p_p_man
The 'Euro' European
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David Blunkett, our Home Secretary (looks after Britain's internal affairs) has just created a minor shock wave. He announced today that:
a) Immigrants will have to learn English before they can become citizens.
b) Forced marriages and female circumcision will no longer be tolerated in the name of cultural differences.
c) Single religious schools should be encouraged.
This is on top of earlier announcements that asylum seekers are to be housed in camps until their applications have been processed.
Is it a racist situation or plain commonsense. Most of the UK's population have always thought it strange that newcomers to these islands didn't have to learn the language if they didn't want to, and most of us have felt uneasy about forced marriages etc.
And we've grown more disturbed as we watched immigrants pour into our country and immediately receive all the benefits the Welfare State say they are entitled to (including housing).
The surprising thing is that these measures are being sought by a left wing Labour Government on the grounds that we can no longer afford to be "politically correct", Blunket's words not mine, where immigration is concerned.
We'll now have to sit back and see what riots come from the Asians (who make up the majority of the non-English speaking, non-integrated section of the population).
a) Immigrants will have to learn English before they can become citizens.
b) Forced marriages and female circumcision will no longer be tolerated in the name of cultural differences.
c) Single religious schools should be encouraged.
This is on top of earlier announcements that asylum seekers are to be housed in camps until their applications have been processed.
Is it a racist situation or plain commonsense. Most of the UK's population have always thought it strange that newcomers to these islands didn't have to learn the language if they didn't want to, and most of us have felt uneasy about forced marriages etc.
And we've grown more disturbed as we watched immigrants pour into our country and immediately receive all the benefits the Welfare State say they are entitled to (including housing).
The surprising thing is that these measures are being sought by a left wing Labour Government on the grounds that we can no longer afford to be "politically correct", Blunket's words not mine, where immigration is concerned.
We'll now have to sit back and see what riots come from the Asians (who make up the majority of the non-English speaking, non-integrated section of the population).
