Posted on 08/27/2009 1:06:49 PM PDT by past_present
A baby boom fuelled by the highest fertility rates in a generation has pushed Britain's population above 61 million for the first time. There were 408,000 more people living here in 2008, the Office for National Statistics said. But immigration is still impacting on population growth because 56% of the increase in births last year was from non-UK born mothers.
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Also, the thread is about the UK and Britain. Scotland is part of both. I live in the UK. I live in Britain.
Ummm. I arrived in Germany. Then South AFrica. Then France. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Why are you so focused on the UK?
It’s not my home. I don’t think of anyplace as home. Don’t think of any people as family. Move to one place. See how it is for a while. Move on somewhere else. Every place is about the same when it gets down to it. The food and weather are about the only real changes. People suck in every country. They just suck in a different language.
You’re right. It’s not Georgia. I had never thought it was. Alabama is not Georgia either. Texas is not Georgia. Samoa is not Georgia. The UK is not Kenya. One could go on forever pointing out the obvious.
I don’t want to be in Georgia. I’m not there. Good.
I’m thinking about moving on from here pretty soon. The weather has got me down. I want to go somewhere that I don’t have to speak English for a good while. Where there’s plenty of sun and good food. Both of those things are in short supply here.
In 50 years the UK will be under sharia law and will be another muslim hole.
Your belief that they are presumably stems from the common, but mistaken belief that immigration to the UK is predominantly if not wholly Muslim. Plenty of statistical evidence to show that is not the case. If you go to the Office for National Statistics website you will find immigration analysed year by year by country of origin rather than religion. While country of origin is obviously not an infallible guide, it's a pretty reliable pointer in the case of many countries. You can, for instance, be pretty sure that there won't be many muslims among the large numbers arriving here from Jamaica, South Africa, the Phillipines, or Australia - or indeed the USA. The most strking aspect, for me, of the immigration data is the sheer variety of countries of origin. Yes, there are predminantly Muslim countries there - but plenty of others also.
Tempting to conclude, therefore, that most babies are born Muslim. Not so. In recent years British parents have adopted with enthusiasm the regrettable practice (originating, I believe, in the US) of bestowing invented, synthetic, hybrid or otherwise strange names on their offspring. Rather than, as in the past, choosing a name from a well-tried, familiar catalogue of a few dozen or so, parents now have a virtually infinite choice. Muslim parents, by contrast, stick with the traditional practice of calling their firstborn son Mahommed (or one of the variant spellings). It doesn't take a great deal of mathematical skill to realise that the latter will therefore occupy a place in the favourite-name league table which is is quite unrelated to the relative numbers of muslim and non-muslim families.
Oh not this again.
No it wasnt. And I have posted several times in the last year to point this out.
The ‘mohammed is no1 name’ is not true.
Who the **** is Rick Butts?.
Nice name, ‘tis probably a reference to where most of his facts come from.
Muslim % of UK=3%.
Muslim% of USA=3%.
Oh for crying out loud.
The BNP?. You ARE aware that they are an extreme right wing party with links to white supremacists?. Please dont quote anything from them.
You ARE aware that Britain is not England?.
That Britain/UK is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. So to say you are talking solely about England makes no sense. England is merely one part of the UK/Great Britain.
I am not slandering anyone. I can only assume that until recently you had never heard of the BNP.
It is a fact that the BNP are an extreme right wing party, ‘whites only’ with racist and anti-semitic attitudes and rhetoric. Who advocate the forcible repatriation of all non-white and mixed race people living in this country. Despite the fact that most non-white Britons are now 3rd generation, and have been born and bred here since the 1950’s.
Their leaders have a long history of racial hatred and even convictions for racial violence. Their history is in a line from earlier British Fascist parties such as the British Union of Fascists and the National Front. They have numerous links with very extreme and violent Fascist groups such as Combat 18.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party
Honestly, trying to tell me(who is British and knows what he is talking about!) they arent a racist and Fascist party is like me trying to convince you that your KKK isnt racist....
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