reply to post by Freeborn
Shame on me. I actually knew that (having watched This is England and doing a bit of research into the background).
I should have been more careful about using the term "skinhead". Apologies for any offence caused.
As for the BNP, I can genuinely understand the grievances of the majority of their members. I believe that immigrations concerns are warranted, and
that the BNP play on this issue. Their stance that all problems regarding immigration are racial in origin are rather simplistic. I speak as an
immigrant who has subsequently become almost entirely English, so my viewpoint will admittedly be different to the indigenous Englishman.
The way I see it, unregulated immigration is destroying Britain. This is not so much a racial issue as it is a cultural issue. The amount of strain
placed upon the infrastructure and heritage of this country by Eastern Europeans is the same as that of an immigrant from the commonwealth.
What I would say is:
1. Cease all asylum
2. Create a points system for entry whereby only the best and brightest can enter.
3. A very stringent English test for entry. How can anyone integrate if they cannot speak the language fluently?
4. Create a temporary moratorium on immigration for a decade while the country sorts out domestic problems first.
5. Create a more favourable tax regime to prevent the best and brightest being driven out of the country to Spain, Dubai etc.
The BNP have rightly identified immigration as the biggest long term issue facing this country, but they have misattributed it as a racial issue. What
is occuring at the moment is asylum seekers and low skilled workers from the new EU countries are flooding into the UK while the richest and most
qualified indigenous English (and tellingly, some recent immigrants who made it rich) are engaged in an exodus to areas with better tax regimes.
If this trend continues over the next decade, England will become a country full of menial workers and asylum seekers who are not proficient in the
language and do not possess an affinity for English culture.
Check the statistics for yourself, the short story is that there are 650,000 low skilled
people coming into the UK every year overall, while 350,00 of the richest and most able people are leaving every year. We are dealing with demographic
changes at the rate of 0.5% - 2% of the total population of the UK. I dont think its a stretch to see that in a decade's time, we will have a
markedly different composition on our hands.
From my viewpoint as an immigrant, I can see the effect this change has had on the country. Over about 15 years, I have seen the entire nature of
England change drastically... for the worse. Its a striking sign that if given the choice to move to the UK today (if I were still living abroad), I
would not take it.
[edit on 19-11-2008 by 44soulslayer]
[edit on 19-11-2008 by 44soulslayer]