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Populus reports an unutterable truth

Some interesting statistics buried away in the excellent Populus survey carried out for the Searchlight Educational Trust (and which received a lot of press attention last week). The headline figure was that 60 per cent of British people (including first, second and third generation immigrants) think that immigration has been a “bad thing” for the country. This is something you are not allowed to say in print, or on television or radio, or you will be either prosecuted or set upon by some libtard idiot from the PCC.

The other headline figure was that a large minority of Asian people wish to see an end to immigration.

In fact, the figures are even more remarkable. Nearly 80 per cent of British people, including a majority of Asians, believe we should have much more rigorous controls on immigration than we do now. Only 5 per cent of people think there should be no controls on immigration.
Then there’s this; asked the question “The arrival of immigrants has changed my local community for the better”, the total number strongly agreeing was……………………3 per cent. The total number agreeing at all with this proposition was…………..12 per cent. Again, this is something you are not allowed to say.

You can find the survey here. It came out in a week when it was revealed that net migration to the UK has risen by about thirty per cent per annum, with 572,000 people arriving in the last twelve months. 

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