They Don’t Have a Clue

Taki's Magazine ^ | January 26, 2012 | John Derbyshire

[arthurus]

[...]All of British society’s important power centers agreed that union with Europe would be a jolly good thing and that opening the country to floods of Jamaicans and Pakistanis would be culturally and economically invigorating.

Both things were disastrous. The European project yoked Britain to a mercantilist bureaucracy tasked with “harmonizing” countries that had spent centuries developing widely differing approaches to public affairs. Mass immigration frontally assaulted Britain’s tolerant insularity, turned sleepy old working-class neighborhoods into hotbeds of crime, and introduced an aggressively hostile religion into one of the world’s least-religious nations.

[mrsmel]

introduced an aggressively hostile religion into one of the world’s least-religious nations.

That might be part of the problem right there. Nature abhors a vacuum. When Christianity was driven to the margins, Islam, secular humanism, Marxism, etc rushed in to fill the vacancy.