From The Sunday Times
September 23, 2007
Too late to speak the truth about immigration
Minette MarrinIn our repressive world of thoughtcrime and guiltspeak, it now takes great courage to tell the truth, even when it’s obvious. Fortunately there are a few brave people prepared to do it, and Julie Spence, the chief constable of Cambridgeshire, is one of them. Last week she courageously said the unsayable and pointed out that the large numbers of recent immigrants are causing serious problems in her manor.It is shocking that this massive, historic change was forced upon us without consultation and without our consent.Who wanted it? Who is responsible for it? And why? In casting about for an answer, perhaps it’s worth considering the Mori survey into black and ethnic minority attitudes to voting and to politics at the 2005 general election. Of those who voted, 58% chose Labour, 10% Conservative. I hope that isn’t a thoughtcrime.
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Front-line medical and school staff talk of little else but the daily grind of serving new arrivals who often don’t appreciate it.
Ask a nurse how it feels to serve only foreigners and to be treated like dirt. Ask a teacher how he feels when English speaking pupils fail because they are forgotten in the rush to provide foreign language teaching.
Kevin O’Neill, London,
Living In a multicultural city like Leicester for the last 30 years I have noticed a few things that bother me.People from the ethnic minorities do not got to local museums or country parks in the same numbers as white people,they dont go to the football,cricket and rugby clubs and the city is becoming a series of segregated areas where people dont mix.
It has become obvious to me that rather than the usual reasons trotted out for such things its really because muticulturalism has produced large ethnic populations which do not identify with being in any way British at all.For instance most asians wont got to the county cricket club to support Leicestershire but then pack the ground if India or Pakistan come to play.
Since the same thing appears to be happening around the country I have to ask will all these clubs parks and museums close down in the future as British immigrants don’t appear to be interested in anything which isn’t part of their particular culture?
Paul Gifford, Leicester,
What the Labour party has done to the English people is unforgivable, having given away our country merely to give themselves a monopoly on power in what is supposed to be a democracy,part of the reason they have got away with it is by branding all opposition as racist and employing P.C. as a weapon to destroy opposition, which has worked in silencing even the offiucial opposition in parliament, it is no wonder they dont want anyone talking about it. Future historians will see the facts of this and recognise an evil bigger than any event to have taken place in a “democracy”.
robert, ashford, u.k
The programme of mass immigration sends out a message to the workers of this country: you are expendable.
Eddie Pratt, Bath, UK
Post-colonial cringe has made the country suicidal. The worst danger is Britain’s failure to recognize the concerted threat from Islam. See a group of muslim women walking Oxford Street in full black? Our British vaguely agnostic/post-Christian response is that such a sight is a sign of our tolerant, mixed society. But that sight to a Muslim means Britain is, or will soon be, a Muslim country. It is 1428 in the Islamic calendar. Islam is still an active, crusading religion. It is not a clapped-out omni-tolerant church like Anglicanism. They mean business.
Tom, London,
Older readers may remember Enoch Powell who warned of all this long ago.
Jim Manners, Adelaide, Australia
Do not give your vote to any politician who will not clearly say that he is AGAINST race replacement immigration, AGAINST anti-racism and FOR the rights and the interests of Britain’s three native peoples.
Guessedworker, Lewes, England
This once was a pleasant country which I now no longer recognise. The net result of the mass immigration we have seen in the last 10 years is a modest increase in economic activity (much touted by politicians and the pro-immigrant lobby) offset by mass importation of poverty, crime and disease….
James C, Bracknell, England
Hats off to Julie Spence ! The problem is the exact same in Canada.
Harry Schneider, Mississauga,Ont, Canada
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Minette writes: “Apparently this came as a surprise to the presenter Jeremy Paxman. Liam Byrne then pointed out that Gordon Brown has promised to build 3m new homes.”
Jeremy Paxman is not of English descent. Liam Byrne is not of English descent. Gordon Brown is not of English descent. The 3 million homes are to be built in England.
Andrew Green says that a million are for new immigrants. But how many of the rest are for holders of British passports who are not of English descent?
The English are being race replaced – not by accident, not because immigration is some unstoppable force of Nature, but because the power elites WANT it.
I am a blogger who asserts the moral right of the English to England every day of my life. All who read this, please do likewise. It is NEVER too late to pursue one’s own rights and interests, and NOT too late to speak the truth about immigration.
Guessedworker, Lewes, England
If an immigrant family gets a house before a British one, that’s because their need is greater.
Colin, Shrewsbury,
I interpret the above comment as sarcasm.
People in the UK cannot fail but to agree with what you say but for the life of me I cannot understand why Labour is riding so high in the polls. The CRE speak of growing ethnic segregation and growing extremism and I think extremism in political terms is on its way. Who knows, we may have a BNP member or two of parliament after the next general election. That would really concentrate Mr Brown’s mind on the issue as nothing else seems to. The British people must resort to the only weapon they have left at the polling booth.
Nigel Graham-Miller, Valencia, Spain
It is straight out of Economics 101 that Big Business wants as much immigration as possible in order to maintain an excess of employable population in order to keep wages down and thereby profits up. As long as business – as opposes to state and community – runs a nation there will always be excessive immigration -sometimes it’s called divide and conquer.- and as the Bible story of Babylon points out, it means the death of a culture.
Amos Dyer, Frankfurt, Germany
I am currently working in Delhi. A consultant I work with here commented how his children are studying in London and he thinks its great that London is multicultural. I asked him if he hoped Delhi might become like that. “Oh no, I am Indian so I want Delhi to just remain Indian” he replied.
I think that summarizes the problem of multiculturalism rather well – other nationalities want to be accepted in the UK but don’t wish to accept others in their home countries.
Carly, Delhi,
Adriana of Barcelona, if I decided to come to Spain, would I get immediate free health care, housing benefits, child benefits and all the other things that we hand out? Would I be provided with a translator at taxpayers, expense whenever I needed to make a claim of deal with the authorities? If not, why not, seeing as the benefits of having immigrants are so obvious?
Dave Proctor, Leeds,
I believe that New Labour knows exactly what it is doing. While it often talks tough on immigration, as it knows how unpopular it is, it has engineered an astonishing change to the population of Britain. And this new population is predominantly Labour voting. It has exploited political correctness to stifle criticism from legitimate sources and, as usual, used the civil service to deny/alter/fudge the facts on the matter until it can no longer hide the truth.
Richard John, London,
Its till the Government put a stop to immigrants coming into the country. When they arrive they receive newly decorated, furnished, and equiped homes, and are given money.
On the other hand the people here requiring homes, are handed keys to some of the most disgracefully decorated homes imaginable, are given no allowance or time to rectify this and not given any assistance with furnishing, etc.Its time we looked after our own, FIRST.
JOHNSON, Tipton, West Midlands
The crucial point avoided by all politicians is that the whole world is vastly overpopulated, and Britain, together with Western Europe, both having welfare states are magnets to those countries that are breeding themselves into poverty, at one and a half extra mouths to feed every week.
I can see no way of avoiding armed conflict, when too many world citizens keep chasing too few
goods. To prove my point check on world commodity prices over the last 5 years. I’ll vote for any political party that has a population policy.
It’s no good the PM shouting about ‘growth. it’s growth per head that counts!David Vinter, Louth, Lincs., UK.
Precisely the same things are happening here in the U.S.A. We’ve been sold down the river by elitist governments who seek to boost the profits of corporations and their affluent officers and shareholders via cheap labour while forcing less-educated natives out of work. The result is that the middle class is all but disappearing, and natives are being forced out of our larger cities into smaller towns and rural areas where crime and social bedlam are not yet rampant and costs of living are not yet untenable (save for the immigrants from Third World nations who are wiling to live like animals in overcrowded squalor and filth because, compare to life in, say, Guatemala, such conditions in the U.S.A. are downright luxurious (especially with all the goodies thrown in by tax-paying natives: food stamps, welfare checks, schooling and hospital care, etc.).
I expect in 2020 or so we’ll all meet up somewhere in Wyoming to make one last stand against the immivasion.
Shannon, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A.
And the prospects are worse, as Brown’s government campaigns enthusiastically for the entry of 80 million Turks into the EU; and Brown supports last week’s proposal from the EU Commission that an additional 20 million Asian and African immigrants be allowed to come to the EU over the next 10 years. And the Labour government will have no control over how many of them come to easy-touch Britain.
George R, Lancaster, England
Your last paragraph, that it may be policy to allow immigration to go unchequered in order to create more Labour voters in England is Machiavellian, but not without merit. The vast number of immigrants ( legal, illegal, asylum seeker, criminal, terrorist ) settle in England. According to demographic figures Scotland is not seriously affected. The quality of life and erosion of nationality is confined to England.
Government funding is already being transfered away from Southern England to the northern Labour heartlands, and Scotland is the beneficiary after application of the Barnet formula, and the West Lothian question, so the weakening of political opposition in England wthout disturbing their homeland – Scotland, is the natural progression towards the final solution.
Harry Maddock, Bristol,
I completely agree.
What is Britain turning into? The answer–a dumping ground for not the best and brightest but a sordid country noted for friction,alienation and BIG problems–all associated with uncontrolled Third World immigration.The self righteous pc prigs wave their fingers and espouse their mantra of multiculturalism and diversity.The rest of us hate what is happening to our beloved Britain..Charles, Tulsa Ok, USA
Im not British. Im Polish and when reading your posts it’s hard not to agree with you.
It might seem funny to comment in such a way on a subject which is ralated to me as an immigrant myself but as a person coming from a homogenous culturally and racially country I trully understand your frustration.
I just hope and pray that examples and mistakes of Britain and other West European countries will be a good lesson for the government in my own homeland.
I’m afraid it’s already too late for Britain…Chris, London,
And what other explanation could there possibly be for the obvious overcrowding of England? Just look at the trafic jams to get into major – and not so major – towns in the “rush hour”, the galloping erosion of the countryside (shortly to accelerate). Not to mention the fact that almost everyone in non-police uniform is obviously not European.
Who is to blame for this state of affairs? Who voted for or against any of this? Was it on any political parties’ manifesto?
Nice to see the bien pensants finally becoming as concerned as ordinary folk. Finally!Archie, Thrapston, England
The cost of illegals in Texas is $4,600,000,000. What is it in your County?. Plus the closing of Hospitals, new diseases, increased crime-MS13 as an example. Another question, why is the Government building houses?. They only become the slums of 5 years hence. Has anyone learned anything?. Rhetorical question as the answer is NO!.
Desmond Taylor, Houston, Usa Tx
Its legal immigration too, not just illegals. The article and comments in the UK are about legal immigration including asylum and family reunification. Everyone in the US has to tell the politicians and MSM and post that the problem is legal immigration as well as illegal immigration. We have to fight back against those afraid to say stop all legal immigration.
I agree with every word that Minette Marrin has written in this article. I can only foresee revolution. I for one am sick to the eye teeth with feeling a stranger in my own town and having put into the NHS and taxes for over 50 years to see immigrant families arrive and taking it out in benefits including housing benefits and family allowances, whilst I and my age group are struggling on one of the lowest state pensions in the so called 1st world European advanced countries. We put in, they are taking out. And for what? Goodbye Green belt,(we need to build build build because the towns and cities accommodation have been taken over) Goodbye Britain that we fought so hard to defend our way of life , welcome degradation. Our government must be barking mad.
Sylvia, Bedford, Bedfordshire
Adapt or die. We have wiped out whole cultures with our imperialism. Our chickens are coming home to roost. We either adapt to multiculturism and add our own ten pence to it or we die out like those we have exploited for centuries.
Carys Mathews, Chester, uk
Isn’t the adaptation to stop immigration? And if their adaptation is to come here and get rid of us, isn’t our adaptation to send them back in the midst of their getting rid of us? And where is the adaptation in giving them welfare and affirmative action?
