PROF ROBERT TOMBS: Mass Immigration is Destabilising Our Country

Last weekend, my cousin's lovely daughter, not long out of medical school, married her sweetie - a good-looking young physician from an Indian family.

The Hindu wedding event ceremony was magnificent, colourful and substantial enjoyable for everybody. Watching as young English and Indian individuals danced together, I reflected that the day was a perfect example of multicultural combination as all of us want it to be.

But it is alarmingly naive to take these advantages for approved and to expect that the conference of cultures will immediately cause universal love.

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

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

Now that tolerance is being stretched to its limits. Mass migration, intensified by people-smuggling on an industrial scale, is destabilising our country.

We need to not fall under the trap of expecting that, due to the fact that it has actually generally worked out fine in the past, Britain can absorb any quantity of demographic modification.

We have actually never ever seen intensifying immigration on anything like the scale of the previous twenty years, wites Prof Robert Tombs

History shows that, even here, unexpected influxes of migration have caused upheavals that last for centuries. And we have never ever seen intensifying immigration on anything like the scale of the past twenty years.

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

This transformation has been specifically marked in our huge cities. At Rockwood Academy in Birmingham, for instance, there was not a single white British pupil tape-recorded among the 1,084 who attend the school.

Recently also saw the publication of a report from Professor Matt Goodwin at Buckingham University, predicting 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 percent of the nation will have been born overseas or will have at least one parent who is an immigrant. Already, more than 19 per cent of Britons will be Muslim (compared with the existing 7 per cent). Goodwin's forecasts are based on census information and figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

I presume these numbers severely undervalue the true rate of modification. They assume a steady influx and steady geopolitical conditions, when we have every factor to anticipate both of those factors will prove volatile.

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

Climate modification might have a devastating result on migration, if even one or 2 of the more alarmist theories are substantiated.

Tens of countless individuals in low-lying nations such as Bangladesh might be made homeless if water level rise. Millions more would flee their homes if glacial melt in the Himalayas triggered catastrophic flooding in India.

Civil wars in Sudan, Congo and Eritrea have currently driven massive varieties of individuals to cross the Mediterranean into Europe. African countries from Nigeria to South Africa are in threat of tearing themselves apart, and the outcome would be a huge rush of individuals looking for to get away the combating.

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

Contribute to that the rise of organised criminal offense 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 business - one that will not stop just due to the fact that he makes speeches.

These are not minor bad guys. They are international cartels, who have found a profits stream that measures up to benefit from the drugs trade. The Government has no ideas at all about how to stop them.

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

The cumulative result is mind-blowing. According to your home of Commons library, 44,000 individuals got here illegally in the 12 months to March - and that figure, naturally, represents only the individuals we know about. A lot more have likely slipped under the radar, landing undiscovered or concealed in lorries and containers.

But 44,000 corresponds to just 5 percent of the migration total for the year. Legal arrivals outnumber the unlawful ones by about 20-to-one.

Nothing in our long and remarkable island story has actually ever come close to this. Mass migration, ushered in by New Labour under Tony Blair, is a reckless experiment in market transformation that has never been attempted in Britain before.

But it has actually happened elsewhere. And for native populations, it has actually often been disastrous.

When Europeans settled in the Americas, from the 16th century, they required their method on to the land. In Australia and New Zealand - countries that were much less largely inhabited - there was less large-scale violence but the result on the aboriginal people was no less disastrous.

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

But in every case, as soon as this process started, it was quickly unmanageable. More than six million Irish emigrants arrived in the US during the 19th century, a third of them in the space of less than a decade from 1845.

Almost as many Italians emigrated to America, many of them between 1880 and the early 1920s. In a nation riven with racial divisions, the Italian and Irish neighborhoods fought to endure, often obviously by difficult work, but likewise by political corruption and organised criminal activity.

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

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

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

It took a minimum of 400 years for the aftershocks of the Norman intrusion to decrease.

Resentments ran so deep they are still visible in our folk legends: Robin Hood was pictured as a Saxon knight combating Norman injustice. The idea of this 'Norman Yoke' inspired democrats well into the reign of Victoria.

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

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

To understand fully how terribly harmed a country can be by unrestrained migration, we require only 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 are noticeable to each other.

This was a state task, initiated by the Scottish and English governments throughout James I's reign, and developed 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 led to enmity and violence still widespread today that has actually seen thousands eliminated over the centuries.

Not all the social inequality in Britain is the outcome of the Norman intrusion, obviously, anymore than all Ireland's Troubles were the repercussion of a plan to minimize hunger in Scotland.

But when issues have intricate causes, individuals seek easy scapegoats - and migration will always provide one.

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

considerably higher). That's a boost of ten million this century. Yet the birth rate is falling: in 2023 it reached its least expensive rate on record in England and Wales, at 1.44 kids per lady, compared with the 'replacement rate' of 2.1 - the number of children required to keep numbers steady.

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

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

In case, this ended up being nonsense, partly since the main statistics did not prepare for the Second World War and the child boom that followed.

But the predictions likewise failed to appraise the beginnings of migration from former nests, with lots of thousands showing up from the West Indies after 1948 - the 'Windrush generation' - and Pakistan and India following independence 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 former Home Secretary Priti Patel.

Crucially, the great majority of these immigrants were figured out to incorporate into British life. If not currently English-speaking, they learned the language. They searched for work or began companies. Many brought much required abilities and dynamism.

But that is not the case today. A high percentage of legal immigrants come to do low-paid work, for instance in care homes and the hospitality sector. Those who certify under the government visa scheme for skilled employees or health and care workers can anticipate to be paid 80 percent of the standard salary.

Those in the fishing market, for example, receive ₤ 12.82 an hour, as opposed to ₤ 15.88 for British workers. A similar disparity applies in many trades from welding to dance and choreography.

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This has a threefold result: wages are depressed, new arrivals live in relative hardship, and lots of British individuals have actually left 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 comfy hotels), food, complimentary NHS health care and even spending money.

The best source of animosity, however, comes when immigrants refuse to integrate. Incredibly, many on the Left encourage this by trashing our culture and libelling our history - elevating every background other than the native one. It spells disaster for our future when immigrants are encouraged to stay locked within their own communities and taught that the British have actually constantly been their opponents.

How hazardous this is, we can see by looking throughout the Channel, to France where second and 3rd generation immigrants from North Africa create a consistent state of discontent. Riots are frequent, car-burning is a national sport and extremist politicians talk of're-migration' - the expulsion of people who 'don't fit in'.

This will be Britain's future if the Government does not take control of the circumstance today. Immigration can benefit everyone, however only if it is strictly handled, democratically accepted and culturally integrated.

Allowed to lack control, as the arc of history shows, it destroys nations.