Not a word. Not a peep. Not even a pained cry. Frankly, it’s a disgrace that not a single politician has stepped forward to comment on the astonishing official figures showing four in 10 of the babies born in England and Wales last year had foreign parents, with the majority coming from India, Pakistan, and Nigeria.
Clearly, it is bringing forward the day at a rapid rate when the UK no longer has a white majority. Starmer, Burnham and Streeting may well be in favour of that day; if so, they should say so.
For Kemi, being of Nigerian heritage, the debate is more difficult, but I presume she worries, along with the majority of her Tory voters, about the speed at which the nation’s demography is changing.
I didn’t even see Reform giving a view. And if they did, they kept pretty quiet about it.
The problem is that we can’t have a debate like this without the charge of racism being thrown about. I can understand that ordinary white people don’t want to be abused in this way, but I would urge them to stand firm.
You are just as entitled to your view as they are. In the bizarre event that the reverse was happening in India or Pakistan, i.e. that whites were beginning to outnumber the indigenous browns, I would expect there to be a healthy debate.
Why not here? Anyway, the politicians are keeping their heads down. They have no right to do so.
After all it was the politicians, first with Blair and Brown and then with the Boriswave, who allowed literally millions from the Indian sub-continent and Africa to set up home here without giving us a vote about the policy at a general election.
MPs simply waived it all, though, effectively daring ordinary people to break ranks.
Successive prime ministers toughed us out, leaving us with these figures from the Office of National Statistics, which show at 40 per cent it’s the greatest proportion of births from foreign-born parents since the government started collecting stats in 2008.
The numbers are astonishing and disturbing; In a dozen areas across England and Wales, more than 75 per cent of births were to foreign-born parents, and in 50 areas, this is also the case for 50 per cent of births.
Whitehall’s response to the rise in babies born to foreign parents is a crisis | Getty Images
Many of these areas will not come as a surprise to you. In the London Borough of Brent (Wembley area), it was 84 per cent, the London Borough of Harrow 83.7 per cent, Slough 79.2 per cent, Luton 78.1 per cent, and Leicester 72.4 per cent.
There will be many pockets of the UK that you wouldn’t recognise as British. It may be true that we just have to suck it up. If we carry on at this pace, the white population will fall below 50 per cent in under three decades.
You wouldn’t have to be a genius to believe there would be huge resentment by the white majority at the change.
I am not in favour of ‘’sending people home’’ now they are here, unless if course, they are criminals. I am in favour of pulling up the drawbridge for a seven-year moratorium on migration as we try to accommodate the millions who have arrived here in the last decade.
Most importantly, I want there to be public discourse. The silence from Parliament is deafening.