{"id":86185,"date":"2016-01-23T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T04:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86185"},"modified":"2016-01-23T20:37:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T04:37:41","slug":"how-labour-turned-london-into-a-foreign-city-fewer-than-half-the-capitals-population-are-white-british-gangsters-from-somalia-terrorise-the-suburbs-and-even-the-tramps-are-immigrants-reveals-asto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86185","title":{"rendered":"How Labour turned London into a foreign city: Fewer than half the capital’s population are white British, gangsters from Somalia terrorise the suburbs and even the tramps are immigrants, reveals astonishing new book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daily Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An Afghan and I once broke into a small house in Peckham. I had met him while researching a report on immigration for the Daily Mail.
\nWe were on a rescue mission. Inside the two-up, two-down property in South East London, every room was packed with beds, mattresses and migrants.
\nOn the landing, grey and scarcely breathing, lay the man we had come to rescue from this awful place.<\/p>\n

The other migrants who were there started to shout at us. Apparently, the sick man owed them and their trafficking gang money. We had to hustle him out fast.
\nI emerged shaken. I had glimpsed a London I did not know existed \u2014 one of Third World poverty, exploitation and criminality.
\nIt is writer Ben Judah\u2019s great achievement to reveal that hidden city in his new book, This Is London: Life And Death In The World City.
\nA young war correspondent, Judah examines his home city as the foreign metropolis it has now become
\nSince 2001, immigration has transformed the capital. More than half of Londoners are now not ethnically British.
\nAs he says: \u2018I was born in London, but I no longer recognise this city. I don\u2019t know if I love the new London, or if it frightens me: a city where at least 55 per cent of people are not white British, nearly 40 per cent were born abroad and hundreds of thousands are living illegally, in the shadows.\u2019
\nWho are these new Londoners? In order to find out, Judah immerses himself in the migrant world.
\nHe spends a night with the Roma beggars who camp in the tunnels beneath Hyde Park. He stays in a doss-house in Barking, East London. He cajoles an astonishing array of migrants from across London to describe their lives.
\nWhether a mini cab driver who also washes dead bodies, a Romanian prostitute in a blonde wig, or a wealthy young African with bodyguards hired from his own tribe, they open up to Judah.<\/p>\n

The quantity and authenticity of his interviews build up an irrefutable argument. Here, as opposed to what the Left is always telling us, are the real effects of immigration.
\nImmigration, Judah makes clear, has touched every aspect of life in London and utterly transformed it.
\nThe English upper classes no longer inhabit the splendid townhouses in Mayfair. Suburbs such as Edmonton in the north of the city are no longer home to the aspirational, largely unionised, English working-class.
\nAs for white, East End gangsters such as the Kray Twins, you will only find those in movies.
\nThe same goes for the prostitutes who used to inhabit Soho. Even tramps, for goodness sake, are rarely English any more. Such is the level of liberal propaganda that we have largely remained blind to this startling transformation of our city.
\nJudah systematically maps these changes \u2014 the result of Labour relaxing immigration into the UK.
\nLeft-wingers and the business establishment pat themselves on the back for creating an open city that welcomes the world. In fact, we have lost control of our borders and have no say who comes here.
\nThis week, it emerged that Brussels is attempting to blackmail Britain by saying that if we don\u2019t take as many as 90,000 migrants a year, we will not be able to send failed asylum seekers back to safe countries on the Continent.
\nThen came the story that a tribunal had ruled that a group of migrants in the Jungle camp in Calais had a \u2018human right\u2019 to join family members in Britain. It is a precedent that could have far-reaching implications.
\nAside from legal rulings, the truth is that much of our immigration policy is now dictated by criminal trafficking gangs who make a fortune smuggling people into Britain \u2014 not our elected leaders and certainly not voters and taxpayers.
\nIt is criminal gangs who decide who comes into the UK and in what numbers. They largely decide what happens to the migrants once they arrive.
\nIn handing our immigration system over to them, we have allowed conditions of unimaginable squalor, misery and criminality reminiscent of Victorian times to take hold.
\nSo how has it happened? Well, get rid of any notion that we are doing the world\u2019s poorest many favours.
\nJudah quickly discovers that multiculturalism for many migrants is a euphemism for slave labour.
\nIt starts when would-be immigrants listen to the sales pitch of the agents for the people-traffickers. They promise that London is \u2018a second paradise\u2019 where \u2018every man is rich\u2019.
\nOn offer is free NHS treatment, free housing, free schooling and countless welfare benefits. It is a place of opportunity, security and, above all, available women.
\nThis was a definite pull for one young Afghan working in a butcher\u2019s in Neasden, North West London.
\nAs he put it, in his village, if you slept with more than one person in your life, \u2018they shot you in the back\u2019. In Britain, however, sexual opportunities were immense.<\/p>\n

The agents explain how to take full advantage of the UK.\u2018London is a country of rights,\u2019 they say. How very true! If you tell the correct story, they are informed, \u2018you will never be sent home\u2019.
\nAnd yet, when migrants manage to reach the UK, they all have to pay back the people-traffickers who got them here.
\nIndeed, it is this debt, sometimes with interest rates of 100 per cent, that lies behind the often appalling working conditions they are forced to accept.
\nThis is the simple fact that the immigration lobby ignore \u2014 with appalling consequences for the migrants concerned.
\nTypical of the views of those Judah met was someone who said: \u2018I thought the money would be growing on trees. Six months later, I was crying myself to sleep. I was homeless.\u2019
\nA Roma violin player in a tunnel beneath Park Lane explains what this means.
\n\u2018We\u2019re all here to beg, to work off our debts. We give the enforcers all the money. They told us to come here. But we are never going to make back the loans they gave us to come here. We\u2019re trapped.\u2019
\nHe explains that the people-traffickers are a constant threat to the children migrants have left behind in places such as the Romanian city of Slobozia. Defiance could bring brutal retribution on those they love.
\nJudah quickly learns that the people who make it here are \u2018virtual slaves\u2019. And it is the same wherever he goes. In a hotel laundry room, Africans curse the tricksters who brought them here on counterfeited visas and passports.
\nA Ghanaian came on a student visa with plans to set up an international business. All he wanted, he said, was to wear a suit and work in an office.
\nYet the traffickers never told him what would happen when he tried to work as an illegal migrant.
\nHe used up his savings of five years in a matter of months. Instead of running his own business, he stacks shelves in a warehouse.
\nFrustrated, angry and exhausted, he knows he has ruined his life. He can never escape, never get home to his children, because his low wages mean he cannot imagine ever paying off his debt.
\nThere is a whole illegal city in London of several hundred thousand people, and nearly half of them are thought to have arrived after 2001.
\nThis is a city hidden from official statistics, but not hidden from employers who take on the workers, no questions asked, through agencies.
\nLegal workers also have problems because the sheer number of new arrivals push down wages.
\nA Polish builder explains that, on his work site, the English builders tell him angrily they used to be paid \u00a315 an hour. Now it is \u00a37 an hour. \u2018They hate me,\u2019 he says simply.
\nBut then he gripes about the newly-arrived Romanians who, he says, are pushing wages even lower.
\nTragically, politicians appear blissfully oblivious to the new realities. They solemnly debate the merits of a \u2018living wage\u2019 over the minimum wage.
\nWhat planet are they living on?
\nCertainly, it\u2019s one as far removed as possible from the reality of daily life outside Wickes, the builder\u2019s merchant in Barking, East London.
\nHere, Judah joined 80 or so Romanians, \u2018blank eyes wide with hunger\u2019, touting for work.
\n\u2018They pace up and down in their work boots for the next 11 hours, muttering tensely, \u2018waiting for a white van\u2019.
\nThis is a reference to the fact, they tell Judah, that the proverbial White Van Englishman is the best type of employer. Whereas Pakistanis, Turks and Poles are the worst.
\nOne explains: \u2018They make us fight for work. And they know we have no choice. That we are hungry.\u2019
\nTo such men, the minimum wage is a luxury that they can only dream about. They often work for much less \u2014 or, as one put it, for nothing more than \u2018one chicken and chips\u2019.
\nBut this story is not just about brutal exploitation. It is also about crime.
\nAlong with immigrants, we have imported the criminal gangs who blight their countries. When it is so easy for migrants to get here, it is just as simple for the world\u2019s nastiest criminals to relocate to the UK, too.
\nThus many Somalian gangs terrorise estates in South London and Turkish gangs control North London.
\nKurds and Albanians launder their money through the car washes in Tottenham and Kilburn. Vietnamese gangs grow and distribute two-thirds of the strong cannabis on the capital\u2019s streets.<\/p>\n

Judah encountered a Grenadian, now a successful cocaine dealer, who recalled moving to the White City estate in West London with his mother when he was 12.
\n\u2018We pitched up for a better life, but found ourselves right in the middle of a war zone,\u2019 he recalled.
\nHe said the estate \u2018was way more corrupt . . . way more dangerous, more full of disillusion than anywhere in Grenada. Within six months of being here, I had lost 75 per cent of my morals.\u2019
\nAfter a few years here, and now a heavy cocaine-user, he woke up to his mother screaming. She\u2019d found his gun in the fridge and bullets on the sofa.
\nShe was crying: \u2018Please, please, the police will kill you, the gangsters will kill you! My baby, why, why did I ever bring you to this country?\u2019
\nThe sex industry is another area where our flawed immigration policy has had a malign effect. Now, 96 per cent of prostitutes are migrants. In the main, Albanians have taken over.
\nTypically, they lure girls from Moldova with promises of modelling jobs, but then rape and traffic them.
\nI saw the results of this myself when a brothel opened in a house on a quiet, residential street near my son\u2019s primary school in Hampstead.
\nThe mother of one of my son\u2019s friends lived opposite. She was intimidated by the sinister men in leather jackets who sat in the nearby coffee shop all day.
\nShe reported to the police that the girls on the top floor looked underage and never went out. In due course, her car was smashed up.
\nShe suspected this was done as a warning to keep her nose out of it. The police did nothing and she never raised the matter again.
\nFinally, migration has even changed the nationality of London\u2019s vagrants.
\nThere are now around 5,000 \u2014 mostly Polish and Romanians \u2014 living rough on London\u2019s streets. In North London, they unload trucks for Turkish shopkeepers in exchange for nothing more than their drink of choice, White Ace cider.
\nOthers have been found roasting rats for food in the back alleys of Tottenham and Haringey.
\nIn this new London, increasingly there is one nationality significant for its absence \u2014 white, British-born. Nearly all the migrants comment on this phenomenon.
\nBen Judah meets a Pole who works as a registrar \u2014 recording births and deaths \u2014 in Catford Bridge, who says she works in a position that is perfect to spot the ethnic changes.
\nShe describes the new London where 57 per cent of births are to migrant mothers.
\nBut when she enters the names of the recent dead, they are nearly all of them old white British. Another migrant comments: \u2018The English are dying. They are declining fast.\u2019
\nHe recalls in the street markets, there used to be only English voices shouting out, \u2018advertising their wares in the Cockney accent. But they\u2019ve gone now\u2019.
\nA Met policeman, who was born in Nigeria, says: \u2018The English are vanishing. London is no longer an English city at all . . . London is a patchwork of ghettos.\u2019
\nBetween 1971 and 2011, the white British share of London\u2019s population slumped from 86 per cent to 45 per cent, overwhelmingly the old Cockney working-class. Cockney, in fact, is predicted to die out in 15 years.
\nI once visited a school in the East End displaying photos of a class from the Thirties and today. In the first photo, the children were all white. In the second, none of them were.
\nIn some countries, this might be called racial cleansing. In London, it is simply the result of the failed policy of multiculturalism.<\/p>\n

On the Old Kent Road, Judah found only one English shopkeeper left \u2014 a plumbers\u2019 merchant. He charts the gradual disappearance of the English by the fate of their pubs.
\nAlong this road, there used to be 12: one has been turned into a Nigerian mosque, another into the Afrikiko nightclub, the rest have simply been demolished.
\nAcross London, it is the same story. African churches move into abandoned bingo halls, cinemas and pubs vacated by the old white working-class.
\nIn Brent and Harlesden, the white population has fallen by 30 per cent since 2001.
\nSuburbs such as Edmonton, once \u2018terraces of white respectability\u2019, where the Tory politician Norman Tebbit grew up for goodness\u2019 sake, have now turned into tenements for migrants.
\nThis huge demographic shift is as true for wealthy areas as for deprived.
\nHalf of Kensington & Chelsea\u2019s inhabitants were born overseas \u2014 a third arriving since 2001. Forty per cent do not have a British passport.
\nGlobal immigration has transformed these areas as radically as it has other parts of London.
\nThe English upper and upper-middle classes find themselves elbowed out of Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Notting Hill Gate \u2014 as surely as the white working class has been out of London\u2019s East End.
\nSo how can the relatively honest, tax-paying English compete to buy property with a global elite who, as one wealthy young Nigerian explains, are not paying taxes, and are making their money in countries rife with corruption?
\nInstead, the next generation of these English retreat to places such as Peckham \u2014 as Judah put it, \u2018mourning their postcodes\u2019, and \u2018bitter like refugees\u2019.
\nJudah has done an extraordinary job in painstakingly building up a vivid and desperate portrait of London today.
\nHis observations turn an unsparing spotlight on how the British people have been so befuddled by Left-wing dogma and political correctness that too few people have noticed the utter transformation of our capital city.
\nToo many have failed to question why we lost control of our borders and, having done so, allowed immigrant gangs to exploit migrants.
\nAlso, we have failed to wonder if we are comfortable with this new London, with its extremes of foreign poverty and wealth.
\nUncontrolled immigration has changed London for ever. And, most shamefully, not one of our leaders has lifted a finger to stop it.
\nThis Is London: Life And Death In The World City by Ben Judah is published by Picador this coming Thursday at \u00a318.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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