All change

In 2010, a quarter of births were to mothers born outside the UK, according to the ONS. 
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The same set of statistics also showed that immigration added 239,000 to our population – a number which proves that this Government has no more control over our borders than the last one. 
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The public instinctively senses this. 
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Not so those “live births”.
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If a quarter of all babies born in England and Wales are to foreign mothers, then we’re experiencing the biggest change in our demographic identity since the Anglo-Saxon invasions of the fifth century. 
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Future historians will regard this as the major development in early 21st-century British history. 

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Nothing like this has happened before. 
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Please pay no attention next time a historian pops up on TV to romanticise the arrival of the Normans, Huguenots, Eastern European Jews etc. 
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These were significant influxes, but Great Britain has never been “a nation of immigrants”. 
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Even cosmopolitan London has witnessed nothing remotely comparable to the population shift recorded by the current ONS statistics. 
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More than half of all babies born in the capital in 2010 were to foreign mothers
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In the borough of Newham in London more than three quarters of all new mothers were born abroad.

Another statistic that jumps out of the ONS findings relates to Poles. 
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In 2001, there were 896 babies born to Polish mothers in England and Wales; in 2010, there were 19,762. 
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Meanwhile, births to Middle Eastern, African and Asian mothers amounted to 14.7 per cent – that’s twice the proportion of non-British European mothers. 
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Add that 14.7 per cent to children born to non-white British mothers and within a few years, a quarter of young Britons will be black, Asian or of mixed race.
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In the capital, the total will be well over 50 per cent.
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The colour of people’s skins isn’t the problem, of course. 
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The danger lies in a clash of ethnic and religious cultures against a background of broken families.
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London is already well on the way to turning into a US city, with sprawling black ghettos and a semi-invisible network of foreign white gangs.
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Organised crime from Eastern Europe, one of the most powerful forces in the world today, has only just begun to flex its muscles in Britain.

Alas, as the riots proved, we don’t have a clue how to police this emerging landscape.


And, let’s face it, with the present coalition government thrashing about  we’re not likely to find out. 
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So watch this space, but from a safe distance.
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Britain is changing fast however our politicians are not able or prepared to confront the need for policies to reflect the demands of these changing times.
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Preferring instead to lock up ever more young people.
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To criminalise ever more citizens.
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As we say watch this space, but from a safe distance.