7 July 2005 and the transformation of England

Twenty years ago on 7 July 2005 bombs in London killed 52 people and injured more than 770 on three Underground trains and a bus.

British media had told the public after 9 September 2011 attacks in New York that something of the sort was inevitable in Great Britain but not that the murderers would be British citizens trying to restore the Caliphate.

At that moment I saw that mass immigration had been a terrible mistake. I looked up the figures and found that since the census of 1991 (which showed that 6% of the UK population was non-white, I recalled) the demographics of the country had been transformed.

But nobody in Parliament or the press said a word about this, The media talked about a Brazilian who had been shot dead by the police.

The subject of mass immigration and its connection to violence, terrorism and insurgency hasn't been mentioned since.

I remember as a little boy the national outrage when Edward Heath decided to admit Ugandan Asians fleeing Idi Amin (although India had offered to take them).

On 7 July 2025 I looked it up. They numbered 20,000.

In 2004 582,000 immigrants had entered the United Kingdom.

1, 200,000 long term immigrants entered the UK in 2023.

The latest figures show that 40% of new births in England are to couples where at least one of the parents is foreign born.