Wednesday 5 November 2008

White Flight

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
White flight is a term for the demographic trend in which working and middle-class white people move away from suburbs or urban neighborhoods that are becoming racially desegregated to white suburbs and exurbs.The phenomenon was first named in the United States, but has occurred in other countries as well.


And one of those ‘other’ countries experiencing White Flight is Britain. According to Trevor Phillips, head of the Commission for Racial Equality, we are not only experiencing it, but it is accelerating.

As record numbers of British citizens are leaving the country, record numbers of immigrants are arriving, and thus the face of Britain is changing at a remarkable rate. According to official figures recently released an unprecedented 196,000 Britons left the country last year, whilst 574,000 people came to live in Britain. Of course those who leave are the very people we can least afford to lose, the backbone of Britain. People like our professionals, tradesmen and skilled workers. To be replaced by what?

The new figures also suggested that middle-class Britons are beginning to move out of towns in southern England that are home to large numbers of immigrants. And towns in Northern England fair little better.

This phenomenon - called 'churn' by Whitehall officials and 'White Flight' by other commentators - saw 240,000 people move out of London last year.

The number of children under 16 dropped by 0.4 per cent to 11,537,000. Overall population numbers went up by 349,000 to 60,587,000, according to the figures.


London


Just over half of the increase was attributed to immigration, the rest to increasing birth rates. These are rising largely because recent immigrants are having more children than the existing population.

One in four of the 734,000 babies born last year had a parent who was born abroad. This is up from one in five in 2001.

The rising number of children born to migrants compares with much lower birth rates among women whose background is wholly British.

As we can see, we as a people are dying out in this country. If we are not moving abroad, we are being out-bred by immigrants or their descendants. And on top of that we have record breaking and unprecedented massive immigration.

Britain is a small island, and already we are witnessing immense strain on our services and infrastructure. Our culture and traditions are subservient to new arrivals culture and traditions, and in some cases perceived to be not only offensive, but also racist too. We witness whole areas, and in some cases towns and cities being taken over by foreigners and their descendants as indigenous people move away to be amongst people that they have more in common with.

I don’t know how much more the British people are going to take, or how long they are going to allow New Labour to remain in power to continue with the eradication of all that we hold dear, but one more term in my opinion will put us as a people in terminal decline.

In the not too distant future if current trends are allowed to continue, there will be no more internal White Flight; as there will be nowhere on this small and overcrowded island to flee to.

Think about that long and hard next time you have the opportunity to vote; I will!

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