sharedfastlane: Hi there.
Why should you as an accident of birth have a rubbish life when I can have more than you and not by being a more noble person than you or harder working?
Yeah, just doesn't seem fair. You know, Farmer Giles just said the same thing (not quite in the same words) on his star trex thread!
It can appear some people go to the top of a stretched housing waiting list on arriving in Britain. When I rang the Home Office to ask was this true I was told people have to be sponsored to enter Britain and those in destitute circumstances would have spent a year in emergency accomodation which would have been far from ideal before being put on any Council Housing List. Also it can appear that Mosques are springing up in a lot of places and talk of Sharia Law can make me feel nervous.
Yes. There's a lot of scaremongering, and extremes always feed on fear.
But there are areas with genuine race issues that we need to address - to solve them, not have riots. I suspect - I have no proof, but I suspect - that the government is already working on this.
Two possible hints to this I have spotted - firstly, I think there is more effort going in to making sure that immigrant women are aware of their legal rights in this country; secondly, if you consider what the IRA would have managed over the same period, there's been very little homegrown Muslim terrorism. I think the security services are getting information from within those communities, the bulk of whom are well aware of the freedom and security they have here and no more want to lose it than we do.
