September 1,2007 Daily Express
White people will be in the minority in Birmingham, England’ssecond city, within 20 years. That same milestone will be passed in Leicester in just four years.
The racial make-up of our major cities is changing with a rapidity which has never been known before. As recently as 2001, fewer than 30 per cent of Birmingham’s population was non-white.
But high birth rates among many ethnic communities, “white flight” out of cities by indigenous people dismayed at the marginalisation of their culture and a continuing high level of immigration have accelerated the trend.
During the first major migrant influx from the New Commonwealth in the middle of the last century, anyone predicting such a demographic transformation would have been condemned as a scaremonger or a lunatic.
But now, when many British people return to the districts of their birth, they report feeling like strangers in their own land. The researchers from Manchester University who uncovered these population trends claim they have no “practical significance”. That may be a politically correct verdict but it could not be more wrong. Encouraged by the failed doctrine of multiculturalism, many minority communities have still not accepted key aspects of the British way of life.
In Birmingham, the continuing expansion of a largely segregated Pakistani community is likely to mean women’s rights and free speech coming under further pressure and more of the episodes of electoral fraud which have disfigured its politics in recent years. It will surely mean, as well, an increase in the number of terrorist sympathisers at large.
That the culture and identity of a great city such as Birmingham should be undermined in this way is surely proof positive that the tiny liberal elite which runs Britain – and hates it – is well on the way to destroying it.
