PROF ROBERT TOMBS: Mass Immigration is Destabilising Our Country
Last weekend, my cousin's lovely child, not long out of medical school, married her sweetheart - a good-looking young medical professional from an Indian family.
The Hindu wedding was spectacular, vibrant and huge fun for everyone. Watching as young English and Indian individuals danced together, I reflected that the day was a best example of multicultural combination as we all wish it to be.
But it is dangerously ignorant to take these benefits for granted and to anticipate that the meeting of cultures will instantly cause universal love.
The UK has perhaps the very best record of any nation in the manner in which, for centuries, it has taken in immigrants and refugees from every corner of the world, using a safe and civilised haven.
From the Huguenot Protestants who ran away massacres in France throughout 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 actually been a lifeline for millions.
Now that tolerance is being extended to its limitations. Mass immigration, intensified by people-smuggling on an industrial scale, is destabilising our nation.
We should not fall under the trap of expecting that, because it has generally exercised fine in the past, Britain can soak up any quantity of demographic modification.
We have never ever seen intensifying immigration on anything like the scale of the past twenty years, wites Prof Robert Tombs
History shows that, even here, sudden increases of migration have caused turmoils that last for centuries. And we have never ever seen escalating migration on anything like the scale of the previous 20 years.
Official figures from the Department for Education revealed on Thursday that white British children are currently the minority in one in four schools in England.
Last weekend, my cousin's lovely child, not long out of medical school, married her sweetheart - a good-looking young medical professional from an Indian family.
The Hindu wedding was spectacular, vibrant and huge fun for everyone. Watching as young English and Indian individuals danced together, I reflected that the day was a best example of multicultural combination as we all wish it to be.
But it is dangerously ignorant to take these benefits for granted and to anticipate that the meeting of cultures will instantly cause universal love.
The UK has perhaps the very best record of any nation in the manner in which, for centuries, it has taken in immigrants and refugees from every corner of the world, using a safe and civilised haven.
From the Huguenot Protestants who ran away massacres in France throughout 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 actually been a lifeline for millions.
Now that tolerance is being extended to its limitations. Mass immigration, intensified by people-smuggling on an industrial scale, is destabilising our nation.
We should not fall under the trap of expecting that, because it has generally exercised fine in the past, Britain can soak up any quantity of demographic modification.
We have never ever seen intensifying immigration on anything like the scale of the past twenty years, wites Prof Robert Tombs
History shows that, even here, sudden increases of migration have caused turmoils that last for centuries. And we have never ever seen escalating migration on anything like the scale of the previous 20 years.
Official figures from the Department for Education revealed on Thursday that white British children are currently the minority in one in four schools in England.