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Made from the same identikit then :P
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@panda12 wrote:
. . . . this scoiety. It is doomed to fail. . . . . a hopeless situation. . . . heading for disaster. . . .
Disaster is by no means inevitable.
Is it a matter of numbers? Even If the country is crowded despite the huge amounts of empty space it contains, then isn’t a crowded country where people get on well together a very different kettle of fish from an emptier country where people are at each other’s throats?
When the country was emptier (and outside the EU) and presumably more homogenous, we had wars, famines, poverty, crime, massacres, pestilence, natural and manufactured disasters which make the last 50 years by comparison look like shangri-la.
Indeed historically it wouldn’t be far-fetched to link increasing immigration with increased peace and prosperity. Especially when you consider that we can no longer simply export our criminals and social misfits to other countries.
Terry I understand your feeling that Gordon Brown was to blame, but predictions of disaster linked to relatively multi-ethnic population have been a feature of our political landscape for centuries before Gordon Brown was born Unfortunately the ensuing panics have caused far more misery than the impact of the immigrants.
Bearing in mind what the Saxons did to the Britons, it’s little wonder that fear of immigration is deeply entrenched in the national psyche. However our contact with the rest of the world, although it goes back over millennia, has increased manifold in the last 500 years and the equation immigration = disaster is far too simplistic in a world of global economics and politics.
As for membership of the EU, unless exit per se can absolutely guarantee greater benefits for Britain, we would just be swapping shared disadvantages for indigenous ones. We would be entering unknown territory at the mercy of the same calibre of politicians and business people, as the world has changed greatly since the 1960s.
Disaster would be no more uncertain than if we remained.
Hey! That’s not my quote! That’s Terry’s! I know how to spell society!
Edit your quote code, plz Words!
@anc wrote:
hmmmmmmmmmmm last time I went back to the UK – on a certain trip I had to take, I took 4 tube rides, and I was the only ‘white’ person on the carriages I was on! I am not racist in anyway, shape or form, but, I did whyle-away (sp?!) – the time looking at all the other people (for eve! x) wondering where they came from! :D
Is this about skin colour or ethnic origin or nationality?
Don’t forget, not all English ppl are white! Some are black and brown, too!
@terry wrote:
@kent f OBE wrote:
Put it down here what you would like to happen :roll:
Let me point out a few facts here;
1) England is already the most densely populated country in Europe and one of the most densely populated countries in the world. We never used to be; but now we are.
2) 93% of all immigrants that come to the UK settle in England.
What do we do about it? I have absolutely no idea; I’m not an expert, but I do blame Gordon Brown and The Labour Party for their part in creating this scoiety. It is doomed to fail.
Bad government has landed us in a hopeless situation. It’s almost like we’re a runaway train heading for disaster.Right now there are school children studying in classrooms all over eastern Europe whose future and aspirations lie in the UK. We have to build homes for them before they get here, create new jobs for them and build new schools for their children to go to. And we have to build new prisons too.
Britain is already overcrowded and it’s set to get even even moreso. I’d just thought I’d point that out.
You didn’t answer Kenty’s question. Why? Are you afraid of your own answers?
And I see you are psychic as you know what eastern European school children want!
Agree with Words, Ironduke, Tinks and Kenty.
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Elvis…
“We Can’t Go On Together,” Elvis said to his Hound Dog and handed him to the porter
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On his way…
Agreed J.
The irony is, England has always been multi cultural.
Indeed the English language itself is multi cultural…
