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, mostly second generation immigrants, trying to restore the Caliphate.

At that moment I saw that mass immigration had indisputably been a terrible mistake. I looked up the figures that day and found that the number of immigrants were about half a million a year and the demographics of my country had been transformed.

But nobody in Parliament or the press said a word about this. 

The media talked instead about a Brazilian who had been shot dead by the police by mistake.

The subject of mass immigration and its connection to violence, terrorism, insurgency and religious wars 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. The Ugandan Asians had numbered 20,000.

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

Since then numbers of immigrants have more than doubled.

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.

Reflect on that.