Accepting immigration

OT TOPIC: Rageh Omaar presents Immigration: the Inconvenient Truth

REGARDING THE Channel Four programme Immigration: the Inconvenient Truth, (Voice, April 21-27), it seemed that presenting such a hot potato with a brown face was a wise tactic, which waters down the harsh impact one would have expected.

It raises the chances of non-white viewing and listening to the arguments from a non-confrontational perspective.

For me, nothing new was garnered from watching. The same old arguments were civilly conveyed to a black presenter, who now was the catalyst for converting them to empathetic and statistical data.

While one interviewee droned on about the good old days when Margate was thriving, I couldn’t help overhearing, “before they came over here.” After all, that was the point. And 565 Brits leaving the country every day to gain their rightful rewards for their work, in opposition to the wage reductions taking place because Eastern Europeans will accept substantially less sounds like echoes of ‘Those blacks are just taking over our jobs and our women’, from the late 1970's.

Notably, the presenter pointed out that wherever the migrating job market goes, they in turn become immigrants on someone else’s doorstep.

In fact, Britain has made a virtue of exporting her people long before all of the nations she now hosts.

She did after all rule the waves, giving cover to her expansion, colonising a third of the world and exporting settlers, officials or representatives to each one of her colonies.

Indeed, New Zealand and Australia received exiles and menaces to society who could not be rehabilitated. No other country has enjoyed the convenience of such mass on-loading on England.

China, India, Australia the Caribbean, America and the Pacific particularly felt the presence of the British Empire’s human migration while no one could complain about them sponging off the welfare state.

Australia and America saw them de-humanise and near enough wipe entire races of indigenous peoples off the face of the earth in the name of civilisation.

In any case, the different nations have evolved and still are through a behavioural process of mass migration, which has never ended.

The Englishman, who gorges on American culture, strives on Chinese electronics, driving German and Japanese cars, has nothing to fear but fear itself. Though the sudden pace of change is unnerving, exacerbated by our relationship with the European Union, this is a mere part of an evolutionary process that is far bigger than him.