Vanishing England
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2007-08-29 08:10
A quote from Cal Thomas at Townhall.com, 28 August 2007
Between June 2005 and June 2006 nearly 200,000 British citizens chose to leave the country for a new life elsewhere. During the same period, at least 574,000 immigrants came to Britain. This number does not include the people who broke the law to get there, or the thousands unknown to the government. [...] Abraham Lincoln said no nation can exist half slave and half free. Neither can a nation be sustained if it allows conditions that result in mass emigration, while importing huge numbers of foreigners who come from backgrounds that do not practice assimilation or tolerance of other beliefs. [...] The greater tragedy is that the people of Britain have little say in any of this, so they are taking the road of last resort. They are leaving.
Human Genome not cracked
Submitted by Amsterdamsky on Sat, 2007-09-01 15:37.
Bob Doney "Do try to keep up. The human genome has been CRACKED. In a matter of a few years parents will get to choose many characteristics of their putative children, and you can bet that skin colour will be a real FAVOURITE. So what colour are they going to opt for? Altogether now, 1, 2, 3 ......."
It has really not been cracked. Kind of like knowing the alphabet but not knowing what the words mean. I don't see anything like you stated for another generation or two if not longer.
Future Europe.
Submitted by mauramia on Sat, 2007-09-01 14:40.
Through my line of work, (Medical) I frequently come across quite a few people from England, Germany, Belgium and Holland, who have abandoned their homeland as their belief is that they have been eased out by the politically correct class in their race to welcome those of a foreign element. Generally speaking, these are elder citizens of the old school, who have spend a lifetime living the beliefs of Kinder -Kirche- Kueche, but in today’s multi-cult society are of little use to those who wish to usher in a New Order. To see these people struggle with language, systems and a bureaucracy at an advanced age makes for heartbreaking listening. I don’t believe the numbers are cause for panic, but on a basic level, each of these individuals has just the one life they arrived on earth with, and so is indeed precious to them. It also makes me wonder of our own younger but quickly ageing group, who tomorrow will face this same problem. What then? Will we go quietly into that dark night with nary a peep from our lips, and accept a future these not so kind bureaucrats, demands of us? Or will we be the ones who demand through demonstration and withholding of taxes or other forms of protest, that our lifestyles are our own, and not in fact owned by said state? I suspect we will be little different from the current crop of people who see the twilight of their lives dwindling down to a flicker, as Governments become more populated with members from different cultures, and we are given short shrift for complaints or concerns pertaining to our well being. When and if a group of immigrants supplant the indigenous population of a country, then it is a problem.
92% White-British
Submitted by Armor on Fri, 2007-08-31 23:44.
loikll wrote: " among a population that's 92% White-British "
I think the white percentage is less than that and the situation is set to get much worse very fast.
London Daily Mail, August 31, 2007
White people in UK's cities 'likely to be a minority in 20 years'
Keeping up
Submitted by Bob Doney on Sat, 2007-09-01 13:28.
Do try to keep up. The human genome has been CRACKED. In a matter of a few years parents will get to choose many characteristics of their putative children, and you can bet that skin colour will be a real FAVOURITE. So what colour are they going to opt for? Altogether now, 1, 2, 3 .......
Emigration from Britain
Submitted by Armor on Fri, 2007-08-31 14:16.
It is not only retirees. In Brittany, we have quite a few British children in our rural schools. Their parents come over here because they say the quality of life in the U.K is being eroded. I think the erosion is mainly caused by immigration from the third-world (but perhaps not only). They come to Brittany because it is close to Britain and there is more room. But immigration is going to increase here too.
Is that a big deal?
Submitted by loikll on Fri, 2007-08-31 01:00.
200K people leaving England doesn't sound terribly dire to me.
If I got the stats right from the CIA factbook, looks like 600K new births a year, among a population that's 92% White-British. Likely the native white population is declining a little if you sort through the numbers, but I don't think they're in danger of running out of Anglo Saxons any time soon.
From what I hear older Brits aspire to retire in warmer climates, so I'd guess a good part of the outflow is retirees. Additionally I know several Brit expats to the USA who came here for business, but may well move back. Must be a good bit of that in the numbers.
200,000 out of 61 million
Submitted by Armor on Wed, 2007-08-29 23:53.
Britain will not be depopulated overnight. But still, it is a hard decision to move to another country, and I find impressive that 200,000 have left. It is a sign that something is wrong.
Blown and twisted out of proportion
Submitted by Flemish American on Wed, 2007-08-29 21:43.
Great Britain, due to its past of colonizing and empirization (I guess that's a word) has always had a higher density of immigrants than most other European lands. Besides the high number from Asia & Africa, they are now receiving the brunt of the Eastern European exodus.
I'm inclinded to agree with Mr. Doney's accessment of the situation. In many ways, you should be pleased. Great Britain is attracting many more productive workers than free-loaders compared to your European cousins in France, Germany and The Benelux.
There are always growing pains associated with emmigration and immigration, but this article is overstating the actual situation and is leaving out many related facts that should be considered.
Lord, grant me the strength to change the things I can;
the serenity to deal with the things I cannot change;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Rout
Submitted by Bob Doney on Wed, 2007-08-29 21:10.
Gosh. But that's 200,000 out of 61 million. (Although matey doesn't mention the 100,000 Brits that unemigrated, i.e. came back).
At that shocking rate, (0.33%) in 5,500 years there'll be none of us left. Make note to self: diarise 29th August 7507 to pack suitcase and head for airport.
subsidizing the underclass, accelerating emigration
Submitted by JimMtnViewCaUSA on Wed, 2007-08-29 18:02.
More on the topic
http://instapundit.com/archives2/008732.php
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
Submitted by Kapitein Andre on Wed, 2007-08-29 15:18.
This is not a retreat, it is a rout. There is virtually no country on Earth that Whites can immigrate to and expect to reside for the forseeable future as part of the majority. As White South Africans emigrate en masse from their disintegrating and crime-ridden rainbow society, desperate Britons and others give South Africa a chance. Australia and New Zealand are also popular "White havens," however, both are being targeted by mass migrations and have been in the sights of poor and populous Southeast Asian countries for decades.
Unfortunately, even East-Central Europe offers little hope of respite beyond ten, fifteen or maybe at most twenty years. The fact is, the majority of White countries worldwide are in the process of becoming White-minority countries. If you have no problem with this, and believe that cultural differences are socio-economic or environmental in origin, then there is no need to emigrate. If you do have a problem with this, then unless you fancy a log cabin in the Alps as your permanent residence, there is no need to emigrate either.