PROF ROBERT TOMBS: Mass Immigration is Destabilising Our Country
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Last weekend, my cousin's beautiful daughter, not long out of medical school, wed her sweetheart - a handsome young doctor from an Indian family.

The Hindu wedding ceremony was spectacular, vibrant and substantial fun for everyone. Watching as young English and Indian people danced together, I reflected that the day was a best example of multicultural integration as all of us want it to be.

But it is dangerously naive to take these benefits for granted and to anticipate that the of cultures will instantly lead to universal love.

The UK has probably the very best record of any country in the method that, for hundreds of years, it has actually taken in immigrants and refugees from every corner of the world, providing a safe and civilised haven.

From the Huguenot Protestants who got away massacres in France during the 16th century, to the Jews escaping Nazi genocide throughout the Second World War, right up to the Ukrainian women and kids used shelter today, British tolerance and empathy have actually been a lifeline for millions.

Now that tolerance is being stretched to its limits. Mass immigration, compounded by people-smuggling on a commercial scale, is destabilising our nation.

We should not fall under the trap of expecting that, since it has generally worked out fine in the past, Britain can take in any quantity of group modification.

We have actually never ever seen escalating migration on anything like the scale of the previous 20 years, wites Prof Robert Tombs
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History shows that, even here, abrupt influxes of migration have actually caused turmoils that last for centuries. And we have never seen intensifying migration on anything like the scale of the past 20 years.

Official figures from the Department for Education revealed on Thursday that white British children are currently the minority in one in 4 schools in England.

This improvement has been specifically marked in our huge cities. At Rockwood Academy in Birmingham, for example, there was not a single white British student taped amongst the 1,084 who attend the school.

Last week likewise saw the publication of a report from Professor Matt Goodwin at Buckingham University, forecasting that white Britons will be a minority of the population by 2063 - barely more than a single generation.

By the end of the century, according to his figures, 60 per cent of the country will have been born overseas or will have at least one parent who is an immigrant. By then, more than 19 percent of Britons will be Muslim (compared to the existing 7 per cent). Goodwin's forecasts are based upon census information and figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

I think these numbers severely underestimate the real rate of modification. They presume a constant increase and stable geopolitical conditions, when we have every factor to anticipate both of those aspects will prove unstable.

An anti-immigration protester holds up a placard throughout a demonstration in Dover in 2020

Climate change might have a destructive effect on migration, if even a couple of of the more alarmist theories are substantiated.

Tens of millions of individuals in low-lying countries such as Bangladesh could be made homeless if water level increase. Millions more would leave their homes if glacial melt in the Himalayas triggered devastating flooding in India.

Civil wars in Sudan, Congo and Eritrea have currently driven enormous numbers of individuals to cross the Mediterranean into Europe. African nations from Nigeria to South Africa are in danger of tearing themselves apart, and the result would be a massive rush of people seeking to get away the fighting.

These turmoils would be minor compared to the aftermath of war in between India and Pakistan, or in the Middle East. In those cases, Europe could see 100 million refugees or more.

Contribute to that the increase of organised criminal activity and people trafficking. For all Sir Keir Starmer's bluster about 'smashing the gangs', he closes his eyes to the reality that this is a multi-billion-pound organization - one that will not stop just since he makes speeches.
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These are not petty bad guys. They are worldwide cartels, who have actually found a revenue stream that equals benefit from the drugs trade. The Government has no ideas at all about how to stop them.

The varieties of financial migrants making the risky crossing from France in overloaded dinghies are mounting, often topping more than 1,000 in a single day.

The cumulative effect is overwhelming. According to the House of Commons library, 44,000 people arrived illegally in the 12 months to March - which figure, naturally, represents only the individuals we understand about. Much more have likely slipped under the radar, landing undetected or concealed in trucks and containers.

But 44,000 relates to simply 5 percent of the immigration total for the year. Legal arrivals outnumber the unlawful ones by about 20-to-one.

Nothing in our long and fascinating island story has ever come close to this. Mass immigration, introduced by New Labour under Tony Blair, is a negligent experiment in market transformation that has never ever been attempted in Britain before.

But it has actually taken place somewhere else. And for indigenous populations, it has typically been devastating.

When Europeans settled in the Americas, from the 16th century, they forced their method on to the land. In Australia and New Zealand - nations that were much less densely inhabited - there was less large-scale violence however the effect on the aboriginal people was no less terrible.

Significantly, the British Empire never allowed migration to India, which had a big settled population. British subjects were motivated to settle only in sparsely peopled areas: for circumstances, Canada and wide-open parts of Africa such as Kenya.

But in every case, when this process started, it was quickly unmanageable. More than six million Irish emigrants shown up in the US during the 19th century, a 3rd of them in the space of less than a decade from 1845.

Almost as lots of Italians emigrated to America, the majority of them in between 1880 and the early 1920s. In a country riven with racial divisions, the Italian and Irish communities combated to endure, typically naturally by effort, however likewise by political corruption and organised criminal offense.

Starry-eyed Left-wingers like to claim that Britain too is a 'country of immigrants'. That's absolutely disingenuous.

William the Conqueror, who showed up throughout the Channel in 1066 with his own flotilla of boats, brought only about 7,000 males. Yet that small army and the French-speaking Norman immigrants who followed ruined the native Anglo-Saxon culture and subjugated an entire people.

Almost every big Saxon structure was demolished, the judgment elite was replaced, their residential or commercial property took and the language changed beyond recognition. For centuries, Saxons were forced to labour as serfs, despised as an inferior race by the colonising elite. Even Saxon saints were benched.

It took at least 400 years for the aftershocks of the Norman intrusion to go away.

Resentments ran so deep they are still noticeable in our folk legends: Robin Hood was thought of as a Saxon knight battling Norman oppression. The concept of this 'Norman Yoke' inspired democrats well into the reign of Victoria.

Even today, nearly a thousand years later on, the Conquest may be embedded in our class system.

A 2011 research study discovered that Britons with names suggesting Norman descent - such as Mandeville, Lacy, Glanville or Percy - were on typical 10 percent much better off than those with Saxon craftsmen names such as Smith, Cooper, Baker or Shepherd, practically a millennium after the Battle of Hastings.

To understand fully how severely damaged a country can be by unrestrained migration, we need just take a look at Northern Ireland. During the 17th century, tens of thousands of Scottish protestants migrated to Ulster. Though separated by the Irish Sea, these two nations are so close that on a clear day they show up to each other.

This was a state project, started by the Scottish and English federal governments throughout James I's reign, and conceived as a method of ending mass hardship in Scotland by encouraging people to live by farming in Ireland.

Well, we all know the outcome: it resulted in enmity and violence still prevalent today that has seen thousands killed over the centuries.

Not all the social inequality in Britain is the result of the Norman invasion, obviously, anymore than all Ireland's Troubles were the effect of a plan to minimize starvation in Scotland.

But when problems have intricate causes, people seek simple scapegoats - and migration will constantly supply one.

The UK population is now 69.5 million, according to the ONS. (Many believe it to be

considerably higher). That's an increase of 10 million this century. Yet the birth rate is falling: in 2023 it reached its most affordable rate on record in England and Wales, at 1.44 kids per female, compared to the 'replacement rate' of 2.1 - the variety of kids required to keep numbers constant.

If our growing population is not due to childbirth, it needs to be driven by migration.

The falling birth rate is not a brand-new phenomenon. In 1938, it was forecasted that the UK population would peak within five years at 41 million, which it would then fall steadily for the next three years, to 31 million by 1975.

In the event, this turned out to be nonsense, partly because the official data did not anticipate the Second World War and the infant boom that followed.

But the predictions also failed to take account of the beginnings of immigration from previous nests, with lots of thousands arriving from the West Indies after 1948 - the 'Windrush generation' - and Pakistan and India following self-reliance and partition in 1947.

There were other rises, for instance from East Africa after the rise of the despot Idi Amin who expelled 80,000 Ugandan Asians, among them the moms and dads of previous Home Secretary Priti Patel.

Crucially, the great majority of these immigrants were identified to incorporate into British life. If not currently English-speaking, they learned the language. They searched for work or started organizations. Many brought much needed abilities and dynamism.

But that is not the case today. A high percentage of legal immigrants pertain to do low-paid work, for instance in care homes and the hospitality sector. Those who certify under the government visa plan for knowledgeable workers or health and care employees can expect to be paid 80 per cent of the basic income.

Those in the fishing market, for example, receive ₤ 12.82 an hour, rather than ₤ 15.88 for British workers. A comparable disparity applies in numerous trades from welding to dance and choreography.

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This has a threefold impact: incomes are depressed, brand-new arrivals reside in relative hardship, and lots of British people have actually dropped out of the labour market. Resentments grow on all sides and the expense is unsustainable.

Many other migrants, it needs to be said, make the most of our generous asylum system - consisting of housing (often in comfortable hotels), food, complimentary NHS health care and even spending money.

The best source of resentment, however, comes when immigrants decline to integrate. Incredibly, numerous on the Left motivate this by trashing our culture and libelling our history - elevating every background other than the indigenous one. It spells disaster for our future when immigrants are encouraged to remain locked within their own neighborhoods and taught that the British have constantly been their opponents.

How dangerous this is, we can see by looking across the Channel, to France where second and 3rd generation immigrants from North Africa produce a constant state of unrest. Riots are frequent, car-burning is a national sport and extremist politicians talk of're-migration' - the expulsion of people who 'do not suit'.

This will be Britain's future if the Government does not take control of the scenario today. Immigration can benefit everybody, however just if it is strictly managed, democratically accepted and culturally integrated.

Allowed to run out of control, as the arc of history programs, it destroys nations.

Professor Robert Tombs is the author of The English And Their History

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