Immigration - are we heading down this road ?

[vehelpfulguy]

I see that an American organization that studies Migration in the USA has described Los Angeles as a "third world city"

Are we heading down the same route - a huge part of the UK population who do not speak English as their main language, many immigrants with no educational qualificatoins, immigrant ghetto areas where "whites" are not welcome and do not feel safe.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2008/04/23/wla123.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewe dbox

[jake-the-peg]

Define huge

1%?

[youngmafbog]

DEpends if that 1% is concentrated in small areas. 1% spread is clearly not much of a problem, however we can see that is not usually the case.

So to answer the question, yes in some areas I suspect that will happen.

[DarkMajes71c]

put them in forced labour camps its the only way.

[jake-the-peg]

Well there are weasel words here aren't there?

Do not speak English as their main language

So what? I work with many technical people here for whom English is their second language. Many of them speak it wonderfully well and in some cases better than some English people I know.

The question is not those who speak it as a second language ( about 20% in London) but those who cannot speak English adequately.

The whole question has a "rivers of blood feel about it" Let us not forget that 40 years ago Echoch Powell predicted that "in 20 years the Black man will have the whip hand over the White man"

Yet 40 years on Politicians, the Judiciary, leaders of industry, the Police force, almost all positions of power in this country are predominantly white.

This is simple scaremongering of the crudest type

[RevFunk]

Jake the Peg the loony leftie.

I wonder if you live in an area which a high influx of Poles, Kosovans etc etc You could always pop down to West Bromwich and see all the polish prostitues with their polish pimps.

So much to offer the country.

[RogerWilco]

My friend is married to a Greek. Her children were born and raised in Greece. Obviously they do not speak English as their main language. However they all have a better grasp of English grammar than most of the UK born kids I know of similar ages, and the eldest has just qualified as an English teacher.

If you want to write about people who have difficulty comprehending English, then you should supply appropriate statistics.

[Lonnie]

I don't think it matters if English is the immigrants main language or not,
What matters, is that they should be able to speak it.

I was in Whitechapel, (East London), and visited the market there, there were stallholders who couldn't speak English at all, and only sold to their own community, because they couldn't communicate in any other language than their own.

Thats devisive, and its getting more widespread.

[sp1214]

Throughout history whenever Britain has invaded some third world country (mostly black commonwealth) then not soon after the immigrants from that country come flooding in. It's not necessary to predict where the next wave will come from will it? IRAQ!

There's a moral here somewhere.

[Lonnie]

sp,
Spot on.