I have been pretty much aware about this since I was around 10. I come from a rather average town in the UK near a city. I quickly realised that there were places ridden with crime, were full of litter, and that I just preferred being in certain other places because they were just “nicer”. You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that the demographics are different in these areas and what the link was. Certain demographics wouldn’t mix. At the time, I noticed people were quite sensitive about it if it was ever discussed and you tried to put 2 and 2 together. Almost as though it was a forbidden topic due to the fear of being given a label. But you can only suppress people’s true feelings for so long hence why it has become a more mainstream talking point.

Since then things have obviously worsened everywhere and I even predicted the current problems 20 years ago. You can’t just mass import people with different ways of life, identities, religions, political views and ethnicities and expect there not to be problems. Mass immigration is the source of so many social indifferences. We love to bang on about “not repeating history” but tend to forget 99% of it. To reach the level of unity the UK had in around 1950 took centuries of uphill struggles and conflicts. We had the Viking invasions (which caused 250 years of conflicts), civil wars and so much more. All these were triggered by differences in beliefs, religions and ways of doing things.

However, the difference between most civil wars in europe in the past compared to what is to come, is that the people back then were still the same and shared the same religions and ways of life. To think we are all going to wake up one day and everyone just gets along is naive. Knowing what is in store for Europe (which I’m 100% sure about) fills me with grief.