“Those who we welcome into the UK to work and settle here need to understand our traditions and feel that they are part of our shared national culture,” Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said. “They need to integrate into our country, learn English and use our language.”
Can we adopt some of this progressive Western European thinking?
Too little, too late.
Interesting, but I recall an article here lately which found net emigration from England, even with the “Asian” influx. People where especially headed toward Commonwealth countries like Australia, a lesser number to the US. I will try to dig that article up. Interesting juxtaposition.
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2007/08/28/vanishing_england
That is the Cal Thomas article which states that between 2005 and 2006, 200,000 Brits (presumably native) left Britain while nearly three times that number gained entry to Britain from presumably non-EU countries.
I am not surprised by PM Brown’s actions, though I suspect it neither gets at the real problem. The real problem is on display in a photo one or two posts above this one. (The protestor with the sign seems very fluent in English already.)
Most of the Muslims in Britain are of Pakistani extraction, and if you recall, a majority of past terrorists from Britain were either Pakistani immigrants who had decent jobs and were well-versed with the English language, or were British-born Pakistani/Muslim citizens to begin with.
Too little, too late.
Language is not the problem. Islam is.
Crime, especially with knives but guns too, are rampant. The majority of the violent crimes and personal property crimes are by the “imports”, including the second generation of the imports children.
There are now ghettos of mostly Is-Lamic imports and their descendent's in many cities and the crime rate in those areas is staggering for Britain. Add that to the long term problem of Irish travelers and Gypsies in their mobile caravans of crime and the “hoodie” street culture (really imported American gansta rap filth) of the young and you have what seems to the average citizen as a societal meltdown.
The bottom line is, what you hear from the average Brit is 180 degrees opposite from what you hear/read from the politicians and the media, and the average citizen is getting fed up very quickly. The tired old excuses and Liberal lies from the pols and media that enable and promote such activities are RAPIDLY being exhausted and seen for the garbage they are.
Heres to hoping for a British rebirth.