Belfast, Northern Ireland — Perhaps there will not always be an England. An exodus unprecedented in modern times, coupled with a record influx of foreigners, is threatening to erode the character of the land of William Shakespeare and overpowering monarchs, a land that served as the cradle for much of American thought, law and culture.
The figures, making headlines in London newspapers, tell only part of the story. Between June 2005 and June 2006 nearly 200,000 British citizens chose to leave the country for a new life elsewhere. During the same period, at least 574,000 immigrants came to Britain. This number does not include the people who broke the law to get there, or the thousands unknown to the government. Britain's Office of National Statistics reports that middle-class Britons are beginning to move out of towns in southern England that have become home to large numbers of immigrants, thereby altering the character of neighborhoods that have remained unchanged for generations.
Britons give many reasons for leaving, but their stories share one commonality: Life in Britain has become unbearable for them. They fear lawlessness and the threat of more terrorism from a growing Muslim population and the loss of a sense of Britishness, exacerbated by the growing refusal of public schools to teach the history and culture of the nation to the next generation. What it means to be British has been watered down in a plague of political correctness that has swept the country faster than hoof and mouth disease. Officials say they do not wish to "offend" others.
Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers are about to be granted "amnesty" to stay in Britain. The government's approach is similar to that pursued by President Bush, who failed to win congressional approval for his amnesty plan. In Britain, it appears likely to succeed.
The Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, called the policy a "stealth amnesty." Again, in a comment reminiscent of the debate in America, Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said: "This is yet another example of the Alice in Wonderland world of human rights. If you break British law for long enough, you acquire rights, not penalties."
British media have carried stories about an Italian immigrant who murdered a schoolteacher and was sentenced to life in prison. He is about to be released after serving just 12 years. The government wants to deport him to Italy, but a combination of British human rights legislation and European Union law are making it impossible to do so. This does not bode well for deporting Islamic terrorists who call for the overthrow of the government and incite young people to acts of violence.
Abraham Lincoln said no nation can exist half slave and half free. Neither can a nation be sustained if it allows conditions that result in mass emigration, while importing huge numbers of foreigners who come from backgrounds that do not practice assimilation or tolerance of other beliefs.
When one factors in the high number of abortions (one in five pregnancies are aborted in England and Wales), the high birth rates of immigrants (15 times those of white Britons), it doesn't take a population expert to predict that the days of the England we have known may be numbered.
The problem for Britain and the United States isn't just the change in demographics. It is the reluctance of both countries to inculcate the beliefs, history and, yes, religious ideals, which made our nations so successful that others wanted to come and be a part of them. The difference between many of the current immigrants and those of the past is that the previous ones wanted to become fully American or fully British. The current ones, in too many cases, would destroy what makes our countries unique. And the "leaders" of Britain and America refuse to stop it.
The greater tragedy is that the people of Britain have little say in any of this, so they are taking the road of last resort. They are leaving.
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MyName (anonymous) says…
Yet another uninformed and uninteresting hack piece by this political nutter. The two biggest groups of British emigrates are young people (seeking better jobs) and old people (who are retiring). Their top three destinations are Spain, Australia, and the U.S. What this tells you is that their situation is not really that different from people who leave Kansas to go to New York (to find a better job) or Florida (to retire somewhere with a nicer climate), of course when you live on an island, you're going to have to cross a few borders to do so, but again it's not this big crisis that Thomas is making it out to be.
Moreover, any analogy with regards to immigration policy that looks at Britain (an island slightly smaller than Oregon that shares a border with no one) and the U.S. (which has a border thousands of miles long with a much less prosperous neighbor) is going to be strained to the breaking point. But little things like logic have never stopped Thomas from blathering on and on about nothing.
mick (anonymous) says…
Isn't there some way you can blame this on the Democrats, Cal?
MyName (anonymous) says…
posessionannex:
>The next Islamic country to have nuclear weapons won't be Iran, it will be France or Britain.
Well yeah, I mean the U.K. is only 85% White British people. Indians, Pakistanis and Bengalis make up a *whole* 4% of the population. Watch out, if they hit 15% they might go nuclear! And lets not forget France, where a whole 4% of their population identifies as Muslim!
Is your foot in your mouth yet 'cause it ought to be by now! I mean seriously, it's comments like yours that make people think we're all clueless idiots over here in Kansas. Now why don't you take your paranoid bigoted comments and leave. Go save France from being invaded by all those crazy islamists over there!