‘White Britons will be a minority by 2070’

According to political commentator Matt Goodwin, white Britons will be a minority by 2070 and it is not racist to worry about this trend.

Speaking to GB News’ Steve Edginton, the leading pollster argued that it is important to “drastically reduce” the rate at which migrants enter the country.

He called for an end to mass immigration and multiculturalism, because the “status quo is not working for millions of people”.

“At the heart of what we see on the streets is a strong public concern about the demise of the majority group,” he said.

Matt Goodwin, anti-immigration protest in Belfast and migrants in small boats

Matt Goodwin worries about the shift in demographics

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“We have seen a sharp decline in the percentage of white British people over the last 30 years. In many areas, we have seen white British people, particularly in schools, become a minority.

“This fuels great concerns about what the majority group will look like in the country.

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“This is where I diverge from the left. People on the left will say, ‘fear of the loss of the future ethnic majority group is racist.’ I would argue that concern about the loss of the familiar is not the same as a dislike of the perceived outsider.

“Many people feel that they are losing what is familiar because of the decline of the ethnic majority group.

“As I said earlier, the percentage of people born outside the UK who now live in the UK is 17 per cent.

“If you look at future trends, this is only going to accelerate. Depending on which forecast you look at, white Britons will become a minority by around 2070.

Matt Goodwin joined Steve Edginton on GB News

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“Some forecasts suggest it’s a little sooner. Over the next 12 years, between now and 2036, the government’s own forecast is that around 6.5 million more people will come to Britain.

“6.1 million of that through immigration. Immigration will account for 90 percent of our population growth over the next decade.”

Keir Starmer is under pressure to tackle immigration, and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused him of being “deaf” to the public’s concerns.

In his weekly column in the Daily Mail, Johnson pointed to Starmer’s decision to halt the deportation plan for Rwanda.

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He also condemned Starmer’s decision to close the Bibby Stockholm boat, which was holding 400 asylum seekers.

Johnson said: “Whatever your intentions were with all this, you clearly gave the impression of a man who has no plans to stop illegal immigration because he simply doesn’t care.

“There is nothing to justify the rioters’ behavior, they deserve to be beaten up.

“But nothing excuses a government that appears deaf to the public’s concerns, and which further suggests that it actively hates all members of the public who share those concerns.”

Starmer has pledged to tackle the migrant crisis by targeting people crossing the Channel illegally.

The Prime Minister has pledged to end the dangerous journeys of asylum seekers across the Channel from France by “destroying” criminal smuggling gangs.