The DT reports on an ONS survey into the reducing pay-gap between “white” people and “BAME ethnic minorities” (they are not ethnic minorities, of course, because they are foreign colonisers; and we are not merely white, we are the native British).

The pay gap between white and ethnic minority employees continues to fall and has reached its smallest level for seven years, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found. Researchers found there was a 2.3 per cent gap in earnings between white and ethnic minority employees in England and Wales in 2019.

White employees earned on average £12.40 per hour, compared with £12.11 for those in 17 ethnic minority groups on average.

... Ethnic minority employees aged 30 and over tend to earn less than their white counterparts, while those aged 16-29 tend to earn more, the ONS research showed.

This year, the ONS found that Chinese, white Irish, white and Asian and Indian ethnicities earned more on average than white British employees between 2012 and 2019. However, most ethnic groups, including Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Arab, consistently earned less than white British employees over the same period.

The biggest gaps were between Pakistani workers (£10.55 per hour) and white British (£12.49 per hour), while white Irish workers earned £17.55 per hour on average.

Taking into account factors such as age, sex, marital status, children, qualifications, country of birth and location of employees narrows the gap for many ethnic groups, the ONS found.

... It found the gap is larger for men than women, although men earn more than women across most ethnic groups. In 2019, ethnic minority men earned 6.1 per cent less than white men, while the hourly pay of ethnic minority women was 2.1% more than white women.

That difference was most pronounced in London, at 23.8 per cent, and smallest in Wales, at 1.4 per cent, the ONS, which analysed data on earnings from the Annual Population Survey, said.

“It almost passes belief that at this moment 20 or 30 additional immigrant children are arriving from overseas in Wolverhampton alone every week - and that means 15 or 20 additional families a decade or two hence. Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancés whom they have never seen.”
- Enoch Powell, from his famous speech to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April 20 1968.