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A very good, thought-provoking, article by Rhodes Napier, in the Pimlico Journal (he also contributes to J’accuse.) We don’t know Mr Napier; we have never had contact with him. And while we don’t agree with all that he writes, there is a great deal with which we do. Indeed, we have been saying much of what he says for some years. You can read the whole piece in the articles of the week section below. Here are some extracts in italics, with our comment in bold.
“The first and foremost question Britain will face in the twenty-first century is not related to state capacity, land-use planning, or foreign policy, as important as all these things may be. It is whether — as demographer David Coleman [projected] in [2010] — we will be a country in which only a minority of the population are white British (our comment: ie native British, – English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish) by the latter decades of this century. By comparison, all other questions fade into insignificance.”
We have at MW been making the point for years on the majority becoming the minority within a generation, if not sooner than previously thought given the scale of migration and the dwindling total fertility rate (TFR). Much of our comment has been based on the work of David Coleman, quoted here by Napier. Professor (emeritus) Coleman is of course the joint-founder with Lord Andrew Green, of Migration Watch. He has also been a member of our Executive Committee and Advisory Council from the outset.
“…assimilation is indeed possible on an individual level. There are undeniably a certain number of individuals who can be pointed out as examples of successful assimilation and who, regardless of their ethnic origins, intuitively feel British and demonstrably identify with their family’s chosen country of residence. I am sure that most readers know at least someone in this category. But in British public life, consider someone like Suella Braverman, who did more than almost any other Conservative Cabinet Minister to stand up against mass migration, including from members of her own ethnic group.”
Our comment: the point Napier makes about assimilation is one echoed by Alp Mehmet, our chairman, who was born in Cyprus, arrived as a seven-year-old 69 years ago, who has long made exactly this point. Becoming an accepted part of the society any migrant joins requires more than acceptance of a set of universal values.
“But even putting aside these issues, my real question to those who regurgitate platitudes and inanities about ‘integration’ and ‘assimilation’ is the following: do you really think that the current trajectory can realistically continue? Can Britain become a ‘majority-minority’ society, and ultimately one in which ethnically British people constitute only a small fraction of the population?”
Our comment: this is surely the nub of the matter. As Napier says: “No ethnic group has accepted minority status in its native homeland without some kind of resistance. Increased polarisation and the tendency towards political violence is a consequence of anthropologically universal sociopolitical dynamics, not the alleged pathology of ‘racism’.”
Napier adds: “The basic expectation is that for the foreseeable future, a rapidly diminishing cohort of young, predominantly white, professionals will be forced to carry the economic burden of fiscally supporting the rest of the country [ie pay for it], while experiencing declining living standards and the negative externalities of crime and anti-social behaviour, both principally (though obviously not entirely) caused by mass migration. This is economically, politically, and morally impossible.”
Exactly so.
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