Exclusive: “Their goal is to smash borders, and they do that by smashing cultures.”

‘Mass Immigration and what should be done about it’: Australian Senator and ex-Secretary of State don’t hold back

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Also features key facts about mass immigration from the Director of the UK’s Centre for Migration Control

Video premiere : Live now, Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Immigration is not just a UK problem or even a European one. It’s a global issue creating a political crisis across the free world.

We are therefore delighted to present our seventh Global Discussion Forum on this profoundly important topic with three distinguished speakers including an Member of the Australian Senate who provides a fascinating global perspective on one of the most important issue of our times.

Following the Senator, and representing the United Kingdom, is a former Secretary of State who has written increasingly on this subject. Our third speaker is the Founder and Director of the Centre for Migration Control.

‘Mass Immigration and what should be done about it’

The Global Discussion Forum, 02 March 2025

The full Forum (1 hour 39 minutes), or the three keynote speeches, or three very short clips
Plus some text excerpts for those reading this in a location where watching is a not option

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2. Speakers’ keynote addresses:

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Senator Malcolm Roberts
The Rt Hon Sir John Redwood
60-second promo clip for feature length video

Live-streamed around the World on YouTube and Zoom, this important, free event gave the audience an opportunity to speak to the distinguished guests and ask questions.

The keynote speakers :

Senator Malcolm Roberts, from Queensland, Australia : Prominent conservative politician advocating migration control, limited government, individual freedom, traditional values.
The Rt Hon Sir John Redwood, United Kingdom : Former Chief Policy Adviser to Margaret Thatcher, former Single Market Minister, former Secretary of State, popular political commentator.
Robert Bates, United Kingdom : Director, The Centre for Migration Control, think-tank on controlling and reducing migration to Britain, regular guest on GB News and Talk TV.

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Selected excerpts from the keynote speakers

Senator Malcolm Roberts

On immigration policy in general

“I want to acknowledge migrants right from the start because Australia has been built on migrants. But we have too many of them at the moment.”

On the effects of immigration

“The first is quantity, numbers, the number of people. That's already catastrophic in our country. We haven't got the resources nor the services to be to be able to withstand it…”
“We have people who are homeless in record numbers, sleeping under bridges, sleeping in cars, working families mums and dads coming home to their kids in their car…”

On abuse of student visa system

“We've grown phenomenally in the last few years, and we have 2.5 million people on temporary work visas. That's 10% of the population.”
“We have three quarters of a million people coming into the country on migrant visas. That is just inexplicable. It's catastrophic.”
“We also have students exploiting the system from overseas and sending $11.1bn off overseas back to their families.”

On the quality of immigrants coming into Australia

“We are bringing in people who do not fit the bill… We are seeing a push to destroy our culture.”

On excluding the public from the debate

“The media doesn’t want to inform the public. They know what the public would think. The public have been deliberately kept in the dark.”

On the global governance agenda

“Their goal is to smash borders, and they do that by smashing cultures and sending people over borders illegally.”

The Rt Hon Sir John Redwood

"The UK would need to build three cities the size of Southampton each year to accommodate all the new arrivals. You need to build the shops and the surgeries as well as the homes. We have not being doing anything like that, driving up the costs of existing homes and creating long health waiting lists."

On voters’ reaction to mass immigration

“Migration is far too large. People do not think we can continue to offer decent homes, decent circumstances to assimilate the large numbers coming in.”

On confounding the economic case for mass immigration

“If you’re inviting people in at the bottom end on very low wages and you have to top them up with benefits and other subsidies, the GDP per head is bound to fall.”

On the effects on infrastructure

“If we invite an extra one person into the United Kingdom, we can probably find a flat that's already built. We can probably find a doctor's surgery that could accommodate them on their list. We can probably link them up to existing water and electricity supply.
“If we invite in three quarters of a million extra people, as we have done for the last couple of years in each year, there is no way that you have all that provision.”

On widespread abuse of the visa system

“What happens is that the others – many of them – come in by legal routes. So, they come in with a student visa or a temporary work visa or a visitor visa, and then they overstay. So, they become illegals almost invisibly.”

Robert Bates

On the overall situation

“The situation in the UK when it comes to legal migration is fast approaching… a crisis.”

On the actual numbers

“If you look at the figures in most recent years, you can see that the average net migration is around about 750,000.”
“If you take the last few years, it's been between 1 million and 500,000. It now looks, with 2024 figures having come out, that it will settle at around about half a million per year.”

On the economic impact of mass immigration

“In 2018, the Migration Advisory Committee commissioned a report, which said that if a migrant is going to be making a positive contribution, a net positive contribution to the Treasury, they needed to be earning around about £38,000 a year.”
“In 2023, 70% of individuals coming in on the work visa weren't earning that amount, which means that we actually only had 30% of individuals entering to work, actually being viable positive economic prospects.”

On cost of dependents

“There have been a huge number of dependents that have been allowed in during this time. Dependants come in with no real obligation to work, and they are primarily made up of adults. But about 49% of those are children. And obviously the fact that these individuals, these adults in particular, are not coming in to work imposes huge fiscal costs.”

On the power of lobby groups

“You can attribute some of it to ideology. The bigger problem is…we’ve seen a surge in the number of quangos… that give advice on the economy, housing and migration. These effectively act as in-house lobby outfits…that would like to see migration remain at incredibly high levels.”

On lack of assimilation

“One million people that are foreign-born currently living in Britain don’t speak English at all or don’t speak English very well.”

On the future population make-up of the UK

“By 2035 one in four people living in this country will have been foreign-born.”

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Reader Comments 10

1. Sparky , Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 08:53:

At last some realisation, immigration is not a UK problem or a European problem it’s a global issue. It’s the approach to resolving that’s the issue, on one side isolation, build walls and barriers on the other get to the causes of the issue and stop exasperating the issue through misjudged involvement in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The UK should be in the EU tackling the issue with others, as long as migrants enter Europe they will make the short journey across the channel with ease.
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A demonstration of how misguided it has been to leave the EU, another is the fear of a European Army, even with what’s happening with Ukraine, the EU are not calling for an EU Army.
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FROM THE FACTS4EU TEAM :
'SPARKY', PLEASE DO NOT DEFLECT ONTO UNRELATED TOPICS SUCH AS THE EU ARMY. THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT MASS IMMIGRATION. THANK YOU.

2. KB , Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 10:37:

It's a difficult problem. The native population is not breeding fast enough, and in the future there won't be enough taxpayers to fund their pensions or their healthcare.
I think this is what the governments see, that they have to keep the numbers of working-age people up through immigration.

3. Ashley Great Britain , Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 11:29:

It all certainly seems to be by design. Who's design?
Why won't they control or reduce immigration.
It appears an unknown force is in collaboration across the world to dilute and infiltrate nations, why, maybe for profit and control? It's all to convenient to take sparky's line that it's just wars moving people.
There's a definite malign sinister undertone to all this. One thing's utterly certain, mass immigration degrades and corrupts nations in many ways.

4. KB , Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 12:39:

The far right and far left are united in this.
The global capitalists think they should be free to employ the cheapest workers in the world.
The far left think people should be able to live where they want (in world socialism, there wouldn't be much difference in the living standards of different countries anyhow).

5. gazzablack , Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 15:00:

1 sparkless
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Global problem or not, it's not sensible to franchise out domestic immigration policy to a foreign construct.
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And no, you don't have to be married to someone to cooperate on things of mutual interest or benefit, so in the EU or not is irrelevant
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And isn't it funny:
In 2016 it was all "an EU army? never gonna happen, it's just a fantasy, all in your head"
And now it's all
"We need to progress with the formation of an EU army NOW, anyone who says different is a Putin apologist"
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Just to note
Immigrants from the Congo make up the highest number of benefit claimants per thousand in the UK
The Congo has no historical colonial links with Britain
So how come we have all these Congolese in the country?
The answer is the Congo had historical colonial links with Belgium, via whom Congolese were able to get EU residency, with FOM allowing them to the migrate into the UK as "EU citizens".
And apply for settled status after Brexit.

6. Northern Muppet , Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 17:18:

What worries me most about this, and doesn't get nearly enough consideration, is that our pension system is a huge ponzi scheme.
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I do strongly believe that successive governments have allowed in vast numbers of people in an effort to try to avert a crisis in pension affordibility.
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HOWEVER.......!
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All of these people coming in will ALSO expect pensions when they get to pension age. What will we do then?? Just ramp up (!) the rate of people comiing in??
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Then you look at the number of those people coing in who don't work and therefore take from the system in any case. And top that off with the numbers being discussed at the moment where these imports are committing crimes at a rate vastly higher that the indigenous population, and the whole situation is a complete and utter disaster.
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Where on earth do these politicians get their brass neck??

7. LuxuryBalloon , Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 18:08:

5 Gazza ‘Immigrants from the Congo make up the highest number of benefit claimants per thousand in the UK’ … what are you on about?
77.5% of those claiming Universal Credit in April 2024 were from the white ethnic group. The Asian/Asian British ethnicity group is the second largest with 9.5% of claimants in April 2024. The Black/African/Caribbean/Black British ethnicity group accounts for 5.8% of claimants in April 2024.

8. gazzablack , Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 20:37:

7, LB
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Per thousand LB, per thousand.
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Clearly as the majority ethnic group "white" will produce the largest percentage of OVERALL claimants.
As there are so many "Asian/Asian British" etc. then they too will account for a higher percentage of OVERALL claimants.
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But on a PER PERSON basis the Congolese dwarf them.
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There are 40 nationalities that claim benefits at a greater rate than Brits.
Over 1m foreign born individuals claims some type of benefit, costing the UK at least £8bn per year.
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1 in 4 sex offences in Britain are committed by migrants
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Sex crime - Afghans are 22x more likely to offend than a Brit
Drug crime - Albanians are 152x more likely
Violence - Congolese are 11x more likely
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Congolese are the third highest nationality for convictions per 10,000
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Almost 1 in 10 patients referred to NHS does not speak English.

9. Ashley Great Britain , Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 07:29:

8 Gazzablack.
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Exactly, and that's the main reason most (yes most) of them come to the UK. Weak policing, low conviction rates, low sentences, low prison space, high currency value, high drug market, all means a field day for criminals. According to uk government and the woke, they are all welcome here.

10. Gazzablack , Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 09:05:

Germany's incoming government is planning to turn away asylum seekers from it's borders without the agreement of neighbouring countries, a member of it's incoming coalition has said.
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For those not keeping up - this would require effectively ending Schengen.

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