Originally Posted by The Bear

Britain did well to defuse the dangers following the changes in population make up as a result of Commonwealth immigration, particularly from the “Windies”.

In so doing the government of the day certainly took a nasty characteristic out of the British psyche, that of bigoted racism, that had taken WW2 to take out of the German character, and remains to this day with the French and some others.

This was achieved by the sensitive introduction of legislation to address the problems strangers who wanted to join and so strengthen our country faced and who were facing the very worst of raw unthinking xenophobia every waking hour.

If only it had stopped there and the socialists and other class warriors hadn’t got their sticky fingers onto things, not to mention self seeking politicians who saw votes in a cause célèbre, and who to further their own ideology or aims, not always the same by any means, and took what had been sensible to new and lunatic heights.

It’s that which let the dross in and it’s that which prevents the actions that are needed from being applied.

The final straw was of course the Blair sign-up to the European Convention of Human Rights.

Enoch Powell was right at the time if nothing was done but things were done and the situation moved on. What he did NOT foresee was Islam being welcomed and even encouraged into Britain. No one did, but then no one would have ever in their wildest dreams have ever thought that anything so utterly divisive and lunatic as multiculturalism would ever have been attempted.