The True Costs of Mass Immigration
This Week In Media | 6th - 12th May
This week on the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, I covered a new report which gives irrefutable proof that mass immigration has been a net economic cost for the native British population.
Former Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick MP, and former “COVID cranks and dangerous conspiracy theorists” list compiler, Neil O’Brien MP, co-authored the report for the Centre for Policy Studies, titled ‘Taking Back Control’ — the promise made and broken by the Conservative government since the Brexit Referendum in 2016.
Jenrick resigned from his Cabinet role after realising that the Rwanda deportation and deterrence scheme for illegal immigrants was designed to not ‘do the job.’ Since then, Jenrick has attempted to amend the Rwanda Bill to prevent the ECHR from intervening and grounding deportation flights; and has called on the Home Office to publish league tables on which nations’ immigrants commit the most crime — and has been met with predictable resistance from Liberal civil servants.
O’Brien has written for The Times and his Substack about the Office for National Statistics, Department for Work and Pensions, and Home Office’s collective recalcitrance when requested to publish figures on how many immigrants are in Britain, employment and tax contributions by national origin, and benefits recipiency rates by national origin.
They took matters into their own hands, and have published the statistics themselves.
I covered them in a concise and listenable fashion in the above YouTube clip — also available on Spotify, Rumble, and on LotusEaters.com.
Here is a list of just some of the report’s claims and charts:
‘Since 2010, 10 million people have moved to the UK, and 6.3 million have left, meaning net migration has added 3.7 million to the population. That is the equivalent of the populations of Edinburgh, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Stoke, Bristol and Cardiff put together, or more than the entire population of Wales.’
‘migration added a city the size of Birmingham – 1.2 million people – to the UK in just two years. That equates to population growth of 1.8%.’
‘legal inflows – the subject of this paper – are over 25 times the level of illegal inflows: 1.2 million versus 46,000 in 2022.’
‘In the 25 years up to Tony Blair’s election (1973-1997), cumulative net migration was 68,000. In the subsequent 25 years (1998-2022), it was at least 5.89 million – almost 100 times the previous 25 years.’
‘Excluding flows of British citizens, net migration from 1964 to 1997 averaged 55,000 a year, whereas since 1997, it has averaged 316,000 per year – well over five times the average rate in the previous period.’
‘But in 2021 and 2022, under the new system, 290,000 people came from the EU and 1.64 million from the rest of the world.’
In addition, ‘According to estimates published by the Migration Observatory in September 2020, there are perhaps somewhere between 800,000 and 1.2 million migrants living here without permission.’
‘Between 2001 and 2021, the share of people in England and Wales born outside the UK increased from 9% to 17%. This is higher than the USA (14%), despite the perception of America as a ‘melting pot’. In 2022 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) predicted the UK population would hit 70 million in 2036. It now predicts this will happen a decade earlier, in 2026.’
‘Even if net migration settles at the long-run rate of 315,000 projected by the ONS, that is still like adding another large city to the UK every year.’
‘Out of net migration of 2 million non-EU nationals over the last five years, only 15% came principally to work.’
‘Working-age migrants from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey are twice as likely to be economically inactive as someone born in the UK.’
‘To cope with underlying population growth and the actual levels of net migration (again, according to the Government’s official formula), we needed to expand the housing stock by around 3.44 million homes: 2.25 million to meet underlying demand pressures, and 1.19 million to cope with net migration. In fact, we increased the number of homes by 2.11 million.155 That leaves a deficit of 1.34 million homes, with net migration in effect accounting for 89% of the deficit – 1.19 million homes.’
‘In London the growth of the population accounted for by migration was actually greater than the growth of the housing stock, making that upward pressure even sharper. Today, 67% of private rented households in the capital are headed by someone born overseas.’
And here are all the broken manifesto pledges made to control immigration, made by successive governments, compiled and printed by Jenrick & O’Brien:
So the next time some midwit on Question Time asserts that “We need immigrants” for our economy, you will know that they are stupid, or lying, or both.
Everything Wrong with British Politics in Under 50 Minutes
For a crash course on why British politicians are unwilling to incorporate this new information into their policies, I explained the effects of mass immigration, and the churn of Prime Ministers in the last decade, to Nick Solheim of American Moment.
This is a useful resource for British nationals too: as it condenses many of the reasons why our country grows poorer and more mistrustful, and why politicians appear increasingly out of touch, within a fifty-minute interview.
Stop LARPing, Be Normal
On this week’s Podcast with Carl & Harrison, we also discussed Mary Harrington’s interview with Lauren Southern — intended to be a warning against reductive ‘listicle’ advice for how to have a traditional relationship, but (predictably) misinterpreted by the internet.
With Mary’s input, we three tried to clarify that Lauren was not attacking traditional marriage, but rather saying that values rote-learned from memes and podcasts alone are not enough to overcome personal failings, vet a potential spouse, and fix marital problems.
This segment got a positive response from Christian and socially conservative women, who have felt uneasy with the “Women, amirite?” attitude adopted by some adjacent to the revivalist online Right; and gratitude from Lauren herself.
Frat Boy Nationalism and Congress’ Antisemitism Hate Speech Bill
On last week’s episode of Tomlinson Talks, I discussed the trend of counter-protests on American college campuses by fraternities, defending the American flag and insulting their dysgenic race-communist opponents.
While one fraternity was more pro-Israel than pro-America in its intentions, the optics of young straight White men being unapologetic in their patriotism is an encouraging sign that Woke just won’t wash as the generations roll on.
I also discussed H.R.6090 — the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 — which passed Congress the week prior, and is set to be voted on in the Senate soon.
Where were America’s governors, congressmen, and senators when anti-White racism has been rife, on college campuses and admissions departments, for decades?
Why was no action taken when an effigy of Michael Knowles was burned at University of Pittsburgh? Or when students rioted at the University of Berkley in 2017, when Milo Yiannopoulos, Brittany Pettibone, and Lauren Southern were invited to speak?
If politicians wanted to fuel conspiracy theories about undue influence by Jewish lobbying groups, then creating a special exemption for the First Amendment to criminalise antisemitism, while ignoring racial discrimination and violence against the founding White Christian population, would certainly be a way to do so.
Stay tuned for this and next week on Tomlinson Talks where I’ll have two high-profile and contentious interview guests — exclusively behind the Premium pay-wall on LotusEaters.com!