Immigration and Ethnicity
Does Britain actually have a lot of immigrants compared to other similar countries?
This is a much more difficult question to answer than you might think.
According to the WEF, 12.9% of the UK's population is an immigrant, defined as being born outside that country. That is actually LESS than the USA (15.1%) much less than Canada (21.0%) or Australia (28.2%) about the same as France, Spain and Germany, and significantly more than Italy, South Africa or Turkey.
But those are the WEF's figures, and they only record first-generation migrants, i.e. those born outside the country, so at best these figures cover only recent immigration. But large-scale immigration into the UK has been going on since the 1950s (we'll get to exactly why later on), so maybe a breakdown by ethnicity might be more helpful. But is it? Almost every black person in the UK is descended from someone who migrated there by choice (even at the Empire's height, there were almost no foreign slaves in the UK itself, only its colonies), whereas most black people in the states are descended from people who didn't have much choice in ending up there. Plus Native Americans are not White, but they're not immigrants either. So it's actually really difficult to get meaningful figures to compare between the UK and US, especially as almost everyone in the US who isn't 100% native American is descended from immigrants themselves. And as our American cousins are aware, there is immigration and there is Immigration. An Australian backpacker working in the local Wetherspoons (massive UK pub chain) on his gap year and going sightseeing on his days off before he goes home is, on a statistical level, just as much of an immigrant as a Pakistani Mullah who settles permanently with no interest in getting a job and trying to impose Sharia Law on his local town, but their political, economic and social consequences are very different.
Unlike the US though, it's safe to assume that anyone in the UK who isn't white is definitely descended from immigrants or is one, though many white people are too, especially Eastern Europeans who form a significant chunk of our non-native population. But I think it's the best data we can use and we can at least compare it with other countries in Western Europe, if not the USA.
Another complication is that the best available figures for the UK comes from the 2011 national census. This is done every 10 years and the 2021 census was only finished in February, and what with the coof and everything the figures probably won't be out until next year. So we're dealing with very old data right now.
The UK in 2011 was 87.1% white. However this "white" figure includes Eastern Europeans, who form a sizeable group, especially in the South of England, as well as a smaller number of random white people, largely from the EU and Oceania. However I don't think they form more than about 1% of the total even put together.
This figure compares to 75.1% in the US (but bear in mind what I said earlier about the ethnicity and immigration figures having a different relationship in the US), 66% in Canada (but bear in mind Canada considers English-French crosses to be "Mixed" and not "White" for some mad reason), 92% in Australia, 88% in France, 91% in Germany (but bear in mind Germany's huge Polish, Russian and Romanian populations), 92% in Italy (Who do NOT count Romanians and Albanians as "White"). Sweden keeps no ethnicity statistics AT ALL (wtf), though 19.6% of people living there were born outside it (but again the largest such ethnic minority in Sweden are Finns). 76.4% in Holland (but that figure is only white Dutch, and not the 3% that are German or Belgian) and Spain likewise does not have comparable figures because the Catalans and Basques don't like being called "Spanish" on censuses.
So it turns out it's almost impossible to compare immigration statistics from country to country. What looks like a really weird way of recording it (as the WEF does), is maybe the only way of producing a statistic that is actually meaningfully comparable across nations. We have a lot of immigrants for definite, but whether we have more or less than anywhere else is almost impossible to measure empirically. All I can say is that it doesn't look crazily high compared to other comparable Western countries. But again, it's not even about percentages, it's also about the pressures extra people, wherever they come from, place on schools, hospitals and housing, and their effect on society, culture and law and order.
A Brief History of Immigration in the UK
There was always immigration of course, but two things really kicked it off inm the mid-20th century - the Second World War and the end of the Empire.
WWII itself directly brought a lot of foreign soldiers to the UK - Indians and Tibetan Gurkhas* from the Empire, Canadians and Australians from the Commonwealth, Eastern Europeans fleeing the Nazis (Britain still honours the amazing combat record of Polish RAF fighter pilots to this day) and American GIs. Some of them did settle, but it was the massive labour shortage created by the death and maiming of so many young men and the return of Britain's women to home-making (it was the 50s Baby Boom after all, get back in the kitchen and start making sandwiches) that resulted in a change of government policy. In 1948 the Attlee government decided that the solution to the problem was to import a load of black people to pick the crops, because that had worked so well for the Americans the last time.
*Do NOT fuck with Gurhkas, they are the hardest motherfuckers on the planet. They carry a knife on them that by tradition must draw blood if unsheathed before it is re-sheathed, and if they can't gut an enemy with it they'll cut themselves with it rather than face the dishonour. They are still in the British Army to this day and if the government ever even *thinks* of sending them home to the tender mercies of the CCP, even your fattest, baldest Paki-Bashing neo-Nazi Ingurlund type will get really really mad and force the government to back down.
This first wave of immigrants were largely from the Carribean, and are known as the "Windrush Generation*" after the name of the first ship to arrive, the HMS Empire Windrush, and in general nobody really objected, because they worked and worked hard - the (then brand new) NHS and nationalised British Rail needed staff and they pretty much ran both institutions for decades
*Fun Windrush fact - it emerged recently that the UK government had destroyed the immigration paperwork of tens of thousands of Windrush-era immigrants and then demanded proof from said people that they were in the country legally. Hundreds could not, what with the government having shredded it and everything, and were deported. Some said that this was a sign of racism, I say it is a sign of the Britsh Government's bureaucracy maintaining its usual standards. I'm just surprised that they didn't leave them at a bus stop or accidentally email them to the Chinese like they usually do.
Also in 1948 came the independence of India, the single biggest event in the slow dismantling of the British Empire that continued into the 1960s. All ex-Empire countries were invited to join the British Commonwealth and most did (Ireland quit almost immediately, Idi Amin's Uganda's left when the Queen politely declined his request to be the head of it but later rejoined, Mugabe's Zimbabwe left and Apartheid South Africa were thrown out but rejoined under Mandela). The Commonwealth was designed as a sort of free trade zone, with fewer tarriffs and easier immigration to the UK, in an attempt to keep the former imperial nations friendly and to stop them descending into anarchy (with mixed results). Contrary to what many people believe, it is no longer necessary to have the Queen as your head of state to be a member and in fact the majority of its members are republics.
In theory, being a member of the Commonwealth requires some kind of respect for Human Rights, or at the very least keeping the genocide to a reasonable level, but given that places like Pakistan and Sri Lanka are members, it's clearly not a very stringent requirement. The Commonwealth also holds the Commonwealth Games every 4 years, a sort of mini-Olympics for the Commonwealth countries and this has proven to be a big hit, with millions tuning in to watch yet more foreigners thrash the British at sports they invented.
(Except that year they let the Indians organise it)
Therefore the vast majority of immigration to the UK has been from Commonwealth countries. This changed in the 2000s, when a number of Eastern European countries joined the EU and their citizens gained the right to live in the UK, and large numbers did, particularly Poles and Romanians. With the coof and Brexit, many of these people have gone back home and it's not clear if they're coming back or what the status of EU citizens living in the UK will be in general. Recently, given the recent mayhem in the former British colony of Hong Kong, the law was changed to allow potentially millions of its residents to flee to the UK, though few have as yet because of the coof. This enraged the CCP so much that it is probably a good idea on principle. The people of Hong Kong are highly Westernised and really like the UK, if only because we hardly massacred anybody* when we were in charge.
*But not nobody, you understand.
Who are the immigrant groups and how many of each are there?
As I mentioned earlier, the figures in this section are based on the 2011 census, which is both a decade out of date and has some unhelpful definitions of different groups. It also lumps all "mixed" ethnicity people together as their own group (600,000 people, 2% of the total) regardless of which ethnicities they're actually descended from. So a half-Chinese, half-Indian person counts as the same as a half-white, half-Jamaican person as far as government statistics are concerned, which is a bit silly.
Anyone who says "Immigrants are bad for Britain" or "Immigrants are good for Britain", with no qualifiers, is a moron. Don't listen to them. For a start, each group is very different to the others - some have been a massive overall benefit to the country, which literally can't even function without some of them, some have been a disaster. And within each group, obviously, there are good and bad people (apart from Irish travellers, who are all scum to a man, woman and child). But if I can't make extremely racist generalisations about huge groups of people here, where else can I do it, so here we go:
Black (1.9m in 2011, 3% of the total population).
Again, this is complicated because England counts African and Caribbean black as separate ethnicities (which they are), but Scotland doesn't, so the national census lumps them together, even though only less than 3% of the UK's black people live in Scotland. So we don't actually know how many there are of each group, though it is likely that the Caribbeans outnumber the Africans considerably.
Black Caribbeans
Is their food any good? Yes.
Preferred crimes: Stabbing, shooting, robbery
Preferred drugs: Weed, Crack
Have they been a success? Partly
Britain had many colonies in the Caribbean, and their citizens were the first to immigrate here from the late 1940s onwards. Initially, this was a big success, but problems set in by the 1970s as the post-war economy started to contract and they were suddenly competing with the natives for very limited numbers of jobs and things got really violent in places like Birmingham where the economy was in a particular state of collapse due to the failure of the UK carbuilding industry. At its best, Carribean culture can be colourful and joyful, but it can be angry and violent. Problems in the Caribbean community include rampant child abuse and street gangs, and up until the 2000s, if there was a race riot going on, it was these guys, and of course they have latched onto the BLM thing (in a way the Africans haven't so much) and are the most like the black people that Americans will recognise because they are descended from the same slaves that American blacks are, except they are here voluntarily.
They also have a tendency to bring their inter and intra-island feuds with them. I once worked in a place where one of the managers would continuously haze one of her staff because they came from rival families back on some tiny godforsaken rock off the coast of Trinidad.
Caribbean food is spicy and comes in huge portions. A good Jamaican Jerk Chicken is a gift from Jah himself. Bajun (Barbados) food is more fish-oriented and much spicier, and I'm not so much of a fan of it personally.
Black Africans
(Big Man Tyrone actually lives in London if you didn't know.)
Is their food any good? No.
Preferred crimes: Fraud, Rape, Child Sacrifice
Preferred drugs: Weed, Purple Drank
Have they been a success? Not really.
Africa is of course a gigantic continent with many different ethnicities, but if you say "African" over here you mean West Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone etc.) and South-East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and the like). They aren't as politically prominent as their Caribbean cousins because they are more divided and have less slavery-related grievances, but they have developed a reputation for being lazy, corrupt and untrustworthy.
Many Africans have imported insane religions with them, or even developed them here. Most Christian evangelicals in the UK are African, and Americans know how bonkers they can get, but it's the African Animists who boil their children alive for being witches.
One thing most of the media here won't tell you is that the African and Caribbean populations really really hate each other. The Africans think that the Caribbeans are tainted by the White Man, and the Caribbeans think the Africans are unreconstructed cannibals who sold out their ancestors to slave traders. In 2000 there was a high profile murder of a ten year old boy called Damilola Taylor who was stabbed to death on his way home from school by a gang of Jamaican teenagers simply for being Nigerian, but nobody in the media called it the racist crime it clearly was because muh noble PoCs are a single monolithic block, apparently.
Their food isn't much good. We already have badly-cooked beef and slimy vegetables at home.
Somalis, Sudanese and Yemenis
Is their food any good? No
Preferred crimes: Cutting clitorises off little girls, Benefit Fraud, domestic violence
Preferred Drugs: Khat
Have they been a success? No
Unhelpfully, the Somalis and Sudanese are lumped in with the rest of Africa for statistical purposes, and the Yemenis in "Other", even though they have much more in common with each other than they have with Nigerians or Kenyans, so we don't have much of a grip on how many of them there actually are here. The second-largest Muslim group, they take their religion very seriously but don't tend to be as miltant as other Muslim groups. They form ghettoes and try not to interact with the Khuffar, even if that means never having jobs or improving their lot in life. Like most of the worst immigrant groups, they have brought with them the same problems that caused their home countries to become penniless war zones in the first place - a fondness for petty cruelty and revenge, dysfunctional, violent families and zero interest in improving their lot in life. They are insular, miserable and stink of fucking Khat all the time.
The only exception to their general joblessness is their near-monopoly on Uber driving, particularly in London, enabling you to sit in hours of stationary traffic with a yellow-toothed Khat addict who has Isis' greatest hits on CD.
Not these guys sadly. You should check them out though if you're into post-rock.
Their food consists of barely-cooked parts of the sheep that probably don't bear thinking about.
Indians (1.5m, 2.3%)
Is their food any good? Yes
Preferred crimes: Medical Malpractice, Tax Evasion
Preferred Drugs: Amoxicillin, Lyrica, Propanolol, Booze
Have they been a success? Yes
The Indians in the UK are the close equivalent of East Asians in the US - the healthcare system would not function without them and they hothouse their children to succeed to the point of giving them mental disorders. They also form a large part of the professional class and are serial small business owners. The Hindu Indians (who most of the British Indians are) in the UK are very different to the street-shitting Pajeets they left behind at home and have assimilated very well, with an enterprising, self-reliant culture that also knows how to let itself go and have fun without setting anybody's car on fire, rare as that is around here, and they mix with the whites in housing, in schools and in the workplace. Basically they're the most "British" people left in Britain, and we had to import them, which is pretty embarrassing really.
There are niggles though. Old Indian doctors are notorious for their God Complexes and their misogyny, and they will make your life hell if you question their diagnoses, even though they haven't updated their medical knowledge since we treated depression with military service. And if you're unlucky enough to be a woman, you will be told that you are hysterical and just need to go home with a paracetamol, even if you are currently missing your head.
Their food is good, but most "Indian" food in the UK isn't made by actual Indians. It is made by...
Bangladeshis (450,000, 0.7%)
Is their food any good? Fuck Yes
Preferred crimes: Negligent food Hygiene, Animal Cruelty
Preferred Drugs: Weed (Haram)
Have they been a success? Mostly
The Bangladeshis are a lot more rough around the edges than the Indians, but a damn sight more tolerable than the Pakistanis. The Bangladeshis dominate the food industry, and any "Indian" cuisine you eat here is probably Bangladeshi, or at least cooked by them to Indian or Nepalese recipes. As Muslims, they are fond of the ol' British Bobs and Vagene, but they don't produce a lot of terrorists and tend to belong to the less bonkers sects of Islam. Unlike some groups (*cough*Pakistanis*cough*Somalis*cough) they have figured out that maybe moving to a less shitty country could be a way to improve their existence, though it's a slow process not without its setbacks.
Indian/Bangladeshi food is a national institution. Many of its best dishes were invented in the UK, by expatriate chefs in Glasgow, Leicester, Bradford and Birmingham. Given how revolting actual British food is, we'd probably all starve to death if it weren't for these guys.
Pakistanis (1.2m, 1,9%)
Is their food any good? No
Preferred crimes: Terrorism, Rape, Fraud, Paedophilia
Preferred Drugs: Khat, Weed, Booze (Absolutely Haram)
Have they been a success? No
The Pakistanis are nothing less than a national disaster and have few if any redeeming features. Pakistan is possibly the most backward shithole on Earth, and the Pakistani immigrants to the UK decided to not only wholesale import their medieval religious and social ideas with them, they decided to impose them on everyone else too, gradually turning the big cities and huge chunks of Northern England into the same kind of dirt-poor, violent hellscape they supposedly fled but with unemployment benefits and Useful Idiots in government and the media ensuring nothing is done about it.
Terrorists? Pakistani. Fraudsters? Pakistani. Rape Gangs? Pakistani. The Pakistanis have replaced the Black Caribbeans as the biggest social problem in the UK and when anyone thinks of a "problem immigrant", they are probably thinking about Pakistanis. A handful break the mould, but the majority of Pakistani men in the UK are violent patriarchs who prevent their wives from learning English so that they are effectively prisoners in their own home, where their husbands can beat, rape and poison them with impunity. Their teenage children roam the streets, looking for the opportunity to stab someone or something to vandalise, steal or set on fire. Their imams tell them that White women are whores, so they pass drunk underage girls between them to use as sex dolls, and the authorities do not intervene because wayciss.
I would literally prefer to starve to death than eat the goat entrails they call food.
Chinese (430,000, 0.7%)
Is their food any good? Yes
Preferred crimes: Tax Evasion, Their "Music"
Preferred Drugs: Quaaludes, Cocaine
Have they been a success? Yes
Most British people have no idea how many Chinese people actually live in Britain, let alone that they almost outnumber the Bangladeshis. Most Chinese immigrants in the UK are former residents of Hong Kong, highly Westernised, highly motivated and no friends of the CCP. Their experiences in China have given them a healthy mistrust of authority. Want a loophole? Get a Chinese lawyer. Want to pay less tax? Chinese accountant. Many are big names in business and finance, but even the ones working blue-collar jobs work hard and fit in.
And you can't beat a good sweet and sour chicken.
Poles (numbers not known)
(Cannot possibly think why we like these guys)
Is their food any good? It's OK
Preferred crimes: Criminally low prices
Preferred Drugs: Surprisingly tasty beer with names like "Zwclzhncylcznyaretzhnykcz"
Have they been a success? Yes
Though numbers aren't known, experience seems to indicate that the Poles are the most numerous of the Eastern Europeans in the UK, as more of them came to settle rather than work and send money home. Importantly, the Poles showed up British workers, and tradesmen in particular, as the workshy slobs they were. If you call a British plumber, there's no guarantee he will ever turn up, and if he does he will take one look at your problem, suck his teeth, and say he needs "a part" that apparently needs to be ordered from the Moon, then never be seen again. If you hire Plumbska Polska, he will turn up within 10 minutes, work until he bleeds, then charge you next to nothing and say to call him any time if his work so much as feels like it might drip, which it won't. Hire British movers and they will come on the wrong day with the wrong lorry, get cigarette ash all over your stuff, break something, steal what they like the look of, dump it on the lawn of your new place and demand more money than you spent on the fucking house. Call a Polish mover, and single a massive weightlifter called Vaclav will show up instead. He won't speak a word of English, but he will be able to carry your sofa under one arm and your shed under the other, and put everything in your new house as if you'd been there for years, and ask for less money than two Stellas in a London pub. Their TradCath values mesh well with more traditional British ideas about the family (and gay people, but we don't talk about that).
As for Polish food, the sausage is good, but their bread tastes like sawdust and there's only so much pickled cabbage one can tolerate in a single sitting.
Romanians (numbers not known)
Is their food any good? No
Preferred crimes: Car Theft, Drug Smuggling, Racketeering
Preferred Drugs: Pretty much all of them
Have they been a success? Not really
Not every Eastern European migrant group has done as well as the Poles. The second-biggest group after them, the Romanians tended to gravitate towards manual labour and replaced the Irish as the UK's choice of cheap foreign muscle. They soon started to imitate their forebears by being paralytically drunk all the time and getting into organised crime. A particularly Romanian racket is to steal luxury cars, strip them of plates and chassis numbers, and send them back home in shipping containers to be bought by wideboys in places like Timisoara and Cluj.
Romanians drive like fucking lunatics. When the EU rules regarding Romanian migration were eased, there was much consternation amidst a belief that Romanians were dangerous criminals. The BBC and friends decided to counter this by fawning over the first such migrant to arrive, a former farm hand called Victor Spirescu who was met by a scrum of trendy lefty politicians when he arrived at Luton Airport. It later turned out that Spirescu had convictions for domestic violence back home, and he quit his job at a car wash after two days. Four years later he got blind drunk and drove down a country road near Milton Keynes at 110mph in a 60mph limit, lost control, and was ejected through the front windshield like a missile because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt and abruptly met his maker. He had no insurance (a crime in the UK) and was disqualified from driving after being caught doing doughnuts in a busy high street the year before.
As for what Romanian food is like, imagine the worst Polish food in existence, then have a cat piss in it. The result would still taste better than Romanian food.
Irish Travellers (60,000, 0.1%)
(I had a picture of some, but I turned my back for a second and now it's gone).
Is their food any good? Depends what they shoplifted from Tesco that morning
Preferred crimes: ALL OF THEM
Preferred Drugs: Crime is its own high
Have they been a success? Hahahahahahahaha
Here's a fun game. How can you tell Europeans apart from Americans on a big woke internet forum, maybe SomethingAwful, RPGNet or ResetERA? Wait until someone mentions Travellers. The Euros will turn instantly from dangerhair woke BLM Tumblristas into spewers of multi-page spergouts about how Hitler was right and gassing is too good for them, and the Americans will just recoil in horror at how someone with pronouns in their bio is suddenly making Goebbels sound like a moderate. Then everyone gets banned, obviously.
Irish Travellers are not, as far as I know, related to Romani Gypsies but their MO is absolutely the same - they are mobile crime waves reviled by anyone who has even the slightest contact with them.
Traveller culture teaches its children that non-Travellers are subhuman and that laws and decency do not apply to them. They will roll into town, break into an open space (or even someone's fucking garden) and stay put, sometimes for years, bringing a wave of crime and misery with them that never abates for a second. They will steal anything they can see, they will kill pets, rape women and torch the houses of anyone who dares to stand up to them. They even enslave vulnerable people, such as those with low IQs or addiction problems, and beat and starve them until they are their defeated personal servants and casual labourers. Travellers are a virus - they infect, they consume, and when they have exhausted one host they will move on to the next. They create nothing, they don't send their kids to school, they do not learn, advance or contribute.
And the Left love them.
Travellers, you see, do their thing in the countryside, where woketards never come in contact with them. British urban Liberals mistrust country people. They're mostly white, they vote Conservative and they work for a living. Some of them even have (gasp) guns. So when country people ask that something be done about the filthy pikeys stripping their land of valuables and leaving mountains of literal human sewage and garbage dumps in what were once children's playing fields, they do what Libs do best:
If you have a lefty type that you want cancelled, just arrange for them to encounter some travellers. Their resulting wailing that Zyklon B isn't available easily enough any more will have them removed from the internet faster than you can say "Ni
