Europe is feeling the strain of mass immigration

Britain can’t cope, that was the response of Nigel Farage to last week’s disclosure by the Office for National Statistics that the population will hit 72.5 million in 2032. The leader of Reform said that Britain has already reached saturation point at 67.6 million, adding: ‘Our quality of life for all of us is diminishing directly as a result of the population explosion.’

The French feel the same, and examples abound of the strain being placed on the country as a result of mass immigration.

The Friday before last a class of schoolchildren in Paris were having a PE lesson when it came to an abrupt halt. City Council officials arrived and ordered the children to collect their belongings and vacate the sports hall because it was needed to house 200 migrants. ‘I was not consulted or even informed by Paris City Hall,’ said a furious Jérémy Redler, mayor of the 16th arrondissement.

Another building occupied in Paris is the Gaîté Lyrique, a theatre in the third arrondissement, which was taken over by 200 young migrants on December 10.