Multiculturalism isn’t working because we haven’t created the right conditions for it to succeed.

I wish all ethnicities and religions peace and prosperity, but if people come to live here they must fit into our way of life, not we into theirs.   I integrate with immigrants every day: in my job, on the bus, in the supermarket, in my local area of Wandsworth or in the centre of London, and in the hospitals … and unfortunately many of the stereotypes seem to be borne out.

In my work, I see many Indian and other nationalities come here first by themselves, then bringing over their dependants (quite easy under the current visa system), then get pregnant and have more dependants. In addition, they pretend to be students and within a short time they stop attending classes and disappear. They can’t be traced as they have changed address.  They get reported to the UKBA and you never see published statistics on how many are ever traced and deported successfully.   The widespread belief is that the majority are never found and merely join the vast ‘black economy’ in this country.

If any do go through the motions of attending classes, they are often absent through ‘illness’ with scrappy and highly dubious-looking medical certificates from Indian ‘doctors’ or ‘medical centres’ in Wembley or Southall or somewhere similar.   These are only ever produced way after the event when threatened with being reported to the UKBA.  Whereas you and I would be off work for 1 or 2 days with ‘flu or backpain, these people seem to be signed off for a month or more by their ‘doctors’ to get over the slightest illness.

When they do attend, they are totally disinterested in studying and fail dismally. All they want to do is work, and they are supposed to have a 20-hour a week limit (new students now have a limit of 10 hours), but it seems obvious from their attendance patterns that they work longer than the maximum allowed. There are many employers of their own nationality who will flout the law on employing immigrant workers, as it’s cheap labour. Work always takes precedence over their ‘studies’, so they are constantly late for classes or fail to attend regularly unless threatened with being reported.  The whole system of student visas is therefore a joke.

So I go home every day on the bus and all around me there are people not speaking my own language:  Russians, Africans, Indians, Somalis – all life is there.

I go to the supermarket on Saturday in Wandsworth and have to pass through what is now called ‘Southside’.  Without fail, crowds of immigrant families are in the street, or in the mall, dressed in their black robes and with 6 kids for each mother. You usually get 2 or 3 of these families out together, making several groups of a dozen or more, with kids ranging from babies to teens.

They come out of their council flats and walk around without a care in the world – not just on Saturdays, but on any day of the week you may visit the shopping mall.  They always have lots of shopping bags filled with goods from Primark and wherever else they spend their money.  How they get the money and the council flats I can only speculate. They appear to be Somalis, a very distinctive-looking people, so are they ALL asylum-seekers?

I have to go to the hospital occasionally as I have had some health issues as a man approaching sixty.  I’ve worked all my life and now need to use an NHS service that I have been helping to pay  for over the last 45 years.  When I go to the local GP or the hospital, what do I see?  Queues of the same people I meet at work and in the supermarket and in the street:  Indians, Somalis, many other nationalities, but very few of my fellow English citizens by birth.  Certainly the proportion of immigrants in the waiting rooms, as you observe them come and go, is much higher than the immigration statistics would lead you to believe.

What do we have in the UK -  9%… 10% immigrants now?  In the GP’s or the hospital waiting rooms they must represent around 80% of the queue or more. I wonder how much THEY have paid into our tax and National Insurance system.  I can’t help feeling that I have worked all my life to give it away to these people.

I appreciate that some readers have what they consider balanced and fair views about immigration.  As for my own views, I am not a racist and never have been. The colour of someone’s skin is of no consequence whatsoever.

The rich, Tory-voting classes who need cheap foreign labour, will still want this flow of immigrants to continue. Their housing, transport, local communities or healthcare are not affected in the same way as they are for ordinary working people. The mealy-mouthed LibDems wouldn’t dream of picking on immigration as an issue for fear of being called racist. Labour has lost its way and is too scared of anything approaching a working-class policy or manifesto. Heaven forbid, in the age of the Miliblands.

I am not especially patriotic, the ‘refuge of a scoundrel’ and all that, but I do believe that we will lose whatever culture we have if we don’t stop immigration soon.

We need to wake up now.

What’s it like being middle-aged or elderly in Britain today and going about your business peacefully, just setrying to live in the hard times brought about by poor government and greedy bankers? 

Well, ask this man.

David Wells, 61, was attacked as he walked home along Trinity Road in Bradford on Tuesday night. He suffered deep cuts to his forehead and lip, black eyes and swelling to his hand.  Two men aged 21 and 23 have apparently been arrested and ‘questioned’ about the incident.

A police spokesman said “This was a particularly vicious attack which has left the victim with a number of injuries.

“The suspects stole just £5. I would appeal to anyone who witnessed the assault to contact us so we can establish exactly what happened.”

As always, The British Citizen calls for the same two things that every decent person wants in this country:

1.    Put more policemen ‘on the beat’ in town centres and communities.
2.    PUNISH the offenders so hard that they won’t ever do it again.

… but is anyone in government LISTENING?

Despite any number of similar incidents happening on our streets every day, we doubt it.
It’s time for change – not to the Tories for heaven’s sake,  but a new way of governing our country.

Reforms designed to ‘restore trust’ in the criminal justice system will be proposed in a government report this week, including tougher community punishments.

The report, drawn up by Louise McCasey, former head of the government’s ‘Respec, bro’ Unit, has the blessing of Home Secretary, Jacqui McSmith, but some ministers close to Gordon McBroon say it is excessively punitive towards the young and will play into Tory hands and their talk of “a broken society”.

Among the more striking measures proposed:

· People serving community sentences should be forced to wear visible jackets (see picture) identifying that they are being punished for making the law an ass, and must complete their sentences without the use of Latin in a public place.

· The administration of the punishment system should be removed from the Probation Service and contracted out to an organisation known as the ‘Bullingdon Club’ – a group well-qualified to recognise offensive behaviour.

· The possibility of publishing “conviction politics posters”, showing people who have been found guilty of crimes against the people.

· The appointment of a Public Commissioner to represent victims of crime.

· Home Office ministers should no longer be responsible for publishing crime statistics, in order to restore their credibility with the public. (What credibility? – Ed.)

· Police community support officers should have powers to detain and to issue fixed penalty notices for disorder.

Minister McCasey will propose that community punishment is no longer termed “unpaid work”, but instead “community payback”. She believes the Probation Service is primarily concerned with rehabilitation rather than punishment, and she therefore wants lots of punishment, which will be contracted out to a new organisation. (See Bullingdon Club, above).

We at The British Citizen think these measures are unlikely to deter offenders, and may indeed inspire them to form a political party and run for government. Write to your MP now and say ‘NO’!

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