Is the Lion beginning to wake-up?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/4dtw5kt

It seems at last the voice of the people is being heard, and I do hope that it will not be just another report to be read and ignored by those in power.

/// Sixty per cent of people thought immigration had been ‘a bad thing’ for England, against 40 per cent who said it had been ‘good’.///

/// The report also found opposition comes from all races, not just ‘white Britons’.///

/// 'And 52 per cent of Britons agree that ‘Muslims create problems in the UK’.///

[boxtops]

These polls are hardly representative of the whole nation if they polled less than 7000 people - that's only 10% of the people who live in this small town alone.

[dotty.]

I am English, right back to 1430 on my father's direct line , couldn't be prouder, mind you in 1430 they did arrive from Roscommon,

[boxtops]

I'm not ruled by a minority, what are you talking about?

[boxtops]

America's not much different, they are an society full of immigrant stock.

[dotty.]

what, someone tells me to shut up about being English because a shoemaker from Ireland came to Chester city in 1430 and so that makes me less English, jog on

[boxtops]

My granddad was Irish, my father was Welsh, my husband's a Scot. I claim to be English, but I hope I'm multicultural.

[boxtops]

I'm English, I was born here.

[boxtops]

agree pixi - there are whole families here who have never worked, the system lets them bring more in on the dole than if one or more were working. They are neither immigrant nor asylum seeker, they are just playing the system. We do have immigrant families in our street, Poles, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis - they work, they clean, run restaurants. My friend's husband was made redundant recently and the bloke at the job centre said that it's not his job to find him a job he'd like, just find him a job - shame the same rules don't appear to apply to these non-working families too.

[Kathyan]

In my opinion, the only way to get an accurate figure for any poll is to ask everyone in the country!