TRIGGERnometry - Britain Has Never Been a "Nation of Immigrants". But It Will Be Soon. - Konstantin Kisin

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Starting point is 00:01:09 up to that point, done my best to educate myself on the history of this country. Nowhere in my reading had I found any justification for the claim that Britain's history was defined or even significantly shaped by immigration. Before we look at the fact, it is worth observing that Roche's claim is now widely regarded as self-evident. When I once challenged the notion that Britain was a nation of immigrants on Ian Dale's LBC show, Ian was shocked and asked me to clarify. Journalists and commentators in our public space

Starting point is 00:01:38 regularly claim that immigrants, quote, built Britain. I could give example after example, but let's be honest, for all intents and purposes in the public space, this matter has been effectively settled, until last week at least. A recent report from the University of Buckingham produced by Matthew Goodwin predicts that people born abroad in their descendants

Starting point is 00:01:57 will constitute the majority of the British population by 2079. This statistic triggered into action commentators like David Aronovich, who responded by claiming that the foreign-born and their descendants covers just about everyone in the country. On question time last Thursday, Mark Savotka, the former head of one of Britain's major unions, claimed that Britain is the great country that it is because of centuries of immigration that brought us cultural enrichment,

Starting point is 00:02:23 supporting our public services and some of our greatest things, before adding that we should be proud of it to inevitable applause. Let's set the politics aside for a moment and look at the facts. The Norman conquest following the Battle of Hastings in 1066 brought around 5,000 to 10,000 people from what is now France. England's foreign-born population at that time was in the low single digits, possibly as low as 1%. This remained unchanged for centuries with a 1440 survey recording just 14.5,000 foreign-born residents in England, which was about 1%. From 1330 to 1550, total immigration is estimated at 1040. 65,000 people. During the early modern period, about a thousand people a year came to England

Starting point is 00:03:07 over the course of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The following 100 years saw a significant increase, primarily through a large wave of Irish people fleeing Great Famine in the 1840s. In total, Britain's foreign-born population increased by between 1.5 and 2 million people in the 19th century. If that sounds like a lot, remember that this occurred over 100 years, i.e. an annual increase of between 15,000 and 20,000 people. By 1901, Britain's foreign population had risen from half a percent to a whopping one and a half percent. The first half of the 20th century saw little change to this, with between 10 and 14,000 arrivals annually. This included immigration related to both world wars and from the Commonwealth. By 1951, the foreign-born population of the UK

Starting point is 00:03:56 was 4.5%. Despite significant post-war immigration, between in 1951 and 2001, average net migration into Britain is estimated at just 7,800 people a year. Taking the 1990s as a separate decade, it was much higher, but still just 40,000 annually. As late as 1996, the year I moved to Britain, net immigration was running at 55,000 people a year. By this point, the foreign-born population of the UK had risen, but only to 7%. To summarize this barrage of figures, immigrants have played. a small but not insignificant role throughout British history, making up a few percent of the population. They did not build Britain. Britain was at its peak as a nation during the 19th and early 20th century,

Starting point is 00:04:42 losing its dominance in terms of territory, population, wealth and global influence in the wake of World War II. Of course, individual immigrants and their children made significant contributions during this period, including the great engineer Eisenbad Kingdom Brunel, Michael Marx, the co-founder of Marx and Spencers, and the author Joseph Conrad. But we must not lose sight of the fact that Britain's glory days were built by its native population. The reason we're having this nonsensical debate, of course, is that the claim that Britain is a nation of immigrants serves two different purposes. First, in a world of global infotainment,

Starting point is 00:05:16 the cultures of different countries, especially in the English-speaking world, are converging. This is why British TV channels and column inches are filled with commentary about American politics and why American commentators tweet themselves into a rage over events here in Britain. The phrase, a nation of immigrants, is a foolish and misguided import from our American cousins, in whose context it is actually relevant and true. The uneducated, uninformed and often dishonest elements of British progressivism used this phrase for the same reason BLM protesters in London chanted hands up don't shoot at British police officers who do not carry guns.

Starting point is 00:05:53 it's unthinking mimicry. But the second reason we keep being told that Britain is a nation of immigrants is to conceal the fact that while this has never been true, it will be true soon. It is not remotely an exaggeration to say that a time traveller from the 1990s would not recognise the country we live in today.

Starting point is 00:06:11 Even London, which has always had a significant foreign-born population, 21.7% in 1991, was still an obviously an unquestionably English city when I first came to this country. Today, over 40% of London is a foreign-born, and people who identify as white British make up less than 37% of the population. In other words, a country once made up of people whose ancestors lived here for centuries is becoming a nation of immigrants.

Starting point is 00:06:38 It's immediately assumed that any concern about this reality is based on bigotry, prejudice and xenophobia. This is interesting to me because in 1996 when I first came here, just 3% of the British people thought that immigration was a major concern. Why did this change? The election of Tony Blair the following year. His government flung open the doors with net migration during Labor's 13 years in power, reaching 200,000 annually. From 2010 onwards, the British people's concern about this issue shot up sharply, and they repeatedly voted for parties that promised to control immigration.

Starting point is 00:07:12 In the year before the Brexit referendum, between June 2015 and June 2016, immigration was consistently named the most salient issue facing the country, peaking at 56% in September 2015. Since the referendum, the British people have voted for politicians who promised to reduce immigration every single opportunity, including 2017, 2019 and 2024, when reform took millions of votes away from Labour and the Tories over this issue. Despite this net immigration from 2010 to 2024 under the Conservatives

Starting point is 00:07:46 totaled 5.2 million people, or 371,000 a year. In 2023 alone, it approached 1 million. The result? The foreign-born population of this country is quadrupled as a percentage in just 75 years, from 4% in 195 to approximately 17% in 2025. White British people are already a minority in Britain's three biggest cities. London, 36.8%, Birmingham, 42.9%, and Manchester, 48.7%. as well as in Leicester, 33.2%, Luton, 31.8%, and Slough, 34.5%.

Starting point is 00:08:25 By the next census, Bradford, Coventry, Wolverhampton and Nottingham will join them. You may not think this matters. You may not care. You may, in fact, think this is great. But these are the facts, and we should stay them plainly. Britain has never been a nation of immigrants, but it will have been made one in the next few decades by a series of Labour and Conservative governments. despite the clearly and repeatedly expressed democratic wishes of the British people who've been thoroughly and comprehensively ignored. Very important, before sharing this video with your friends and family,

Starting point is 00:08:56 please be aware that the government's Prevent Anti-radicalization Program has recently declared that concern about mass immigration is terrorist ideology. A prevent training course hosted on the government's website lists cultural nationalism as something that could cause you to be referred for deradicalization. You'll remember is the program to which the Southport murderer Axel Riddah Kubana was repeatedly referred from his youngest 13. He went on to stab a number of children and adults, three of whom died. Usman Khan, the terrorists who committed the London Bridge attack in 2019, was under prevent monitoring when he carried out his attack in the middle of a prisoner rehabilitation event for which he travelled to London. Prevent officers tasked with monitoring him had, quote, no specific training in dealing with terrorists.

Starting point is 00:09:43 According to the prevent training guidance, if you believe that Western culture is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups, you will be referred to the very program which failed to deal with them. This is Britain, so think before you think. If you enjoy these videos, remember that they're available on my substack, days, weeks and sometimes months ahead of time. Head on over to constantinckyshton.com and subscribe today.

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TRIGGERnometry - Britain Has Never Been a "Nation of Immigrants". But It Will Be Soon. - Konstantin Kisin

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