complete social breakdown
Stopped and reversed. Mass repatriation is required starting with any immigrants who have a criminal record, then "refugees" whose home country has stabilised since they fled, all "overstayers", then all those who, though fit and capable, have never worked since they arrived here. Simultaneously we should stop all the largesse we lavish onto our unwanted visitors.
But how can this be achieved? The ruling elite won't change as they're not bothered, change by the ballot box means waiting five years with more immigration each year and protests (against uncontrolled immigration) in the streets are already and will become increasingly dangerous to activists, and many of us, even were it desirable, are too old for street fighting. Academics who protest are either pushed out like Stock or have left in despair like Matt Goodwin. Some strategy there must be however.
" Because the state and civil servants very clearly want to keep this data hidden from you, the taxpayer, or they are so incompetent they are not collecting it in the first place. "
It could that they are both incompetent and want to hide things from us.
I really can't see or understand why this is being allowed to happen. The only reason I can think of is that its cheap labour for the big retailers and manufacturers. But clearly set out in your excellent article—it's at the extortionate cost and detriment of the taxpayer.
I think the taxpayers are fed up with being treated like stupid animals who deserve to be kept in the dark. It's clearly part of the manipulation.
The political elites, from what I can tell, are trying to bankrupt the country for the globalists to step and in "save us"—when in reality, it means fascism or communism, regardless it won't be sovereignty!! Even if they don't want to force us into a new ideology, I'm sure they're rubbing their hands together at the potential profits, regardless.
This is more ideological than economic. Tories and Labour both try to normalise the idea that we should be governed by first or second generation immigrants and that we should be grateful.
Just ten years ago, neither Rishi nor Kemi were even in parliament. Cameron parachutes them in to safe seats, rapid promotion follows and here are our new leaders.
Look at all the senior ministers in recent governments and consider how representative they have been of the wider population. The message is that this is not a country with any sense of history or culture, just a diverse economic platform run for the benefit of elites.
Agreed. In the old days we would take in young folk with a skill or some education. The idea was to bolster the young demographic to pay in to the system as folks aged out. Something went wrong when the immigrants could come yet have nothing to offer and burdened with family (including the parents!). Indiscriminate immigration is clearly a destructive ideological policy. Add this to Net Zero and you have a recipe for disaster. Perhaps the newcomers will return home once they taste a 1750 style British winter where half the day is spent finding wood in the local copse.
Not so Chris. We started taking people in because they had British passports - India, Pakistan, West Indies etc. Similarly the French took in vast numbers of Algerians and other former colonials. We, and they, were not seeking high skills, rather they wanted people to do the low grade work that nationals were refusing to take. Compare with the ten-pound-poms going into Oz - all they wanted was sweat labour.
Who is the "we" you refer to? Elite politicians and business owners perhaps - not ordinary people. We should question and challenge elite claims to speak for the wider population.
Vernon, yes, but how was the passport issued? Surely on some basis that the individual would contribute or be “ a good fit”… and not as a punka waller. Today we accept the world’s punka wallers
I cannot agree. I don't care what they look like, or their origins. All I want is someone loyal to this country, and even a first generation immigrant can be totally loyal. Indeed, they will often appreciate the country more than long-time inhabitants.
This is state our 2 main Parties consumed with presently, so no solution any time soon: ….. they as thickos, - Lab’s Rayner uneducated and thick, Reeves overly ambitious with deaf and blind syndrome,…. Lammy bribed as just to have a hold over him, - which means the topmost posts PM, Deputy, Chancellor, Foreign Secretary all taking money/bribes from a Peer that ‘different’ to Britains whole ethos on every count of, history, etiquette, moral codes, …. For fact every one of these in the topmost jobs in Govt thought it OK and a norm to take money off others, in any guise, shows lack of integrity, morals, honour towards UK, …. Time for action by likes of Parliament, Monarchy,….. and by His Majesty's Opposition as their role is to hold Govt to account. …. Instead Tories preening themselves at Party Conference, using the amorality of Labour corruption as rallying call for Tory back in power soon, - showing they not worth a vote as still deluded, BUT have a job to do and get these 4 at least sacked from Govt.
I can't fully agree with your "big retailers and manufacturers" comment. The retailers are shedding staff and automating and the manufacturers are getting fewer and fewer. There are still sweatshops in the garment trade but they are not significant in the big picture.
That is true, and of course the growth of ethnic minorities has created a vast expense and problem for big business because they are now vulnerable to every kind of bad publicity, legal claim, or added bureaucracy.
Re: your automation comment. I've managed teams of engineers and written enterprise software my entire life for big global tech firms to put people out of jobs (until I woke up a decade ago). One of which was a huge retailers factory where (and people will know who I'm talking about if they've seen this) used to take in arctic trailers onto a huge carousel that operators can spin around with the push of a button the height of the warehouse and I've heard (from a friend) that Amazon's warehouses are a step further.
My teacher daughter can't afford to go to the dentist and worries about every bill. She has worked out that she would be better off on benefits and questions how (if this is correct) if only 30% of the population pay tax, the whole economic basis of our country is sustainable? Importing more and more dependency from the third world onto a shrinking tax base. My other daughter is in a similar situation. Maybe this is simply how TPTB achieve the first part of the WEF goal of "You will own nothing and you will be happy". Even in their short lifetimes (early 30's) they can see how the infrastructure is crumbling; how scruffy everything looks; how nothing works.
Am afraid I no longer feel our country is enriched culturally or economically by immigration . It has gone far too far . And I say that as someone whose highly educated husband who is still contributing very large amounts of tax , came here when he was three years old
We talk and talk about immigration and some politicians even go so far as to say we should take action. Even Starmer says it’s a legitimate concern (but does nothing about it, not even sack his useless Home Secretary, she of the “migrants welcome” notice). So there’s a consensus that we have too much immigration, of the wrong type of people and all happening far too fast.
The answers are obvious.
For legal migration raise the bar to allow professionals only where we have a shortage and accompany this by training our own. Stop 95% of overseas students and let the crap “universities” sink or swim with our own students by running vocational or traditional academic courses only. No more degrees in studying David Beckham icon as he may be.
For illegal immigration through the channel use the Royal Navy to turn the boats back to France and for those that get through repatriate them to their home countries, last safe country (France), or Rwanda immediately. No messing with hotels and delays. No allowing appeals. No more lefty lawyers. For those smuggled by lorries the same. Straight out.
For those already here and awaiting processing repatriate immediately. They have broken our laws and that’s enough to fail our immigration tests. For those in jail repatriate and free up over 10000 places for our own villains.
It’s not difficult but it needs politicians with thick skins and determination. Sadly even Farage has been backsliding recently.
I am astounded that there has been no further mention in the media about what I posted yesterday viz that the Telegraph reported that Border Force and National Crime Agency had seized 120 boats (plus motors) at the Bulgaria/Turkey border using sniffer dogs. This is such a monumental step forwards that I am asking myself whether it was fake news. But there are photographs with the article.
All that you propose would be iaw Art 5 of the ECHR, the UN Convention on Refugees and maritime law. The only reason it is not done is the lack of political will to stand up to France and the EU.
Jan van de Beek is a researcher who is well-respected by many as a decent and nuanced man. So you can probably guess how he is being treated by the progressive left (and most of their media), because he produces data on migration and formulates criticism of (Dutch and European) migration policies…
We went through Cuckfield yesterday and I was intrigued by the prospect of the Cuckfield Book Festival. Then even more so when I googled it and found you were scheduled to speak. Then suddenly less so when I saw your talk has been cancelled! Can't the good people of West Sussex deal with truth?
We don't need the OBR or any other technocrats to finally tell us it's not working. Anybody with half a brain can see it's not working and has never worked. The dilution of an indigenous society can only spells disaster, have these clowns and idiots (because that’s exactly what they are!) who perpetuated this collapse of our culture, of our society and English way of life have learnt nothing from history, they are not fit to make any discission about anything because they don’t have the foresight or intelligence to see any consequences of what they do (Thick as SH*T springs to mind). In my humble opinion, all those that allowed the mass invasion over the last 20 years or so, starting from the war criminal Blair, should be held accountable personally for what they’ve done to this once proud world leading nation. We’ve given so much to the world but now, we are merely a shell of our former selves, The “Great” out of “Great Britain” has long gone.
I dread to think where we’ll be at the end of this horrible administration. I suspect if we can’t pull it back very soon, this country will descend into a sectarian and segregated society. With failed multiculturalism and failed integration, we will become states of different cultures and societies with in a land mass and sectarian violence. Never again being “Great Britain” lost forever. Sadly and with a heavy heart I’ve come to realise (some time ago actually) that this once great nation is NOT a place I want to live bringing up my family…from a sad, angry and disappointed Brit.
Two of my three adult children have already emigrated for the reasons we’ve both stated on here. It’s a crying shame but this invasion has succeeded where military ones were repelled. We have no leaders worthy of the name.
I hope they didn't come here to Australia. The Labour govt has ramped up immigration to around a half million a year. But at least there's room for more housing here. Where are hundreds of thousands of homes going to fit into the UK?
They'll be squeezed into the fields around ancient villages like mine, on which apples, hops, wheat, barley, beans, potatoes and rape is or used to be grown.
Meanwhile, we suffer regular hose bans, or the sewers overflow.
It’s a terrible thing that you’re children have had to leave this country and a lot of us are considering doing the same. This shouldn’t be happening but sadly it is, our country isn’t ours anymore and isn’t safe to raise a family. I know this sounds dramatic but I truly believe we’ve reached the tipping point of no return, a place I feared would never get to but here we are betrayed by traitors and criminals who lied about everything.
Yes Reno it’s very sad but I know a number of people moving out of the UK. Many of us no longer feel welcomed in the country we were born in. It’s sickening to be constantly placed second to people who have contributed nothing to the UK and worse constantly reminded of white privilege and nonsense like that.
My friend, I feel exactly the same. As a white middle-aged male, I feel bottom of the pile in this society, but simply committing the sin of being white is enough to have all sorts of accusations of ‘racist, Nazi, white supremacist shit thrown at us. Our views and opinions mean nothing in Britain today. It's only on communities like this, talking to like-minded people I feel I can voice an opinion that others might understand. The FAR-LEFT, the RADICAL COMMUNISTS, have destroyed anything that was good about our country by pushing their CRAZY IDEOLOGY on everyone. However, I truly believe the saying “what goes around comes around” and I dearly hope that when it does, THEY, the despicable FAR LEFT ideologs get it in bucket loads.
That's probably because he's recently become closer to political power, and doesn't want to continue being called 'far-right'. That won't work, of course. Appeasement seldom does.
In the US: “Nearly nine-in-ten Trump supporters (88%) favor mass deportations of immigrants living in the country illegally. In contrast, only 27% of Harris supporters favor mass deportations while 72% oppose.”
Thank you for pulling together all this research. We all need to start confronting our local members with polite but challenging letters and backing up our questions with these fabulous resources! The average local MPs are probably still more scared of their constituents than their Party overlords and they might start putting pressure on the people with the ha dakn the levers.
My husband and I came to the UK over twenty years ago as legal immigrants. We had to work from day one as there was a stamp in our passport saying 'no recourse to public funds '. We were interviewed abroad and had to provide sheaves of documents. We have always worked and have just paid off our mortgage. This country has changed drastically in these twenty years. It's unrecognisable in many ways. Mismanagement by successive governments on a criminal scale. We came from a banana republic type country only to find we are now living in one again. It's tragic in so many ways.
So did my wife around the same time. When the elite weaponise mass migration to change a country they dislike, they do no favours for those who came here legally AND feel a sense of good will and loyalty.
I came across a useful categorisation of migrant attitudes recently, either on the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters or New Culture Forum. There are:
(a) those who came here legally AND feel a sense of good will and loyalty
(b) those who are indifferent, like former Tory minister So What Javid whose response to rapid demographic change in London was "so what"
(c) those who are openly hostile like the London Mayor and former Scottish First Minister
It is neither racist nor irrational to welcome the first, not want too many of the second and resent the third.
Given the high population density of the UK we should welcome the first only in so far as their arrival does not contribute to an increase in the population.
Don't resent those in the third category but refuse them entry and also cap the number in the second category.
The collapse of the UK is analysed and tackle head by Dr David Starkey in a Triggernometry interview with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster… it’s well worth a 1 1/2hour listen. Prof Starkey’s concludes the UK is heading to an Argentine destruction… Bankruptcy. Watch out for the IMF hovering in the wings!
https://youtu.be/o2uoi98kESs?si=ZHh5eim6PE4BpT4D
Yes, highly recommended! Dr Starkey is a brilliant commentator on the decline of Britain.
Working-class people have been aware of this con from the very beginning when Blair instigated the policy, because working-class people were at the sharp end, bearing the brunt of all of this nonsense, watching their earnings potential and their living standards collapse, due to poor immigrants competing with them for wages, housing and medical services, but THEY did not matter, because they were unimportant, what really mattered was that the wealthy could gain access to cheap labour, in order to increase their wealth. Ex-Chancellor Phillip Hammond stated this recently, when he called for more immigration in order to keep wages down, letting the cat out of the bag.
There has not been a radical awakening to the damage immigration has inflicted on the British economy, nobody cares about that, what HAS stirred the Elite into a navel-gazing confusion is the Labour Government and its policy of moving poor immigrants into wealthy areas. The Elite had no concern for the hideous destruction of the pillars of everyday life for millions of ordinary British people, as long as it did not affect them; they simply looked out of the window of their luxury car at the deteriorating, graffiti -ridden, filthy city centres as they passed by, happy in the knowledge that THEY were safe in their ivory towers amongst the leafy suburbs, with lots of money accumulated to pass on to their children to help them buy similar properties and ensure their success. How that has changed now though! Labour has been assiduously following Angela Rayner's orders to house immigrants in the heart of suburbia, renting and buying properties to enable this policy to flourish, and literally 'rubbing the Right's nose in diversity', bringing all the benefits of mass, poor immigration into the heart of the the leafy shires, with more to follow as she forces social housing to be built on the Green Belt.
Just take a walk through a wealthy, up-market village in the Home Counties now and observe the number of immigrants who are evident, look at the local news and see how city-type crimes -muggings, house break-ins, drugs and shoplifting are flourishing, and it is easy to see why the Elite have suddenly discovered that mass immigration actually made us poorer, not richer. They may be asking what benefit millions of Deliveroo riders, zooming here and there on their scooters with 'L' plates displayed, are to society? Millions of poor immigrants, many working illegally, are delivering take-aways, washing cars and painting nails, contributing nothing whatsoever to the economy, nor to society, while availing themselves of medical treatment, social housing and education, creating massive problems like road congestion, housing shortages, the destruction of social cohesion and access to medical treatment.
The chickens are coming home to roost, and according to the brilliant Dr David Starkey, Britain will soon be bankrupt and will need to be either bailed out by the IMF, or (and) an extreme Right-wing government will be needed to slash public spending and cut taxes, ala the current Argentinian administration, which is exactly what happened after we had our previous Socialist paradise under Wilson and Callaghan, which brought Thatcher to power. Anyone with a walnut for a brain could see that mass immigration was impoverishing Britain; the poor immigrants pay hardly anything in taxes or NI, but because we have a welfare state, they are a massive drain on the economy, only benefiting the wealthy, who have become immensely rich on the back of this exploitation. Remember the old adage 'there is no such thing as a free lunch'? Well, those wealthy citizens who benefited from the exploitation and who are not rich enough to leave are going to have to cough-up and pay the bill, and they do not like it!
I need to add to your list of crimes sexual assaults on women and rape. Also, murder of innocents who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am so angry about how we have been subjected to everything that we knew years ago was going to happen.
So true. I am baffled as to why the Labour Party, of all people, who you would think would be up in arms at the treatment of women by certain immigrant communities, turns a blind eye to rapes and grooming gangs. Again, my guess is that it mainly affects working-class areas, so is of no importance to the wider picture, that one that paints all immigrants as wonderful and the working-class as moronic racists.
The Labour Party are racists, against the white people
David Starkey makes this point; if you give preference to one racial group over another, then it obviously means that another racial group is suffering discrimination. Most large companies are signed-up to DEI policies, which means that 40% of their employees must be of a racial minority; this inevitably means that the company is less efficient, because staff are not picked on merit, but on colour and ethnicity. There is another dimension to this too, one that has a further detrimental effect on the indigenous population, and that is that DEI quotas are driving immigration, because companies struggle to find enough staff from ethnic minorities to fulfill these quotas, so they scream that they cannot recruit staff and so recruit them from abroad, effectively throwing white British people on the scrap-heap in favour of immigrants. The Great Replacement is a FACT.
Because Labour stopped being the friends of women and the working classes when Blair the war criminal took over....
They were silenced by the word 'racist'. They still are.
How come the unions did not come to the rescue of workers being pushed out of jobs by immigrants?
I often ponder this, but I think that it is due to Socialist principles - a country without borders, all workers are equal etc, plus they are terrified of being labelled 'racist'. Look at the NHS, where there is a 9m waiting list, yet the unions are not pushing for it to stop treating foreign people who have never paid a penny into the system, effectively killing British people who have paid into the NHS all of their lives.
Why would any young native Brit want to work hard when they see how much legal (questionable) or illegal immigrants get for free and why would any of them want to fight for this country when they see crime and certain protesting groups hating the people that pay for them. Mass Immigration must be stopped and stopped quickly, it’s causing complete social breakdown
Stopped and reversed. Mass repatriation is required starting with any immigrants who have a criminal record, then "refugees" whose home country has stabilised since they fled, all "overstayers", then all those who, though fit and capable, have never worked since they arrived here. Simultaneously we should stop all the largesse we lavish onto our unwanted visitors.
A practical and well thought out list. Please post it on the Parliamentary site or some ministerial fbk page. Thanks.
But how can this be achieved? The ruling elite won't change as they're not bothered, change by the ballot box means waiting five years with more immigration each year and protests (against uncontrolled immigration) in the streets are already and will become increasingly dangerous to activists, and many of us, even were it desirable, are too old for street fighting. Academics who protest are either pushed out like Stock or have left in despair like Matt Goodwin. Some strategy there must be however.
I agree. Many of us know what needs to be done but I don't see any politicians with the balls to do any of it.
" Because the state and civil servants very clearly want to keep this data hidden from you, the taxpayer, or they are so incompetent they are not collecting it in the first place. "
It could that they are both incompetent and want to hide things from us.
I really can't see or understand why this is being allowed to happen. The only reason I can think of is that its cheap labour for the big retailers and manufacturers. But clearly set out in your excellent article—it's at the extortionate cost and detriment of the taxpayer.
I think the taxpayers are fed up with being treated like stupid animals who deserve to be kept in the dark. It's clearly part of the manipulation.
The political elites, from what I can tell, are trying to bankrupt the country for the globalists to step and in "save us"—when in reality, it means fascism or communism, regardless it won't be sovereignty!! Even if they don't want to force us into a new ideology, I'm sure they're rubbing their hands together at the potential profits, regardless.
This is more ideological than economic. Tories and Labour both try to normalise the idea that we should be governed by first or second generation immigrants and that we should be grateful.
Just ten years ago, neither Rishi nor Kemi were even in parliament. Cameron parachutes them in to safe seats, rapid promotion follows and here are our new leaders.
Look at all the senior ministers in recent governments and consider how representative they have been of the wider population. The message is that this is not a country with any sense of history or culture, just a diverse economic platform run for the benefit of elites.
Agreed. In the old days we would take in young folk with a skill or some education. The idea was to bolster the young demographic to pay in to the system as folks aged out. Something went wrong when the immigrants could come yet have nothing to offer and burdened with family (including the parents!). Indiscriminate immigration is clearly a destructive ideological policy. Add this to Net Zero and you have a recipe for disaster. Perhaps the newcomers will return home once they taste a 1750 style British winter where half the day is spent finding wood in the local copse.
Not so Chris. We started taking people in because they had British passports - India, Pakistan, West Indies etc. Similarly the French took in vast numbers of Algerians and other former colonials. We, and they, were not seeking high skills, rather they wanted people to do the low grade work that nationals were refusing to take. Compare with the ten-pound-poms going into Oz - all they wanted was sweat labour.
Who is the "we" you refer to? Elite politicians and business owners perhaps - not ordinary people. We should question and challenge elite claims to speak for the wider population.
We I inferred from the demographics to mean the country/government prior to its take over early 90s by Blair.
Vernon, yes, but how was the passport issued? Surely on some basis that the individual would contribute or be “ a good fit”… and not as a punka waller. Today we accept the world’s punka wallers
I cannot agree. I don't care what they look like, or their origins. All I want is someone loyal to this country, and even a first generation immigrant can be totally loyal. Indeed, they will often appreciate the country more than long-time inhabitants.
This is state our 2 main Parties consumed with presently, so no solution any time soon: ….. they as thickos, - Lab’s Rayner uneducated and thick, Reeves overly ambitious with deaf and blind syndrome,…. Lammy bribed as just to have a hold over him, - which means the topmost posts PM, Deputy, Chancellor, Foreign Secretary all taking money/bribes from a Peer that ‘different’ to Britains whole ethos on every count of, history, etiquette, moral codes, …. For fact every one of these in the topmost jobs in Govt thought it OK and a norm to take money off others, in any guise, shows lack of integrity, morals, honour towards UK, …. Time for action by likes of Parliament, Monarchy,….. and by His Majesty's Opposition as their role is to hold Govt to account. …. Instead Tories preening themselves at Party Conference, using the amorality of Labour corruption as rallying call for Tory back in power soon, - showing they not worth a vote as still deluded, BUT have a job to do and get these 4 at least sacked from Govt.
I completely concur! It's all a pantomime, preening at Labour's amorality is perfectly described.
I can't fully agree with your "big retailers and manufacturers" comment. The retailers are shedding staff and automating and the manufacturers are getting fewer and fewer. There are still sweatshops in the garment trade but they are not significant in the big picture.
That is true, and of course the growth of ethnic minorities has created a vast expense and problem for big business because they are now vulnerable to every kind of bad publicity, legal claim, or added bureaucracy.
Re: your automation comment. I've managed teams of engineers and written enterprise software my entire life for big global tech firms to put people out of jobs (until I woke up a decade ago). One of which was a huge retailers factory where (and people will know who I'm talking about if they've seen this) used to take in arctic trailers onto a huge carousel that operators can spin around with the push of a button the height of the warehouse and I've heard (from a friend) that Amazon's warehouses are a step further.
My teacher daughter can't afford to go to the dentist and worries about every bill. She has worked out that she would be better off on benefits and questions how (if this is correct) if only 30% of the population pay tax, the whole economic basis of our country is sustainable? Importing more and more dependency from the third world onto a shrinking tax base. My other daughter is in a similar situation. Maybe this is simply how TPTB achieve the first part of the WEF goal of "You will own nothing and you will be happy". Even in their short lifetimes (early 30's) they can see how the infrastructure is crumbling; how scruffy everything looks; how nothing works.
Am afraid I no longer feel our country is enriched culturally or economically by immigration . It has gone far too far . And I say that as someone whose highly educated husband who is still contributing very large amounts of tax , came here when he was three years old
We will need remigration to stop balkanization.
Agree
We talk and talk about immigration and some politicians even go so far as to say we should take action. Even Starmer says it’s a legitimate concern (but does nothing about it, not even sack his useless Home Secretary, she of the “migrants welcome” notice). So there’s a consensus that we have too much immigration, of the wrong type of people and all happening far too fast.
The answers are obvious.
For legal migration raise the bar to allow professionals only where we have a shortage and accompany this by training our own. Stop 95% of overseas students and let the crap “universities” sink or swim with our own students by running vocational or traditional academic courses only. No more degrees in studying David Beckham icon as he may be.
For illegal immigration through the channel use the Royal Navy to turn the boats back to France and for those that get through repatriate them to their home countries, last safe country (France), or Rwanda immediately. No messing with hotels and delays. No allowing appeals. No more lefty lawyers. For those smuggled by lorries the same. Straight out.
For those already here and awaiting processing repatriate immediately. They have broken our laws and that’s enough to fail our immigration tests. For those in jail repatriate and free up over 10000 places for our own villains.
It’s not difficult but it needs politicians with thick skins and determination. Sadly even Farage has been backsliding recently.
I am astounded that there has been no further mention in the media about what I posted yesterday viz that the Telegraph reported that Border Force and National Crime Agency had seized 120 boats (plus motors) at the Bulgaria/Turkey border using sniffer dogs. This is such a monumental step forwards that I am asking myself whether it was fake news. But there are photographs with the article.
From whence the authority for these national agencies to operate in Bulgaria/Turkey?
All that you propose would be iaw Art 5 of the ECHR, the UN Convention on Refugees and maritime law. The only reason it is not done is the lack of political will to stand up to France and the EU.
Jan van de Beek is a researcher who is well-respected by many as a decent and nuanced man. So you can probably guess how he is being treated by the progressive left (and most of their media), because he produces data on migration and formulates criticism of (Dutch and European) migration policies…
We went through Cuckfield yesterday and I was intrigued by the prospect of the Cuckfield Book Festival. Then even more so when I googled it and found you were scheduled to speak. Then suddenly less so when I saw your talk has been cancelled! Can't the good people of West Sussex deal with truth?
They obviously "feel" or are "minded to think" that Matt is right-wing.
We don't need the OBR or any other technocrats to finally tell us it's not working. Anybody with half a brain can see it's not working and has never worked. The dilution of an indigenous society can only spells disaster, have these clowns and idiots (because that’s exactly what they are!) who perpetuated this collapse of our culture, of our society and English way of life have learnt nothing from history, they are not fit to make any discission about anything because they don’t have the foresight or intelligence to see any consequences of what they do (Thick as SH*T springs to mind). In my humble opinion, all those that allowed the mass invasion over the last 20 years or so, starting from the war criminal Blair, should be held accountable personally for what they’ve done to this once proud world leading nation. We’ve given so much to the world but now, we are merely a shell of our former selves, The “Great” out of “Great Britain” has long gone.
I dread to think where we’ll be at the end of this horrible administration. I suspect if we can’t pull it back very soon, this country will descend into a sectarian and segregated society. With failed multiculturalism and failed integration, we will become states of different cultures and societies with in a land mass and sectarian violence. Never again being “Great Britain” lost forever. Sadly and with a heavy heart I’ve come to realise (some time ago actually) that this once great nation is NOT a place I want to live bringing up my family…from a sad, angry and disappointed Brit.
Two of my three adult children have already emigrated for the reasons we’ve both stated on here. It’s a crying shame but this invasion has succeeded where military ones were repelled. We have no leaders worthy of the name.
I hope they didn't come here to Australia. The Labour govt has ramped up immigration to around a half million a year. But at least there's room for more housing here. Where are hundreds of thousands of homes going to fit into the UK?
They'll be squeezed into the fields around ancient villages like mine, on which apples, hops, wheat, barley, beans, potatoes and rape is or used to be grown.
Meanwhile, we suffer regular hose bans, or the sewers overflow.
If they came to Canada, it’s even worse here. We have more land but much of it is not habitable.
It’s a terrible thing that you’re children have had to leave this country and a lot of us are considering doing the same. This shouldn’t be happening but sadly it is, our country isn’t ours anymore and isn’t safe to raise a family. I know this sounds dramatic but I truly believe we’ve reached the tipping point of no return, a place I feared would never get to but here we are betrayed by traitors and criminals who lied about everything.
Yes Reno it’s very sad but I know a number of people moving out of the UK. Many of us no longer feel welcomed in the country we were born in. It’s sickening to be constantly placed second to people who have contributed nothing to the UK and worse constantly reminded of white privilege and nonsense like that.
My friend, I feel exactly the same. As a white middle-aged male, I feel bottom of the pile in this society, but simply committing the sin of being white is enough to have all sorts of accusations of ‘racist, Nazi, white supremacist shit thrown at us. Our views and opinions mean nothing in Britain today. It's only on communities like this, talking to like-minded people I feel I can voice an opinion that others might understand. The FAR-LEFT, the RADICAL COMMUNISTS, have destroyed anything that was good about our country by pushing their CRAZY IDEOLOGY on everyone. However, I truly believe the saying “what goes around comes around” and I dearly hope that when it does, THEY, the despicable FAR LEFT ideologs get it in bucket loads.
No its not. It has a bigger immigration problem than England.
What's interesting is to see across Europe and America the debate about remigration growing and growing.
But unfortunately definitely not with Farage. His recent interview on GB News was weak Classical Liberal nonsense.
That's probably because he's recently become closer to political power, and doesn't want to continue being called 'far-right'. That won't work, of course. Appeasement seldom does.
In the US: “Nearly nine-in-ten Trump supporters (88%) favor mass deportations of immigrants living in the country illegally. In contrast, only 27% of Harris supporters favor mass deportations while 72% oppose.”
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/09/27/trump-and-harris-supporters-differ-on-mass-deportations-but-favor-border-security-high-skilled-immigration/
Fantastic piece, Matt. If only the western governments of the world would listen.
Thank you for pulling together all this research. We all need to start confronting our local members with polite but challenging letters and backing up our questions with these fabulous resources! The average local MPs are probably still more scared of their constituents than their Party overlords and they might start putting pressure on the people with the ha dakn the levers.
God forbid there is ever a call-up to defend the country. Once upon a time we would be asked to fight for our way of life. Oh, really!!