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COMMON SENSE SAYS WE MUST CALL A HALT TO MASS IMMIGRATION (UK)
Daily Express ^ | September 8, 2008 | Leo McKinstry

Posted on 09/08/2008 2:25:50 PM PDT by kabar

LABOUR'S policy on immigration has been a wrecking ball at the heart of our society.

Our borders and identity have been destroyed. The fabric of our towns and cities has been transformed.

A once homogenous, gentle, cohesive nation has been changed into an overcrowded landmass full of conflicting ethnic groups. Thanks to 11 years of destructive rule under Brown and Blair, Britain is becoming a place without soul or sense of mutual belonging.

For too long, the political classes have colluded in the Government’s determination to wipe out our nationhood.

Fearful of accusations of “racism”, they have joined in the official pantomime called “celebrating cultural diversity”, the process by which Britons are meant to express joy at the ruination of their own country.

But at last, some brave voices are saying that enough is enough. Today the backbench Labour MP Frank Field is to join forces with Tory Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, in launching a new cross-party immigration group.

The central demand from Field and Soames is that the Government should impose a strict limit on the annual number of migrants in future.

Given the current scale, such a step could hardly be more necessary, with about 600,000 people arriving here every year. But the Government has no intention of introducing tough restrictions.

This is because the top ranks of the Labour party are dominated by socialist ideologues who desp­ise Britain and its past. They see immigration as a vital tool in their project to refashion our society, wiping out the old structure and replacing it with a new multi-cultural entity.

If Labour wanted to stem the tide of immigration it would have done so years ago. After all, other European countries have demonstrated the requisite toughness. Italy has sent in troops to deal with immig­rants, while even socialist Spain has introduced drastic new restrictions on visas. But Labour does not even want to try.

The flood of immigrants will therefore only intensify, swelled by such disastrous moves as the secret plan drawn up by the Home Office to grant an amnesty to illegal immigrants living here, a group whose number could be as high as one million.

Such a step will only encourage yet more illegal immigration by signalling that Gordon Brown’s state machine has lost control of our borders.

Even if there were some new curbs, it would be too late for the damage has already been done to the fabric of our nation. The Government’s eager embrace of mass immigration has left Britain in upheaval. More than a third of the babies born here are to migrant mothers, with the figure reaching almost 60 per cent in London.

In many of our big cities, the indigenous population will be in the minority before 2020. Meanwhile, 400,000 Britons are leaving the country every year, accelerating the process of demographic change.

To the social revolutionaries, these statistics are only to be welcomed. “Britain is more racially diverse than ever which is brilliant,” says Ratna Dutt of the Race Equality Foundation. But for anyone who truly loves Britain, the figures represent the slow death of a nation.

There is nothing “brilliant” about the cultural chaos which mass immigration has brought. Economically, our public services are under intolerable strain. Contrary to what ministers claim with their prattle about the economic benefits of migration, the tidal wave of newcomers has actually been a huge burden on the taxpayer, particularly since migrants are twice as likely as the indigenous population to be unemployed or claiming benefits.

Furthermore, mass immigration has brought a shocking rise in crime, family breakdown, drug abuse and gangland violence. Before the importation of large numbers from the Third World, our inner city streets were not awash with blood from teenage stabbings and shootings.

Similarly, the rapid Islamifi-cation of our land has not only transformed our urban landscape, with the mosque replacing the traditional Christian church, but has also led to the spread of superstition, misogyny and the breakdown in the principle of equality before the law, as sharia law increasingly prevails in Muslim areas.

Above all, mass immigration has poisoned civic life in Britain because every public policy is now seen through the prism of race. As a result, we have a climate of permanent division and distrust between ethnic groups, each of them hyping their grievances and blaming supposed discrimination for any of their failings.

Too many of our state services are now paralysed by this fixation with racism, where more concern is shown over the ethnic composition of their workforces than with meeting the needs of the public. The current turmoil at the top of the Metropolitan Police, where the assistant commissioner Tariq Ghaffur has brought charges of racism against his boss Sir Ian Blair, is a classic example of this trend.

At the same time, ordinary Britons are vilified by the Government for their instinctive love of their country and told that their fears over immigration are nothing but xenophobia.

The wish to destroy one’s country used to be described as treachery. Tragically for Britain, it is now simply Labour policy.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigration; islam; mohammedanism
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Sound familiar?
1 posted on 09/08/2008 2:25:50 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

Why, those Malthusian, xenophobic know-nothings! /s


2 posted on 09/08/2008 2:27:41 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: kabar

No. It does not sound familiar at all. Any such cries on this side of the Atlantic would be met with cries of “racist”.


3 posted on 09/08/2008 2:28:48 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I make liberals sick to their stomach (We love you Sarah!))
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To: kabar

Not only that, you should deport quite a number of them that have immigrated already, and imprison those you can’t deport.


4 posted on 09/08/2008 2:29:39 PM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: kabar

“Common Sense” is an oxymoron.


5 posted on 09/08/2008 2:30:49 PM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly. 2 Cor. 10:3-5)
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To: kabar
The United States of America is not far behind.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

6 posted on 09/08/2008 2:31:06 PM PDT by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE and Help Beat Obama)
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To: skeeter
We are headed down the same path and probably faster given the latest Census data--An Older and More Diverse Nation by Midcentury
7 posted on 09/08/2008 2:32:45 PM PDT by kabar (.)
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To: nnn0jeh

ping


8 posted on 09/08/2008 2:33:57 PM PDT by kalee
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To: kabar
Good luck, there...
9 posted on 09/08/2008 2:34:44 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Personal Responsibility
From the article:

Above all, mass immigration has poisoned civic life in Britain because every public policy is now seen through the prism of race. As a result, we have a climate of permanent division and distrust between ethnic groups, each of them hyping their grievances and blaming supposed discrimination for any of their failings.

Too many of our state services are now paralysed by this fixation with racism, where more concern is shown over the ethnic composition of their workforces than with meeting the needs of the public. The current turmoil at the top of the Metropolitan Police, where the assistant commissioner Tariq Ghaffur has brought charges of racism against his boss Sir Ian Blair, is a classic example of this trend.

At the same time, ordinary Britons are vilified by the Government for their instinctive love of their country and told that their fears over immigration are nothing but xenophobia.

10 posted on 09/08/2008 2:36:31 PM PDT by kabar (.)
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To: kabar

“River of Blood 2”


11 posted on 09/08/2008 2:37:33 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: kabar

VERY!!! Angry illegals are as bad as spoiled children at freeloading!


12 posted on 09/08/2008 2:37:56 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: Travis McGee

Exactly. I guess Pat Buchanan is our Enoch Powell. Kill the messenger.


13 posted on 09/08/2008 2:38:35 PM PDT by kabar (.)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

The UK and the US will be taken down by the very democratic institutions that spawned them. There is no one on the national scene who has the courage to say that enough is enough.


14 posted on 09/08/2008 2:40:40 PM PDT by kabar (.)
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I say,it’s a little bit late now chaps..........


15 posted on 09/08/2008 2:49:12 PM PDT by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
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To: kabar

True. Common sense does say it. However, too many are determined to destroy this country.


16 posted on 09/08/2008 2:54:46 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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To: Personal Responsibility
No. It does not sound familiar at all. Any such cries on this side of the Atlantic would be met with cries of “racist”.

...from Obambi and MacQueeg.

17 posted on 09/08/2008 3:16:00 PM PDT by E. Cartman (GOP Convention 2008: Nothing but "The Emperor's New Clothes" redux.)
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To: kabar

If they don’t, they face cultural extinction at the wombs of people who have zero respect for the existing culture.


18 posted on 09/08/2008 3:48:17 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat

We are in the same boat, arguably even worse off. In 1965, Hispanics were 1% of the population. Today, they are 15% and by 2050 they will be 30%. By 2023 half of the children in the US under 18 will be minorities [as classified by the USG.] Immigrants account for one in eight U.S. residents, the highest level in 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In about a decade or so it will be one in 7, the highest in our history, and by 2050 it will be one in 5.


19 posted on 09/08/2008 4:00:53 PM PDT by kabar (.)
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To: kabar; Travis McGee
The Immigration Reform Bill of 1965:

Remember? Those who fought it were laughed off as "racists, xenophobes, nativists, No-Nothings" we were accused of everything save eating mashed potatoes with our hands. Now, we're looking at 400 million people. And forget about New Zealand. Everywhere that a left-wing government is elected goes "diverse." I hope the Britons get their country back in reasonable shape, but it is unlikely. Many human groups that were best encountered on the pages of National Geographic (which has also gone loony left), are going to dopminate the gene pools of the western Christian nations. Spengler figured it out, but of course, who wanted to believe a racist? Arithmetic is a bitch.

20 posted on 09/08/2008 4:17:17 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (GOP Plank: Pump MORE US Crude--2Xrefining capacity -- Coal /METHANOL fuel-- Build Nukes)
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