Posted on 01/23/2026 7:10:48 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Small Heath, a pocket of Birmingham bracketed by a football stadium and a mosque, looks like a good example of integration. The high street has a mixture of halal grocers and betting shops. Since at least 1991 white Britons have made up less than half of the population. Many local people seem relaxed about immigration. “I can’t be bothered to see it as a problem,” says Freddie, a 19-year-old white builder.
Ten miles (16km) away lies the town of Tamworth. It grew rapidly after 1945 as the government prodded companies and workers to leave Birmingham. Opinions are different there. Outside a betting shop John, a white unemployed gardener in his 50s, says that “people just feel that they’ve already been driven out of their houses once.” He worries that the rapid population change in his neighbourhood will lead to people like him being ousted again.
New data analysis by The Economist helps explain why some parts of Britain, like Small Heath, are relaxed about Britain growing more ethnically diverse whereas parts like Tamworth are agitated. Several things seem to matter: the pace of change in an area’s ethnic make-up, how homogenous it was, and how segregated it is.
The next national census will not report until 2032. So we have estimated ethnic populations by drawing on annual data on school pupils, adjusting for the fact that young people in Britain are more ethnically diverse than old people. Our estimates span a 21-year period from 2004 to 2024. They line up well with the findings of censuses in 2011 and 2021, giving us confidence in our estimates of the past few years.
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If the screeching sound coming from that mosque five times a day doesn't bother you, we'll how you like it when you have to start paying the jizya.
“Did anyone in Britain ask for their country to be flooded with foreigners?”
Did we?
“Did anyone in Britain ask for their country to be flooded with foreigners?”
They did when they voted in Labour in 1945, and kicked out Churchill.
> Translation: “I’m not allowed to see it as a problem.” <
Good point. And what could they do anyway? Britain is beyond saving - except by a military coup.
Better not complain abou White Genocide or you’ll be called a racist
Guess you're OK with Sharia Law, then - b/c that's what you're going to be living under soon.
And yes, if you "see it as a problem" - you will be brought up on inciting hate, prosecuted and jailed.
What about when the Muslims dominate your Parliament, city councils, and mayorships, police departments, school boards, etc. - and they will be, given their current number and political aggressiveness - and proceed to outlaw alcohol, pork, dogs, non-Islamic music, non-Islamic dress, dancing, etc.?
Then will you care?
Being a full grown man, Freddie probably doesn’t have to worry about the rapey part of diversity.
The imported foreigners in GB are overwhelmingly Pakistani and Bangladeshi (along with some Caribbean). Importing that many Muslims is a recipe for drastic, negative changes - and it’s a problem entirely of Britain’s own making. They were not invaded, they are not being invaded - they invite illegal aliens in by their refusal to enforce immigration rules and by providing generous benefits to illegals.
Non white generally sucks when invading the west
Starmter in his pre-parliament years was a “human rights” lawyer. In one of his cases he won them the right to social benifits\welfare. I’m told by UK friends and I think i saw a link backing this up that Starmer was extremely red in his youth Trotskyite or Maoist depending who you talk to.
Also note and I saw a UK news article on this all the upper echelon Labor MP/Honchos are members of the Fabian Society. (Fabian Society a extremely socialist but not Marxist socialist [small comfort there!] group.
The Economist has always promoted open borders. It's the more British, more intellectual version of Chamber of Commerce types in the US who think that mass immigration from the Third World is just wonderful because it's "good for business".
“I can’t be bothered to see it as a problem,” says Freddie, a 19-year-old white builder.
I really don’t understand this mindset. You will have no one to blame but yourself when your nation becomes an Islamic state.
Whites need to seriously increase birth rates and stop abortions. Otherwise non-whites will take over.
The problem wasn’t the original immigrants who came to Britain, and were appeciative to have escaped from the s___ holes they came from. It was their offspring.
That's not necessarily true. A lot of Third World immigrants in Britain, as in the UK, have zero interest in living as assimilated citizens. They want to bring the primitive customs of their home countries with them while enjoying the higher standard of living that the western world offers.
As a case in point, when the Ayatollahs declared a Fatwah against Salman Rushdie back in the 1980s, British Muslims came out to the streets in droves - not to protest against the barbaric mindset of their co-religionists, but to endorse the Fatwah. I'm pretty sure some of these were original immigrants, and not only their first or second generation descendants.
I was thinking more about the Jamaicans. The original ones were generally hard-working and appreciated living in Britain. But their children tended to resent living in Britain.
probably.... ; )
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