Xenophobia?
The Scotsman reports that Britain is one of the most xenophobic countries in the world, according to a poll:
Ipsos, a Paris-based polling firm, found 60 per cent believing that immigrants were a bad influence on Britain - the highest proportion of all countries surveyed.
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Internal polling from Labour and the Tories shows that voters have more faith in Mr Howard to take a firm grip of migration. But the UKIP is shown to make high progress in opinion polls.
For a second there, I thought they were talking about Australia.
Anti-Scottish sentiment has entered the campaign in London, where an Essex-based party named the “English Democrats” has sent leaflets through letter-boxes highlighting Scottish Executive policies.
“By paying £10 billion extra to Scotland under the Barnett Formula, Scots now have a better education, transport and care with free prescriptions, residential care for the elderly and now top-up fees,” it reads.
“All at the expense of the long-suffering English taxpayer! This is the real North/South divide.” The party is campaigning against devolution for the English regions and also calls for withdrawal from the EU.
Cross-party MPs say immigration is not playing anywhere near as strongly in Scotland, where ministers are worried at the reverse problem: failing to attract enough migrants to stop depopulation.
Ah, the English. We love our former colonial masters, they’re just so wacky!
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Hehehe, your last line reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Kent Brockman watches a spacecraft taken over by giant ants “I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.”
Don’t forget those wacky Irish (which I am part) who kill each other just because their brand of christianity feels different about divorce.
Britain isn’t xenophobic, it has just been struck by a wave of ‘bad’ imigrants. Right now it has problems with Eastern European gangs and pickpocket gangs from the former soviet block.
Interestingly enough, most of the groups that are being complained about are white, it isn’t the Asians or the Arrican and Indian migrants that are seen as a problem, rather the illegals etc from the borders of the EU.
When you look at it this way, it isn’t racism or xenophobia, people are recognising that the country is attracting an undesirable element.
There are many great imigrants to Britain and the culture has thrived because of it, just right now people are taking advantage of the country.
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