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Here are five facts I suspect you’ll not hear much about in the mainstream media.
In Britain today, more than 1.3 million foreign nationals claim Universal Credit welfare payments, paid for by the British people.
Close to one in six people on Universal Credit are foreign nationals.
The British people paid £55 BILLION on welfare payouts for foreign nationals in the last four years alone.
Despite a severe housing crisis, more than one in ten new social housing lets in England last year went to people who are not British citizens.
And in the last five years, while the number of young British people who were added to UK payrolls increased by only 11,000, the number of young foreign nationals from outside Europe who were added rocketed by nearly 300,000.
What do these facts have in common? They are all symptoms of something I’ve warned about for a while now: the looming collapse of Britain’s social contract.
Nation-states only survive so long as their citizens remain willing to support a social contract, which is based on the idea of reciprocity.
You work hard. You pay your taxes. You obey the law. You contribute to the country. In return, the state prioritises national citizens, looks after them, and protects them.
But at some point in the last thirty years, somewhere between New Labour entering power in 1997, and the Tories leaving power in 2024, something went badly wrong.
Britain’s social contract stopped being organised around national solidarity. What was once a national welfare state morphed into an international welfare state.
And politicians in Westminster, gripped by the new mindset of ‘suicidal empathy’, no longer displayed any real sense of obligation to their own national citizens who make this welfare state possible to begin with by working hard and paying taxes.
Welfare benefits, once restricted to national citizens genuinely in need, were turned into another entitlement, another right, for people who are often not even British at all and do not work, and hence do not contribute.
And now this is leading us into a very dangerous place indeed.
Unless something changes and changes soon, then the number of foreign nationals claiming welfare will continue to skyrocket.
The number of British families being pushed aside in social housing for the likes of the First Lady of Sierra Leone will continue to soar.
People living on welfare will find life more rewarding than those who are actually getting up and going to work. And in this way, day by day, welfare claim after welfare claim, the social contract will continue to unravel.
Confronted with this grim and unavoidable reality of having to subsidise people who are entering Britain illegally, who do not come from Britain, or people who choose welfare when they could instead work, the silent majority of British workers will withdraw their support for the welfare state, withdraw what little trust they still have in the state, and perhaps even leave Britain altogether — as many are already doing.
Which is why an important new policy, released today by Reform UK, should grab our attention. The proposal? It’s simple but powerful.