Posted on 02/06/2026 11:27:52 PM PST by Morgana
Warnings that London secondary schools may soon be forced to close due to falling pupil numbers are the latest visible consequence of a much deeper demographic problem. While policymakers routinely point to housing costs, economic insecurity, and delayed parenthood, one central factor remains persistently under-examined: the long-term impact of abortion on Britain’s birth rate.
London Councils have warned that demand for Year 7 places is now falling faster than demand for Reception places for the first time on record. Over the next four years, pupil numbers entering secondary schools in the capital are expected to drop by almost four percent, with inner London facing even sharper declines. Because schools are funded per pupil, the result is likely to be mergers, closures, staff reductions, and a narrowing of curriculum options.
This is not a sudden crisis. The UK’s Total Fertility Rate has been below the replacement level of 2.1 since 1973. What is new is the speed at which the consequences are now becoming unavoidable. In 2023, excluding the coronavirus anomaly, deaths outnumbered births for the first time in decades. Immigration has masked this decline for years, but it has not solved it.
Crucially, the conversation around falling fertility almost never addresses abortion, despite the data being unambiguous. Office for National Statistics figures show that the gap between the number of live births required for population replacement and the number actually occurring has, for much of the past fifty years, been smaller than the number of abortions carried out annually.
In 2023, around 30 percent of all viable pregnancies in the UK ended in abortion; this figure is higher in London. Ten years ago, the figure was closer to 20 percent. Today, for every twenty viable pregnancies, fourteen result in live births and six in abortion.
This reality matters when considering school closures. Children who are never born do not fill classrooms, sustain local services, or become the future workforce needed to support an ageing population. When schools close, communities hollow out. When communities hollow out, families are less likely to form. The cycle accelerates.
SPUC’s Executive Director, Michael Robinson, says, “If the closure of schools is treated merely as a funding or planning problem, the response will be utterly benign. It is the visible end point of decades of decisions that have devalued childbirth, normalised abortion, and treated population decline as a net benefit for the world. London’s empty classrooms should be a wake-up call. A society that does not welcome children will eventually reap the consequences: wrecked economies and communities. Abortion is the greatest destroyer of societal harmony and prosperity.”
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And the muzzies send their offspring to madrasas.
Finally putting two and two together, eh, Onslow?
The muzzies are still marrying their cousins so the embreeding is causing birth defects off the scale. British gov wont forbid cousin marriage with the muzzies citing Islamaphobia but I say it’s because they want them to breed themselves out like the Habsburg Dynasty did. In a few more decades they will at the rate they are going.
All ready now muzzie families in England will have like 5 kids with 3 of them so retarded that they can’t marry and are a burden to the healthcare system.
They are killing their own progeny to make way for their muslum replacements.
The number of abortions? 1.0 million - 1.2 million.
About 2% of all USA women of child bearing age had an abortion in 2024.
Realistically - I think it is unlikely that any religious or political mandate can reduce that 2% by very much.
British white (nominally) Christian women are having about 1.4 births.
Muslim women in the UK are having about 3.0.
Britain is lost.
Grok snips:
UK-born women (proxy for much of the indigenous/native population): TFR ~1.54 in 2021 (latest detailed country-of-birth split); often cited around 1.4 for White British in more recent informal estimates
Muslim women: Older estimates (e.g., 2005–2010) placed TFR at ~3.0 (vs. ~1.8 non-Muslim). More recent analyses (e.g., drawing on 2010s–early 2020s data) suggest ~2.35–2.9 for Muslims overall
To value that life as less than a person due to location (safely "quarantined" in the mother's womb) and or upon degree of functionality, and thus terminate its life, treating this human life as a tumor to be dispensed with - and in most all cases is due to reasons of convenience* - is to value this life less than even the nest of a migratory bird (illegal to even disturb), let alone break eggs or otherwise kill a migratory bird.
And note that this procreative act is almost always consensual, and with *approx. % of abortions being due to rape, and about 2% necessary to save the life of the mother (and not just a physician's judgment that the child would/could have some adverse effects on the woman's health), and with "reasons of convenience" being in reference to avoiding sacrifices of time, money, education, etc., meaning sacrifices such as parents in the past made, and were overall rewarded by it.
Now, more money is spent on pets than ever before, and which outnumber children themselves.
“London schools left with empty classrooms as abortion decimates our population”
No problemo ... the illegal Muzzies they let in will fill them with all their illegal kiddos demanding they teach them Islamic precepts.
Libs told the people it was okay to kill your offspring as they made it more expensive to live after increasing the size and scope of government with socialist programs. Life was cheapened as senseless violence grew. More socialist programs, fewer natives as population dwindled. Idea! Let’s bring in more taxpayers to pay for government services! Un-assimalable, culturally opposites are allowed into the country but the ratio of government services supporters to government services users is too low because they are under educated for a modern society. Frustrations grow. The root of the problem is Socialist poicies.
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