Unspoken of Aspects to Mass Immigration
- Piers Baker
- Jul 1
- 5 min read
Piers Baker
July 1, 2025
Something that’s not talked about is the mental health consequences of mass immigration.
Everyday I take the train for work and head up to my office in central London. In the past five years alone the change taking place in our country has been impossible to ignore. My journey takes me through the places of my birth and childhood but they’re fast becoming unrecognisable.
The words of our Prime Minister, even if he now regrets them, ring true. We are becoming an island of strangers. Every time the train passes through the village where my father was raised, the town where he met my mother, the place where I went to school, I’m filled with an immense sense of loss, a grief for a place I once knew and a time I’m now forgetting.
I wish I could switch off, not care about what’s happening. I wish I could just run away from my thoughts, my sadness and my anger, but it’s a depressing reality that has to be confronted daily.
What’s happened to the East London cockneys, their practical extinction from the rhythms of English life, is happening now to honest working-class communities in Kent.
The Medway towns, with their proud industrial and agricultural heritage, are now experiencing a rapid demographic change that risks changing their very place in our island story.
The pride of the Royal Navy once had its home in Chatham. But if the sailors and shipwrights who built the town wandered its back streets now do we really think they would recognise it as the town they knew?
Earlier this year my father died. There were many factors which contributed to his untimely death but I know that a NHS stretched beyond its limits by overpopulation simply didn’t treat him with the dignity he deserved.
I want to go into this another time but today I just need to say that I know he deplored what was happening. We talked about it all the time when he dropped me off and picked me up from my commute. I do that commute alone now and have no one to share my thoughts with.
As I mourn him I also mourn my home. I am sensitive person. I absorb everything around me and take it to heart.
I’ve wrestled with internal struggles of self-doubt but the one thing I’m confident about is how wrong this all feels.
© Piers Baker 2025.
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Given that KJM Today is based just outside the Medway Towns in Kent, this is something I relate to closely and I have seen the changes Piers refers to.
This may not go down too well in some quarters but it is nonetheless a fact.
I've lived here for 26 years and up to around halfway through that time whenever I went into Chatham, using a bus or train, on the way back often it was just after the school day ended.
One of the legacies of the past is that the 'Towns have always had good schools, all worth attending. Chatham railway station was packed with children on their way home, as were the buses. Almost all were white.
Today almost all the boys are black. A lone white boy stands out. About half the girls are white, the rest are all black. To see white children one has to go out to the suburbs.
Many of these children were born here in the 'Towns, many others have moved (or been moved) out of London, where they were born. Many of their parents were born here too. Their Grandparents might have immigrated to the UK and all have worked hard, paid their taxes and raised their children properly - general behaviour of these children today is not at all poor.
As Jim Chimirie points out in his article on KJM Today (link below), this change is being repeated up and down the UK. And in some instances it has been and is, bad for the country.
But it is indicative of the results of mass immigration - legal or otherwise. The nature, look and culture of the UK is changing.
Is it a good thing or a bad thing? That's for you to decide.
But like it or not, the changing face of Britain is still a fact.
And the Medway Towns' schools are still good schools, with good students attending them.
Kevan James.
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When I told people in 1981 the Brixton riots were caused by 'multi-culturism' we didn't want or need, I was called a racist.
Gradually, the multi-culturism moved along the A23 to Croydon. When I moved out of Croydon in 1997 because the shops I used to visit as a teenager had all become foreign and the streets resembled Kabul, Baghdad or Kingston, and the fighting between gangs from Albania, Somalia and Romania had become a weekly occurrence, and when I couldn't go to the Whitgift Shopping Centre because the muggings, shootings and stabbings were rife, I was called racist.
When I moved to Cornwall in 1997 and told my new work colleagues why I, and other Londoners, had moved down, they couldn't believe it. Now councils from all over the UK are moving immigrants down to Cornish towns and the utter destruction of those towns, like St Austell and Redruth, is heart breaking.
I moved to Suffolk in 2004 and the county town, Ipswich, resembled Croydon in the 1970s and early 80s. I warned people at work not to let Ipswich go the same way as Croydon. They thought I was racist. Now Ipswich has loads of foreign shops, boarded up shops, young foreign men loitering about town, loads of African women with babies, a mosque, so much crime that the shopping centre is now police and privately patrolled. Ipswich now resembles the Croydon I left in 1997.
I warned people. They didn't listen.
There aren't enough police to sort out all the crime in Ipswich, let alone the outlying villages where the youths now seem to run amok copying their foreign friends. The drugs, the stabbings, the money laundering, the modern day slavery, the illegal working, the rapes and sexual assaults have all been brought to our shores by foreign cultures and many young British youths are falling prey to this culture too.
They think they're the dogs' bollox. That's why Ipswich bred the hateful anti-Semite who chanted Death to the IDF at Glastonbury.
I warned you Ipswich. Now, it's too late. You all called me racist. Now you all know I was right. But it's too late for this country, thanks to the utter failure of Tony Blair's multi-cultural experiment and subsequent weak governments - we have to live in an ever declining, crime ridden country.
And thanks to a minority of monstrous mad lefties who have no idea of history or the horror of the gas chambers, our hard working lovely Jewish community are scared stiff.
Say to anyone who can, get out while you're still able to. And anyone who can't, vote Reform.
Sandy Tregent
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