Just b******s… Boris takes aim at claims from Vance and co that British civilisation is being erased by immigration, with London make-up similar to NYC
Boris Johnson appeared to take aim at the US vice-president today, branding his comments that immigrants were destroying British civilization as “b*****s”.
Former prime minister said: ‘New York’s foreign-born population is almost the same [to London].
‘I think about 30 percent of people in America are either first or second generation immigrants. The statistic I was talking about was that 40 percent of our population was born abroad.
‘So all this nonsense about the extinction of civilization, ‘England is going under’ – I think it’s nonsense.’
According to the 2021 census, around 41 per cent of London residents were born outside the UK, while the average for the rest of England was around 17 per cent.
Meanwhile, about 37 percent of New Yorkers are foreign-born.
Mr Johnson, the former mayor of London, appeared to be referring to statements made in recent months by the Trump administration, and in particular by his vice president, J.D. Vance.
Just last year Mr. Vance declared that Europe was headed for ‘civilizational suicide’.
Boris John branded claims of civilization extinction as ‘b****’ during Sky News interview
US vice president JD Vance frequently criticized Europe’s immigration policies
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Just before the US celebrates 250 years of independence on July 4, he spoke of his ‘special affection for England’, but added that the country was ‘very broken’.
And last month, he sparked controversy by linking the murder of Henry Nowak by Vickrum Digwa to the migration influx.
He said that ‘Mr. Nowak’s death would not have happened if the last few generations of European elites had stood up to the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of immigrants, many of whom despised the West and the people who loved it.’
This sparked a response from Downing Street, who lashed out at ‘people trying to interfere with our democracy and foment division on our streets’.
The vice president also sided with Britain’s far-right, urging anti-immigration activists who attended a protest led by Tommy Robinson in May to ‘keep pushing on’ and prepare for a ‘battle of Britain’.
Later, speaking to reporters at the White House, he claimed that ‘all over the West’ ‘there is this idea that the way to create prosperity is to bring in millions of unregulated people and drop them into your neighborhoods’.
‘And we clearly reject this idea,’ he said. ‘I would encourage anyone in the UK who rejects this idea to move on. It’s okay to want to defend your culture. It’s okay to want to live in a safe neighborhood.’
This is a rhetoric he has repeated many times, including at the Munich Security Conference last year, where he spoke not about defence, but about Europe opening the ‘gateways’ to immigrants while undermining core democratic values.
Speaking to Trevor Phillips on Sky News yesterday, Mr Johnson branded comparisons between the makeup of the UK and the US as ‘b*****’ but said Britain was ‘very lax about insisting that people conform to our ideals’.
‘We have not been tough enough in insisting on basic British norms of behaviour,’ he said. ‘I think a lot of political correctness hinders that.
‘Grooming gangs, all that sort of thing. I think it is absolutely unacceptable to have a population of women who do not speak English. “This is absolutely appalling.”
