"The British dream is crumbling, replaced by a nightmare of sectarian division
The UK has been hugely successful at integration, but mass immigration elites have abused our openness"
Telegraph: 8th May 2024: Allister Heath (Editor of The Sunday Telegraph) give hsi view on what has gone wrong with immigration
"Britain is a wonderful, welcoming country that has embraced newcomers fleeing persecution or poverty for centuries... our individualism...commitment to the rule of law... pioneering role in the eradication of slavery, all helped forge a culture that to this day remains more open to outsiders than those of European neighbours... instead of building on this by embracing a controlled, rational immigration policy... our ruling elites – have blundered so severely that the entire multicultural edifice could now come tumbling down.
The first fraudulent claim was that we could cope with net figures of hundreds of thousands of migrants, year in, year out. On what planet?
... Robert Jenrick and Neil O’Brien crunch the data in their brilliant Taking Back Control...
The second falsehood was that large volumes of migration... would turbocharge productivity growth...The third error was to leverage mass immigration to camouflage other problems... The Government’s final blunder was to ignore the rise of Islamist extremism, out of cowardice and stupidity, while tolerating woke critical race theory (CRT), an ideology that rejects colour-blind integrationism and pits racial groups against one another..."
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