There have been a series of immigration-related stories this week that perfectly illustrate the disastrous impact of ill-conceived immigration policies over the past 25-30 years. The economic and social harm that the scale, speed and nature of immigration has caused been incalculable. The story that caught media attention was the unintentional (we assume) leak of a list of those who had helped or worked for the British forces in Afghanistan. The list included the names of Special Forces personnel. Some reports suggested there may even have been MI6 officers on it. The upshot has been tens of thousands of Afghans being brought here, and £7 billion set aside for the task. On top of which, millions of pounds have gone on legal action to keep what has happened from us. You couldn’t make it up.
However, the story that particularly caught our attention was a startling MailOnline one with the headline:
“English is no longer the first language for the majority of pupils at more than 2,000 schools.
No children at two primary schools – one in Tower Hamlets and another in Kirklees, West Yorkshire – have English as their mother tongue.”
Breitbart too reported the story. Alp was quoted in both.
As readers know, Migration Watch has been warning of the serious consequences of uncontrolled mass immigration for years. What is increasingly happening in the classroom, as the MailOnline story reveals, is the precursor of what we can expect to happen to the population of the UK within 30-35 years. The majority will become the minority. We have repeatedly voiced our concerns about the threat this poses to cohesion and the stability of what until recently was a stable, homogenous society. There is a ghettoisation process underway that we skirt around at our peril. Britain must not be allowed to become a collection of monoethnic communities living in isolation. In his speech launching the immigration White Paper, Sir Keir Starmer gave the impression of having grasped the problem when warned that we risked
becoming an Island of strangers. What a great shame that he is now saying he deeply regretted saying this.
The English language has been a key tool for oiling the wheels of integration. With even our native language now, seemingly, under threat, one might ask, with what exactly will new arrivals be invited to integrate?