Professor Steve Fothergill, a number-crunching economist at Sheffield Hallam University, dropped a bombshell paper showing migrants are snatching up half the jobs in Britain's former coal mining towns. The result? He got the boot, sacked for daring to spill the tea on mass immigration's dirty secrets. This isn't just about one prof; it's a neon sign flashing "New World Order" (NWO) control, silencing anyone who exposes their open-borders agenda.
Professor Fothergill's no lightweight, he's been grinding since 1992, specialising in urban and regional development. His October 2024 paper dug into job growth in England and Wales' old coal mining areas from 2011 to 2021. The numbers don't lie: almost half the new jobs went to foreign workers. Meanwhile, 590,000 locals were stuck on welfare in 2023, despite billions poured into "regeneration." His take? The UK's getting a "poor rate of return" on these efforts, and mass migration's flooding local jobs, leaving Brits high and dry.
He didn't stop there. Fothergill called for "better regulation" to curb migration so locals could actually benefit from their own economy. Sounds reasonable, right? Not to the woke overlords at Sheffield Hallam. Days after his paper hit the press, they hauled him into a meeting at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) and read him the riot act. His short-term, part-time contract, renewed like clockwork for 32 years, was suddenly toast. Coincidence? Hell no.
Sheffield Hallam's scrambling to save face, claiming Fothergill's sacking was just "financial" and not about his paper. They even said he was just "on secondment," not a real employee. Yeah, right, 32 years of renewals, and now it's "budget cuts"? Pull the other one. Fothergill isn't buying it, telling The Telegraph the university "simply didn't like the conclusions we came to." He's calling it an "assault on academic freedom," and he's dead right.
The university's CRESR director, Ed Ferrari, tried to spin it in emails Fothergill leaked to The Telegraph. Ferrari admitted the data was solid and the conclusions "substantiated" but whined that the paper wasn't "sufficiently robust" and used "careless" or "inflammatory" language. Inflammatory, how? Oh, because it dared to point out that legal migrants are taking jobs while locals rot on benefits. Ferrari even called the paper "jingoistic," like Fothergill was waving a Union Jack and chanting "Britain First." Total BS, Fothergill says he kept it "objective" and "numbers-driven," vetted by top profs from Cambridge, Birmingham, and Newcastle who all gave it a thumbs-up.
This is textbook New World Order. The elites love mass migration, it keeps wages low, workers desperate, and nations weak. Fothergill's paper was a direct hit on their open-borders scam, so they had to shut him down. The timing's suspect too, English Channel migrant crossings hit 36,816 in 2024, a 25% jump from 2023, and the UK's drowning in it.
Sheffield Hallam's not some neutral ivory tower. With 28,000 students, 18% from overseas, and a rep as a "very liberal university," they're all-in on the progressive dogma. Frank Furedi, a sociology prof, told The Telegraph there's "considerable pressure to conform" in higher education. Fothergill said it straight: the university "didn't want these things being said." They're not mad about his math, they're mad he exposed how migration's working over working-class Brits.
This isn't just about Fothergill, it's a warning to every academic, doc, or regular Joe: step out of line, and the system will crush you. It is the NWO's endgame: flood nations with migrants, tank economies, and push digital IDs to track the chaos. The UN's Agenda 2030 is behind it, with "sustainable migration" as code for erasing borders. Sheffield Hallam's sacking of Fothergill fits right in, universities are the globalists' foot soldiers, training kids to obey and punishing profs who think otherwise.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/14/sheffield-hallam-university-professor-migrant-research/
"An academic claims he was "sacked" by a university after writing a paper that was negative about foreign workers.
Prof Steve Fothergill said his contract was terminated by Sheffield Hallam University after his paper found that half of the jobs in former coal mining areas were taken up by migrants.
He alleged that bosses at the university told him they were unhappy with his paper and subsequently did not renew his short-term, part-time contract.
Prof Fothergill accused Sheffield Hallam of launching an "assault on academic freedom", alleging that the university "simply didn't like the conclusions we came to".
Sheffield Hallam University denied that there was "any attempt to suppress the research project or its findings", adding that the academic was on secondment there.
'Issue with quality of academic work'Speaking to The Telegraph, Prof Fothergill, an economist specialising in urban and regional development, said: "I was told there was an issue with the quality of the academic work, which is nonsense – the paper is a very thorough evaluation of the numbers."
His paper, which explored employment growth in former mining areas in England and Wales in 2011-21, found that almost half the jobs created had been filled by foreign workers.
It concluded that given the substantial "effort, energy and funding" ploughed into these areas over the decade to regenerate local economies and communities, the outcome was a "poor rate of return".
It suggested that the high numbers of jobs going to non-UK workers could explain why "vast numbers" of coalfield residents – 590,000 in the autumn of 2023 – were on out-of-work benefits.
The paper also suggested the need to "better regulate migration to the UK, to bring down the numbers so that more of the benefits of local regeneration feed through to local residents".
But the academic claimed that days after an article was published in October referencing the research, he was called into a meeting at the university's Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research and told that the university was unhappy with the piece of work.
Prof Fothergill claimed his short-term, part-time contract, which he said had been renewed consistently since 1992, was terminated.
He said he had run the study past half a dozen very senior academics around the country for their comments.
"These are leading professors, in Cambridge, Birmingham and Newcastle, whose views I respect. No one came back saying 'Oh no Steve, you've got this wrong'," he said. "They were all saying 'Wow, this is rather shocking in terms of the numbers'."
In a series of emails seen by The Telegraph, the director of the university's Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research said that while there was no suggestion "that the data are wrong or your conclusions cannot be substantiated", the study had "not been presented in a way that is sufficiently robust academically to substantiate the policy conclusions it draws and the language that is used to propose them".
It said the report "fails to engage critically with wider debates around migration" and uses language which is "at best a little careless and at worst will be seen as offensive or inflammatory".
The email also stated "you are talking about people who have legally moved to the UK – just as many from the UK have legally moved to other countries" and that some of the conclusions come across as "jingoistic".
'This isn't about race or culture'Prof Fothergill denied the claims, adding: "I made sure that it was an objective, numbers-driven economic analysis, couched in very careful language where it reaches its conclusions."