Eye on U.K – Democracy Is Just A Word. – Robert Cook the voice of North Bucks

What does uncontrolled mass immigration really mean for the future the UK?

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.

X Posts (formerly “Tweets”) of the week

Another disturbing clip, this time from Times Radio, replete with food for thought. Police seemingly arresting people first—on the say-so of disgruntled managerial class individuals—and consider the facts later.

This X clip has had 126,000 views and still climbing. We don’t know Mr Hann but what he says, resonates with all manner of ordinary people around the country.

MWUK in the media

You can read Alp’s article in the Sun here (or below).

As immigration flames engulf us, the government stands by with an empty fire engine waiting for the fire to die out…

The past week has seen yet another avalanche of reports on the multiple ways mass, uncontrolled and unplanned immigration – legal and illegal – continues and impacts our lives and reduces the quality of life.
The illegal boat crossings go on streaming across the Channel whenever the weather says, “yes.” Asylum applications last year were at record levels, the resulting cost of tackling illegal migration and the asylum system runs into billions of pounds every year. Meanwhile, lower-skill, lower-paid legal immigration has been costing the taxpayer astronomical amounts for more than 25 years. Throughout this period, the burgeoning population has driven what has become unbearable pressure on housing, the NHS, GP surgeries, schools and utilities, as well as increasing the congestion we all have to put up with in our daily lives.
We have written in recent weeks a lot about the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill now going through Parliament. The Bill is primarily aimed at illegal Channel crossings. Unfortunately, the eventual Act that makes it onto the statute book is going to be about as useful as a bikini in the North Pole in January. It is so futile that, as our Chairman told ministers and backbenchers on the Bill Committee a couple of weeks ago, it is much more likely to encourage illegal migrants and smugglers than deter them. What’s to stop anyone arriving illegally or overstaying their leave and claiming asylum, knowing that with a suitable, often uncheckable, back-story, the ECHR will provide the key to Britain’s door.
The government have said there is no question of leaving the ECHR, although, there were hints last weekend that Number 10 may be looking at the way parts of the Convention are implemented. For example, in respect of articles 3 and 8, which cover, among other things, the right not to be subjected to torture and the right to family life. It may be a tad cynical but we can’t help thinking that this sort of indirect word from the government about its intentions rarely leads to anything useful. The message we take from such stories is that thought is being given to whether something can be done. Here is a good, clear explanation from Stephen Webb of Policy Exchange in a discussion with the no-nonsense Nana Akua on GBNews.
Now, what about legal migration, many times greater than the numbers crossing the Channel and those claiming asylum? From the outset, when Lord Andrew Green and David Coleman, Professor of Demography at the University of Oxford, founded Migration Watch, we have warned of the risks, costs and wider implications of mass, uncontrolled immigration.
David Cameron’s government heeded our warnings 15 years ago and actually succeeded in reducing net migration from 255,000 in the year to September 2010 to 163,000 for the whole of 2012. Had it not been for free movement, net migration could well have come down close to 100,000; the tens of thousands goal. Compare this with where we are today.
Net migration close to three quarters of a million and Sir Keir Starmer’s government being advised by the ONS (who are no doubt being guided by others) that net migration will fall to 340,000 a year from 2029. This is wishful thinking, if not fantasy. It will only fall, even to what would still be more than double what it was in 2012, if the government are prepared to bring in the measures needed to do it and there is no sign of this happening.
We estimate that net migration is more likely to settle above half a million or more. With annual net migration of 600,000, the population increase between 2021 and 2051 would be nearly 20 million people (equivalent to about 18 cities the size ofBirmingham). The increase will be entirely due to migrants and their children if the total fertility rate (TFR) remains at current levels.
All this means is that the day when the “white British” become a minority in the country of their forebears will come that much sooner. We make no apology for repeating this point. It is not something that the British people have been asked about, nor have they given their consent to it.
Such rapid population growth not only has an economic impact but also heralds serious social consequences and implications for the future stability, cohesion and nature of our society. Meanwhile, we are importing divisions, conflicts and questionable practices from countries that do things very differently.
This is a very good article by Tom Jones in which he explains how the clannish behaviour in some South Asian countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh and African countries such as Somalia, impacts on elections in constituencies where particular ethnicities and groups predominate. As an addendum to his article, Tom refers to ‘Respect’, the party set up by George Galloway some 20 years ago. He writes: “Although not relevant, it is worth noting that in 2005 George Galloway campaigned to become Bethnal Green & Bow MP by visiting Sylhet [Bangladesh] in order to appeal to voters in Tower Hamlets; ‘Since his visit, voters in Bethnal Green have been receiving phone calls from their relatives in Bangladesh telling them to cast their votes for Galloway’.
So, the border is wide open, the asylum system is abused and costing taxpayers a fortune, while legal migration is out of control and driving unprecedented population increase and change. Our government’s reaction is to pretend to go after the gangs behind illegal boat crossings. With regard to legal migration, Sir Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, our Home Secretary, are still scratching their heads. The house is in flames and the fire chief is standing, hose in hand, by an empty fire engine.

X Posts (formerly “Tweets”) of the week

A couple of Migration Watch X posts, including our ‘pinned post’ have been attracting attention, especially the latter on what needs to happen if migrants and traffickers are to be discouraged from crossing the Channel illegally. See here and here.

Our articles of the week

This article by the brilliant and courageous J Meirion Thomas is a telling insight on why we don’t have more British-trained doctors and bring in foreign-trained ones whose ability and competence is not scrutinised or tested is often not up to the standards of British or European-trained doctors. The article first appeared on 17th March in the excellent Matt Goodwin Substack.

This is the brilliant piece, already mentioned, by Tom Jones, about the divisions and questionable election practices that are seeing more and more in Britain and which are impacting on our electoral system.

We don’t publish many articles by senior politicians but this one by Rob Jenrick so chimed with our thinking that we thought you would want to read it too, if you haven’t already.

Here’s one by Tony Smith, an old and good friend writing in the Telegraph. There are few people in the world who know and understand border control better than Tony.

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The Boys Are Not O.K

22/03/2025
Adolescence and the global conversation about young men

Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, Guardian.

Since a majority of American men aged 18-30 voted for Donald Trump last November, important questions have been asked about the impact of the “manosphere” and how young men are being shaped by what they find online. Our team in the United States produced an eye-opening and prescient series on this subject around the election.
Similar questions about the current state of young men’s lives have coalesced in the UK this week in a fairly extraordinary way.
To begin with, Netflix TV drama Adolescence, the story of a 13-year-old boy arrested for the murder of a female classmate, has created a national conversation about young men and boys and their relationship with social media. Television writer Michael Hogan called the drama a show “so powerful it could save lives”. It is now an international sensation, the most-watched show on Netflix around the globe. Then, the former England men’s football manager Gareth Southgate gave a thoughtful and moving televised lecture about how the world is shaping young men, warning about the role of toxic influencers in shaping some of their views.
This wider conversation came against a backdrop of two recent horrific cases of multiple murder by young men in England. Nicholas Prosper, sentenced on Wednesday for killing three members of his own family, had, as Sammy Gecsoyler reported, been “immersed” in the online world. Another, Kyle Clifford, had watched videos by the self-styled misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate before killing his ex-girlfriend and her mother and sister.
Meanwhile, disgraced UFC fighter Conor McGregor – found to have committed rape in an Irish civil trial last year – was given a literal platform in the White House, while Tate has been travelling across the US, goading officials to arrest him.
The discussion around Adolescence, particularly, has revealed just how worried so many parents are about what their children, especially boys, are consuming online.
Writing for the Guardian this week, Jack Thorne, the show’s co-writer, spoke of his own angst about the matter and called for an outright ban on smartphones for under-16s, or a digital age of consent similar to the one recently introduced in Australia. On Thursday, Jessica Elgot and Rachel Keenan revealed exclusively that the UK government is reconsidering a ban on smartphones in schools.
As this complex conversation evolves, it’s part of our job at the Guardian to try to make sense of what is happening – particularly for those worried parents. This week, reporter Rachel Hall looked at some of the other influencers besides Tate who are profiting from sharing sexist ideas. The Observer’s Vanessa Thorpe looked at how Adolescence may have a similar societal-shifting impact to another UK drama, Mr Bates vs the Post Office. Gaby Hinsliff wrote that we must be careful not to stereotype all teenage boys as damaged or damaging but warned that governments need to regulate the extreme algorithmically driven content they are being steeped in. Our editorial echoed Southgate’s concerns: “Encouraging boys to be resilient, empathetic and capable of real relationships requires investment in families, schools and youth clubs that foster connection. They need space to be themselves – and the confidence to reject the empty validation of a social media feed.”
This is a global story with huge implications, for this generation of young people – men and women – and for our collective future. We will continue to interrogate it in depth.

Our article of the week (see below) in this newsletter is about Abu Wadee, a Palestinian, whose social media posts strongly point terrorist links. He was among 235 migrants picked up by Border Force (BF) in the Channel on Thursday 6th March and taken to Dover, from where, they would have been transferred to Manston for first-stage processing. After a preliminary examination and registration, they are dispersed around the country, often to hotels, to await placement in longer-term accommodation and a further interview. A long wait follows before they know the outcome of their asylum claim, for which nearly all of them apply.

On Saturday, the Mail on Sunday approached us with the Wadee story and asked if we would write a commentary for the next day’s edition. At that point, we were not aware of the whereabouts of Wadee, although we were confident he was in the UK.
On Tuesday came news that Wadee had been arrested on Sunday evening at a hotel in Manchester being used for asylum seekers: we assume he was taken there by BF following first-stage processing at Manston.

The Home Office said, “Abdulkarim Al-Gassas ,also known as Abu Wadee, has today been charged with knowingly arriving into the UK without leave and has been remanded in custody.” Wadee later appeared at Manchester magistrates’ court where he pleaded not guilty to the charge. He was told he would remain in custody until a further appearance at Maidstone crown court on 8th April.
Thanks to Wadee’s malign bravado on social media – posing with some seriously nasty looking weapons – it seems it was relatively easy for those who devote their time to keeping an eye out for people like Wadee to track him down. But why did it take a tip-off to the Mail on Sunday and a front-page splash to alert our authorities of who was in our midst? Would he have been identified had the MoS not drawn attention to him? BF were clearly unaware of who he was or would have charged and detained him while he was at Manston. He had after all applied for asylum in Greece, Germany and Belgium where it was rejected. One assumes that the French knew this and were unconcerned.
We are told the Home Office will look to send him back to one of the countries he hada pplied for asylum in, no doubt because we know the French would refuse to take him back. Good luck with that one Ms Cooper. This is of course assuming that our courts don’t judge that his human rights must override whatever potential risk he poses to British citizens. Let’s not forget that this man has revelled in his social media notoriety. His social media feeds show him proudly declaring he is a member of the “tyre-burning unit”. He wants to destroy the Jews and all who help them.
We don’t know if Wadee has claimed asylum and if he has, how long it will take to reach a decision. Will he remain in custody until the decision is made? Given the evidence against him, which he can hardly deny, making a decision should, surely, take only hours rather than days or months. And once, what we believe, is the obvious decision to make, will he be returned to France and will the French accept him back? If not, why not? Many members of the public will struggle to understand why he can’t be returned to Gaza; he can hardly claim he would suffer persecution there. More likely he will be welcomed back a hero and feted.
However, as he was led away from Manchester magistrates’ court at the end of the hearing, Wadee is reported to have said: “I’m a victim of Hamas. I’m wanted by Hamas; I have evidence of that.” So, don’t be surprised if our courts decide to believe him, because the Home Office won’t be able to disprove Wadee’s claim, or indeed because Gaza would be considered unsafe. What he will of course get is legal aid (i.e. the taxpayer will pay) to appeal against any decision to refuse or remove him. If this man is allowed to stay, whether or not his asylum application is rejected, the resulting public disbelief and anger will be understandable. But, what we find especially concerning is that had the Mail on Sunday not been informed about Wadee’s arrival, and drawn attention to it, Wadee could well have been wandering around among unsuspecting citizens. This prompts the question, how many people like Wadee have slipped through in recent years – and not just in dinghies we know about? How many young, fighting-age men from countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan… are here now and shouldn’t be? How many more will come from Gaza? We can only hope that they don’t only come to light when they’ve committed some heinous crime.
Over 4,000 have crossed Channel illegally so far this year. At this rate we will top the 2022 total of 45,700. 50,000+ in 2025 is not looking so outlandish at the moment. And that’s just those we know about. And then there’s the three quarters of a million net migration…
It really is the stuff of nightmares.

X Posts (formerly “Tweets”) of the week

Have you heard the one about the couple who reported an illegal migrant who hid in their caravan as they drove back from France?

When they discovered him in their back garden and reported it to the authorities, they were fined £1,500 for their trouble. We suspect, and we may be wrong, the migrant is now at some swanky hotel, at our expense, getting £40 a week pocket money while he waits for the outcome of his asylum application.

Even Sir Keir thought this was a daft state of affairs… See our X post here.

Forgive us for making our chairman’s Mail on Sunday piece this week’s article of the week. If you haven’t read it, do click here to read it.

Wadee, the man “with murky links to a militant terror group, whose social media is replete with pictures of him posing with a Kalashnikov”. It was a great scoop for the Mail on Sunday, all credit to them for getting it. The attention drawn to him clearly helped lead to his arrest and detention.

Here is an alarming Substack piece by the terrific Matt Goodwin, ‘Broken Britain in ten insane maps’, first published on 4th March and republished by the wonderful The Conservative Wom on Thursday.

We also liked this piece in the Telegraph by Michael Murphy entitled “Britain’s immigration system is a criminal’s paradise. The Albanian model shows how to fix it”. Read it here.

This is not an article but a ten-minute speech by our friend Peter Whittle, who heads the New Culture Forum, speaking at the Oxford Union on the motion, “this house believes that multiculturalism has no future in the UK”.

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