Immigration in Britain
According to this article, it seems the British are having awful problems with immigration:
Dangerous crime, such as drink driving, human trafficking, credit card fraud and knife crime, has gone up substantially…. officers are now having to deal with people speaking nearly 100 different foreign languages. The cost in translation fees for Cambridgeshire is close to £1m a year.
I wonder what it is about Britain that they’re having problems where in Ireland immigration has been nothing but a blessing.
Maybe it has to do with fact that they have so few immigrants in comparison with Ireland. You really need to get a good infusion of non-national blood for the benefits to become apparent. According to the article:
The Labour government, in its 10 years of office, has allowed more than a million new people from all over the world to settle in this country.
Is that all? A million people? For a country of 60 million people that doesn’t seem like much at all. In the republic of Ireland we have a population of less than a tenth that of Britain’s and yet the number of immigrants settled here over the last ten years is at least 400,000 people.
I think another cause of the problem might have to do with generally negative atitude of some people. Looking at the comments left at the bottom of the article, nearly all of them were of a very unenlightened tone.
I was particularly offended by a comment left by some smart alec taig (I’m assuming he’s a taig as he says Derry rather than Londonderry) from up the north:
We have a million immigrants here in N Ireland and they have been here for three hundred years I for one would not reccomend it, not good for the health.
Dirty fenian bastard. How anyone could seriously think that the settlement of thousands of Scottish and English settlers in Ireland in the 17th century isn’t a perfect example of the joys that can result from mass immigration really is a mystery to me.
