Community cohesion may not be a black and white issue, but the facts on it are certainly black and white.
According to a senior academic’s study, the white British population is dwindling in urban “pockets” across England.
Prof Ted Cantle, who co-authored the report with Prof Eric Kaufmann at Birkbeck, University of London, has called for action to tackle growing ethnic segregation across the UK. White families should be encouraged to live in ethnically diverse areas to tackle growing ethnic segregation in England.
The study reveals white populations in towns and cities are dwindling at record levels and in extreme cases have halved in a decade.
England’s white population overall fell from 86.8 per cent in 2001 to 79.8 in 2011.
Professor Cantle cites Blackburn as one of the most segregated towns in Britain whose Whalley Range area is now 95 per cent Asian.
