2002
- ICM Research polling for the BBC: 47 per cent of white Britons believed immigration had damaged British society (a belief shared by 22 per cent of black & Asian Britons) & 28 per cent believed it had benefited it. 2012
- You Gov polling for the Sunday Times: 11 per cent of people believe that immigration in the past decade has been 'a good thing for Britain'
- 67 per cent think it has had a negative effect. Not only does a clear majority of the British public now seem to want immigration all but stopped it has become hugely ambivalent even about multiculturalism post-war immigration & the very idea of 'diversity'. How could this happen? In this ground-breaking analysis Ed West investigates who is responsible for Britain's current state of affairs & why mass immigration has never been put to the vote. He uncovers mismanagement throughout a fifty-year state of denial by the British establishment on both the left & the right & two recent governments increasing immigration for electoral advantage. Ed West compellingly argues that Britain should face up to the real impact of immigration against the mounting concerns
- even on the Left
- about its consequences. The picture of modern Britain he paints is a forceful warning to stop subscribing to the diversity illusion.