Currently Great Britain is being convulsed by anti-immigration riots. The rioters are universally referred to as “far right,” which in Europe is code for not being on board with mass immigration from Third World countries. I have no idea what the rioters think about taxes, or wasteful government spending, or the National Health Service, or the war in Ukraine. I believe the riots are taking place mostly in cities that generally vote Labour. But they are “far right” for one reason only. (“Far right” has a more flexible meaning in the U.S.; it refers generally to any position favored by the majority.)
Immigration is the most volatile issue in Europe, and it has the potential to be the most volatile issue the our own election, if Trump and company focus on it.
Why has immigration surged to the fore as a political issue–even if, in many quarters, it is the issue that must not be mentioned? Because of brute demographic facts.
My friend Mark Steyn has been on the demography beat for quite a while. He recorded this excellent video several years ago, but has just reposted it at Steyn Online because it is as vital as ever. More so, in fact.
[I]n this SteynPost [the video immediately above], I consider forlorn attempts by respectable chaps to discuss the demographic transformation of Europe without getting damned as racist white supremacists, etc, and the crude arithmetic of the latest UN population statistics. The latter cannot be wished away: they are the future your rulers have signed you up for while you were deluded by “politics” into thinking that Sunak vs Starmer or Brown vs Cameron is the vital question.
As Mark says, the population explosion now occurring in Africa is unprecedented in the history of the world. It will have consequences, even if we are prohibited from discussing them.
