Recent polling shows that the overwhelming majority of the British public want to see immigration radically reduced. Half of Britain wants net immigration to be zero – or even less.
The problem with net zero immigration is that around half a million people – almost 20% of whom are British nationals – leave Britain annually. Thus, net zero immigration still means an inflow of half a million strangers every year.
Let’s turn our attention, then, to that second idea – net negative immigration.
To some, this is unthinkable – don’t we need immigration to grow our economy? Well, no. There is an ever-growing body of data to show that mass immigration is not economically beneficial – in fact, along every conceivable metric, it has been a disaster for the wellbeing of ordinary people. In 2023, for example, 82% of migrants who came to Britain on a skilled worker visa failed to earn enough to “break even” – in other words, they cost taxpayers more than they contributed.
Others argue that we need mass immigration to prop up our public services – but this, too, is false. In 2024, every worker who came to Britain on a health and social care visa brought with them an average of 3 dependents. What this means is that for every worker the NHS acquired, it also took on 3 new patients – so in reality, the service is at even lower capacity than it was before.
And let’s not forget that all of these new arrivals need to be housed. Since 1997, the population of Britain has grown by almost 10 million due to immigration alone. Housebuilding has not kept pace with this demand – and so the price of housing has increased dramatically, rising from 4 times the average salary to almost 10 times the average salary today.
All of this begs the question: what has been the economic benefit of mass immigration? Do you feel like things are getting better? I certainly don’t. Are we really in any position to be offering bed and board to all who come here? At a time when it is all but impossible for young people like me, hoping to start families, to afford housing? When healthcare and other public services are grinding to a halt, yet the tax burden is higher than ever before? When high streets are boarded up and covered in graffiti and litter? When crime is spiraling out of control? Is now the time to be opening our doors to endless dependents? Go out into the street, and the answer is staring you in the face.
But even if it could be shown that mass immigration was economically beneficial, that would not make it worth it. Britain is not just an economic zone to be understood in terms of profit and loss. Britain is not a series of spreadsheets and graphs that must be optimised for efficiency. Britain is not a business – it is our home, and economic growth is not a good enough reason to sell our children’s inheritance for cash profit.
There will be those who understand this, but argue that mass immigration benefits us culturally, citing things like an increase in exotic restaurants. But does that justify the comprehensive demographic transformation of areas of this country that were once home to indigenous communities that had lived there for hundreds, or even thousands of years? Does that justify the prospect of those same indigenous communities becoming an ethnic minority in their own country before the end of this century? Does that justify the rapes, robberies, and murders that have occured as a direct consequence of immigration from the most violent regions of the world? I don’t think so – and I think anyone suggesting it does is either woefully ignorant, wilfully blind, or actively malevolent.
We are well beyond the point of “making immigration work” or “incentivising assimilation”. On the contrary, we are discovering that assimilation as imagined by our liberal leaders is a myth – just as one cannot simply “become a woman”, one cannot simply “become British”. In time, this will be remembered as one of the great political lies of the 21st century, and will be resigned to the ideological scrapheap alongside communism, fascism, and every other failed ideology of modernity.
It’s no wonder, then, that so many of us are coming to the conclusion that it is not enough for mass immigration to merely end – it must be reversed. It is simply not reasonable for migrants to be taking more from the public purse than they are putting in. It is not reasonable that those who commit crimes are permitted to stay. It is not reasonable that young people are made to foot the bill for our leaders’ failed ideas. It is not a human right to live in this country, and though the British are a decent, Christian people, we are not a global charity. It is not immoral to recognise that this project has failed – and must now be put right.
A better future is possible – we simply need to be prepared to have a frank and honest conversation about what must now be done.
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