The recent Dispatches programme missed the point about the actual dangers of immigration. They talked about the economic situation. That is irrelevant. Economies go up and down as does inflation and quality of life. The rich/poor divide varies. Governments change as do policies, and science makes 'breakthroughs' or makes mistakes.
Through ALL this is the constantly increasing segregation we have seen since the seventies. This natural gravitation to an individuals community is unaffected by ideology, legislation, money, cohesion, pleading, or science.
People are all the same. But because we are all the same we all need our sovereign identity, culture, and especially territory. THAT is the problem with immigration we see all around but choose to ignore.
No country in the whole history of civilization (I am a historian by the way) with more than one ethnicity has ever been anything but divided. That doesn't mean full of hate, it means divided. Iraq, Zimbabwe, India (now Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India) the whole of Eastern Europe, China, the U.S. federal system...everywhere.
And we are no different as people. If you set down the same situation and circumstances as they tolerate then we will act as they do.
But simply; in the last thirty years successive governments have set down the roots of a Balkanisation in Britain that will cause decades, perhaps centuries, of resentment and intermittent civil-war.
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