[jambutty]

I view this issue quite simply.

If I invite someone to live in my house (yes I know I live in a flat) and he starts to take over, then out he goes.

Put that on a national scale and the same applies.

During WWII many Europeans fled the Nazi jackboot to settle over here. But they didn’t try to take over. They didn’t build their own churches and schools. The Polish Catholics negotiated with the local Catholic Church to hold their Polish language masses, confessions etc at a time that was free. The Polish immigrants negotiated with local schools to use them after hours to teach their own Polish kids the Polish language and culture, whilst at the same time teaching them English. The nearest they got to “taking over” was renting suitable buildings to use as Social Clubs mainly for Poles but others could go if signed in by a member. Just like the normal Working Men’s Clubs.

The majority of Muslim Asians, on the other hand, are taking over the country bit by bit as the enclaves in Blackburn and other towns are testimony to.

My view is, always has been and always will be, that England is my country and anyone from abroad who comes to live here, for whatever reason, has to abide by our rules. In the same way that if I go abroad I would be expected to abide by their rules especially in a Muslim country.

I don’t expect immigrants to abandon their culture but I won’t accept them trying to force it onto me.

Actually it is poetic justice as England spent centuries forcing our culture and way of life on umpteen foreign countries, especially in Africa and the far and middle east. The chickens have come home to roost, but that doesn’t make it right.