Aye, as I always try to take pains to point out, it's the extremists who get all the media attention but they are also the ones from whom people in general draw their conclusions - which is a real problem.
One of the chemotherapy nurses supervising my wifes treatment is Islamic and wears as much of the traditional dress as her uniform sensibly allows - she says she finds it quite amusing when people make a song and dance of where she is from {which is Birmingham by the way; she's a Brummie and proud of it :lol:}. I can't help but feel that people like her must have a rough and/or irritating time of it when people judge her by the actions of those she would not give the time of day to.
It has to get on your nerves eventually - I know it gets on mine when over-liberal-happy-clappers (or indeed third-generation immigrants) automatically assume I am a racist just because I happen to be proudly English and not happy about the rate of immigration and what it is doing to our social stability.
When I took one of our students to the hospital,(broken arm this time) there was a nurse in a head scarf and I thought at the time how hygienic that is for a nurse! All her head is obviously covered, I remember when nurses had to have hair tied back and wear a cap. In these days of hospital infections how sensible to have the whole head covered!
The immigration is an issue in some parts of the country and not others, if all the immigrants were spread throughout the country instead of clustering, there would seem to be far less and it would reflect the true number. through the whole of North Yorkshire (Cumbria and Northumberland are much the same just colder and wetter) there are actually few immigrants, not that I blame Asians it's bloody cold and miserable here, but in Middleborough just up the road you would think in some areas there were nothing but Asians.
The other issue is that people only see Asians as immigrants, white people are ignored. At the moment there is a large influx of white people coming in from Zimbabwe, there's also because of the EU regulations a good many Europeans here living and working, this we can't complain about because we have a great many ex pats living abroad under the same rules.
Social stability is affected not so much by immigration but by inner city poverty both in monetary terms and in moral terms. Society in general is lacking something it hasn't before. people assume it's because of multi culturism but it's more likely to be consumerism, the I want, greed is good generation. We have a gernation of young people who has a sense of entitlement, that isn't to do with the immigrants. It started with Thatcher and the Tories, everyone was supposed to own their own house, bankers and the stock marketeers weer the new heroes, we were encouraged to step on your fellow human beings and grab what we surely deserved, we were entitled to be rich, we didn't have to actually work for it, it was ours by right. It's this not the immigrant problem that is to blame. The Tories won't admit they were to blame and successvie governments including disaapointingly the Labour Party took the same line. We don't have young people working hard with their hands in so called dirty jobs they want the X Factor instant fame or the easy job of banking, or worst still drug dealing, why work? Everything has pointed towards the amoral approach to getting wealth and now we are paying for it with unrest. It wasn't racial violence in London last summer it was looting by people who feel no shame in taking others property.
If we sent every single immigrant back to their country of origin we would still have the unrest and social instabilty only we'd have to find something else to blame it on. that's not to say we shouldn't cap the immigrantion numbers but we will be introuble if we do what the far right want and blame the immigrants for our problems.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2010/03/whats_wrong_with_britain_part.html
We have a few thousand non white non British people in the Armed Forces from Commonwealth countries, these include the Gurkhas, Indians, the Fijians and those from African Commonwealth countries. We also have white Africans including South Africans and Zimbabweans. None of these including the Gurkhas have the
right to stay here when their service is finished, not even the wounded ones. It would seem Britain likes some inmmigrants and not others. Fight and die for the Uk but don't dare want to live here.
The cry so often is that 'immigrants have taken our jobs', really? Ask the coompanies trying to employ people who applies for their jobs, is it the yobs who are on the dole? Of course not, it's an immigrany with a work ethic. As the Russian meerkat says 'simples'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...-truth-behind-the-new-jobless-generation.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18423671
"But when the scheme expires next year, Bulgarian and Romanian workers will no longer be confined to farm work and Mr Watkins is worried they will look instead for better-paid work in our towns and cities.
He told us: "Without another scheme to replace the current one, there is a real possibility of a food shortage because there will be nobody to pick the crops."
This is despite the fact that of 170,000 people out of work in the West Midlands, almost 11,000 live in Worcestershire.
Home-grown workers While resisting any temptation to parrot Gordon Brown's notorious "British jobs for British workers" sound bite, the West Worcestershire MP, Harriett Baldwin, a member of the Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee, says:
"These are solid jobs, they pay well. It is hard work but you are there for a season and you go home with a lump sum of cash.
"I would rather see that staying in the UK."These are solid jobs, they pay well... I would rather see that staying in the UK ”
Mr Watkins says that
"it would be great to offer more jobs to British workers but they do not want to do them".
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