"The UK has a smaller foreign-born population than Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, the US and France."
This is a bit of a deceptive statement. It says smaller "foreign-born" population. Because of the Commonwealth, the U.K. has had for many years settlement of Commonwealth country citizens in the U.K. Many in particular from India. These are second and third generation peoples who are no longer "foreign born" as the parents of these offspring have been in the U.K. for years. However, it has made the U.K. into a very multi-ethnic country. The earlier generation settlers from Commonwealth countries, IMO, has been a positive for the U.K. This latest crop of immigrants are not. They are a danger to the stability of the U.K., which will lose its basic Anglo-Saxon identity, and morph into something very different from its historical roots.
Accurate call, flaglady47.
Basically, we seem to have no problem at all with those who come from a similar Judeo-Christian background/culture and that includes the E European ex-communists - generally.
Lots of Poles (welcome as WW2 allies) for instance. Lots of Filipinos (as) in our health service - brilliant people. They appreciate being here in the UK, and we like 'em for integrating/assimilating. Indian Hindus and Sikhs, smart people, likewise.
The real problem lies in ex-Commonwealth (Pakistan in particular) immigrants, even now some generations on, who belong to the RoP, which requires them to keep themselves apart and NOT to integrate, in fact to work to change our Brit society to suit their (RoP) requirements. Albanians/Kosovans figure heavily into crime stats and particualrly female sex trafficking.
Go figure - as you 'Yanks' :-) say!
"The earlier generation settlers from Commonwealth countries, IMO, has been a positive for the U.K. This latest crop of immigrants are not. They are a danger to the stability of the U.K., which will lose its basic Anglo-Saxon identity, and morph into something very different from its historical roots."
There were those who said much the same thing about the earlier generation settlers who you refer to, of course.