Mandleson admits Labour encouraged mass immigration

[gWaPito]

Mr Powell was right in most of what he said in his famous speech except the bit about rivers of blood. ..as for multiculturalism. .we can only give our own perspective. .where I was brought up in rural areas of Berkshire Oxfordshire and Wiltshire we've been quite lucky in that it is nowhere near as bad as the Midlands Maybe that's why I'm for a multicultural environment. .

[bigmarco]

Mr Powell was right in most of what he said in his famous speech except the bit about rivers of blood. ..as for multiculturalism. .we can only give our own perspective. .where I was brought up in rural areas of Berkshire Oxfordshire and Wiltshire we've been quite lucky in that it is nowhere near as bad as the Midlands Maybe that's why I'm for a multicultural environment. .

Says he who was brought up with the carrot crunchers
I agree with Ded that there's nothing wrong with Multiculturalism but it is very much a 2 way street.
We should not be asked to constantly bend to accommodate everyone. The early immigrants came here and spoke English and eventually integrated into our society and we became all the better for their being here.
However they want to come now and help themselves to everything and give nothing. For Christs sake we've even got to supply some of them with translators whilst treating them free of charge on the NHS. Our little bit of the world has gone completely mad and until we wake up and recognise that we've got it completely wrong there's not a lot of hope for the future.

[grahamw48]

Says he who was brought up with the carrot crunchers
I agree with Ded that there's nothing wrong with Multiculturalism but it is very much a 2 way street.
We should not be asked to constantly bend to accommodate everyone. The early immigrants came here and spoke English and eventually integrated into our society and we became all the better for their being here.
However they want to come now and help themselves to everything and give nothing. For Christs sake we've even got to supply some of them with translators whilst treating them free of charge on the NHS. Our little bit of the world has gone completely mad and until we wake up and recognise that we've got it completely wrong there's not a lot of hope for the future.

Did they ?

[gWaPito]

Did they ?

I think bigmarco was referring about the ones who arrived from the Caribbean in the 50s and 60s to for fill the labour shortages caused by 2 world wars. . Now correct me if I'm wrong it has been known. ..but it was us, the British who went looking for them.