Immigration?
Watch this postDo you think that the proposed 50,000 immigrants then 20,000 will change the British Culture as is suggested
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Being an Island does limit available land, jobs etc, but the incoming cultures from the Middle East are not going to integrate fully, if at all, and we will (as we and the French have found out), is that they prefer to live in their own enclaves and will not generally integrate.
One problem is with religion, and specifically Islam...and before anyone starts shouting Islamophobia or Xenophobia I must point out that I currently live in Prague, and for the last 8 years lived in North (Turkish controlled) Cyprus where Islam is the primary religion, so I have first hand experience of it and what it means to the daily life of a believer.
We have all seen the subverting of some schools, the segregation of women and men at meetings, the call for Sharia Law and the assaults on women to the call of If Allah Will's it from the newly arrives "refugees".
Unfortunately the unshakable belief in the word of the Koran (or its interpretation by the Mullahs), coupled with the split between Sunny and Shia puts this religion at the heart of the sectarian problems in the Middle East.
My experience is that the general belief in the "rightness" of Islam over all others will keep the greater incoming masses separate from the endemic Christian population, or as we are seeing more and more in UK, the more agnostics and atheists there are, the greater the gap to be filled by Islam.
So yes, our culture will change quite drastically; aided and abetted by what has become the "ruling elite" of the Brussels Parliament it will gradually be lost. That is why although British by birth, I live in the Czech Republic where people are still in touch with their heritage ie have a Nationalistic mindset, and where the extended family and the older generation is still of importance.
Being an island we have limited land a dwindling housing market and a Health service in trouble. If we had plenty of all of these plus of course jobs, i would welcome them from wherever they came