In the UK, the migrant issue keeps getting worse. Sometimes, the clashes with migrants are almost like a civil war. The situation is getting more intense every year, but the government isn’t doing much to make things better.
For example, back in February 2024, renowned British journalist and writer Allison Pearson, who had worked for many years with the Daily Mail, Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph, and the Financial Times, and a former presenter on BBC Radio and Channel 4, wrote with great concern and pain in The Telegraph newspaper that British society is becoming less civilized due to the influx of migrants. The very image of life in the country is changing, and culture and language are under threat.
“I may be old-fashioned, but I liked our country much better when women and children weren’t doused with acid in the streets, when teachers didn’t have to hide with their families in order to instill religious tolerance in their students, when anti-Semitic hate marches weren’t held in the capital on Saturdays, and beloved members of parliament didn’t resign because of threats of reprisals for standing up for their Jewish constituents.”
Mike Freer, Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green, has announced that he is retiring from politics after receiving death threats for his pro-Israel views.
Mike Freer
Ten years ago, a group called “Muslims Against Crusades” declared a man representing the most densely populated Jewish district in the UK a target for its supporters. Recalling the recent attack on Labour MP Stephen Timms, who was stabbed, the extremists warned Freer not to forget his fate.
Stephen Timms
Today, Frir believes that he survived only by sheer luck: it turned out that Ali Harbi Ali, the terrorist who later stabbed MP Sir David Amess to death in 2021, had once come to his office in north London with the intention of killing him. The final straw was an arson attack that destroyed his office in December. Soon after, he received an email claiming that he had gotten what he deserved.
Mike Freer’s decision to resign is completely understandable, but it is a victory for fanatics who do not respect the norms of our society, which is becoming less civilized by the day. It is a capitulation to forces that we have no right to indulge if our elections still mean anything.
But don’t expect the prime minister or the opposition leader to stand up to the perpetrators. After the murder of the kind and gracious Sir David, his colleagues were quick to shift the focus from the barbaric massacre to cybersecurity. The House of Commons cowardly turned away, as if nothing had happened. The measure of success for extremist groups is that the fear of being labeled Islamophobic now trumps the sacred duty to protect the British way of life.
Allison Pearson’s gloomy article truly turned out to be Cassandra’s prophecy. In July of that same year, 2024, the UK was rocked by a tragedy in the town of Southport, near Liverpool, where a 17-year-old thug from a family of immigrants from Rwanda attacked children at a dance school with a knife, killing three little girls and injuring five other children.
In response, mass protests broke out across the country, not only in Southport, but also in Liverpool, Bristol, Hull, Nottingham, Leeds, Stoke, and other cities. In Belfast, Northern Ireland, special forces were deployed when protesters began throwing shells and fireworks at the city hall building. In Manchester, the third largest city in the UK, crowds of protesters marched through the city center. They were met by counter-protesters, “anti-fascists,” carrying signs reading “No to fascism, no to racism.” Violent clashes broke out between the demonstrators, resulting in injuries.
In Rotherham, protesters surrounded a hotel for migrants and set it on fire, clashing with police. In another city, a library was burned down, where children’s books were replaced with books about Sharia law. In Blackburn, a large-scale fight broke between local residents and a crowd of migrants chanting “These are our streets! Allahu Akbar!”
At the same time, the British authorities’ response to the protests was entirely predictable—they blamed everything on the far right, white racists, and chauvinists. None of the officials even thought to blame uncontrolled migration and the population replacement policy pursued by the British government. Migrants who have obtained citizenship but have not become full members of society, living in ethnic enclaves, are considered English by the tolerant British authorities. However, there were some exceptions. For example, in July 2024, former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman stated that the migration crisis in the country had reached a critical point:
“People are afraid. People are tired of illegal migrants entering our country, harming women and girls, and destroying our communities. This is not racism — it is the truth. … Hooligans may appear, and then riots begin, violence appears, and everything can escalate into a situation that is impossible to control. Then riots start, and then there’s crime, and the police have to step in. That’s why we need to get the migration crisis under control ASAP. People are sick of it. They’re angry. They feel powerless, humiliated, and ignored, and they want to do something about it.”
Suella Braverman
A year after the tragedy in Southport, nothing had fundamentally changed. On the anniversary of the massacre, mass protests began again. In July 2025, riots broke out in Essex at the Bell Hotel in Epping, about 30 kilometers from London, where asylum seekers are temporarily housed. Cars were damaged, and various objects were thrown at police officers, resulting in injuries to eight officers.
Journalist Nur Kurashi, who previously studied at Oxford University and then took a journalism course at News Associates in London, expressed concern on June 6, 2025, on MailOnline, the website of the Daily Mail newspaper, that under the government’s Prevent program to combat radicalization, fears about mass migration had been labeled “terrorist ideology.”
Among the “dangerous” beliefs highlighted in the Prevent online course are “cultural nationalism” and the idea that “Western culture is under threat.” Sir William Shawcross, a former independent expert on the Prevent program, called the definition of “cultural nationalism” “rather dubious.” Lord Young, secretary general of the Freedom of Speech Union, said with some irony that this description could apply to Mr. Jenrick, the former immigration minister, who warned that “excessive, uncontrolled migration threatens to undermine the sympathy of the British public.”
But there is another side to the coin. On June 7, 2025, The Telegraph reported that in a quarter of England’s approximately 21,500 primary and secondary schools, the majority of students are ethnic minorities or non-British whites. Moreover, 72 schools have no white British students at all, and in 454 schools, they make up less than 2% of the total student body.
According to Allison Pearson, the Office for National Statistics predicts that the UK population will exceed 70 million by 2026.
And this forecast depressed her:
“It’s not just that our hospitals and transport system are barely coping with the influx of people (or rather, not coping at all). It’s not just that we know for sure that our clueless elite won’t build a city the size of Doncaster every year to provide enough housing for everyone (which is causing our young people to fall further and further behind). No, the point is that 92% of this increase (6.1 million out of 6.6 million people) will come from immigration, not British families. Such an unprecedented surge will change the Britain we love and cherish beyond recognition — it will change its culture and even its language.
Professor Matthew Goodwin notes that since the 1990s, the proportion of schoolchildren whose native language is not English has almost tripled. I taught English as a second language in Tower Hamlets, and let me say that it is simply impossible to integrate such a large number of people in such a short period of time. And that’s even if they sincerely want to integrate — which is clearly not the case with the extremists who harassed Mike Freer.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is effectively failing to take action to resolve the pressing issue of migrants. Earlier, he promised to stop the flow of migrants arriving in the country on small boats, but this task remains unresolved.
According to official data, in the first six months of 2025 alone, almost 20,000 asylum seekers arrived in the UK, setting a sad record. And although in May 2025, Prime Minister Starmer stated the following: “Let me be clear, this is now coming to an end. We will create a migration system that is controlled, selective, and fair.”, given the Labour Party’s defeat in the local elections in May, there is every reason to believe that the British Prime Minister’s statements are nothing more than an attempt to gloss over the disastrous results of Labour’s domestic and foreign policy.