‘As new figures show ‘white flight’ from cities is rising, one Londoner writes a provocative personal piece about how immigration has drastically changed the borough where she has lived for 17 years
“When you go swimming, it’s much healthier to keep your whole body completely covered, you know.” The Muslim lady behind the counter in my local pharmacy has recently started giving me advice like this. It’s kindly meant and I’m always glad to hear her views because she is one of the few people in west London where I live who talks to me.
The streets around Acton, which has been my home since 1996, have taken on a new identity. Most of the shops are now owned by Muslims and even the fish and chip shop and Indian takeaway are Halal…
Of the 8.17 million people in London, one million are Muslim, with the majority of them young families. That is not, in reality, a great number. But because so many Muslims increasingly insist on emphasising their separateness, it feels as if they have taken over; my female neighbours flap past in full niqab, some so heavily veiled that I can’t see their eyes. I’ve made an effort to communicate by smiling deliberately at the ones I thought I was seeing out and about regularly, but this didn’t lead to conversation because they never look me in the face…
More worryingly, I feel that public spaces are becoming contested. One food store has recently installed a sign banning alcohol on the premises. Fair enough. But it also says: “No alcohol allowed on the streets near this shop.”…
Perhaps he and his fellow Muslims want to turn the area into another Tower Hamlets, the east London borough where ‘’suggestive’’ advertising is banned and last year a woman was refused a job in a pharmacy because she wasn’t veiled…
Since the start of the year there have been several reports from around London of a more aggressive approach. Television news footage last week showed incidents filmed on a mobile phone on a Saturday night, in the borough of Waltham Forest, of men shouting “This is a Muslim area” at white Britons…
Worse, though, is film footage from last week, thought to have been taken in Commercial Street, Whitechapel, which showed members of a group who also called themselves a “Muslim patrol” harassing a man who appeared to be wearing make-up, calling him a “bloody fag”. In the video posted on YouTube last week, the passer-by is told he is “walking through a Muslim area dressed like a fag” and ordered to get out…
There are, of course, other Europeans in my area who may share my feelings but I’m not able to talk to them easily about this situation as they are mostly immigrants, too… Poles have settled in Ealing since the Second World War and are well assimilated, but since 2004 about 370,000 east Europeans have arrived in London… Not surprisingly, at my bus stop I rarely hear English spoken…
In the Nineties, when I arrived, this part of Acton was a traditional working-class area. Now there is no trace of any kind of community – that word so cherished by the Left. Instead it has been transformed into a giant transit camp and is home to no one. The scale of immigration over recent years has created communities throughout London that never need to – or want to – interact with outsiders…
But now, despite the wishful thinking of multiculturalists, wilful segregation by immigrants is increasingly echoed by the white population – the rate of white flight from our cities is soaring. According to the Office for National Statistics, 600,000 white Britons have left London in the past 10 years…
I, too, have decided to leave my area… I’m a stranger on these streets…
Just another white Western country having its throat cut by its own government! Key’s doing the same thing to NZ – eg the “Constitutional Review”.
Nobody is listening though are they?
Nope.
They won’t listen until there are a dozen or a hundred or a thousand Breiviks.
Agree.
Can’t believe how many poms are arriving here (the lucky ones) I was lucky to get out of London as our area (Kensington) started to get taken over by Saudi’s, they even built their own hospital and were shipping patients in. When they moved out of apartments, the apartments had to be gutted, filthy pigs. I feel really sorry for the poor buggers who have no escape route
The escape route they need is mass anger, pitchforks and torches and massive disobedience, Medusa.
Or guns.
Agree.
when I lived in London I lived in Acton and visited Ealing often.
It was a very enjoyable time and I would not have foreseen what was going to happen.
What a bloody shame.
And it will never, never recover, John.
Agree. Recovery is not an option.
London can now only be retaken or contained as a No Entry – No Exit zone for the invaders, a zone defined at first by the M25 and then by a tightening line until the occupiers have no option but to starve or to leave and return to whatever third world hell hole they or their immediate ancestors came from. Then repeat in Birmingham, Luton, Leicester, Bradford and all of the other occupied territories.
No hope of this happening, of course, but it doesn’t hurt to dream a little in the winter of one’s years.
You couldn’t do it as a rinse and repeat operation, Seneca, for the invaders would surely band together and be joined by the various miscreants supporting them to make Mr Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” a cold, hard reality?
I have long said that leftist policy was a societal caustic that broke down the native culture in order to make room for the new. But I doubt that the leftists thought that Islam would be that new culture. In Lebanon there was a cosmopolitan community where everybody got along and diversity was celebrated. That is until there was a critical mass of Muslims and that was when the killings began in the name of Allah. Christians and Jews were slain with wild abandon and Beirut turned into cesspool.
Europe is poised for this fate. When there is enough Muslims to sustain an action the old order will be put to the sword and Islam will dominate. Judiciaries will no longer enforce native laws, but Sharia. This almost happened before in Europe’s history, but this time there will be no Charles Martel to save them.
They have done this to themselves and by the time they wake up and realize their mistake, it will be far too late to do anything about it.
But Enoch Powell was a racist.