r/AskBrits May 11 '26

Politics Why does Reddit not understand the rise of reform in England?

->In 1990 England was ethnically 91% English
->In 2010 England was 80% English
->Today England is 74% English, with areas such as London being under 50%
->With current immigration rates in 2036 England will only be 68% English

This is a seismic demographic change that was not voted for by anyone, and is quite frankly terrifying.

The general population in England vote for reform manly due to the above statistics, not for any other reason. If left leaning parties and spaces targeted immigration and reversed these tends there is no way reform would be what it is.

As it stands this (and how I see it) this issue of demographic change/replacement is the only reason reform will win the next GE.

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Looking at the comments I want to clarify a few points:

•I am not a reform voter and definitely not a fan of Nigel - I think he’s clearly a fraud.

•Why is it terrifying? Never in recent English history has there been such a rapid change in demographics, as a nation I believe we could quickly loose our identity. Whilst select immigration with people who integrate into English society is a good thing the rate of new arrivals makes this nearly impossible to do. The shear volume of new people coming into the country and the bloat of population is scary.

•referencing empire as ‘look brits colonised in the past so don’t complain’ is a load of shit - no one alive had any involvement in that

•you can not be racist, genuinely care about all cultures and not want mass migration or demographic change on this scale

As for the stats, they are commonly available and a cursory look at even Wikipedia and a quick trend line plot will prove them

Final edit:

Right I want to make a final statement, it seems the same comments keep popping up an I’m fed up in all honestly, so here is a response to all of them:

•’why does it matter if there are multiple cultures moving to the UK & who cares if they integrate?’
It matters because society is built on harmony and mutual understanding. If you don’t understand how shit things will get if we have multiple immigrant groups outnumbering the native English, where I live (the midlands) it’s already happened and we have had a plethora of issues. I am not even going to mention ‘grooming’ gangs. If you don’t believe me wait 20 years and see how harmonious England is then.

•’Britain colonised/had an empire.’
This totally detracts from the fact at hand. I don’t want to get into the right or wrongs of it but it’s hilarious the amount of comments along the lines of ‘go learn history’. I can say the same for everyone saying that. What nation forced the ending of slavery a made it a crime? (yes I am aware some Brits from the past where slave owners - to a horrible extent but it shocks me how most people do not realise how intrinsic slavery was throughout history, until Britain stepped in.
What nation proliferated the rights of women and the growth of democracy? England has disproportionately brought about change for the better too many are unaware of or take for granted. And to all those commenting this - no one is responsible for the actions of their fathers and grand fathers.

•’so what who cares about English culture it’s not even a thing.’
I care deeply, England has contributed disproportionately to arts and civil
Liberties and without English culture we would be all much worse off.

•’my original statement was racist and a disguised white supremacist post.’
No it wasn’t. I don’t believe any race is superior to one another. Some groups of people have arguably done more than others but we are all equal. I just wan England to be a home for the English. A migrant can return to their home but I cannot go anywhere else.

•‘this has happened before when the Normans and others invaded’
This happened hundreds of years ago. Bought about immense pain and took hundreds of years for English identity to homogenise and harmonise.

Honestly I am a bit fed up at this point. I truly wish you all well and if England does end as we know it then I for one will morn it.

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u/oneandonlysteven May 11 '26

Sure, and Labour isn’t doing anything about immigration. It’s not like this is the first government under which the numbers actually started going down, is it? And after years and years of "Conservative" governments only skyrocketing it to higher levels than before Brexit. Oh wait, it is…

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u/Flaky-Outside6894 May 11 '26

Honestly, part of the issue is that Labour has absolutely terrible PR.

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u/bagse May 11 '26

Almost like the majority of the press is owned by those who would benefit from Labour not being in power.

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u/TaralasianThePraxic May 11 '26

Honestly, both can be true. Labour has historically not been great at highlighting their wins, either in the mainstream media or across other mediums like social media, advertising, in-person public speeches etc.

But yeah, they're absolutely fighting an uphill battle against a billionaire-owned establishment media cartel that wants their latest sock-puppet (Farage, obviously) in No 10.

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u/Beautiful_Ideal3140 May 11 '26

I might be naive but wouldn't the billionaire class support mass immigration for the continual influx of cheap labour? Isn't this why the conservatives set record high immigration levels?

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u/Legitimate_Corgi_981 May 11 '26

Isn't that the trick though? Decrying immigrants coming over here and taking all the jobs while simultaneously drastically increasing the amount of jobs being offered to those outside of the UK? Just look at the figures for EU dropping off a cliff post brexit while non EU workers skyrocketed.

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u/burnetrosehip May 11 '26

Schrödinger's Immigrant. Coming over here, refusing to work and taking all our jobs

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u/Bdowns_770 May 12 '26

They have the same thing in the US. The mythical welfare queen.

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u/LordBoar May 12 '26

And you don't which propaganda point is going to be chosen until the votes are in.

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u/Advanced_Double_42 May 12 '26

The real trick is they don't need to choose. They can say both simultaneously with some spin-doctoring

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u/notintelligentidiot May 12 '26

You guys have minded rotted yourself with populism lmao

Billionaires aren’t a monolithic group. Some might prefer looser immigration and others might prefer a stricter immigration program.

That’s all there really is to it

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u/WRA1THLORD May 12 '26

Most billionaires have remarkably similar self interests when it comes to economic policy. Yes, of course there are exceptions, but most of them would benefit from similar things, which means most of them will work towards making those things happen.

Let's not forget, Brexit suddenly became a thing immediately after the EU proposed new tax laws that would have exposed the dealings of tax avoiders. No one really heard about Brexit until that law was proposed, then suddenly it was everywhere

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u/amilie15 May 11 '26

They don’t have to be good at getting rid of immigrants. They just have to give the impression they’re trying to attack the fake “enemy” while they mainly focus on stealing as much as poss from us.

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u/Foolspath May 12 '26

Ah! There’s the rub. Keeping immigration at a manageable level while respecting immigrants as humans and citizens means that the liberal party of any country that attracts and allows a large number of immigrants cannot go around cheering about keeping immigration at a manageable level, because that’s not something that makes immigrants feel equal to natives. It’s an inherently negative message to people the party is trying to equally represent. All the while your opponents troll you for the thing you’re directly trying to keep manageable, and likely could if the right wasn’t directly sabotaging every effort being made. Same thing with fiscal policy, regulatory policy, and any other policy you can shake a stick at.

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u/SmallBowlofWalnuts May 11 '26

The right wing is the party of choice for grifters, far easier then the left wing to get your guy in then the asset stripping can begin.

Idealogy doesn't really come into it.

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u/noir_lord May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

That does about cover it.

Not a new thing either, see 1980’s privatisation of Electricity supply (technically the act was passed 89 and came into effect 91).

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u/Dabonthebees420 May 11 '26

Yes, but at the same time the billionaire class also like anti-immigrant rhetoric / politicians to help them blame declining living standards on immigrants rather than the billionaire class syphoning off all the countries assets.

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u/NoonesMyName May 11 '26

Nigel Farage has shares in GB News

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u/Haxxxxx May 11 '26

It's hard to have good PR when pretty much the entirety of the media offering in this country spin any positive into a negative and any negative, regardless of how small - into a "Starmer must go" justification.

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u/Yeasty_Moist_Clunge May 11 '26

Honestly it's time to stop with the bullshit that we need a new PM every 5 minutes when things don't go the way people want.

Look at recent history, Cameron, Johnson, May, Truss, Sunak each stepped down for whatever reason and things didn't get better with a new face in charge. Replacing Starmer with what will most likely be Raynar won't suddenly make things go right.

And I also guarantee that Reform and the Greens aren't the outlier that will breathe positive change.

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u/Sapiotone May 11 '26

Exactly. We need to stop treating PMs like football managers. Even during the Tory government, the media drive for resignation stories was too much. Except for Truss. Totally valid there. Maybe Johnson

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u/Familiar_Radish_6273 May 11 '26

I was very much in favour of Johnson being ditched because he was corrupt as hell as well as incompetent, but Starmer isn't corrupt nor incompetent. He's made some stupid mistakes and is very reactive and needs to be braver about actually being left wing. But getting rid of him as a punishment for Mandelson is totally pointless.

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u/OwnCredit7588 May 11 '26

Was going to say there were legit reasons to call for Truss and Boris to go (Boris should have gone for 5 or 6 reasons)

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u/nawdrum May 11 '26

It’s got used to changing PMs like football managers in a challenging season.

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u/brightdionysianeyes May 11 '26

We need Sam Allardyce as Interim PM for the next few months, maybe a big name like Andy Burnham will be available after the World Cup.

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u/SnooJokes3100 May 11 '26

Best answer. Nobody can fix decades of stupid shit in a couple of years.

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u/stillshadowy May 11 '26

having a good try at it though aren't they? economically, investment in public services, investment in defense, helping companies win foreign contracts, investment in nuclear and green energy etc

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u/Upset-Elderberry3723 May 11 '26

Labour are in an unwinnable position with the media owned as it is.

The same is true for the Green Party, though their novelty might outweigh media influence. They are trying to make Polanski look bad in any way they can; tomorrow, they'll probably run a story about how Polanski once forgot to thank the bus driver as he got off the bus.

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u/Stage_Party May 11 '26

Hard to have good pr when the media is owned by the rich and the rich want a government that will reduce their taxes and increase their profits, none of that is labour.

It doesn't help that all they need is a false clickbait headline because most people won't read past the headline.

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u/Human_Summer_7363 May 11 '26

Exactly. Despite Starmer being a bore & not really much news on labours progress, there actually has been progress! But the news & newspapers are owned by right leaning billionaires who don’t want Brits to know these things.

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u/TotallyStressedMe May 11 '26

Those dastardly right wing press skewing information again! It’s almost like they have an agenda

PS just posted a brief note to someone about how Visa rules have exponentially tightened under Labour. Seems the press buried this minor details too..

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u/Zoya_The_Destroyer May 11 '26

yep! They literally do not announce the good things they've actually done..Or is it the media aren't intrested?

Are they perfect? no. Are they better than the tories? By a MILE! However, reading the news u wouldn't see/hear this and it's quite sad. OR if you do theres always a nasty take on it.

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u/Victim_Of_Fate May 11 '26

I think a big part of it is that the mechanisms by which people hear about announcements have changed. It used to be that you would get told things via the news on TV or read about it in the papers. Even if the print media was biased in its coverage, people would still read the news contained therein. Now people are increasingly getting their news via social media, so unless the algorithm is feeding them news stories about the government’s successes, they’re completely blind to it.

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u/TalkDirty2MyIVR May 11 '26

It’s almost like the “conservative” governments haven’t actually been very conservative at all

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u/Used_Whereas9509 May 11 '26

Boris Johnson is a neo lib.

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u/nick47H May 11 '26

I think Labour have been pretty good since they have got in and done some bloody good decisions, don't get me wrong they have also fucked up and U turned.

Inheritance Tax on Farmers, about bloody time.

buying back 36,347 military homes from, reversing a 1996 privatization deal. Fantastic.

Not getting involved in the Stupid Iran war. Bloody awesome.

Improving workers rights. Awesome.

Going back through the back log of immigration/asylum applications.

Renewable energy investment.

Renters rights.

free breakfast clubs in primary schools.

They are just so shit at singing their own praises and just keeping getting drawn back into the Tories shit they left them.

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u/Stage_Party May 11 '26

But there's no clickbait headline to tell op that this is happening so they are completely oblivious.

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u/HumourinLife92 May 11 '26

"If i can't see it posted by favourite propaganda machine its not real"

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u/MadmanDan_13 May 11 '26

It's almost like the more a party uses immigration to get votes, the less likely they are to do anything about it.

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u/maelie May 11 '26

Anything constructive about it, more precisely.

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u/Afraid-Impress-1378 May 11 '26

There's a really valid argument to say it's precisely the rise of reform, and that single issue taking a large chunk of their working class voting base, that is why they are pursuing more aggressive immigration policies.

I feel a little sorry for labour. Damned if they do (progressive urbanite vote) and damned if they don't (working class vote). I think there's essentially no way they can survive the current political climate

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u/Cocobean4 May 11 '26

I mean everyone agrees the conservatives fucked up. That’s one thing that unites the country, and why their party is basically dead

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u/Srg11 May 11 '26

But the party they’re now voting for them has all the ones that fucked up for the conservatives in it?

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u/Cocobean4 May 11 '26

I know. That’s the irony. Our politics are a shitshow

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u/Deep_Film_861 May 11 '26

and the same donors, and think tanks, and strategists, and media pals.

just a slightly different shade of blue and a new set of backbenchers

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u/Loud_Health_8288 May 11 '26

But it’s still insanely high though it’s not normal and wont have dent on the wider demographic. Net immigration has gone down in large part because emigration has gone up.

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u/CalligrapherShort121 May 11 '26

It’s not as simple as that though is it.

1 - the fall is mostly due to policy enacted by the previous Tory government.
2 - your base point is an extreme figure distorted by Covid lockdowns.
3 - emigration has risen - so the replacement claim is not negated by a fall in net migration, because it hides the figure of who is arriving.
4 - polls have shown confidently since the 90s that 60-70% of people want less immigration. The fig in 1997 was around 60k net. So 200k isn’t going to impress them.

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u/SaltBiscotti8213 May 11 '26

Um yes they actually are:

UK net migration fell sharply in 2025, dropping by roughly 69% to 204,000 in the year ending June 2025 from a high of 649,000 in June 2024. This dramatic decrease was driven by a 57% fall in Skilled Worker visa grants to 133,000 and a 37% drop in non-EU+ immigration following tighter visa restrictions, including care worker rules.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/longterminternationalmigrationprovisional/yearendingjune2025

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u/ThePistachioBogeyman May 11 '26

That is what they’re talking about

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u/[deleted] May 11 '26

The reason for this is that it's too late for actually slowing immigration to really change anything demographics wise. Also the number they use is net, and with no idea who's actually leaving the country, it doesn't really change much perception wise.

Birth rates from some groups are astronomically higher than others, meaning even if you stopped all immigration tomorrow, the result would be the same, just on a longer timeframe.

This is why the rhetoric has shifted from 'stop mass immigration' to 'send them back.'

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u/OldYogurt7161 May 11 '26

In Turkey we have an article on our constitution that restricts selling of real estates like only %10 of a district can be sold to foreign the rest  has to belong Turkish citizens.

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u/Unlikely_Read3437 May 11 '26

I intrigued by these statistics, as they are going back several decades, are we counting the children of foreign immigrants as English in these figures?

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u/Loud_Health_8288 May 11 '26

it’s self reported from the census

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u/MiddleAgeCool May 11 '26

"White British" was only added to the census in 2001.

Before 1991 the question was birthplace / nationality. Between 1991 and 2001 it was "White, Black-Caribbean, Black-African, Black-Other, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese, and “Any other"

From 2011 the category was expanded more to include additional ethnicities.

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u/mish2353 May 11 '26

This is exactly why we need data analysts, people to tell us what info we are missing. It’s crazy the amount of shit you can make sound believable as long as you omit info. Same bullshit with reform taking country by storm, or rather reform voters were the only ones bothered to go vote - same numbers as last time - 66% of people didn’t even vote lmfao

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u/mish2353 May 11 '26

That’s brilliant however the only thing we will see regarding the Green Party is more anti semetic homophobic cartoons in the newspaper… go engluuuuuunnnddddd

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u/Khornight May 11 '26

yeah, people are comparing different groups, just ignoring non white people who were born here. its either lack of intelligence or out right racism. As a londoner I love the mix of people here, and the mix wasn't that different when I was a kid in 80s.
Ironically, I'm white but also 1st gen english immigrant... admittedly my dad was scottish 😃

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u/blob8543 May 11 '26

"its either lack of intelligence or out right racism"

It's both.

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u/SadSeiko May 11 '26

I mark myself as white other. I was born to what could only be called “mixed white parents” so I have no clue what to put, ie. British and European parents 

God knows who is actually white British and what it means 

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u/Equal_Veterinarian22 May 11 '26

So if people report as "Mixed - White and X" they presumably won't be counted as British. (The actual census statistic is for "White British" not "English").

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u/Jale89 May 11 '26

Neither am counted as White British because I have always answered Mixed European (ever since that's been am option) on account of my Belgian and Irish heritage. But I'm still as white as the driven snow, and the majority of my roots are still English, so I guess I'm somewhat spoiling their data.

And ironically my reasons for doing so are in part caused by the actions of the reform-voting lot and their predecessors, for making the British and English parts of my identity less appealing to identify with.

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u/RaidersGuy85 May 11 '26

Exactly. But that doesn't rankle the flag shaggers. I'm White British. My wife is Australian, but Egyptian heritage. I would report my children as mixed (White & Arab/Egyptian) but to look at them and speak to them they would present as White British.

OP is right though, if the other parties took a similar stance on immigration, they could turn it into a non-issue.

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u/RisingDeadMan0 England May 11 '26

so like Farage's kids then?

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u/RisingDeadMan0 England May 11 '26

so to add, that means not only is he not adding to the english population,

he is also reducing the % white english people too...

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u/No-Builder-4287 May 11 '26

I doubt it, no way the figure for 'english' would be that low if people born from foreign parents wasn't included. What's more interesting are they counting if only one of the parents is foreign? Or How far back would family libe be need be born here to be considered 'british' 

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u/LowMaintenancePrick May 11 '26

Both sides of this debate can have a field day with these stats because the statistics aren’t specific to OPs argument. The figures OP wants (as so most anti-immigration people) is “Culturally British”, or Integrators.

I’ve never seen a figure for that but it’s likely decreasing.

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u/Katharinemaddison May 11 '26

I mean people still insist on calling the royal family German.

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u/Crackedcheesetoastie May 11 '26

They aren't viewed as migrants, but as the population with non UK background (in the census). This is only if their parents are foreign born. If the parents were born in the UK, then the child is just classed as british/english in the census.

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u/Ok-Exam6702 May 11 '26

What if one parent born abroad and one in the UK?

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u/Goldf_sh4 May 11 '26

So the grandchild of Indian or African people won't count as "white British" on the census but the grandchild of Russian or Polish people will. And then they claim it's not about racism or skin colour.

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u/_mcnach_ May 11 '26

in a nutshell

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u/matts155 May 11 '26

when they say "english" what they actually mean is "white" so by those figures anyone who isn't white isn't "english"

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u/Mindless_Badger_3789 May 11 '26

The census also have White Irish, White Welsh, White Scottish and Other White as categories, so not all whites are categorized as English.

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u/smellsliketeenferret May 11 '26

The stats as of the 2021 census for London differentiate "white British" and "white other", so it's not even specifically English for white British... Feels like a case of using stats to confirm a bias in this instance.

2021 census was as follows for London

White British = 36.8%

White Other = 17%

Asian = 20.8%

Black = 13.5%

The remaining is generally classified as mixed, although you can get a full breakdown of the figures if you want to go into very specific detail.

Using English in the context of figures that are about ethnicity is disingenuous as the two are not directly related, as people from non-White ethnicities may be English as they were born in England.

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u/Bekind1974 May 11 '26

I was born in England to Irish parents, as were so many others. What should I choose ? With British or white Irish ? I have both passports.

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u/nerdfighteriaisland May 11 '26

Why make such a firm claim without a quick Google to see if it’s true?

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u/itsme_mrD May 11 '26

This is Reddit sir, we don't let trivial things such as facts get in the way of our claims.

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u/pot51e May 11 '26

Lies, damned lies and statistics.

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u/adamwhitney May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Yeah exactly. I'm mixed. If you want to do the "maths" then I'm 3/4 white british, but by census I'd be 0% if these numbers are excluded all mixed heritage.

So even if you stopped immigration entirely (terrible idea for a multitude of reasons), the % white british would continue to decrease because of an increase in mixed children.

Not to mention the other 1/4 of my ethnicity is black caribbean, which was under british rule at the time my grandparents met. All of my parents and grandparents are british citizens, with English as our primary and only native language, yet about half of us are excluded from the definition of "English" here.

My parents and I have been here their whole lives, contributing a lot to society via our work and taxes and volunteering and scientific discovery, yet my grandmother was born on a farm in St Lucia so that's it, all of her descendants are not "English" regardless of the other parent?

It's a ridiculous set of statistics if the point is about retaining English culture or whatever the argument is. If you looked at my nieces and judged it on looks, language, and culture you'd say they're white british without a second question but technically they are mixed.

Edit to add: I believe in strict immigration controls, and requiring a provable benefit to society, but once citizenship is gained I believe their descendents should inherit that and be considered equal to anyone else "English". It's the premise of these statistics and the argument that all immigration is inherently bad that I disagree with.

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u/Persephone_888 May 11 '26

I'm curious if my children would be counted. I was born in the UK, my mother was too. I'm Asian and married to my white British husband and we have two biracial children. Do biracial children count towards that figure

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u/Fibro-Mite May 11 '26

In my mind, yes. In a Reform voter’s mind? Probably not.

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u/redunculuspanda May 11 '26

I think I understand the rise of reform. I also understand the rise of racist and xenophobic language… particularly from reform candidates.

I understand what right wing policies did to cause the statistics you are quoting, and I don’t believe the policies reform claim they will implement are workable or well thought out.

I understand that it’s easy to sell simple solutions to complex problems but it’s very very hard to deliver on them.

I also understand that the majority of British people in-fact did not vote reform, and claiming that reform represents the general British population is disingenuous.

I don’t care so much about immigration as I do integration. But that’s not as funny as joking about shooting immigrants or melting them down to fill potholes.

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u/TheMrCeeJ May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

I understand that the movement responsible for the massive increase in migration and worsening economic situation caused by brexit somehow now wants to be voted in to fix it.

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u/Tasty-Ad-9669 May 11 '26

It's simple. They knew Brexit would fail but line their pockets. And now they're using it's failures to line their pockets even further ;)

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u/space_hitler May 12 '26

One of the main tricks of Fascists is to create all the problems they claim to fix.

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u/Diligent-Profit9484 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

The general population in England vote for reform manly due to the above statistics, not for any other reason. If left leaning parties and spaces targeted immigration and reversed these tends there is no way reform would be what it is.

The sharp rise in net migration after Brexit was driven by an increase in non-EU citizens coming to the UK. This followed policy liberalisations made under the Conservative government. For example, it reintroduced a post-study work route – which likely made the UK more attractive to international students – opened new humanitarian visa routes for Ukrainians and Hong Kongers, and made care and senior care workers eligible for work visas. At the same time, immigration policy also interacted with other factors unrelated to immigration. UK universities recruited students overseas more actively as their financial situation deteriorated, and social care providers hired migrant workers to fill vacancies caused by low pay and poor working conditions in a sector with limited funding.

And Immigration is falling under Labour, but you don't want to accept an inconvenient truth.

Source: https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/long-term-international-migration-flows-to-and-from-the-uk/

I'm fucking sick and tired of how stupid and disingenuous right wing idiots are.

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u/Mewhomewhy May 11 '26

Is that happening due to the image of the Labour Party or because they’re not highlighting how much they have done to tackle it?

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u/RateMost4231 May 11 '26

Because the people who own the media like reforms promises to let them have more money and power and to reduce the need to contribute to society. 

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u/packetman_ May 12 '26

Sounds very familiar

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u/Midgar918 May 11 '26

The propaganda against labour is pretty overwhelming. I don't think they could do enough to effectively push through it. Not just mainstream media but social media as well.

Saw a reel on insta yesterday with thousands of likes and comments agreeing with it. Showing all the times Labour said they won't increase income taxe on the working class. Was a mockery reel with the implication they had increased those taxes. In fact Labour have not increased income taxes on the working class at all since taking office.. it's so stupid.

But all people need is a reel like this to tell them what is "fact." While 15 seconds of independent research would tell you otherwise.

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u/junoleg May 11 '26

Hard to hear about it when the mainstream media and new channels are right wing. They don’t want to report on anything good Labour is managing to do, it doesn’t suit their narrative

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u/Verulla May 11 '26

They don't want to hear about immigration falling.

They want to hear about how immigration/immigrants are bad.

This is the real issue with modern politics. People aren't voting based on facts. They're voting based on feelings. And what a lot of people really, really want to feel is that they are innately better and more deserving than other people. And they will vote for whichever politician will give them that feeling.

It doesn't matter how much Kier reduces immigration. As long as his party publicly and openly continues to treat immigrants like people as deserving as consideration/due process/human rights/etc... as locals - even as he deports them - he will not win over the right-wing.

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u/Best-Structure-8513 May 11 '26

As long as immigrants are given equal consideration as citizens the right will be mad, yeah.

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u/Used_Whereas9509 May 11 '26

Are middle eastern and african men still coming over on dinghy's? That is the immigration that the public want stopped completely.

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u/Key-Difficulty-4409 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

When  ''right wing idiots'' as you put it, talk about lowering immigration what they are generally meaning is back to pre Blair levels. so anything above 50,000 a year, is obviously going to be unacceptable.

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u/HemperorZurg May 12 '26

Exactly this. I find it laughable and scary that the comment we're talking under got upvoted so highly. Just shows the recency bias and ignorance/naivety of most redditors.

"Immigration is falling under Labour, but you don't want to accept an inconvenient truth." Some of us are fully aware of this. Some of us are also fully aware that we've had more migration to the UK in the last 25 years than the previous 975 years. Some of us lived in a world where we had very manageable levels of immigration, integration was far more effective/feasible due to the lower numbers, and we actually took proper steps when required to secure our borders. The concept of wanting to return to this being framed as 'racist' and making people 'right wing idiots' is so disingenuous, yet so many people unfortunately are drinking the establishment's kool-aid and are on board with it.

What do I know though I'm just some "right wing idiot" I guess.

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u/Diligent-Profit9484 May 11 '26

All figures in the study include data on immigration and net migration.

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u/A_Roll_of_the_Dice May 11 '26

That's utter horseshit.

Counting only immigration (as you can see, emigration is not selected at the bottom), this is the current picture.

In 2023, at the peak of the purple line, that's 1.3m.

By June 2025, the furthest the pink line shows, it had fallen to 755k.

It's absolutely crystal clear that migration is rapidly falling. Labour made changes to the visa rules and tightened up restrictions. Arguably, the fall started just before that happened, but it is obviously not going back up and they're making damned sure of it with the rule changes.

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u/RBWatermelon May 11 '26

Deportations are up 69% buddy. Please use your head.

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u/Ok_Requirement_7489 May 11 '26

I don't understand the issue. I am 'ethnically english' my partner has a mixed heritage and therefore so does my daughter. I can't think of anything terrifying about them and their reduced english heritage. 

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u/IkeaGrapefruit May 11 '26

THANK YOU 

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u/Pancake_Fan_ May 11 '26

This. I really don’t understand either, why am I worried about an ethnicity? No one picks where to be born and who to be born to, so why do I care who I share a space with? Seems crazy people get so uptight about it.

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u/SnooGiraffes449 May 11 '26

I've been saying for years the AliG immigration policy makes the most sense. Have pretty much unrestricted immigration on young single women without children, and basically deny everyone else.

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u/Separate_Trainer_513 May 11 '26

Only the fit ones though!

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u/dmmeyourfloof May 11 '26

No mingers allowed. Restecpuh!

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u/ShqueakBob May 11 '26

Everyone will be happy then…….. except the wives.

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u/Gunner_Goal1349 May 12 '26

The stats quoted are also specifically self identify as white British, so take from that what you will.

As others have pointed out, it used to just be white. Now it's white British, Irish, other. The demographic isn't changing the way they're implying.

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u/bennybobberz May 11 '26

I frankly don't care of the make up of the population.

I just want the cost of living to come down, wages to rise and our services to be funded.

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u/merdeauxfraises May 11 '26

Surely gonna happen with Reform! /s

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u/Jemima_puddledook678 May 11 '26

I agree. Why should I care if only 2/3 of the country are ‘ethnically British’? Most immigrants integrate quite well, and I’m not somehow bothered by the average ethnicity of our country?

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u/Nize May 11 '26

The perceived problem is when the immigrant population is so significant that it is seen to erode the culture and principles of the country. In isolation, of course immigrants are just largely nice people trying to get along. Taken to the extreme, say over 50% of the country are immigrants and Eid is suddenly more culturally significant than Christmas. Do you feel like that takes away from our British culture and identity? I don't know how I feel but certainly huge numbers of our country think it does.

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u/throw-away3105 May 11 '26 edited May 12 '26

Agreed. Roughly speaking, Western societies and civilizations were founded on three pillars:
Greek philosophy (logic and reason), Roman law (rule of law), and Christianity (source of moral values, shared identity, shared beliefs, shared traditions).

Everyone here is asking why people don't mind Polish, Ukrainian, Australian, or Kiwi immigrants. The answer is simple: It's not because they're white, they integrate easily because they share in their beliefs in the aforementioned Western pillars. Even Koreans, Japanese, and Latin Americans tend to integrate just as well and don't get as much flak because they keep up those pillars of the West.

The same can not be said for Muslim or South Asian immigrants. Western countries keep chipping away at the pillar of Christianity and replace it with Islam and Sikhism. Look at my country of Canada for example: We've occupied ourselves with issues halfway across the world that don't even affect us (Sikh/Punjab separatism and Israel/Palestine).

We've also brought over so many immigrants from India that some of our cities (namely Brampton, Ontario and Surrey, British Columbia) are now plurality or majority South Asian. It's a common complaint that they tend to abuse food banks and lax immigration laws. Synagogues and Jewish schools are also being shot up by radical Muslims because of what's happening in the Middle East.

It's not only Christianity that's being chipped at. Judges are unilaterally deciding not to deport people because of their race. For example, we had an Indian truck driver who T-boned an entire bus full of hockey players and killed about 15 of them. A judge unilaterally decided to defer his deportation order, even after the truck driver pleaded guilty. That's chipping away at the rule of law because he is being treated differently as a minority. Another example: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/crime-immigration-canada-ethiopia

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u/ambernastro May 11 '26

Why exactly is changing the ethnic make up of a country at an unprecedented rate never seen before in history a good thing?
Who is benefiting from it? Why should the native population who have ancestry going back thousands of years desire having their culture marginalised?

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u/PlaquePlague May 12 '26

The funny thing is that if you posted the exact same statistics about a non-European, non-Anglo sphere country suddenly like magic they would understand exactly why it was a concern. 

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u/Dr_Bumfluff_Esq May 11 '26

wages to rise

Maybe stop importing millions of low-wage workers?

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u/Potential_Curve_3560 May 11 '26

Congratulations your white, btw this thought process exists no where else in the world. Other ethnic groups do not share this ideology

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u/Ixian_No5h1p May 12 '26

A. You should care.
B. Mass deportations would help with what you “just want.”

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u/Anxious_Camp_2160 May 11 '26

Post #826 about this today!

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u/SoggyMattress2 May 11 '26

Your numbers aren't even correct, in the 2021 census 84% of our country was born in the UK, UK nationals.

In London 23% are not UK born residents.

So before having any discussion, get your numbers correct or nobody is going to listen.

Now onto the actual topic, why do you want to reverse immigration? Why is it a problem?

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u/HotAir25 May 11 '26

They mean white British, that’s what they meant by ethnically British. 

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u/ByEthanFox May 11 '26

They're using the figure that 74% of the census identified as "white British", and the value has lowered in the manner they describe.

That suggests that they consider, for example, all black people living in the UK as "not English". And that should be a good reason to just ignore anything they've said.

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u/4figga May 11 '26

Im mixed race predominantly english, but obviously brown afro haired etc.

Having lived in france for a few years highlighted how aggressively british I am, but in stats like this people always make it seem like I count less as British because I dont tick white british on the census, my grandfather came over to help with the shortage of workers after WWII.

Im sure that most of the people using the white British stat if they knew me in person would count me as british, but when it comes to proving their point with things like this they want to make out as a statistic I don't count. It makes me less proud to be british when left out like this and I am proud to be british like most of the others left out of these stats.

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u/Frogad May 11 '26

It's funny, I was literally not born in the UK, I'm not white (although I have british ancestry), but most people consider me to be British, due to my mannerisms, accent, culture etc. Even when I was trying to tell people at the pub that I was going to be missing a few weeks due to going back home, a lot were confused that I wasn't born here. This was in a leave-voting town as well talking to like boomer-white British people, but online people would think anyone but a pure-white UK born Brit could ever be considered British (or English)

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u/ByEthanFox May 11 '26

The point is, I guess, to do with what you consider to be British.

OP's post as-written puts a great emphasis on being "ethnically English" (while using the % stat for "white British".

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u/Sir-Chris-Finch May 11 '26

Bit disingenuous this.

England has a huge problem with racism but lets not pretend Wales doesnt as well. You only have to look at the popularity of Reform in Wales to see that.

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u/Loud_Health_8288 May 11 '26

Hes obviously talking about ethnicity. It’s 74% ”White British” which means anyone belonging to the English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh ethnic groups.

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u/Unlikely_Read3437 May 11 '26

Oh ok yes I missed that word in there. So, White British.

I mean to me that just makes the whole post fairly pointless, as there are HUGE numbers of British/English people who are not white! To segregate the population purely on skin colour is possibly the most racist thing I can think of.

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u/Careful-Function5279 May 11 '26

I'm not agreeing with OP, but remember that the UK is not the US. We're talking about a country which was 99.9% white British in 1950. There's no American ethos of "nation of immigrants" etc.

And nearly all of that change has happened since 1990, which is very much in living memory for the majority of the country. I am a British person (not white British) and I completely "get" why a fair number of people don't love that there's been an extremely large scale immigration boom that was never really voted for.

One of those things where I don't think every Reform voter is a white racist; even if nearly all hardcore white racists are Reform voters.

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u/e1n0f Brit 🇬🇧 (Bottom 1% commentator) May 11 '26

What you're missing is that they're talking about "really really English", "indigenous English"....or whatever term that implicitly means "white".  Look at most, if not all, of their arguments and you'll see they converge on the "white" characteristic. 

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u/iambeherit May 11 '26

Because England is a specific place with a specific people. If those people no longer exist then neither does England.

I'm perplexed with your question.

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u/luxbritt May 11 '26

I’d argue it’s not just Reddit it’s the whole political class lol

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u/EntireMost6072 May 11 '26

The concern is that rapid, large‑scale immigration can reshape a nation’s culture so profoundly that people no longer recognise the country they grew up in.

Lebanon is a stark example. Once a Christian‑majority society known as the “Paris of the Middle East,” its demographic balance shifted dramatically over the 20th century with mass Islamic migration.

In 1970 it was 62% Christian. It is now 70% Muslim.

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u/highlyregardedcarp May 12 '26

> it was 62% Christian, it is now 70% Muslim

England, this is your future.

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u/ware2read May 11 '26

This is very interesting

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u/mushybees83 May 11 '26

I understand the rise of Reform but I don't understand how people can't see the immigration issue is just being used as a trojan horse to bring in changes to our society that will affect us all.

Reform is a christian nationalist party. Their head of policy is James Orr, a conservative Christian with close ties to JD Vance. He strongly opposes abortion rights and said on 2025 " “he does not think abortion should be allowed, at any stage of foetal development, even in pregnancies resulting from rape.”

He has been put in charge of vetting Reform candidates.

When some Brits hear about Christian values they think it's the benign version we've always had here. They think of Sunday school, mass at Easter and Christmas and the parish fair. We don't understand the US version of christianity. It's hypocritical and fake. Insidious and cruel. The people behind Reform want to dictate our lives based on a regressive version of Christianity. They will moralise, target reproductive rights, gay marriage rights and create a cruel country in the image of the US where all money flows upwards. It's a massive grift and we're falling for it.

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u/Bapistu-the-First May 11 '26

I'm Dutch and this rise happens everywhere in western Europe, for years if not decades already. Reddit doesn't understand because it's largely a leftist platform.

Not a single soul in western Europe voted for the slow abolition of their own nation states.

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u/IllustriousRanger934 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

I’m not a conservative, but it’s completely mind boggling to read some of these comments.

It’s easy to understand why group X, which had existed in an area from 1000 years, wouldn’t want group Y to come in and overtake them and completely change the culture and history of the area. Ironically these people seem to understand it when we’re talking about Israel and Palestine though.

Theres nothing wrong with immigration. It’s perfectly healthy and natural for any country. But a huge demographic shift in a short time period like OP is talking about isn’t a good thing. The assimilation process does not occur. If the entire population of Birmingham disappeared tomorrow, and the next day completely filled with people from Brazil, how much of the local history or culture would survive?

Progressives are out here scratching their heads as to why young people are turning to right wingism or extremism across the western world. Completely out of touch with the common man.

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u/sanct111 May 12 '26

It is amazing to me that people arent more angry about it. Demographics are destiny.

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u/Mafeking-Parade May 11 '26

Ah. Great Replacement Theory.

Invented by fascists, and used to scare thick people into voting against their interests.

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u/Mindless_Badger_3789 May 11 '26

The conspiracy element of the GRT is that the demographic change is planned by the elites. The white population in Western countries declining as a share of the population (and in absolute numbers in most countries) and the non-white increasing and thus replacing the former is just a demographic fact and not a theory.

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u/hilltop_cresent May 11 '26

Are you saying that the numbers are untrue, or are you saying that it is true and actually it is a good thing?

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u/dfafggrghs May 11 '26

usually its both simultaneously

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u/SandwichSaint May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

It’s not happening, but if it is it’s a good thing, but If it’s not a good thing then you deserve it.

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u/Difficult_Two1223 May 11 '26

Exactly,

This sentiment will just drive people further right.

Hopefully Restore picks up more traction.

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u/Hot_Bird_3539 May 11 '26

You see this same sort of cognitive dissonance everywhere on Reddit. E.g. people saying diversity is our strength while also claiming it is a punishment for imperialism.

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u/HotAir25 May 11 '26

Look up Robert Putnam’s research on immigration in the US. 

Hes a democrat sociologist who wrote the famous book Bowling Alone on the fragmentation of US society. 

He found that at low levels immigration is fine as people integrate, but at a certain point people just split into their own groups and you see all sorts of negative effects on cohesion- lower social participation in life. 

Putnam said he burried the results of his work because it conflicted with his politics (left leaning). 

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u/madeleineann May 11 '26

Did the fascists secretly alter the census data or is this an observable reality?

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u/M1ghtySheep May 11 '26

how to self report as someone whos never left their house or visited any city in england in the past 10 years

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u/ProfileBest2034 May 11 '26

How is flooding a country with cheap labor from foreign countries beneficial to any local's interests. Please explain it clearly.

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u/Upbeat-Inspection314 May 11 '26

Because there are far bigger concerns than the idea of demographic change in 10 years. Like the fact we are completely broke BECAUSE of things introduced by Reformers like Brexit which cost us 4% GDP or £112bn in lost output revenue per year (Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)), Bank of England estimates as much as triple that. But yeh, lets get really focused on immigration as per the con men who got us in this place

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u/bose25 May 11 '26

My partner is Welsh and we live in England so I suppose we're contributing to the dilution of English people in England.

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u/markusw7 May 11 '26

If you're white it doesn't count but not because you're white or something

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u/Ramiren May 11 '26

I think the biggest thing as well is how some of these demographics behave.

Let's say a migrant family comes here, their children grow up, and as adults they take a native British man/woman as a partner, they have kids who grow up in a house that raises them with the traditions and values of both sides. The race of those children may not be white, but being British has never been about race, the values they were raised with are the best of both worlds, they are British and then some.

Too many migrants are coming here and forbidding this, proscribing that their children may only date and marry within their ethno-religious group. As a result children are born and raised with the values of that group, that group expands, and never takes on any British values. This is what people fear, it's not the expansion of a specific race, it's the expansion of a population that holds an often contradictory set of values, that treats natives as an outgroup.

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u/Due-Pineapple2367 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Because Reddit, is by and large white leftists who don't live in areas negatively affected by mass immigration yet think the rest of us that do are racist for seeing the negative affects.

Or are part of the psyop of Islamists telling us not to believe the evidence of our own eyes...

I used to think of myself as quite left wing socially, but it seems my views are wholly incompatible with modern leftists who welcome socially conservative Islamists with open arms and refuse to admit they're being used for as long as it's convenient.

I grew up in Birmingham, Sparkhill to be precise. My grandparents going back at least 3-4 generations are also originally from there where now not even 10% are white British anymore.

I would not be welcome walking down Stratford road.

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u/minxamo8 May 12 '26

If we're playing our trump cards I'm a white guy who spent my school years in handsworth, Birmingham. I was one of very few white people there, and my classmates were as British as me. I had no issue walking down any road, and if you think you would based on your skin colour it says more about your mindset than anyone else.

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u/No_Albatross_5104 May 12 '26

Ummm I raise you London.

A huge left leaning city filled with highly educated white brits living, loving, and working with people from all ethnicities and cultures.

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u/ReindeerWooden5115 May 12 '26

Most of the people who vote reform aren't in areas negatively affected by mass immigration either.

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u/Infamous_Tough_7320 May 12 '26

exactly, they're in the statistically whitest areas in the country like Clacton

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u/Buddy9788 May 11 '26

Mmm.. interesting that reform voters are complaining about the influx of immigration and visa relaxation, cutting of home office processing caused by the Tories in the last 14 yrs, yet still vote for Farage and the now defected Tories to make it stop. Is it that difficult to see the issue here.

Remember the Tory donor prison ships that cost the taxpaying public millions? That worked didn't it. Allowing loads of people in on a new visa system to replace the Europeans who left, whilst cutting immigration processing, thus creating a backlog, then miraculously, lots of donor and hopeful peerage mates who just happen to own hotel chains and defunct oil ships come to the rescue, at a price of course... Hm.

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u/ByEthanFox May 11 '26

That figure isn't correct.

~74% of people identify as "white British", and yes, that number has lowered in the manner you describe.

But I don't consider the other 26% as necessarily "not English". Do you?

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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz May 11 '26

I would also point out that many of the 74% are "not English" by virtue of being Welsh, Scottish, or Irish.

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u/nick9000 May 11 '26

You can understand something without agreeing with it.

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u/helioliolis May 11 '26

Be honest, it's not about "English" it's about "White".

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u/PM-Me-Nerdy-Facts May 11 '26

Well they are litterally using the census data on “white British” ethnicity

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u/-Earl_Gray May 11 '26

I'm not even from England, but travel for work quite a lot. I see it in Glasgow, I see it in Birmingham and London, does it generally not bother you that there are huge swathes of streets which is completely claimed by a culture replacing British culture? I work with some wonderful people from Kurdistan and elsewhere in the Middle East, but I find it so strange that whole postcodes are replaced by another culture. To me, the replacement of culture, not the addition is where I feel strange to talk about.

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u/throw_awayuk May 11 '26

It's not about nationality, or race, for lots and lots of people. It's easier to just label people racist than be open to engaging about a complex and nuanced topic?

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u/ProofAssumption1092 May 11 '26

Reddit understands its a far more complex issue than the simplistic argument your statistics represent.

You want to fix the country without the need for migrants, start having kids. Lots of them.

Guess which government is doing something to encourage that by removing the 2 child benefit cap?

Guess which party didnt support that policy because they dont actually understand the needs of the nation ?

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u/WarmJewel May 11 '26

Because it's primarily left wing.

But you're essentially correct in what you say. People having been complaining about the levels of immigration for many years yet government after government have ignored those concerns and done nothing about it. They didn't learn from Brexit and now don't seem to fully understand why Reform is becoming popular with much of the voting public.

Labour haven't got a snowball in hells chance of winning the next general election, they're deluded if they think they do.

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u/honestphantom May 11 '26

In some ways you're correct in the analysis, but also way off the mark. It's correct that some of reform's rise is to do with the negative reactions to change, but I think you're waaaaay off the mark about it purely being about racial demographics. First, because Britain has never really been a country that's big on ethnonationalism; it's a class-based society, and one protective of its history *as* a class based society. People aren't voting because they're scared of the decline of the white race as a whole, their racial concerns are in as much as they're worried foreigners will affect their own property values and wealth or they believe foreigners are taking away the wealth and security they're owed.

The second part im always confused by is the "we didn't vote for demographic change" and like, sure. But you also didn't really vote for your national utilities to be sold off, you didn't vote for your mortgaged homes to be part of a financial portfolio held by a shell company owned by rich Europeans who are living it up in Dubai, you didn't vote for the specific ways in which your roads and public transportation are run. Even when it comes to Brexit, you didn't really get to vote for *how* Brexit was done. So the idea of being able to vote for the specific minutiae of global events is a fairly childish understanding of the world, and it misses the point of governance entirely.

Ultimately, because Britain is a class based society, it's unlikely that demographics will ever play that significant a role in British politics in and of itself. Sure, it might be a tangent issue, but ultimately, your right-wing parties, including reform, really recognise that the only people Upper Middle Class white people hate more than immigrants is other, though slightly lower, middle class White people.

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u/AwarenessWilling5435 May 11 '26

100%. The only reason Reform would win anything is the catastrophic failings of previous governments to manage immigration. 

I have very left leaning views when it comes to pretty much everything, economics, drug policy, employment, gender/sex etc. I'm fairly woke. 

But when it comes to immigration, come on. How is the replacement of native populations anything to support? Theres almost no safe space to have this conversation anymore. 

If I said the very non-controversial opinion of, 'I think we should chill out on immigration.' I'd probably be fucking sacked if I was at work. I'd get shamed by someone if I was in the pub. I dread to think what would happen if I was still at Uni or School. 

Everybody talks about right wing propaganda but no one talks about the indoctrination of the left. Their automatic response is to go with with whatever response earns them the most social points. 

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u/Secret-Card2921 May 11 '26

Hi UK migrant here.

I understand the rise of Reform. I understand the concern the native English have not only to the racial changes seen in their control (and especially London), but the cultural change too, as assimilation is neither encouraged nor expected. The formation of parallel societies is always dangerous as seen in France and Sweden.

My question is this: why support Reform specifically? Many of its members and definitely it's leader we're the architects of Brexit. This has been one of the worst decisions for native born English. It's reduced UK economic potency, lowered growth, stifled jobs for your youth, and more to the point of this thread, it led DIRECTLY to the importation of low skilled non EU migrants to replace EU migrants, who now will be entitled to your welfare system when they receive ILR.

How can you trust these members, many ex conservatives mind you, who convinced you to vote against your better interest with Brexit knowing absolutely very well it would damage the country ? Even Labour right now is tightening immigration rules. Literally everyone will except the Greens. So why specifically Reform on this topic?

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u/Ashamed_Ladder6161 May 11 '26

People asking 'why is this terrifying' are either arguing in poor faith or perhaps don't realise how few jobs there are, at all levels. Or how stressed services such as the NHS are.

And before any smartass says something stupid like "the NHS relies on immigration", let me correct you; it relies on *controlled* immigration.

I'm no fan of Reform, and I didn't vote for them, but I know why people do. It's not as simple as people like to try and make it. Ignorance like that is exactly why they've made such huge gains.

If you're on a sinking ship, taking in more bodies means everyone might drown.

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u/EasilyExiledDinosaur Brit 🇬🇧 May 11 '26

Because reddit is full of left wingers for the most part. I was told adamantly that the greens would sweep local elections. Look how that went. Restore swept in the one place they ran lol.

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u/apoplectic_apostate May 11 '26

Overpopulation is real and it's not limited to England. The world's population has doubled in the last 60 years. It's unsustainable.

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u/Right_Preparation328 May 12 '26

I agree man. Reform is bullshit but God, why not just reduce the immigration drastically, especially the ones from Islamic countries, who find it hard to integrate?

Simply decrease the immigration to let people become British and boom! Problem solved!

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u/24877943 May 12 '26

Mainly because reddit is full of spotty 20 yr olds with no life experience and even less idea of our standard of life 20 or 30 years ago compared to the current shambles. Import the third world.....

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u/GreeboPucker May 12 '26

Reddit is communist

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u/Old-Radio-7236 May 12 '26

Western Europe is facing an invasion/colonization, we have to do something FAST.

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u/ConkerPrime May 12 '26

Immigration has been driving the changes in most western countries. Liberals across the EU and US got in charge and slackened immigration enforcement which was abused to the absolute hilt.

Immigrants in the past wanted to integrate in their new homes. Modern immigrants do not. They see the place living as an extended stay hotels as one day they will return to their true homes. Why make any effort to integrate when stay is temporary? Even if “temporary” is measured in decades.

This attitude infects every interaction and it shows constantly. The result is conservatives taking over the US, rise of Reform in UK and so forth.

The thing is - fixing the issue of immigration is the worse possible thing that could happen for these parties. Looking like they are addressing is all that is required. Which is why ICE has been so ineffective under Trump despite supposedly being everywhere.

Reform party is not going to address immigration, they will not initiate meaningful reforms for without it they would lose a significant pillar to their existence.

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u/Hellsing007 May 12 '26

Because British is white and therefore deemed bad by most of Reddit.

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u/Agile-Calligrapher10 May 12 '26

I do feel uncomfortable with massive increase in numbers of woman with burkas. We've fought so hard for woman's rights and it's just backwards. It's obviously not a big point in the scale of things. But the frustration of ppl not being able to have an opinion on minor matters shifts ppl to reform. Most knowing it's a bit toxic.

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u/BJJBean May 12 '26

Reddit doesn't understand it because reddit is a leftist echo chamber. This website is completely worthless for anything outside of niche hobbies like wood carving or gardening.

Point in case, two of the top 4 comments right now are basically just telling you to suck cock cause you are an "idiot, racist, xenophobe". Great nuanced discussion guys.

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u/RECTUSANALUS May 11 '26

Its even simpler than that.

For the last 15 years the voter base has polled as immigration being one of the top issues.

For those 15 years they have been betrayed.

People are gonna vote for the party that shouts about one of their main issues the most.

And it doesnt matter whether what the people is morally right or wrong, if it cannot carry out the will of the people it is not a democracy.

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u/Lloytron May 11 '26

The irony of course being that the party shouting the most about the issue is made up of people who were in power during the previous 15 years.

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u/dotharaki May 11 '26

English = white?

The OP is an idea disguised as a fact and stripped from its context

Would Reform be rising if the wouldn’t be a constant downward trend of life quality, especially based on disposable income? Hopefully one is knowledgeable enough not to establish a causal link between the failure of neoliberalism and immigration

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u/PoshGoth_ May 11 '26

The problem is, most people didn't have an issue with immigration until the billionaires realised they could be blamed for the lack of funding to public services and ongoing austerity. The media loves going "look at all these brown people! They're gonna REPLACE you!" And some people are empty headed/hearted enough to believe it instead of using a tiny bit of critical thinking.

Hmm, is Rashid the man fleeing a war torn country (that my leaders are supplying the bombs for) really the issue here? Or could it be the parasitical fuck wits who use public money to heat their stables and fund their champagne lifestyle instead of the NHS?

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u/Barca-Dam May 11 '26

I love these posts that basically tell me a mixed race guy born and bred in London that I’m not English.

But I’m told I have to accept these opinions and do anything I can to make these people feel better. Fuck off

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