Britain's Immigration Lies are Finally Unravelling

They've Lied to You About Immigration for 50 Years

For decades, officials massaged the figures, buried the crime stats and mocked the warnings. Now the truth is out – and voters have had enough.

Britain’s Immigration Myth Has Collapsed – and the Public Wants the Truth

The brittleness of an ideology is measured not by the elegance of its arguments but by the savagery with which it silences dissent.

Neoliberalism, ever anxious about its own foundations, is a perfect case study. When Simon Pearson, a schoolteacher, dared to question the jailing of Lucy Connolly – a woman whose own crime was making one remark about asylum seekers on X – he was not endorsing her words, he was raising the simple point that prison was a disproportionate punishment. For that act of intellectual disobedience, he was summarily sacked. The message was plain: questioning the orthodoxy will cost you your livelihood.

This instinct to smother debate has been nowhere more visible than in Britain’s long and troubled conversation about immigration. For decades, governments of every hue have massaged the numbers, delayed the data, or buried the facts altogether.

The statistics that do emerge paint a picture starkly at odds with the multicultural fairytale. Net migration reached 685,000 in 2023, with roughly 1.2 million arrivals in total.

Foreign nationals are now 70 per cent more likely than British citizens to be convicted of sexual offences. Algerians are 18 times more likely to be convicted of theft. Thirty per cent of the under-18 prison population is of black heritage, compared with just 5.5 per cent of that age group nationally.

When terror strikes, the truth is often sidestepped. In one notorious case, a jihadist was described to the press as “Norwegian”. Ethnic descriptors have been quietly dropped from police bulletins. The once-essential Crimewatch, which often displayed a rogues’ gallery that undermined the official narrative, disappeared from screens. It has since returned, with a carefully curated format and “diverse” presenters – and conspicuously without those revealing suspect line-ups.

Each low-skilled migrant costs the taxpayer an average of £150,000 by retirement age – £500,000 if they live to 80.

The deception is not confined to crime statistics. For years, political leaders and liberal commentators insisted that annual immigration close to one million would have no discernible impact on housing shortages, overcrowded schools or the NHS. Yet the Office for Budget Responsibility has now admitted that each low-skilled migrant costs the taxpayer an average of £150,000 by retirement age, rising to £500,000 if they live to 80. These are numbers the public was never supposed to see.

By 2063, white British people will be a minority in their own country – a forecast once dismissed as extremist fantasy.

Demographic forecasts are equally explosive. At the start of this year, the Government’s own projections suggested that by 2063, white British people will be a minority in their own country. For decades, anyone who warned of such an outcome was dismissed as an extremist or “racist”, ritually compared to Enoch Powell, and shoved to the fringes of public discourse.

That tactic is failing. A YouGov poll this year found that 45 per cent of Britons now favour admitting zero new migrants – and wish to see substantial numbers of current migrants encouraged to leave. Three-quarters oppose any increase in numbers. Only a dwindling minority cling to the belief that immigration has been a net positive. A decade ago, such sentiments would have been politically unmentionable.

Across Europe, similar awakenings are taking place. Indigenous populations, long anaesthetised by official reassurances, are beginning to confront the realities of demographic change. The political consequences are already being felt, with anti-immigration parties rising in poll after poll. Britain’s political class, however, continues to behave as if the old tricks – selective statistics, smear campaigns, and the unrelenting conflation of border control with racism – will work forever.

They will not. The façade is cracking. The public, better informed and less easily browbeaten, is no longer willing to accept the gauzy myths of multicultural utopianism. The anger is real, and it is growing.

A civil war may just be coming, are you prepared?

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