Democracy sucks. Make money if you care to have meaningful input. That's always been where power lies. Democracy just gives your idiot neighbor a belief that his shitty opinions matter.

A bit like when we owned Ireland then Dudley? That seemed to go well back in the day...oh, hang on thats not quite right is it?

The only correct forecast on the likely impact and result of an attempt at 'multi-culturalism' was that of Enoch Powell fifty odd years ago: tension and all the ingredients of a bloodbath - and, so far as the extremist Muslim insurgents in Britain (and the USA) are concerned - they have started to provide it. Mealy-mouthed apologists for further attempts at multi-culturalism (a contradiction in terms) refuse to accept that it is bound to lead to ghetto-towns (such as Dewsbury, Yorkshire), suspicion, mistrust and violence. As long ago as the days of Empire it was recognized that 'multi-culturalism', as a way of evading actual integration, just will not work. Welcome all, as far as I am concerned - the long and the short and the tall - brown, black, yellow - hell, even green - but you must become British or American - not Asian or African or Muslim Brits or Americans - but the very thing - or bugger off back where you came from. Harsh but true and a far better 'take' than that of over-privileged, academic ponces, who live far removed from the immediate, daily impact of 'multi-culturalism'.

PS sur les escaliers:-

Assimilation is an alternative to total integration but even this is avoided by extremist groups. It might also be noted, in passing, that those who flocked to Britain in the 1970s were those who preferred British rule to the alternative African rulers who were on offer (for example Asian Kenyans were permitted to stay) despite the fuss that the Injins and those who became Pakis had made over British rule - which was at least honest and efficient - unlike the governments that took our place right down to the present day.

PPS The recent wave of economic immigrants from Eastern Europe solves no one's problems - they actually just want to make a packet and go home, and the British- on-benefits have even more excuse to stay as scroungers (a national characteristic which is a danger when we talk of full integration - as they would need to become lazy scroungers too) because they will not work for the minimum wage - they get some bent doctor to certify that they have too weak a spinctre to risk hard work etc., etc..

Last edited by Dudley Clarke (2013-08-30 06:15:36)