I not normally a regular watcher of Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches’ programme as I often have better things to do with my time. However for various reasons I was in a position where didn’t control the remote control which meant I watched the episode of ‘Dispatches’ of Monday 22^nd June.

The programme was based around the story of communities divided between rich and poor and how sometimes even individual buildings were divided between those who owned or rented their property at a market rate and those on the other side of the building who were in social housing.

The programme went to great lengths to decry and criticise the fact that buildings had separate doors for the owners and another different door for those in the social housing side of the property. It emoted about how terrible this situation was and how appalling it was that some areas were being denuded of a social mix. It also spoke of the pressure on social housing. To cut things short, it ticked all the Lefty boxes from the perceived injustice of having divided buildings, with a little dose of class war and class envy, mixed in with a lot of hand-wringing. However, there was one aspect of this story of housing shortage that was only missed by the producers but seemed to be studiously ignored by them. The aspect that the producers ignored was the pressure that immigration puts on housing supply. I wonder why that was? Could it be that examining the impact of immigration on housing in London would have challenged the producers political views? Whatever the reasoning behind not mentioning immigration,it was huge error not to point out immigration as a major factor behind both the growth in London’s population and the fact that housing and especially social housing availability is becoming problematical.

London, the main focus for the programme, is a magnet for immigrants. Once an immigrant has leave to remain or has been naturalised or accepted as a resident, they are given access to the benefit system and also become eligible for social housing. These extra members of the population need to be housed and it is inconceivable to think that expanding London’s population so rapidly and and also by so many people from overseas who have specified ‘needs’ or who come from communities that the Left favour, would not have an impact on housing availability. Of course the idea of ‘poor doors’ on property will make many people feel uneasy but could this situation have been avoided if the number of foreign born non-contributors to society who occupy social housing in London was less? If you are an indigenous British person of a working class background but only earning an average wage, then your chances of getting social housing in London near to your work are pretty small. If, on the other hand you are a non-working Pakistani Muslim who has married their first cousin and produced a profoundly disabled child, then the councils will fall over themselves to display their pro-immigration and pro-‘equality’ values and will give the Pakistani Muslim a social home. In some London boroughs such as Newham, to be a non-immigrant Briton or to be a non-Muslim or to have been a lifelong contributor to the states coffers, is to be a third class citizen. Contacts tell me that in Newham there are cases of indigenous Britons being housed in disgusting council owned and controlled shit pits with mould and vermin and all sorts, whilst the council falls over itself to see minorities as being more deserving than the majority and supply them with much better housing. In fact Newham has been so successful in their ‘diversity’ policies that indigenous Britons are now down to just 17% of the local population. In Newham it is something that is remarked upon when an indigenous person is given a council property, so unusual does it seem to the few remaining white Britons who have the misfortune to be still living there.

In nearby Barking and Dagenham the local authority is housing many more immigrants in places like the Becontree Estate, that once great edifice of municipal magnificence, that signified all that was right about the idea of providing decent homes for decent people, is being filled by the needy and undeserving of the world, with the Britons being squeezed out. This influx of the needy also puts additional pressure on schools, local health services and other amenities. It is likely if more and more foreigners continue to be housed in Barking and Dagenham that a similar clearing out of indigenous Britons will occur there as has occurred in Newham.

In London it seems that working class indigenous Britons, primarily those who are employed, get the rough end of the stick when it comes to housing, especially social housing. An allocations policy based on ‘needs’ rather than how long you’ve spent on the waiting list and whether the applicant a respectable person, is a boon for those who wish to gerrymander housing allocations for political or ideological reasons.

It was bent in the extreme of this ‘Dispatches’ programme not to address the problem of immigration and the extra stress that it puts on social housing and on the private rented sector and on housing support for those extra immigrants. They even had a Muslim woman moaning about her accommodation and how bad the housing situation is, it would have been better and more honest for the programme to ask ‘why are we housing so many followers of Islam, the world’s premier death cult?’

When you visit some of the heaviliy ‘enriched’ shitholes of North and East London (places that were much less shitty before they were so ‘enriched’) you can see the effects of mass and unnecessary immigration on them and on the availability of social housing for deserving Britons. How can letting in so many people not have an effect on quality of life and the availability of property and of other services.

Here’s a link to the ‘Dispatches’ programme, see if I could how they’ve completely ignored the immigration Elephant.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/on-demand/59665-008

I’m not anti immigration per se, I’d like heavily controlled immigration, but we need to start seeing the immigration of recent decades as not a matter of immigration but as a matter of invasion. It’s difficult to know what else to describe something that comes into your area, takes it over, turns it into a shithole and makes life so unpleasant to those previously living there that they feel they have no alternative but to leave.