Some thoughts on Immigration
Published: Fri, 09/19/25
Updated: Fri, 09/19/25
One of the main factors which drove habitual Conservative voters to vote Reform instead was frustration at the Conservative government’s apparent inability to control immigration to this country, either legal, and especially illegal migration by small boats across the English Chanel. The Labour government likes to boast about its ‘mandate’ to rule the UK and is proving even more inept at controlling this highly divisive issue.
Last week there was a huge rally in London protesting against loss of English identity at which Tommy Robinson spoke (more on that gentleman later). We also keep hearing that Nigel Farage , the leader of Reform, will probably be in number 10 Downing Street after the next general election. The idea is that his party will be the last hope of a frustrated electorate who by then will be terminally disappointed in the traditionally mainstream parties.
So, what is going on with the issue of immigration into the UK (and many other Western countries) and why can’t it be controlled to the satisfaction of a large proportion of the indigenous population?
Firstly, immigration to the UK is nothing new. East Yorkshire was settled by the Danes over a thousand years ago and this part of the country was actually known as ‘Danelaw’ as it was ruled by Norsemen. Then in 1066 the Normans made a one way crossing of the Chanel in relatively small boats and we have been speaking a hybrid form of French ever since. I grew up in North London in the 1960s and 1970s. We had Jewish neighbours whose parents had left Nazi Germany in the 1930s. West Indians had been settling in London since the 1950s. In the Mid 1970s Idi Amin, the President of Uganda drove the Asian population out the East African country and many of the Ugandan Asian refugees settled in North London. I was at school with some of them. There have been many more waves of immigration and all have caused a certain amount of tension and anxiety until the newcomers have assimilated as far as possible.
However, there are larger numbers of migrants entering the UK than ever before, so why is this being allowed to happen? The reasons are complex and I don’t have the space here for a full analysis. However, there are three questions which do need to be asked, as someone is benefiting from the current situation.
1. In a post industrial society what is the one factor which has prolonged prosperity? One of the biggest complaints against immigrants is that they are living in properties which Native British people could be occupying. In areas like East Yorkshire huge numbers of new houses are being constructed in any available area around existing towns. The Native population is actually in decline and if there were no immigrants then there would be a good deal of spare housing available. And yet, people are moving out of big cities and buying new properties around towns such as Beverley and Hull. Something is putting enough pressure on the housing market to necessitate the building of many new homes and maintain high house prices.
Borrowing money to buy properties and extending mortgages against inflating house prices accounts for a large proportion of GDP. Without immigration, and the corresponding competition for homes, housing costs would be a fraction of what they are now. Such lower costs might benefit ordinary people. However, the wider economy would suffer a major recession even sooner than it will anyway for the reason discussed below.
2. How do you maintain a society with an ageing population and a low birth rate? As I have mentioned before, in the lifetime of people who were born in the 1920s the world population has increased from 2 to 8 billion people. The prosperity we have enjoyed in the West over the past hundred years has been driven by that increase in population and the corresponding developments in technology, industry, and markets. With an ageing population and falling birth rate the rise in prosperity turns into a corresponding decline. A temporary solution is importing the labour which is not being born here. Eventually the economy will decline to the point that there will be no money to pay immigrants to work here anyway and a great many of them will return ‘home’.
3. How do you drive re-engagement with politics and build popular support for a new party ‘untainted’ by the failure of the ‘mainstream’ political parties? The time honoured method uses the so called Hegelian Dialectic of problem, reaction, and solution. Those who could control immigration, if they wanted to, need the newcomers to maintain the property market and provide cheap labour for the industries and services (such as the NHS) which are still functioning. However, regardless of such benefits, the apparent failure to control immigration is creating a widespread reaction of anger and frustration, to which populists such as Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage claim to offer a solution.
It may not be quite fair to lump Messers Robinson and Farage together as right wing extremists and yet they both serve the same agendas. Tommy Robinson might be the street rabble rouser who voices the anger of the ‘common man’, while Nigel Farage provides the democratic opportunity to vote for someone who will, this time, provide a solution to the intractable problem of immigration. I am really not sure that a Reform government would be any different from previous administrations as they would still have to contend with the issues outlined in 1 and 2 above
There is yet another factor to consider in that both Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage are dependent upon the support of the Zionist lobby and it’s deep pocketed donors. Israel really needs Western governments to be dominated by those who are willing to back the Zionist state to the end. Such support is rapidly eroding amongst ordinary voters as they watch the atrocities being inflicted on the Palestinians. However, if enough anger and frustration can be generated against immigrants over the next couple of years then sufficient numbers of voters might just overlook the Zionist sympathies in a Reform government if they believe Mr Farage and company can actually deliver a solution to the issue which most irks them. I don’t think such a move will work, but it might explain why ‘right wing’ populism is almost fashionable at the present time.
Regards
Graham
PS I have updated the Stavcamp pages with a short report and some pictures and videos https://www.stavcamp.org/
PPS Our next course is on the 18th of October in Salisbury https://iceandfire.org.uk/salisbury18102025.html
Graham Butcher
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Beverley East Yorkshire HU17 0QN
UNITED KINGDOM
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