>>23950324The US is a global superpower because it imported the best people from around the world. You don't have to become left wing, but you do have to think seriously for a moment: what does immigration select for? I'll tell you: it selects for the best people in the emigrating population. The people who're willing to gamble on having a better life.
Compare the declining United Kingdom (selection effect: people who'll stay home and endure misery instead of getting on the boat) to its former settler colonies: America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand. All of them are much nicer places to live. Why? Because all of the British people who were willing to take risks, smart enough to take a sensible risk like going to Canada over a silly one like going to Rhodesia, open-minded enough to be up for the new experience, etc, all to have a nicer place to live got on a boat and went there.
Britain is a nation made up of the people who stayed behind. Some because they were comfortable where they were, sure, but a huge chunk were miserable and just ignored this generational opportunity for their family lines. This is a pattern that holds almost everywhere - even within the US, the people who'll move states are better than those who won't and wallow in their deindustrialized hellhole.
>>23950327This is a voting intention graph, not a graph of high ranking figures. It tells you nothing about Zia Yusuf, Suella Braverman, Rishi Sunank (a Tory, but still), etc.
If your conclusions are correct one must explain Scotland and Wales: why did it take them so long to realize that they're a different ethnicity and start voting for the SNP/Plaid?
("Because they're white" won't wash. You're telling me Scots in 1960, when Britain was overwhelmingly white, had no sense of themselves, but suddenly in 2015 they realize that actually they were Scottish after all? If anything, you'd expect the opposite: nationalist until 2015, then racialist in outlook as demographics shifted.)
