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>>Chav,
you're a plonker, mate. <<

I would like to echo Tealeafs sentiments in this matter. At the end of the second world war when the Attlee Government (Labour's 1st.) decided that we no longer needed an Empire, India was to be given it's independence first. But because the majority Hindu inhabitants could not stomach the idea of sharing their country with muslims and the muslims would not contemplate the idea of sharing power with Hindu's the country had to be partitioned. And thus the separate state of Pakistan was created. The loss of life in the rioting that followed partion was horrific! Today, India and Pakistan are still at Daggers Drawn over the disputed Indian state of Kashmir. You may have heard mention of this in the news last summer when the two were about to go to war over it. Which is worrying for the entire region since both states posess nuclear weapons. Typically, they cannot feed everyone but they can afford nuclear weapons.

Part of the reason why we are inundated with immigrants from the asian sub-continent is that the Attlee Government, to stifle objections to the end of British rule in India, decided to offer passports to whoever wanted them, along with right of residence here in the UK. They hoped that most of those passports would never be used since travel halfway across the world was pretty expensive in 1947. They also hoped that the lower life expectancy in India would mean that by the time travel became cheaper most of the passport holders would either be too old to travel or dead. How wrong they were.