JRF

On the tube going through East London you see a lot of overweight Bangladeshi and Somali women. Gormless faces, hijabs, gibbering and grunting into a hands-free phone kit with a cattle-like blank stare. Statistically, and judging by their general demeanour they are guaranteed to be unemployed, economically inactive, benefitmaxxing and a net loss to the treasury and therefore nation. Even university students from those communities max out loans then go onto unemployment benefits after they’ve graduated. While Fraser Nelson and Michael Gove celebrate the data for how highly educated minorities are in the Yookay. So these women are neither physically attractive nor economically active. And there’s loads of them, everywhere in London. Yet there’s a movement to say they aren’t just British or English but also more authentic Londoners than white Brits. Which Sensibles, Communists and the minorities themselves can’t grasp the absurdity of. But imagine an equivalent scenario in say Beijing. You’re riding the Beijing metro and all around you there are gormless, overweight and unemployed white, European woman who are similarly neither physically attractive nor ever going to contribute anything to the Chinese economy. Just constantly existing in a state of taking advantage of whatever welfare and government schemes can give them for free. Now imagine parts of Chinese society were demanding they be called Chinese with state backed propaganda of how they built the country. And China’s geopolitical strategy was no longer about financial or military strength and development, instead they’d approach international relations by saying “Oh, we’ve got some people from your country living in our capital city, so… well… it’s just we think that… erm… we could give away some islands too.. would you like us if we did that?” You’d assume the Chinese government had had some kind of collective nervous breakdown and no longer understood the basics of guaranteeing their own nation’s success and survival. This type of migration is closer to wildlife preservation and collecting endangered animal species than anything related to human capital being beneficial to the economy. Anthony Bourdain and David Attenborough have desensitised the average British bloke to having to safari through parts of their own country as if it’s actually really quirky and exotic. Whilst a more feminised labour market reflects women’s choices and they’d much rather work in a vet’s or petting zoo than a hedge fund or oil refinery.