I keep seeing the same argument being used to try to stop Liberal politicians, and the rest of us, from speaking out against immigration.
It’s a variation on the “we’re a nation of immigrants” lie (our ancestors settled and created this country from nothing, they weren’t immigrants), and it goes something like this:
“The immigrant or immigrant-descended population is so high now that being anti-immigration is a losing position – half the country won’t vote for you”
Gerard Rennick made this argument during his disappointing appearance on the Backbench Drivers podcast a few weeks ago, where he also declared that his People First party is “pro-immigration” (If Rennick thinks he can win his senate seat seat back without the right-wing anti-immigration vote he’s in for a rude shock, but that’s a topic for another article).
Here’s what he said:
“One thing we won’t start doing is immigrant bashing, because if you want to lose an argument when it comes to immigration, start immigrant bashing. It’s not an argument you’re going to win because more than 50% of the people in this country now were either born overseas or have a parent that were born overseas. So let’s just acknowledge that we were all immigrants, you know, in the last 250 years”
Big red flags here from Rennick, we’re not all immigrants, and you can’t be anti-immigration without immigrant bashing – this is another cuckservative delusion that the woke understand better than the centre-right. By being anti-immigration you are being anti-immigrant by default – you wish they hadn’t come, and you want them to leave.
This argument was repeated in an opinion piece by News Corp’s National Weekend Political Editor James Campbell last week, which means it may as well be the official “conservative” Murdoch position.
In the article, titled “Not the best time for West Australian MP Andrew Hastie to channel Enoch Powell’s stance on immigration”, Campbell pretended that Enoch Powell wasn’t 100% right in his Rivers of Blood speech, and scolded Hastie for apparently “channelling” the prophetic UK politician.
His conclusion:
“The percentage of the Australian electorate that are either migrants or the children of migrants is just too high to go down this route.
As I never tire of pointing out, when John Howard was elected in 1996, only 23 per cent of people living in Australia were born overseas.
Today it is 31.5 per cent.
Over the past three decades we have changed from a country where roughly one in four people was born overseas to one where it’s roughly one in three.
Between them, these migrants and their children are a majority of the population.
In other words, only a political party with a death wish would be grabbing this issue.”
Basically the same thing Rennick was saying – being anti-immigration will never work because too many people are immigrants or descended from them.
This is a false proposition, but before we break this down, let’s look at the numbers.
According to the latest ABS data, from July 2024, 31.5% of the estimated resident population were born overseas, as Campbell accurately pointed out in his piece.
The 2021 Census is terribly dated due to years of record-high immigration since, but during that year 45.9% of the population had both parents born in Australia, backing up Rennick’s claims, and the number will be nearing 40% now.
However, one in five of the foreign-born population were born in either England, New Zealand, or South Africa, the vast majority of whom are English-speaking Anglo-Celts, and added to that are small percentages of Irish, Scottish, White Americans and Canadians.
In 2021, 72% of the population spoke only English at home, an indicator of assimilation, and, since we do not have proper ethnicity data, a fairly reliable proxy for Anglo-Celtic Australians.
But even excluding aboriginals who don’t speak an indigenous language and the tiny percentage of non-Anglo-Celts who have abandoned their mother tongues, the number of White Australians is likely to be higher still due to all of the White European immigrants who still have family members who speak their native languages at home.
And we know from a February poll, that not only do 80% of the total population want immigration cut, but those born in other English-speaking countries or in Europe are even more anti-immigration than those born in Australia (83% and 86% respectively want lower numbers).
Even those born in Asia want immigration lowered (77%) while for those born in all other countries it falls to 70%.
So the idea that wanting to reduce immigration is a losing message because Australia is 31.5% foreign-born and more than half immigrant-descended is ludicrous.
But that’s not the only problem with this argument, because conservatives seem to have forgotten how we got here, and are instead feeding into circular leftist reasoning that since we have taken so many immigrants we now have to take even more immigrants.
The Australian people never voted for multiculturalism or mass immigration – it was and continues to be imposed on us by a traitorous political establishment who never cared that most of us were against it.
But now, all of a sudden, because we find ourselves living alongside millions of immigrants we didn’t want in the first place, opposing it is a political “death wish”?
This makes absolutely no sense.
Are we seriously supposed to believe that a supermajority position is electoral death?
This is typical eternal loser cuckservative logic.
In 2001, only 10% of the population wanted more migrants from the Middle East, 12% wanted more Asians, 18% wanted more from Southern Europe, and 28% wanted more from Britain.
We all know what happened.
John Howard happened. Tony Abbott happened. Malcolm Turnbull happened, and Scott Morrison happened. We got the opposite of what we wanted, because we voted for conservatives.
Meanwhile, the left weren’t telling Labor and the Greens that being pro-immigration was electoral death because 90% of Australians were against it, or because only 23% of the population was overseas-born.
They just went ahead and tore our borders open anyway, and the same people now telling you that being anti-immigration is a losing message either did nothing to stop them or did exactly the same thing.
The real takeaway from the foreign-born percentage being so high is that we have no time to waste.
We must close the borders and send millions of foreigners home before they really do become too big a proportion of the population to oppose, at which point our replacement will only accelerate until we become a minority in our own land.
And we all know how we’ll be treated when that happen.
Header image: Opposition leader Sussan Ley and her immigration spokesman Paul Scarr beg for Indian votes in Melbourne last week (Facebook).
