by Kurt Zindulka
Nearly half of the people living in Britain feel like “strangers” in their country, appearing to confirm the recent anti-mass migration rhetoric Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been forced into by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
The liberal political and media establishment went into full-blown meltdown last week after Prime Minister Starmer took a rhetorical axe to the sacred cow of open borders ideology in declaring that not only does mass migration not produce economic benefits for the working class of Britain, but also that it risked turning the country into an “island of strangers” as community cohesion collapses.
This week, a study from the More in Common polling firm seemingly vindicated this position. A survey of 13,000 people, conducted before the PM’s speech, found that 44 per cent sometimes felt like strangers in their own country.
The pollsters did not specifically ask how much immigration contributed to this feeling. However, some questions suggest that it was a factor. Indeed, 73 per cent of respondents said that more needs to be done to integrate people of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds into British society, and 77 per cent said that this needs to be done by everyone.
There were clear distinctions among voting groups on the question, with 73 per cent of supporters of Nigel Farage’s anti-mass migration Reform UK party reporting feeling like strangers in Britain, compared to 48 per cent of Conservatives, and 34 per cent of Labour voters.
While 44 per cent of white respondents reported feeling estranged in the UK, Asian people, typically meaning people of South Asian descent, such as countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, reported the highest level of any group at 47 per cent.
The pollsters said that last year’s anti-mass migration riots following the Southport stabbing at a Taylor Swift dance party by second-generation Rwandan migrant Axel Rudakubana were a contributing factor, with respondents claiming an uptick in “racist” incidents in their wake.