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Last weekend, my cousin's beautiful child, not long out of medical school, wed her sweetheart - a good-looking young physician from an Indian family.

The Hindu wedding ceremony was incredible, vibrant and substantial fun for everyone. Watching as young English and Indian people danced together, I reflected that the day was a best example of multicultural combination as all of us want it to be.

But it is alarmingly ignorant to take these advantages for approved and to expect that the meeting of cultures will instantly result in universal love.

The UK has probably the very best record of any country in the way that, for centuries, it has actually taken in immigrants and refugees from every corner of the planet, providing a safe and civilised haven.

From the Huguenot Protestants who got away massacres in France during the 16th century, to the Jews getting away Nazi genocide during the Second World War, right approximately the Ukrainian ladies and kids offered shelter today, British tolerance and compassion have actually been a lifeline for millions.

Now that tolerance is being stretched to its limits. Mass immigration, compounded by people-smuggling on a commercial scale, is destabilising our country.

We need to not fall under the trap of expecting that, due to the fact that it has normally worked out fine in the past, Britain can soak up any amount of group change.

We have never seen intensifying immigration on anything like the scale of the past 20 years, wites Prof Robert Tombs

History reveals that, even here, abrupt increases of migration have actually caused upheavals that last for centuries. And we have never ever seen intensifying immigration on anything like the scale of the previous 20 years.

Official figures from the Department for Education exposed on Thursday that white British children are currently the minority in one in 4 schools in England.

This improvement has actually been especially marked in our big cities. At Rockwood Academy in Birmingham, for example, there was not a single white British student recorded among the 1,084 who go to the school.

Recently likewise saw the publication of a report from Professor Matt Goodwin at Buckingham University, predicting that white Britons will be a minority of the population by 2063 - hardly more than a single generation.

By the end of the century, according to his figures, 60 per cent of the nation will have been born overseas or will have at least one parent who is an immigrant. By then, more than 19 per cent of Britons will be Muslim (compared with the present 7 per cent). Goodwin's projections are based upon census information and figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

I presume these numbers severely underestimate the true rate of modification. They assume a steady influx and stable geopolitical conditions, when we have every reason to anticipate both of those factors will prove unpredictable.

An anti-immigration protester holds up a placard during a demo in Dover in 2020

Climate modification could have a impact on migration, if even a couple of of the more alarmist theories are borne out.

Tens of countless people in low-lying nations such as Bangladesh might be made homeless if water level increase. Millions more would flee their homes if glacial melt in the Himalayas triggered disastrous flooding in India.

Civil wars in Sudan, Congo and Eritrea have currently driven enormous varieties of people to cross the Mediterranean into Europe. African countries from Nigeria to South Africa remain in threat of tearing themselves apart, and the result would be an enormous rush of individuals seeking to escape the combating.

These upheavals would be minor compared with the consequences of war between India and Pakistan, or in the Middle East. In those cases, Europe might see 100 million refugees or more.

Add to that the rise of organised crime and individuals trafficking. For all Sir Keir Starmer's bluster about 'smashing the gangs', he closes his eyes to the fact that this is a multi-billion-pound organization - one that will not stop even if he makes speeches.

These are not minor lawbreakers. They are international cartels, who have found a profits stream that equals benefit from the drugs trade. The Government has no ideas at all about how to stop them.

The numbers of financial migrants making the dangerous crossing from France in overloaded dinghies are mounting, sometimes topping more than 1,000 in a single day.

The cumulative result is mind-boggling. According to your house of Commons library, 44,000 people arrived unlawfully in the 12 months to March - which figure, obviously, represents only individuals we understand about. Much more have most likely slipped under the radar, landing unnoticed or concealed in lorries and containers.

But 44,000 equates to simply 5 per cent of the immigration total for the year. Legal arrivals outnumber the unlawful ones by about 20-to-one.

Nothing in our long and fascinating island story has actually ever come close to this. Mass immigration, ushered in by New Labour under Tony Blair, is a reckless experiment in market revolution that has never ever been tried in Britain before.

But it has happened elsewhere. And for indigenous populations, it has frequently been devastating.

When Europeans settled in the Americas, from the 16th century, they required their method on to the land. In Australia and New Zealand - nations that were much less densely inhabited - there was less massive violence however the effect on the aboriginal people was no less disastrous.

Significantly, the British Empire never ever enabled migration to India, which had actually a large settled population. British topics were encouraged to settle just in sparsely peopled areas: for example, Canada and wide-open parts of Africa such as Kenya.

But in every case, when this process started, it was soon unmanageable. More than six million Irish emigrants gotten here in the US during the 19th century, a 3rd of them in the area of less than a decade from 1845.

Almost as lots of Italians emigrated to America, the majority of them between 1880 and the early 1920s. In a country riven with racial divisions, the Italian and Irish neighborhoods combated to make it through, typically naturally by effort, however likewise by political corruption and organised crime.

Starry-eyed Left-wingers like to claim that Britain too is a 'country of immigrants'. That's utterly disingenuous.

William the Conqueror, who arrived throughout the Channel in 1066 with his own flotilla of boats, brought just about 7,000 guys. Yet that little army and the French-speaking Norman immigrants who followed damaged the native Anglo-Saxon culture and ruled over an entire people.

Almost every big Saxon structure was destroyed, the judgment elite was changed, their residential or commercial property seized and the language altered beyond recognition. For centuries, Saxons were required to labour as serfs, abhored as an inferior race by the colonising elite. Even Saxon saints were benched.

It took at least 400 years for the aftershocks of the Norman invasion to go away.

Resentments ran so deep they are still visible in our folk legends: Robin Hood was thought of as a Saxon knight combating Norman oppression. The concept of this 'Norman Yoke' inspired democrats well into the reign of Victoria.

Even today, almost a thousand years later, the Conquest may be embedded in our class system.

A 2011 research study found that Britons with names showing Norman descent - such as Mandeville, Lacy, Glanville or Percy - were on typical ten percent better off than those with Saxon artisan names such as Smith, Cooper, Baker or Shepherd, almost a millennium after the Battle of Hastings.

To comprehend totally how badly damaged a country can be by unrestrained migration, we need just take a look at Northern Ireland. During the 17th century, tens of countless Scottish protestants moved to Ulster. Though separated by the Irish Sea, these two countries are so close that on a clear day they are visible to each other.

This was a state project, started by the Scottish and English governments throughout James I's reign, and developed as a way of ending mass hardship in Scotland by motivating people to live by farming in Ireland.

Well, we all know the result: it caused enmity and violence still common today that has actually seen thousands eliminated over the centuries.

Not all the social inequality in Britain is the outcome of the Norman invasion, naturally, anymore than all Ireland's Troubles were the repercussion of a plan to ease hunger in Scotland.

But when problems have complex causes, individuals look for simple scapegoats - and migration will constantly provide one.

The UK population is now 69.5 million, according to the ONS. (Many believe it to be

substantially higher). That's a boost of ten million this century. Yet the birth rate is falling: in 2023 it reached its lowest rate on record in England and Wales, at 1.44 kids per female, compared to the 'replacement rate' of 2.1 - the number of kids required to keep numbers constant.

If our growing population is not due to giving birth, it needs to be driven by migration.

The falling birth rate is not a new phenomenon. In 1938, it was predicted that the UK population would peak within 5 years at 41 million, which it would then fall steadily for the next three decades, to 31 million by 1975.

In the event, this ended up being nonsense, partly because the main data did not anticipate the Second World War and the baby boom that followed.

But the predictions also failed to take account of the beginnings of migration from former nests, with many thousands showing up from the West Indies after 1948 - the 'Windrush generation' - and Pakistan and India following independence and partition in 1947.

There were other surges, for instance from East Africa after the increase of the despot Idi Amin who expelled 80,000 Ugandan Asians, among them the moms and dads of former Home Secretary Priti Patel.

Crucially, the fantastic bulk of these immigrants were identified to integrate into British life. If not already English-speaking, they found out the language. They tried to find work or began organizations. Many brought much needed skills and dynamism.

But that is not the case today. A high proportion of legal immigrants concern do low-paid work, for example in care homes and the hospitality sector. Those who certify under the federal government visa plan for proficient workers or health and care workers can anticipate to be paid 80 percent of the basic wage.

Those in the fishing market, for example, receive ₤ 12.82 an hour, rather than ₤ 15.88 for British workers. A comparable inconsistency uses in numerous trades from welding to dance and choreography.

When will white Brits end up being an ethnic minority? Map exposes areas where they currently are

This has a threefold effect: wages are depressed, new arrivals reside in comparative poverty, and many British individuals have actually dropped out of the labour market. Resentments grow on all sides and the expense is unsustainable.

Many other migrants, it needs to be said, make the most of our generous asylum system - consisting of housing (in some cases in comfortable hotels), food, complimentary NHS healthcare and even investing cash.

The best source of animosity, though, comes when immigrants decline to incorporate. Incredibly, numerous on the Left encourage this by trashing our culture and libelling our history - raising every background except the indigenous one. It spells disaster for our future when immigrants are encouraged to remain locked within their own communities and taught that the British have actually always been their opponents.

How harmful this is, we can see by looking across the Channel, to France where 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants from North Africa produce a consistent state of unrest. Riots are regular, car-burning is a national sport and extremist political leaders talk of're-migration' - the expulsion of individuals who 'do not suit'.

This will be Britain's future if the Government does not take control of the circumstance right now. Immigration can benefit everybody, however only if it is strictly handled, democratically accepted and culturally integrated.

Allowed to lack control, as the arc of history programs, it destroys countries.

Professor Robert Tombs is the author of The English And Their History

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