It was put out of its misery by official figures showing the bulging UK population is set to soar by 6.6million over 12 years.
If this shocker required illustration, it came on Wednesday with the vicious chemical attack on a mother and two children by the sex predator Abdul Ezedi, who arrived here in the back of a lorry before being granted asylum at the THIRD attempt.
For millions of once true-blue voters, his attack symbolises the damage to this country’s social fabric from uncontrolled mass immigration and the disaster of multiculturalism.
Evidence that British society has changed for ever was underscored by Tory Mike Freer’s decision to quit Parliament amid death threats after speaking up for his Jewish constituents.
Mr Freer, MP for Margaret Thatcher’s old seat of Finchley, in North London, was the initial target of knife assassin Ali Harbi Ali, who went on to kill fellow Tory MP Sir David Amess in October 2021.
We might justifiably condemn Tony Blair for opening the floodgates to all comers 20 years ago.
We can point the finger at the blundering Home Office, unscrupulous lawyers, hand-wringing charities and the Church of England under Archbishop Justin Welby.
But responsibility for this scandalous social catastrophe lies squarely today with five consecutive Tory Prime Ministers.
After 14 years, they deserve the blame for a boom in legal and illegal immigration which has fractured our centuries-old reputation as a beacon of tolerance and free speech.
The Tories have utterly betrayed the watch-my-lips pledge from Blair-worshipping PM David Cameron to limit immigration to the “tens of thousands”.
Sore will never heal
Boris Johnson actively encouraged immigration by suggesting an amnesty for all those living here illegally — an open invitation to millions more to try their luck.
Far from cutting numbers, the Tories nodded through 745,000 legally approved migrants in 2022 alone.
Criminal gangs shipped 45,000 illegals across The Channel last year.
If we can’t provide schools, health care, social services or housing for the current population, what hope of coping with a new flood equal to five cities like Birmingham?
This is about more than numbers.
Conflict in Gaza has ripped open a running sore that will never heal and is now playing out on the streets of Britain and Europe.
Saturday street protests through UK cities are recruiting rallies for left-wing and Muslim hot heads.
Religious hardliners are weaponising their children and demanding Muslim prayer rituals in schools.
As a society, we are steadily surrendering to anti-blasphemy rules. Sometimes it is hard to see the difference between Islam and Islamism.
Under Archbishop Wobbly, the Church of England has adopted industrial-scale baptism, allowing the likes of Abdul Ezedi to game the asylum system by posing as Christian “converts”.
The Home Office looks like a wholly owned subsidiary of the people smuggling gangs, sweeping migrants into the warm embrace of Border Force the moment they reach our shores.
And the Civil Service Blob lectures on the possible threat from right-wing terrorists while barely mentioning the actual danger from Islamists.
Meanwhile, the rest of us who believe in free speech as the basis of democracy are gagged by insulting charges of racism, fascism and Islamophobia.
This was a crisis in the making from the moment David Cameron took office 14 years ago.
He and Chancellor George Osborne promised to deal with scores of unaccountable pro-immigration quangos and charities dominated by Gordon Brown’s Labour appointees.
Diddly squat
We’ve heard veiled threats to quit the European Convention on Human Rights and vows to deport criminal migrants.
Instead, the Tories have done what Jeremy Clarkson might call diddly squat.
Keir Starmer as PM will undoubtedly welcome more immigration, support the public sector Blob and kowtow to the millions of UK Muslims who form his party’s client vote.
There is talk in the air of a snap spring election.
In recent times, once-staunch Conservatives have told me they will punish this Government by voting Reform or staying home on election day.
That will only guarantee a Labour landslide, I say.
But after last week, I’m saving my breath.
They might as well go ahead and get it over and done with.
A united Ireland?
MY father was a Dubliner whose Aunt Nellie was a Sinn Fein gun-runner during the 1916 Easter Rising.
He left after the partition of Northern Ireland and was welcomed to London by signs saying: “No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs.”
An early example of white privilege.
Would he have applauded the first steps by Sinn Fein leaders now ruling in both the North and South towards a united Ireland? Perhaps.
But he might ask how this will be accomplished without unravelling the Good Friday Agreement that has held a very fragile ceasefire for the past quarter of a century.