Did you miss the “fist” language?! Presumably when you resort to purely physical, non-verbal communication.

Only when people pick me up on my spelling! :diablo:

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In my defence, my iPad changed it.

I’m so embarrassed! 😀

yes we need some sort of immigration control, but “Labour importing voters” purlease, spare me from deluded Tory obsessives.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html

Of course they don’t include children born in this Country because they are British! If they were born in this country they cannot be foreign born.

They are technically British, as they were born here. However, they are usually not taught English as their first language by their parents, so they’re hardly an integrated part of British society.

And just what sort of controls would you like there to be? A total ban on immigration? Forced integration of minority communities into wider British society? Just let your imagination run riot, it’s been done before.

Regards,

kev35

A total ban on immigration for the short term, unless under exceptional circumstances. If someone attains British citizenship, that should not entitle them to automatically bring their whole family with them! And stricter rules on marriage to non uk citizens – there are various subcultures in the UK where marrying a foreigner and living in the UK is seen as the norm.

None of this would be necessary if Labour had shown some responsibility with immigration.

I’d rather the UK be a bit of a soft touch for immigrants than a hard line dictatorship or, even worse, a Religious Fundamentalist State.

Regards,

kev35

Unfortunately, they can go hand in hand. The number of Muslims in the UK has increased by 50% in 10 years according to the census. I would venture that the policies, laws and social norms of a Muslim state are not something that most Brits would want, but if something isn’t done now then that may be a reality for future generations. A significant proportion of Islamic states are fundamentalist, and I don’t see why an Islamic UK would be any different.

I am not an Islamophobe, and welcome a degree of multiculturalism to the UK, but I see the numbers as they are presented and quite frankly find the huge increase alarming.

My Grandad (who is currently 91 and in amazing shape) joined the RAF in WW2, but could not become a pilot because he is colour blind. Instead, he trained as a radio operator at RAF Shawbury on Oxfords, and also volunteered for a few missions as a gunner in a Lysander, in what must have been support for Cladestine operations.
He was sent to India in 1944, and spent the remained of the war sending messages in Morse. He didn’t come home until 1946, and has some interesting stories about his free time, and some photos of him and his mates at the top of one of the turrets of the Taj Mahal! They were also being sent full rations throughout, even though the majority of the men had gone months before.

From the BBC article:

“the number of foreign-born residents in England and Wales has risen by nearly three million since 2001 to 7.5 million, the 2011 census reports”

This is the problem, skin colour is utterly irrelevant. These figures obviously don’t even include children born in this country to these immigrants.

Immigration has created the country we live in today, and migration from Britain has shaped the world from hundreds of years.

but the sheer scale of it is overwhelming in this case, and has caused resentment in many areas, where immigrants have formed communities that do little to interact with the existing population. This could have easily been avoided by a little control.