More Than Half of London’s Babies are Born to Foreign Mothers

Speaking at a rally marking 9/11, Anjem Choudary bragged that a birth explosion would let followers of Islam take control of the country. The mob bayed and cheered as he said: "About 500 people in Britain become Muslim every day.

"The Home Office say there are 1.5 million Muslims but there were 1.5million ten years ago. Since then our brothers in Bethnal Green, Whitechapel and other places have had eight or nine children each. Eight children here, ten children, 15 children. There must be at least six million people.

"It may be by pure conversion that Britain will become an Islamic state. We may never need to conquer it from the outside.”

How on target is Choudary?

The demographic war isn’t completely lost, but it’s not going all that well either.

A total of 184,000 children were born in these circumstances, with almost half of them in London, which has a foreign-born mother rate of 56.7 per cent, far above the national average of 25.5 per cent. According to official figures, the average hospital birth can cost L1,600, meaning the total cost to the NHS of these would have been at least L30million. Some of the women will have been born abroad and settled in the UK but a number will have visited just to use the NHS. (...)