To not like this Idea of a new multicultural Britain

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I suspect this probably won't go down too well but I'm just being honest as I'm interested to see if I'm the only one who feels this way?
I hate how things are changing, how I can be in a store feel like I'm in eastern europe, why are we one of the only countries that do this? why can't we take a leaf out of the book of Australia and open our doors to people who have something to contribute and not just all and sundry?
Am I on my own in feeling this way?

"Oh before I go, i'd take my face out of MrsDeVeres backside mail, you may be able to see more clearly grin"

She has mail in her backside ... ooh you poor love Mrs DV, your post must be delivered by sadist

MrsDV I actually disagree with your POV more than I agree with it on MN. Which really amuses me!

karlos indeed.

I couldn't give a fanny's fart about forriners apparentlytaking all our jobs and social housing - pure daftness - but I do think we need to be very careful about allowing our hard fought equalities to be eroded. We need to stand very firm against sexism, homophobia etc and refuse to tolerate it even when it is part and parcel of someone's culture.

The argument about furriners being sexist or homophobic would only work if every single person in Britain was neither. But, we have plenty of sexist homophobes who were born and bred here.

Maillot is the name, Clipped, not Mail. It's another pesky foreign name though dear so don't worry about it.

And I am aware of MrsDV from other threads (sadly often on similar subjects) but we don't "know" each other. Perhaps we agree on some things because we are not racist twats.

Birdsgottafly
when you google the EU there are just any many articles saying that UK has put in more than they get out, listing as may cons as there are pro's, than there are articles listing the pro's of the EU. I found your oiginal post, misleading.

I really do not consider it excusable for immigrant communities to be sexist/homophobic just because Nick Griffin is an arsehole. I mean WTAF?

The fact is that as a society the UK has decided upon and fought to defend equalities. And we must never back down from those equalities in the name of multiculture, somehting I think we've been guilty of to some extent.

I'm perfectly happy for people to come to the UK. In fact I actively want people from other cultures to come here. But anyone who does come had better toe the line vis a vis our equalities.

Maybe should say that I don't know Mrs DV either. I see her on some threads, and sometimes agree with her, but we don't hang out discussing ways of annoying racists on MN.

MrsDV I don't for a second assume those that embrace multiculture are all tolerant of intolerance.

But there has been a societal bending over backwards. Where the pursuit of multiculture has trumped our long held beliefs in equality. I think this has been a huge error.

YABU

Trumped whose long held beliefs in equality? I'm not disagreeing that intolerance should be challenged, I just think it's HUGELY ironic that the party that stands for maintaining so-called British values is led by a homophobe, who I'm guessing (just a guess though) speaks for many of his followers... How is the pursuit of multiculture to blame in this instance I wonder?

Ahem
Evening all

this report is really a must read....

Don't think that's why mrsdevere. It would be the same as saying the eiffel tower is 1,063 feet.. You know, a fact.

Not a homophobe. Oh no no no no.

Allegedly.

Fascinating debate. Love our land's multicultural make-up, which includes my own family. I disagree with the OP's comments but they do have a right to air their views. Just grateful that the level of support for those views was minimal. Hip Hip Hooray!!!

MrsDV, provided you sincerely believe that Nick Griffin talks out of his arsehole I think that's a valid defence against libel.

I think it is a good thing. It had always happened back to Vikings, Normans etc.and all immigrants since.

Once again everyone wafts off on history etc. I'm was actually talking about today, the problem of mass EU immigration

It hasn't been a problem in the last 300 years this mass eu immigrantion - so why is it today 12 12 12 a problem?

We haven't had "mass EU immigration" for 300 years.

Of course there are sexist homophobes within the indigenous population, but braodly, as a society, we believe in (and protect by law) equality between people of different races, faiths, sexual orientations and ethnicity. Large numbers of people who do not support those beliefs, who are to be found in certain communities which have not integrated particularly well into the rest of british society, are a problem.