In the Telegraph, Matthew Goodwin warns that mass immigration is reshaping Britain beyond recognition, with white Britons set to become a minority by 2063. Here’s an excerpt:
Unless things change, and change fast, the population of the UK will be permanently transformed by mass immigration. White Britons will become a minority by the year 2063. The foreign-born and their immediate descendants will become a majority by 2079. And nearly one in four people in the UK will be following Islam by the year 2100; this figure would rise to around one in three among under-40s.
Many people struggle to make sense of the pace and scale of these changes. They ask how a nation can be transformed this fast without the consent of the governed.
But, last week, brand new data from the Office for National Statistics has made it abundantly clear that these trends are already well underway.
The findings are indeed shocking: more than one in three babies that were born in England and Wales last year have mothers who were not born in the UK; this rises to more than 40% for babies in England, a record high and up by nearly 10-points in less than a decade. …
This issue goes to the heart of our democracy: we didn’t vote for this. We have a political system and a ruling class that is no longer responsive to an electorate that has, for much of the last thirty years, been consistent in asking for less immigration and slower demographic change. …
Mass immigration also matters, secondly, for a more profound reason: it changes how we talk and think about things like Britishness and Englishness. With the foreign-born and their descendants now forecast to become a majority on these islands by the year 2079, the country will now be reshaped around a population that has a much “thinner” sense of national identity. …
These challenges will be compounded by the fact that the foreign-born now often hail not from Europe but radically different, if not incompatible cultures, from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Iraq.
The more babies who are born in the UK to mothers and fathers from such backgrounds, the more likely it is that the norms, traditions, religions and ways of life from these nations will be transplanted to England and Wales. …
As things stand, many of our leaders would rather cross their fingers and hope that this radical experiment with mass uncontrolled immigration works out.
But there are good reasons to think it will not, and those reasons are becoming increasingly visible by the day.
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