It is true that unemployment is rising and that a big part of the problem is that businesses cannot afford to employ people due to increases in the minimum wage and NIC (especially on top of all the other cost increases they face).
Decades of mass immigration means that we now also have to worry about people who were born here, as well as the ones who have just arrived and whatever children they may have in the future.
An example of this is stop and search. A policy that is effective at cutting knife crime (and black deaths) was abandoned because of public (elite) concern that it was a racist policy, with those being stopped “disproportionately” being black. But it is proportional to the risk.
They are black. That’s an important piece of information
Black people, on a per capita basis, commit more knife crime than other racial groups. there are huge differences between black ethnic groups too. So it would be good to know more
If we live in ignorance we will continue to make bad choices
Correct. Ethnicity does. Import more people from high functioning countries and while there will be some issues with cohesion and ethnic preferences, crime and our fiscal situation will improve.
Import more people from low trust, low income, high violence societies and we will import those problems
Silber & Bhatt (2007) - The Radicalization of Diasporas and Terrorism (RAND): Second-generation "failed assimilations" form a key terrorist profile in Europe (e.g., UK 7/7 bombers, three second-gen Pakistanis), driven by aggrievement from Western policies and integration failures
For example: Granath et al. (2025) - Changes in Immigrant Population Prevalence and High Violent Crime in Sweden: second-generation immigrants' involvement in high-violent crimes rising with population growth, linked to integration challenges; rates 2-3x higher than natives for certain subgroups
Re: B I think we have now passed the point where we can continue with the comfortable fiction that the only differences between peoples are skin colour.
We know that a Japanese person and subsequent generations will be unlikely to commit violence, while an Afghani and offspring will be high risk
