Immigration: a plan to alter the nation's soul
The government's policy of mass immigration was intended to remodel the social fabric of the nation, says Janet Daley
"So now we know what Labour's immigration policy was really about. The "open door" was not simply held ajar in order to admit a fresh workforce that would help to fill gaps in the growing economy. Nor was it just a gesture of hospitality and goodwill to those who were fleeing from repressive or inhospitable regimes in order to seek a better life. [...]
But as it turns out, the policy was motivated by something far more radical and fundamental than any of this. The full text of the draft policy paper composed in 2000 by a Home Office research unit - the gist of which had already been made public by a former Labour adviser - was released last week under Freedom of Information rules. Properly understood, it is political dynamite. [...]
Migration was intended specifically to alter the demographic and cultural pattern of the country: The goal was a social revolution abetted by the influx of a huge variety of diverse cultures, which would provide both the need and the pretext for reshaping British life. [...]
Tony Blair's "forces of conservatism" speech; his improbable presentation of Britain as a "young country"; the advocacy of a multicultural society which would have to reassess its own history, replacing traditional pride with inherited guilt: all of this could be facilitated by a large influx of migrants whose presence in the population would require the wholesale deconstruction of the country's sense of its own identity."
If you believe that it is the function of government to alter or determine people's perceptions and responses - their innermost feelings about themselves and others - then you will probably opt for the Left.
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Does this sound familiar? We do not need to gaze across the ocean to Europe to see this - of course we should pay attention to the horrors, the turmoil, the riots with which the European countries are currently beleaguered to see what America may have in it's future.
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