{"id":120744,"date":"2023-10-30T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T15:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120744"},"modified":"2023-10-30T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T15:20:19","slug":"miriam-cates-issues-warning-over-destabilising-mass-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/miriam-cates-issues-warning-over-destabilising-mass-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Cates issues warning over ‘destabilising mass immigration’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Her warning yesterday came as net migration reached record levels last year, rising to 606,000.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference yesterday, she said: \u201cUnless fertility rate decline is reversed, we are heading for a future of certain economic stagnation or destabilising mass immigration. Or both.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we don\u2019t need warnings about the future to alert us to decline.We can feel the social fabric fraying around us. At every level of society \u2013 families, neighbourhood, the nation \u2013 our social covenant – the shared understanding of identity and responsibility – is under strain.<\/p>\n

\u201cNowhere is this strain more evident than in the erosion of family life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Tony Blair opened immigration floodgates between 1997 and 2010 when net migration to the UK quadrupled.<\/p>\n

There were 605,479 live births in England and Wales in 2022, a 3.1 per cent decrease from 624,828 in 2021 and the lowest number since 2002.<\/p>\n

Ms Cates also warned family breakdown has become an \u201cepidemic\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said nearly half of British children are experiencing the \u201cdissolution\u201d of their parents\u2019 relationship.<\/p>\n

Ms Cates added: \u201cThe impact of family breakdown on children is profound,<\/p>\n

\u201cFor children it is the single biggest predictor of poor teen mental health and correlated with worse outcomes in every aspect of adult life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe support of extended family has been weakened and loneliness increased as young people have moved away from their communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne in seven British adults now take antidepressants and suicide is the most common cause of death for young men.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur families are in crisis, and the social fabric of our neighbourhoods is also unravelling\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ms Cates also said children believing they can change their gender is a consequence of the \u201cfraying of our social fabric.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has backed the Daily Express\u2019 Protect Women\u2019s Rights crusade which demands women are given greater safeguards in what has become a toxic clash with trans extremists.<\/p>\n

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