seeing as how that was many of my ancestors came over from Ireland, they came perhaps for a better life, i can only go back so far, so i don't know for sure. What makes you think, or anyone for that matter, that my eyes are closed, they are wide open, i know a fair bit about the history of Britain, and i do know that many peoples have settled here over centuries. They have come out of economic need, and because of religious differences with the countries they were born into. I know enough of the Chinese gangs, and the underworld that pervades this country, the Triad, and any number of other gangs. The poorer chinese who come to make a new life, its unlikely to happen. As i have already stated Chinatown in London is a separate world, many don't speak english, and won't see the light of day, or the kind of life they were hoping for. To add, Britain's rising population is one of the reasons for stopping more people coming, 70 million people perhaps by 2020 or before if this continues, it cannot be sustained, not by a long way.