Tony Abbott Is Right About Mass Immigration – But Let’s Not Forget His Role in the Disaster, By James Reed

Tony Abbott has issued a grim but necessary warning: the West is diluting itself into irrelevance through unchecked mass immigration. From Britain's crumbling sense of identity to Australia importing the equivalent of a new Canberra every year, the former Prime Minister has spoken aloud what many citizens know in their bones, our nations are being transformed beyond recognition, and not for the better.

Abbott's intervention in the immigration debate is welcome. He calls out the usual suspects, big business, university bureaucrats, and moral exhibitionists, who treat immigration not as a policy but as a secular religion. They wave "diversity" like a crucifix against any criticism, while the real-life consequences play out in unaffordable housing, stagnant wages, stretched hospitals, and increasingly fractured communities.

He also hammers one of the most insidious motivations behind high immigration: the desire of cultural elites to erase Anglo heritage. "Dilution" isn't an unfortunate side effect, for many, it's the point. For the guilt-ridden Anglosphere, the narrative of national self-harm has become a virtue signal on steroids.

But here's the rub. While Abbott is now sounding the alarm, his own record in office is not squeaky clean. Yes, he cracked down on the boats, and deserves credit for that, but he also oversaw record levels of legal immigration. Under his watch, the permanent intake stayed high, and net migration surged. Abbott's government took a hard line on optics but a soft line on the fundamentals. He played to the gallery while allowing the permanent transformation of Australia's demographic makeup to continue apace.

So, while his words now echo common sense, there's an uncomfortable truth: he was part of the problem.

Still, we can't ignore the substance of his warning. He's right to link immigration to economic laziness. Rather than innovate or reform, governments just import more workers to goose GDP. This may inflate the top-line numbers, but for ordinary people it means more competition, more crowding, and less belonging. It's a Ponzi scheme with cultural side effects.

And the UK is no different. Tony Abbott's remarks echo across the Anglosphere, from Keir Starmer's sudden discovery of border pressure (conveniently after years of ignoring it) to Robert Jenrick pointing out that entire towns have undergone demographic revolutions in a single generation.

It's telling that in places like Bradford and Luton, up to half the population was born overseas. In parts of London, the native British are statistical ghosts. This isn't "multiculturalism," it's disintegration. No country, no matter how liberal, can remain cohesive with that rate of change. And no amount of street food festivals or "community engagement" will stitch it back together.

The idea that Britain has become an "island of strangers" isn't hyperbole. It's the lived experience of millions. But now, with the public fed up and the political class nervously eyeing the Reform Party, some are finally waking up. Unfortunately, they may be waking up too late.

Abbott's warning is useful. But it's also a reminder that words are easy. What's needed is policy with teeth. Britain must not only "get to grips" with migration, it must reverse it. Australia must do more than stop boats, it must cap and cut legal intakes. Otherwise, we're simply rearranging the deck chairs while our nations are culturally hollowed out from within.

As the saying goes: it is not immigration if there's no assimilation, it is just replacement. And that is what we are seeing in the UK and Australia now.

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"Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has issued a dire warning over Britain and the West's spiralling migrant crises.

Abbott, who was elected in 2013 on the back of a "stop the boats" slogan, has warned that importing migrants from "destructive" cultures risks "diluting" the countries in which they arrive, including the UK.

Writing for The Australian following the country's federal election at the start of May, Abbott said neither the victorious Anthony Albanese nor the ousted Peter Dutton "wanted to touch" immigration on the campaign trail.

"Once dismissing immigration moves from the need to get it down to the practical steps to cut it, the vested interests it benefits are prone to take offence," he warned.

Abbott issued a dire warning over Britain and the West's spiralling migrant crises following the Australian Federal Election

Universities, businesses and "reform-shy officials" who had been "relying on immigration as the lazy way to generate economic growth" were some of those likely to be offended, the ex-PM said.

Others include "the moralists who want large numbers of migrants to dilute the Anglo culture they find dull or otherwise dislike", and the recent arrivals who are "inclined to take personally any critique of high immigration".

Australia, whose population stands at just under 28 million, is importing a "city the size of Canberra" every year, Abbott said - and warned that wages, housing and infrastructure all suffer as a result.

The country has also battled its own small boat crisis, across the Torres Strait from Papua New Guinea.

And phrases like "diversity is our unity" are wreaking havoc on countries across the English-speaking world, he added.

The Anglosphere countries, "wracked with doubt and guilt about their history", all suffer as a result of mass migration, Abbott continued.

His words come as Sir Keir Starmer faces down fury from his left over warning that Britain risks becoming an "island of strangers".

The Prime Minister, after laying out his White Paper migration reforms, has been praised by Reform UK and forced to endure fierce criticism from the Labour backbenches.

Starmer's press secretary addressed the fallout on Wednesday afternoon, saying: "We can't shy away from the reality that uncontrolled net migration of nearly one million a year puts our national security at risk, and successive Governments have failed to recognise that or bring down the numbers as the public want them to.

"This Government will change that and that's why we are getting to grips with it after years of inaction."

Alongside Reform, Starmer's attacks on Britain's migrant crisis have been met with praise by Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick.

"I think it's true. In fact, I think in some places we already are [strangers]. Aggressive levels of mass migration have made us more divided," Jenrick said.

"If you look at communities in our country, for example, central Bradford, 50 per cent of people were born outside of the United Kingdom. In central Luton, 46 per cent of residents arrived in the past decade.

"There are places like Dagenham where the white British population has fallen by almost 60 per cent in the last 25 years.

"People in many parts of our country are experiencing profound change as a result of the levels of migration that we've seen, and we've got to bring that back to the historic levels that we enjoyed as a country which enabled us to be a well-integrated and united country, rather than the one that we're seeing today."