Kensington and Chelsea - Britain's most expensive local authority - has transformed from 90.7% White British in 1961 to just 34.7% in 2021.
59.7% of social housing in Kensington is occupied by immigrants: an implied subsidy of ~£200 million every year.
Credit to @juice8882
Privately renting a 4 bedroom flat in Kensington and Chelsea would cost you on average £5,186/month.
But an immigrant with a social housing tenancy would pay just £806/month.
Is this fair?
Credit to @AylmerTH for the map below. Check your local area at migrationfacts.com
Credit to @PimlicoJournal for their excellent articles on social housing, and useful statistics on comparative costs of housing in Kensington and Chelsea.
In light of recent reporting on rates of fraud in the Somali community in Minnesota, a Thread with some statistics on Britain's Somali population from the 2021 census:
1) 72% of British Somalis live in state-funded social housing.
2) in London, it's even higher, with a whopping 74% of households headed by a Somali-born resident living in social housing. London property is some of the least affordable in the world - yet huge numbers of Somalis are subsidised to live here.
3) As of the 2021 census, there were 57,716 Somali led households in England and Wales. Of those, a staggering 26,371 (46%) live in London social housing alone.
Danny Dorling, an Oxford professor, said: “In absolute terms this is very likely to be the largest increase in the number of square miles that have been tarmacked or paved over in any decade in British history.”
He said the UK was going the way of LA by giving into urban sprawl.
Prof. Dorling went on: “The [proposed] Oxford-Cambridge expressway has 13 junctions on it, and on either side of each junction it has space for a town the size of Didcot or Abingdon. So that is 26 car-dependent towns strung out on an arc from Oxford to Cambridge.”
Some these are corollaries of Brexit - e.g. changing of rules on EU criminals to use the tougher standard that applies to non-EU citizens. Anything that prevents dangerous criminals from coming can only be a good thing but this has been touted for years, ie. since 2017...
News of a requirement for electronic travel authorisation is rehash of something which we have known about since at least 2017. Not 'new announcement'. As the @Conservatives note, it was also detailed in the 2018 White Paper. Here's our 2017 paper on ETIAS migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper…
@Conservatives The pledge to 'count people in and out' is v. welcome but indicative of a wider government failure over the past decade or more to deliver accurate or effective systems for measuring migration. Remember that this happened on the watch of both @UKLabour and the @Conservatives...