To think the Mohammed Emwazi debacle will mushroom and help UKIP?

[Arsenic]

I've just been reading about CAGE and its personnel for two hours ( here and here for starters). The game they are playing is so shady and is going to drag us all down a rabbit warren.

The "multiculturalism doesn't work" brigade are going to have a feast.

The ripples from this are going to reach far.

UKIP know that you cannot undo the damage that has been done. But in order to avoid even more damage we have to recognise that there is a problem and try and address it.

Yesterday's immigration statistics showed over 600k people came here last year. Every year between 550-600k arrive. And yet people wonder how ghettos form in our towns and cities. People wonder how we have schools of entirely English-as-a-second-language children. And people wonder how we have sections of our society who exist in complete parallel to ours with different values and ethics.

Numbers are so important here. We have done ourselves and our immigrants a complete disservice by allowing such vast numbers and making any sort of integration completely impossible.

If nothing is done to control our borders by the next election another 2.5 million people will have arrived. This is on top of all the children that new arrivals will have. This is unprecedented rapid change. And it cannot end well.

The only issue of any longterm importance to the UK's future health as a harmonious and happy society is immigration.

I don't think that the only options are multiculturalism of send'embackism. I find that I can manage not to be racist or even anti-immigration while still thinking that integration is a positive thing. The London I grew up in during the 1970s was considerable more intergrated than the London of today and richer for it. I never felt that my own ethnic culture was diluted by the indigenous culture or experienced any sense of cultural imperialism by being expected to slot in with the locals.