PROF ROBERT TOMBS: Mass Immigration is Destabilising Our Country
Last weekend, my cousin's lovely daughter, not long out of medical school, married her sweetie - a handsome young medical professional from an Indian household.
The Hindu wedding event was spectacular, colourful and big enjoyable for everybody. Watching as young English and Indian people danced together, I reflected that the day was a perfect example of multicultural integration as all of us wish it to be.
But it is dangerously ignorant to take these benefits for granted and to expect that the conference of cultures will immediately result in universal love.
The UK has perhaps the best record of any country in the way that, for centuries, it has taken in immigrants and refugees from every corner of the world, providing a safe and civilised sanctuary.
From the Huguenot Protestants who ran away massacres in France during the 16th century, to the Jews leaving Nazi genocide during the Second World War, right approximately the Ukrainian females and kids used shelter today, British tolerance and empathy have been a lifeline for millions.
Now that tolerance is being stretched to its limitations. Mass immigration, compounded by people-smuggling on a commercial scale, is destabilising our nation.
We must not fall under the trap of supposing that, due to the fact that it has normally exercised fine in the past, Britain can soak up any quantity of group change.
We have actually never seen escalating immigration on anything like the scale of the previous 20 years, wites Prof Robert Tombs
History reveals that, even here, unexpected increases of migration have triggered upheavals that last for centuries. And we have actually never ever seen intensifying migration on anything like the scale of the previous twenty years.
Last weekend, my cousin's lovely daughter, not long out of medical school, married her sweetie - a handsome young medical professional from an Indian household.
The Hindu wedding event was spectacular, colourful and big enjoyable for everybody. Watching as young English and Indian people danced together, I reflected that the day was a perfect example of multicultural integration as all of us wish it to be.
But it is dangerously ignorant to take these benefits for granted and to expect that the conference of cultures will immediately result in universal love.
The UK has perhaps the best record of any country in the way that, for centuries, it has taken in immigrants and refugees from every corner of the world, providing a safe and civilised sanctuary.
From the Huguenot Protestants who ran away massacres in France during the 16th century, to the Jews leaving Nazi genocide during the Second World War, right approximately the Ukrainian females and kids used shelter today, British tolerance and empathy have been a lifeline for millions.
Now that tolerance is being stretched to its limitations. Mass immigration, compounded by people-smuggling on a commercial scale, is destabilising our nation.
We must not fall under the trap of supposing that, due to the fact that it has normally exercised fine in the past, Britain can soak up any quantity of group change.
We have actually never seen escalating immigration on anything like the scale of the previous 20 years, wites Prof Robert Tombs
History reveals that, even here, unexpected increases of migration have triggered upheavals that last for centuries. And we have actually never ever seen intensifying migration on anything like the scale of the previous twenty years.