I recently watched the video from the 2012 Olympics and it sums this cohesion up so well. Reform is doing the complete opposite. That's not patriotism,it's pure unabated selfishness.
100% agree, every successful country is built on immigration, immigrants enrich our lives in so many ways. I've never understood the fear of immigrants.
Agree. Somehow it needs to be embedded into UK culture that immigration is a good thing. Sustained advertising, school, etc. In demonising immigrants the previous government has a lot to answer for.
As well as cultural enrichment, e.g. restaurants, the UK economy desperately needs migrants.
The immigration 'debate' is often viewed through an English lens. The need is not evenly distributed across the UK & the Scottish economy is particularly desperate for migrant workers.
Absolutely - in my family tree we have immigrants from Ireland (Potato Famine), Huegenots (religious persecution), and even a Jewish connection (for probably obvious reasons).
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The immigration 'debate' is often viewed through an English lens. The need is not evenly distributed across the UK & the Scottish economy is particularly desperate for migrant workers.
A perverted English nationalism attracts white racist xenophobes.
This is interesting article, (long read).
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-923X.13303
And that is just within 5 or 6 generations...