The authorities in England are concerned that White middle class Brits are fleeing the cities at an alarming rate. Specifically they’re leaving areas that are heavily populated by Muslims.
From the Daily Mail:
White flight – the retreat of the white middle classes from city centres – is getting worse, the Government’s race relations chief said yesterday.
The admission by Trevor Phillips was the first time a senior Whitehall figure has used the phrase.
Mr Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, backed the decision last week of the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, to warn of the spread of “no-go areas” for non-Muslims.
He told Radio 4’s Today programme: “There are areas in which there is no contact or very little contact between different ethnic and cultural groups.
“White flight is accelerating, schools are becoming more segregated. I think that the Bishop of Rochester was right to raise this.”
The phenomenon has been seen in northern cities with a lot of Muslims, London and towns such as Reading and Bournemouth.
The story goes on to repeat what is becoming a mantra among the English who are increasingly realizing that their society is crumbling; The problems in England are the result of promoting multiculturalism over social cohesion.
Had England promoted the assimilation of immigrants into English society, they would have the “multicultural” society they envisioned and more. By elevating the differences between groups they lost the chance to unite them all into a cohesive society.
It’s a lesson we should learn from.
it’s more complicated than that, in my area there is white growth, afro-caribbean flight, african, middle eastern and european growth.
in my area (london: inner zone 2) lots of white people arrive from the towns of England and Europe after having finished university, to do entry level white-collar jobs, after a while 2,5, 10 years they leave and go into wealthier zone 1, or out to suburbs: zone 5-6 (for space to rause kids, better schools, etc.) but also, like, Perth AUS, Auckland NZ, Orange County CAL, the Arabian Gulf, or Vancouver CAN. There are other settlement zones, pretty much any productive area with good opportunities for middle management professionals.
Some people leave to “step down their lives” and go to “The Country” which is either here in the UK or Gascony-Dordogne (France) , Marbella/ The Costa (Spain), Tuscany (Italy) or Florida (USA). Also, pretty much anywhere nice, or not so nice in the world.
The local working class population of the estates is encouraged to move out to the outer suburbs for subsidised government housing arge enough for their families. They immigrants among them – about half – or mixed original, Irish, Italian, Maltese, Portugeese and afro caribbean stock is replaced by different ethnic groups, like South Americans, French West Africans, Ethiopians and Somalis and Portugeese.
So, the percentages mix and flux. The movement is towards more white middle class people. More newer immigrants. But the established community is encouraged to move on. You could buy your govt. owned flat from about 60000 then sell it a few years ago for over 400,000. So lots of people moved to better places. I
If your local it’s hard to afford to live in London, and it’s hard to find entry level jobs because so many better qualified migrants arrive, so the pressure is to move oneself to better opportunities.