And in this New London, where only 45% of
people are white British
is a very religious city,
a city of basement mosque, city of
Nigerian churches in old bingo halls and
life and death
in a city that's not an English city
anymore is really like yes.
And was it was it easy to to mingle
with, with the Romanians? Or
if you live in London and you want to have
children and grandchildren in London,
over a 70% chance that your children or
grandchildren will be mixed race or mixed
religion or mixed ethnicity.
And I found
the story now doesn't have very much to do
with me, the Polish builder, the African
cleaner, the imam.
I was born in London.
But London's changed so much
ethnically with immigration and with this
giant pouring of money from Russia, the
Gulf and
Africa into the city,
that after finishing my work on Russia, I
returned and I felt I didn't recognise
London anymore. Yes,
well today
discounting illegals,
40% of London are
are immigrants and the
majority of the population are immigrants
or their children or their grandchildren.
Totally new culture,
completely new city. And and is this is this
exclusively British problem? The stories of
African kitchen boys who were waiting the
tables of
the rich.
It is that there is a
in fact a whole illegal city in London.
You, you say 600,000 people minimum
are illegal.
That's a city larger than Glasgow. You say
the way that
the
visa system works in the UK is we check
people on the way when they arrive.
We don't check if they go.
And there has been a massive growth in
primarily African visa overstayers.
It's your book and it, it, it, it's not a
happy story that you're, that you're
telling in, in general.
What is? Is this what you would call an
explosive situation? Potentially?