Multiculturalism

[Lizard]

"I will leave you to carry on " That's your stock phrase, if only you would stick to it.

[Trumpton]

It's interesting to note that all those who pontificate to us about "Multiculturalism" all emanate from the same group, i.e., a monoculture.

They are all upper-middle class, they all went to private fee-paying schools, they all utilise private hospitals, they all live in vast detached abodes behind sophisticated security alarm systems, they rarely socialise or indeed know anyone from other culture - the exception being their servants who come from some Third World country.

Similarly; those from African, Asian and Muslim cultures do not want to integrate with the indigenous people in the UK.

Therefore, why is this piece of political dogma - which one wants or supports - being forced upon us?

[David Johnson]

"It's interesting ..."

Indeed it is. Very amusing, totally bonkers post. "Keep it up" as the actress said to the bishop.

[max_tranmere]

It started originally because we had an obligation to allow British passport holders from the recently decolonised countries of the former British Empire to come here. They hoped a trickle would come and everyone would assimilate. A torrent occured, few assimilated, and they paniced. If I remember my dates correctly we got 12 times as many people between 1956 and 1962 as hoped. The import was so vast that new immigrants in London, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Bristol and other places, often had the same neighbours and saw the same people in the streets and in the shops as they had done where they previously lived. A "Commonwealth Immigration Act" was put through Parliament to try and slow it down, a knee-jerk reaction from Government and an admission that they had completely cocked the whole thing up. Riots took place in Notting Hill, west London, in 1958 and in other areas where the change was so big and so fast.

There was a labour shortage too, and nurses, bus drivers and bus conductors were recruited from the former Empire to come here. We are now into the third generation of people in the former colonies who either only lived a bit of their life under Britain or none of it - so exactly what obligation Britain still owes to people who themselves, their parents and for most of the grandparents lives, Britain has not been in that country, I do not know. Why is there mass immigration now when there is no labour shortage and decolonisation happened nearly 3 generations ago? Many come from countries we had nothing to do with. My theory on why we have an open-door policy still is a combination of two things: politicans wanting votes and, in the case of Labour, they thought immigrants are more likely to vote for them; and secondly politicians genuinely, genuinely not caring at all about the effects on communities or the country of all of this. Blair proved himself to be a very nasty uncaring person with all of this.

[Sam Slater]

Straight from the the bible of dibble.