| I'll take the bradford example and lazily assume Birmingham is the same. Bradford Ethnicity (2021 Census)[89] Ethnic group Population %
White 333,850 61.6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford#Demography The difference we're seeing in numbers here is because the centres of cities are historically have a higher number of immigrants. Fortunately, ONS did a specific report on "Bradford", which is the source for the wikipedia page I cited. The source link was broken on wiki, here it is though: https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/censusareachanges/E080... Which also concludes: "In the latest census, around 437,800 Bradford residents said they were born in England. This represented 80.1% of the local population." I chose Bradford because it's locally referred to (pejoratively, not by me) as "Bradistan". But despite that, according to ONS, 30% cite Muslim as their religion, which is more than "no religion" at 28%, but still lower than Christianity, at 34% I encourage you to go check the sources for your sources, like I should have done (and you forced me to). If you look at this debate with an open mind, I believe you will find the majority of us rightly don't feel represented by the statement "Brits are legitimately fed up with immigration" any more. My bias' are that I'll almost always be pro immigration, within reason, but I completely recognise there have been times over the past 10 years where I've felt that position has been legitimately hard to defend. Now is not one of those times The real issue is that every single time someone or something suggests immigration is a problem in the UK, it can trivially be reframed as an inequality issue. To get back to the original topic, I think beneficiaries of inequality - like certain big tech players - are strongly motivated to keep the general public blaming anyone other than them for the problems caused by inequality. edit: I just understood the census page a bit more, it's a generic report by area. You can put Birmingham in there too. It says basically the same: the overwhelming majority of residents are UK born and Christian or of no religion. Yes this is changing, slowly, like the world and populations change, slowly - not at a new or concerning rate. |