Posted on 08/30/2025 4:19:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Four years ago, Nigel Farage decided he had achieved all he could in British politics.
The gregarious English populist had campaigned for decades for Britain to leave the European Union, arguing the U.K. needed to make its own regulations and stop European migrants flowing in freely from the Continent to live and work.
By 2021, Brexit was finally done. And so was Farage. “This has taken away the better part of my adult life,” he said as he announced he was quitting as leader of his anti-immigration party Reform UK. “I’m done.”
Now Farage is back—and Reform UK is currently leading in the polls—largely thanks to an unexpected twist: After Brexit, the U.K. government of then Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson embarked on a new migration experiment. It slammed the door on European immigration only to open it to the rest of the world. The idea was to goose a sluggish economy by attracting the planet’s best and brightest people.
The Tories, despite repeatedly promising lower overall immigration levels, soon lost control of the system they designed, triggering the biggest influx of legal migration the country has ever seen. In just one job field, care aides who look after the infirm or elderly, one government forecast assumed some 6,000 migrants a year would come to work. In the space of four years, 679,900 carers and their families arrived, government figures show.
In total, 4.5 million people arrived in Britain between 2021 and 2024, primarily from India, Nigeria and China. One in every 25 people living in the U.K. today came during that four-year window.
In comparison, the U.S. typically averages about one million new lawful permanent residents, or green card holders, a year—to a country with a total population five times the size of Britain’s.
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The way you “clamp down on illegal immigration” is to blow the damn boat out of the water before it comes to your shore.
😳😑🙄
That is not a mistake; its a plan.
Up the young Queen of Scots!
Its over for the UK now that the muslims have the vote. Sad to see their beautiful culture expire.
hmmm...it’s actually just getting started. Finally.
Sept. 13th.
I lived in the south of England from 2000 to 2005. I was utterly disappointed that the famed English culture was already dead then.
In my travels around the country I gauged that it died somewhere around the end of the 70s. It was replaced by Crude, older (pre 2700s) English culture as the “gin soaked isle ), but without Christianity. And that too, by the 2000s became emptiness.
In 2000 I met many folks below 30 who had never stepped I side a church, knew nothing if British or English history and were under educated.
I’ve also noted the same destb of culture in Belgium, in Paris and in Copenhagen. Rural France and surprisingly the Netherlands outside Amsterdam are still attuned to the local culture.
And of course italy, Spain, Portugal are still tied to their culture
Wonder what would have happened if the Scottish referendum to leave the UK, back in 2015, would have succeeded
In my travels around the country I gauged that it died somewhere around the end of the 70s.
I haven't been to Britain. But my guess is due to the end of the British Empire after WWII.
So it stopped being British when Churchill was no longer the PM.
They obviously didn’t try very hard.
is there a british navy?
No, succeeding governments -- Labour and Tory alike -- did NOT.
Beginning an article with an outright lie seems so Wall Street Journal these days.
Just horrible to hear about this 😞
Is it true that there was even talk of not teaching Shakespeare in British schools any more? I hope I‘ve misunderstood…
Over here, many Germans still think of England as the country of beautiful old traditions, which have been erased elsewhere…
Yes. It is true
Breaks my heart. The brave British people of WW2, who so valiantly fought against Nazism and for their country and their freedom, wouldn’t have wanted that either, I bet…there should have been a middle road, just like Britain in the Fifties.
They fought the Nazis because they didn't want to speak German lol
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