Baby boom pushes Britain's population past 61m in biggest jump for almost half a century
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Arrivals from Eastern Europe fall by over a quarter
56% of increase in births from non-British born mothers
'Natural changes' overtake immigration as growth driver
A baby boom and longer lifespan have pushed up population levels by 408,000
A baby boom fuelled by the highest fertility rates in a generation has pushed Britain's population above 61 million for the first time.
There were 408,000 more people living here in 2008, the Office for National Statistics said.
That takes the total population to 61.4 million - an increase of more than two million over 2001.
It is the first time in nearly a decade that natural changes to the population caused by shifts in birth and death rates have overtaken immigration as the biggest factor affecting population growth.
But immigration is still impacting on population growth because 56% of the increase in births last year was from non-UK born mothers.
The vast wave of immigrants who came here from Eastern Europe after the EU expanded in 2004 has slowed to a trickle, as the recession took hold, the figures showed.
Arrivals from Eastern Europe fell by more than a quarter - 28 per cent - from 109,000 to 79,000 during 2008.
More Eastern European immigrants went home in the same period - up by more than 50% to 66,000.
Overall migration levels - the numbers arriving minus those leaving - fell 44per cent to 118,000 - the lowest since EU enlargement.
Chief statistician Karen Dunnell said the emigration was probably due to the economic downturn.
She said: 'You have to say that probably the unemployment and the economic situation, given that quite a lot of people from the A8 (Eastern European) countries are coming to work, is probably having an impact.'
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The last time there was a growth of this size was in 1962, when the population rose by 484,000. The largest ever increase was in the 1947 post-war baby boom when population levels grew by 551,000.
The surge in Eastern Europeans returning home and the decline in arrivals meant they added only 13,000 to the total population last year.
The ageing population meant there were a record number of mid-octogenarians. There are now 1.3 million over 85s, making up 2% of the total.
Statisticians said the increase in birth rates was caused in part by higher fertility rates among British nationals, and in part by immigration, as foreign-born mothers tend to have more children. There are also more women of child bearing age.
There were 708,711 babies born in the UK last year, an increase of 18,698 on a year earlier, and almost twice the rise seen at the start of the decade.
ONS statistician Roma Chappell highlighted the significance of the shift: "That's actually quite exciting because it's the highest fertility rate we have seen in the UK for some time.
"You have to go all the way back to 1993 to find a time when the fertility rate went higher.
"For the first time in a decade natural change exceeded net migration as the main driver of population change."
"Prior to 1998 natural change was higher than net migration. This isn't a new phenomenon for the UK.
"If you go back it was quite common for natural change to exceed net migration as a driver of population growth."
She added: "The balance is still positive so the population is still growing due to net migration but the increase is the lowest it has been since accession in 2004."
"What has driven this is the emigration of non-British citizens especially citizens of the A8 countries."
The population is now growing by a rate of 0.7% every year, more than double the rate in the 1990s and three times the level of the 1980s.
Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said the figures showed migrants were coming here to work then returning home.
He said: "The fall in net migration is further proof that migrants come to the UK for short periods of time, work, contribute to the economy and then return home.
"Our new flexible points based system gives us greater control on those coming to work or study from outside Europe, ensuring that only those that Britain needs can come.
"Britain's borders are stronger than ever before. Our border controls in northern France are stopping record numbers of migrants reaching our shores - 28,000 in 2008.
"We are rolling out ID cards to foreign nationals, we have introduced civil penalties for those employing illegal workers and from the end of next year our electronic border system will monitor 95% of journeys in and out of the UK."
"The British people can be confident that immigration is under control."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209396/Population-UK-tops-61million-biggest-baby-boom-generation.html#ixzz0PPxREQR1
56% of increase in births from non-British born mothers
'Natural changes' overtake immigration as growth driver
A baby boom and longer lifespan have pushed up population levels by 408,000
A baby boom fuelled by the highest fertility rates in a generation has pushed Britain's population above 61 million for the first time.
There were 408,000 more people living here in 2008, the Office for National Statistics said.
That takes the total population to 61.4 million - an increase of more than two million over 2001.
It is the first time in nearly a decade that natural changes to the population caused by shifts in birth and death rates have overtaken immigration as the biggest factor affecting population growth.
But immigration is still impacting on population growth because 56% of the increase in births last year was from non-UK born mothers.
The vast wave of immigrants who came here from Eastern Europe after the EU expanded in 2004 has slowed to a trickle, as the recession took hold, the figures showed.
Arrivals from Eastern Europe fell by more than a quarter - 28 per cent - from 109,000 to 79,000 during 2008.
More Eastern European immigrants went home in the same period - up by more than 50% to 66,000.
Overall migration levels - the numbers arriving minus those leaving - fell 44per cent to 118,000 - the lowest since EU enlargement.
Chief statistician Karen Dunnell said the emigration was probably due to the economic downturn.
She said: 'You have to say that probably the unemployment and the economic situation, given that quite a lot of people from the A8 (Eastern European) countries are coming to work, is probably having an impact.'
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The last time there was a growth of this size was in 1962, when the population rose by 484,000. The largest ever increase was in the 1947 post-war baby boom when population levels grew by 551,000.
The surge in Eastern Europeans returning home and the decline in arrivals meant they added only 13,000 to the total population last year.
The ageing population meant there were a record number of mid-octogenarians. There are now 1.3 million over 85s, making up 2% of the total.
Statisticians said the increase in birth rates was caused in part by higher fertility rates among British nationals, and in part by immigration, as foreign-born mothers tend to have more children. There are also more women of child bearing age.
There were 708,711 babies born in the UK last year, an increase of 18,698 on a year earlier, and almost twice the rise seen at the start of the decade.
ONS statistician Roma Chappell highlighted the significance of the shift: "That's actually quite exciting because it's the highest fertility rate we have seen in the UK for some time.
"You have to go all the way back to 1993 to find a time when the fertility rate went higher.
"For the first time in a decade natural change exceeded net migration as the main driver of population change."
"Prior to 1998 natural change was higher than net migration. This isn't a new phenomenon for the UK.
"If you go back it was quite common for natural change to exceed net migration as a driver of population growth."
She added: "The balance is still positive so the population is still growing due to net migration but the increase is the lowest it has been since accession in 2004."
"What has driven this is the emigration of non-British citizens especially citizens of the A8 countries."
The population is now growing by a rate of 0.7% every year, more than double the rate in the 1990s and three times the level of the 1980s.
Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said the figures showed migrants were coming here to work then returning home.
He said: "The fall in net migration is further proof that migrants come to the UK for short periods of time, work, contribute to the economy and then return home.
"Our new flexible points based system gives us greater control on those coming to work or study from outside Europe, ensuring that only those that Britain needs can come.
"Britain's borders are stronger than ever before. Our border controls in northern France are stopping record numbers of migrants reaching our shores - 28,000 in 2008.
"We are rolling out ID cards to foreign nationals, we have introduced civil penalties for those employing illegal workers and from the end of next year our electronic border system will monitor 95% of journeys in and out of the UK."
"The British people can be confident that immigration is under control."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209396/Population-UK-tops-61million-biggest-baby-boom-generation.html#ixzz0PPxREQR1
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NWN : So Nick Griffins going softer on immigration by swapping compulsory repatriation to voluntary repatriation is going to work with this lot ? We don't think so !
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These non-European birth rates are multiplying exponentially.
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The Price of continued reality denial
As our gene pool now shrinks to the point of no return, it is long past time that all who profess to care
abandon the denials of reality and the worship of the executioner's institutions. As usual, I want to start
with the demographic statistics. World-Wide, in absolute numbers we are between 8% and 10% of the
population. But, due to taxation and other factors, we have not been having children. Between 2% and 3%
of the earth's population is young White female and it is from the wombs of our women that the life of our
race springs. In America the situation is beyond desperate. Our masters tell us that around 65% of the
population is still White. But, they count millions of Jews, who mean to destroy us and who have all the
power, as White. They count millions of Hispanics as White. They ignore millions of illegal colored aliens.
They count all those who have already mated with non-Whites as White. At the very best, we may still be
half the population Then we must consider those of child bearing age. We have been averaging between
one and two children per couple for decades, while the coloreds have been having huge families. As a
result, my best estimate is that one-fourth of the young population of America is White.
To compound the problem, our women, under the influence of alien religion and system propaganda, are
leaving their race wholesale. Lisa Presley and Nicole Simpson are rapidly becoming the rule, rather than
the exception. We, also, know that economic pressure is constant in pursuit of the genocide of our kind.
Any man who publicly stands for the life of our race is destroyed economically, socially and politically. If
he is too effective, he is falsely imprisoned or assassinated.
We must fundamentally change all our thought patterns. We need a complete, absolute cleansing of our
minds from the civilized poison that has destroyed us. We must root out shock over hearing that revered
concepts are destructive. We do not want to return to what led to the problem. Finally, the enemy has
always run a large portion of the resistance in order to guide resentment into fruitless directions. I remind
you of the words of Franklin Roosevelt, who said, "NOTHING IN POLITICS HAPPENS BY
ACCIDENT." It is always planned.
The Death of the White Race
U.S. COMMISSIONER CONFIRMS THAT WHITE PEOPLE FACE EXTINCTION.
For years Aryan Nations has been warning our White kin that there was a conspiracy to Murder our White
Aryan Race and that we were fast approaching the point of no return.
Now we have confirmation from U.S. Government sources. On the back of this leaflet you will find a
reproduction of an article from the August 4, 1981, Rocky Mountain News. When reading the article,
please bear in mind the following things.
Considering the lower-than-replacement White birth rate, the high non-white birthrate, the colored
immigration and the fact that thousands of our young people (especially our women) desert their Race
every day to marry non-whites, you can see that in ten years the child-bearing population of America will
be less than ten percent White.
All history, as well as common sense, declares that no Race can survive without separation from others so
they can promote, propagate and protect their own kind.
There are over two dozen all-Black nations engaging in no integration or the inevitable resultant,
miscegenation, which decrees the death of a Race. The population of one Yellow country alone, China, is
nearly four times all the Whites on the planet. They too are remaining racially pure. There are no all-White
nations, at least in the Western world. We are the earth's most endangered species.
The famous American aviator, Charles Lindbergh, traveled America in the 30's warning that if we helped to
destroy the tiny nation of Germany, which was the last and only White Racial Nation, then our Race was
doomed. Was he right?
Today YOU can escape the terror of the Black ghettos and the Brown barrios. Your children and your
children's children will have no refuge. THE DEATH OF THE WHITE RACE is neither imaginary nor far
off in the distant future. History shows what "tender mercy" the few remaining Whites can expect from the
colored hordes in the last days of our Race.
The JEWS, who have sworn to destroy our Race and who now own all three T.V. networks, the major
movie companies, and nearly all newspapers and publishing companies, make it front page headlines, if
they can find a non-integrated school or neighborhood anywhere.
Nations, economic systems, political systems, etc., will rise, fall and evolve as long as man walks this
planet. THE DEATH OF THE WHITE RACE is eternal. Make no mistake, WHITEMAN, the death of our
Race, the creators of Law, Justice, Technology, Medicine, Housing - virtually everything of value - spells
the end of civilization.
Whiteman, look at the beautiful woman you love. Whitewoman, think about the future for your children.
WHITEMAN, THINK. The decision is for this generation. Your children will be outnumbered fifty to one
by colored people, who have been inflamed to hatred of our people by the JEWSMEDIA. Nature's laws are
as impartial as they are harsh. Love your own kind, fight for your own kind or perish, as have many
thousands of other species.
YOUR FIRST LOYALTY MUST BE TO YOUR RACE WHICH IS YOUR NATION!
David Lane
For Chris Hill (Lancaster) and all other lovers of our "elder brothers in the "faith" [sic]
Rabbi Menashe Klein On Child Sexual Abuse: Doctors And Other Mandated Reporters Who Call Police Should Be Killed.
See here:
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Disgusting.
But thank G-d the chosen ones are pumping up our population.
Oswald Spenger, the great German historian and philosopher, once observed that how a people learns history is its form of political education. In every society, including our own, how people learn and understand history is determined by those who control political and cultural life, including the educational system and the mass media. How people understand the past -- and how they view the world and themselves as members of society -- is set by the agenda of those who hold power.
That’s why, in our society, death and suffering during and after World War II of non-Jews -- Poles, Russians and others, and especially Germans -- is all but ignored, and why, instead, more than six decades after the end of the war, Jewish death and suffering -- above all, what is known as “the Holocaust” -- is given such prominent attention, year after year, in our classrooms and motion pictures, and by our political leaders.
What I’m calling here this evening the “unknown holocaust” of non-Jews is essentially ignored not because the facts are disputed or unknown, but rather because this reality does not fit well with the Judeo-centric view of history that is all but obligatory in our society, a view of the past that reflects the Jewish-Zionist hold on our cultural and educational life.
http://www.ihr.org/judaism0709.html
God help us all! And all Gri££in can do against this is offer life membership with a free Hong Kong made wrist watch thrown in with a cheap Bombay printed certificate! When will a real Racial Nationalist leader arise to get us out of this genocidal mess?
'Asian' Youths Throw Bricks at Family Celebration
From The Halifax Courier:
A FAMILY says celebrations turned to fear as young and old barricaded themselves inside a building to escape a mob hurling bricks.
Cars were damaged and family members say they were subjected to racial abuse outside the Masonic Hall, Blackwall, Bull Close Lane, Halifax.
They say it took police well over an hour to arrive, by which time the 30-strong mob had dispersed.
The party was held to celebrate a 16th birthday on Saturday and was attended by 80 people aged from two to 85.
Peter Salmons, 62, said people were waiting for lifts home when a group of Asian youths congregated by Balmoral Place.
Because the family feared trouble, Mr Salmons said he decided to get everybody back inside the building.
"Then the bricks started flying. They were breaking red bricks on the wall by the Nashayman Housing Association and throwing them and shouting racist abuse."
He said nobody was hurt but cars were damaged, including his Ford Fiesta, which suffered £500 damage.
Mr Salmons said the police were rung repeatedly, first at 11.16pm, but it took one hour 23 minutes for two officers to arrive.
"It is disgusting. We were only 30 yards from the town centre where there were police Transit vans," said Mr Salmons, of Bradshaw, Halifax.
Another partygoer said it was a terrifying experience.
"People were scared and we had to lock the doors," he said.
A police spokesman said: "We were called to reports of youths throwing bricks at 00.30 on Sunday. Unfortunately, at the time the force was experiencing a network problem affecting several IT systems," he said.
"Contingency plans were used to maintain levels of service and normal service was resumed shortly afterwards. This might have caused a delay in this instance."
The British must have more kids.
And the rest!
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