Re: Major Explosion on the underground
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:44 am
You've been reading that Richard Littlejohn again havn't you Davey....
Whether your a fan of multiculturalism or not, many of *them* have as much right to be here as anyone. Certainly the Carribeans, Indians and Pakistanis, who I believe still make up the majority of ethnic communities and are/were British citizens under the empire, built our country with their resources and hard sweat, and even fought and died for it as much as anyone. Remember the Gurkhas...
I have asain freinds who came here as refugees in the 70's when fascist regimes in Kenya and Uganda chucked them out. They would have much rather returned to India, where they had freinds family, then start a new life in a foreign land, but India refused to have them pointing out quite rightly they were British citizens. They've never the less knuckled down and made the best of it. My particular friend was a white colar worker and a member of Kenyan olympic team, but has had to work as a labourer ever since being forcibly relocated to britian. Doesn't complain though..works hard, pays his taxes and getson with it.
Asylum Immigrations, or more rightly the manifold abuses of it, is a rather different thing to multicultralism I think, and it's perhaps not fair to confuse the two issues, though many do.
Whether your a fan of multiculturalism or not, many of *them* have as much right to be here as anyone. Certainly the Carribeans, Indians and Pakistanis, who I believe still make up the majority of ethnic communities and are/were British citizens under the empire, built our country with their resources and hard sweat, and even fought and died for it as much as anyone. Remember the Gurkhas...
I have asain freinds who came here as refugees in the 70's when fascist regimes in Kenya and Uganda chucked them out. They would have much rather returned to India, where they had freinds family, then start a new life in a foreign land, but India refused to have them pointing out quite rightly they were British citizens. They've never the less knuckled down and made the best of it. My particular friend was a white colar worker and a member of Kenyan olympic team, but has had to work as a labourer ever since being forcibly relocated to britian. Doesn't complain though..works hard, pays his taxes and getson with it.
Asylum Immigrations, or more rightly the manifold abuses of it, is a rather different thing to multicultralism I think, and it's perhaps not fair to confuse the two issues, though many do.