Has multiculturalism failed in Britain? Matthew Goodwin on SpectatorTV

Academic and pollster Matthew Goodwin joins Freddy Gray to discuss why issues that are often branded as 'culture wars' still matter to a large proportion of the British public. Have they remained at the centre of politics for Labour and the Conservatives?
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[@carlnapp4412]

I can't speak for the UK, but here in Germany it most certainly has failed!

[@littleitalyblogspot]

It has most certainly failed here too.

[@NPC--666]

Its defo failed hetr. Thensad thing is the police, government, media etc. still pretend there is nothing wrong with Islam ... jusr that anyone whi says anythingnis "wayvist". The West died after the 2nd world war

[@hsmd4533]

I can speak for the US: it’s an abject horrific failure that may destroy our country.

[@fransvandenheuvel7161]

Meta aspects of human nature don't change from country to country. Particulars do, but group dynamics is a meta aspect that will be the same for every group. Aside from the brief moments where a group abandons itself, like we've been seeing from Europeans at the moment, this will remain the same forever. Such groups either get ''out-competed'' - to put it euphemistically - or they get their senses back. All this is just to say that you can speak for the UK or any other place just fine. Groups competing with each other within the same country was always going to be a doomed idea. The fact that this ''turned out'' this way (groups competing, i mean) was also inevitable, unlike what we've been and continue to be told. In fact it was like this from the beginning, and it's just more and more explicit as time passes and the demographics change further and further.

[@bearhug7335]

Canada is getting worse day by day. Never less unified and never so dangerous to live in.

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

Enoch Powell was spot on.

[@rogerwoodhouse7945]

Yes but how does that help us now?

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

@@rogerwoodhouse7945 it doesn’t. We are all doomed.

[@greegan37]

I and a quite a few others said he was spot on when he said it. He said we must be mad, litterally mad to be allowing so many immigarnts in. Now 50 years later mass,uncontrolled immigration is happening big time. Read his Rivers of Blood speech and see if you can dispute what he said?

[@lloydburdis1277]

@@MARTINA-gc3tq wish I could disagree but unfortunately not.

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

@@lloydburdis1277 me too. I thought I was a liberal but with age has come wisdom and vision .

[@davidknight2104]

Tony Blair has a lot to answer for

[@roygardiner2229]

Yes. He must be keeping his head down right now.

[@tom4381]

​@@roygardiner2229Unbelievably he isn't.

[@adamsimmons631]

Worst PM, with Gordon Brown, we have ever had

[@jameswarrington9402]

Agreed but so have the open borders Tories who had the power to do as they pleased about reversing anything Blair did but appear to rather approve of and go along with it. Our borders have never been so open.

[@davidknight2104]

@@jameswarrington9402 100% the status quo have just allowed it to happen

[@MrGreen-sq4cf]

You ask: 'Has multiculturalism failed in Britain?' A better question would be has multiculturalism worked in any country?

[@goldie0107]

It worked in Canada until about 10-15 years ago. Now the demographics have shifted so radically that I fear what will become of this beautiful country.

[@jazztheglass6139]

Malaysia appears to be a exception

[@NPC--666]

​@@goldie0107It wasn't working, its just that numbers were low enough that problems weren't obvious.

[@Madoldcatlady]

@@jazztheglass6139you’re wrong about Malaysia! There is ever growing intolerance of other religions and cultures and an increase in strict adherence to Shari’ah. It’s almost always the same outcome wherever Islam starts to be the dominant religion and something we in the West really need to address.

[@Madoldcatlady]

Even if they drastically decrease immigration, I would say, the damage is now done. Neither party are serious about those subjects, because they both adhere to the UN’s globalist agenda.

[@levent.a.7280]

Multiculturalism and diversity is the biggest threat to the western world,I am saying it as an Iraqi because I know what my countrymen are capable of , be wise and know whom you are letting in.

[@samanthaclugston6685]

VOTE REFORM fella😁

[@calumgallagher2095]

​@@samanthaclugston6685what them Nazis? 😂😂

[@christinalayzelle832]

​@@calumgallagher2095 The Reform Party are definitely not anti-semitic, so why do you call the Nazis?

[@calumgallagher2095]

​@@christinalayzelle832same format different target. Distract ppl with a group to hate "migrants" and ignore the countless negligence to public sectors and the every day person, turning on your neighbour because he looks different to you is such a neanderthal way of living

[@tcdrx]

​​@@calumgallagher2095I used to be on the left. But what you are describing is exactly what the left is. They are 'othering' people into categories. And blame people with a specific skin colour for all the problems in the world. They are currently cheering on terrorist who want all the Jews to be dead. Celebrating them being slaughtered. Jews have to hide from them and don't feel safe anymore. Meanwhile not accomplishing anything sustainable for regular people. You are in no position to lecture anyone.

[@simondymond8479]

Is there even any question? Has multiculturalism worked anywhere in Europe?

[@parrotshootist3004]

Yes its worked excellently. Maybe not for everyone, or even the majority. But it has achieved what was plainly going to happen. For those whose interests are important, it is doing very well. The EU awards a prize for the 'leader' that achieves more of it.

[@hsmd4533]

I would say it worked in the US in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when different waves of immigrants came, integrated, became citizens and believed in the values upon which the US was founded. The more recent immigrants (and illegals) have not integrated, and they seek to destroy traditional American values.

[@robm8809]

It's worked in so far as the people behind it always intended for it to be deeply harmful to our nations and societies.

[@deborah-hq7xe]

Yes absolutely !! We've been sold out, hoodwinked, betrayed by our politicians and governments . I no longer recognise the country of my birth.

[@GB-nu6ow]

​@parrotshootist3004 where has it worked ?

[@NiceLoki]

Diversity is divisive I am proud to be English and am very worried at how our culture is being destroyed.

[@testudohorsfieldii7052]

How is English culture being destroyed exactly? I hear this statement a lot but never see any actual evidence.

[@NiceLoki]

@@testudohorsfieldii7052 City councils banning the use of "Happy Christmas" because it will offend Muslims? That happened in Bradford over 2 decades ago initially and spread to other cities. A teacher having to go into permanent hiding in fear for his life because he showed a picture of Mohammed. We have been told that celebrating with the English flag or the Union flag is racist and divisive because it is excluding foreigners. Not investigating child gang r**es because the police fear a backlash against the Pakistani perpetuators. Arresting a man for having a Union flag. There are far too many to list here, that is just a few incidents, some recent (this week) some years old. All demonstrating how English and British are being shamed and sidelined in our own country.

[@jeffatkins6890]

Because it’s British you mean !

[@calumgallagher2095]

can't invade half the world, tell them they are part of the commonwealth then be pissed they have come for their receipts 😂😂

[@barneyrubble8590]

@@calumgallagher2095oh, it’s so such a laugh as you put it..

[@jayseabie215]

The culture of this country is British. If you don't want to be part of that culture then you shouldn't be here. Period.

[@user-fb3yf2xb2z]

You mean 'full stop'. Not period. 'Period' is an Americanisation of the British phrase. Culture is continually evolving....

[@elkpaz560]

@@user-fb3yf2xb2z Culture is continually evolving and if you import large numbers of people from another culture the host culture will change in that direction. Change is inevitable, the nature of that change is not.

[@user-fb3yf2xb2z]

spot on. @@elkpaz560

[@Spike-yc5gx]

A period is what women have once per month.

[@dowdallerno1]

I wish the "British" took your advice, and didn't go around invading, half the world. And pushing their "culture" on the native people or just killing or starving them. 😉

[@primetime8137]

It’s an absolute disaster, that the British don’t want or get asked, the British government is replacing the population and Christianity, I’m absolutely disgusted by our government, I want our country back🤬

[@bigbarry8343]

you got the brexit, what more do you want?

[@greegan37]

Whatever Brexit was meant to deliver it certainly wasn't meant by Boris Johnson and is cronies to reduce immigration. look how they immediately lowered the earnings threshold!@@bigbarry8343

[@primetime8137]

@@bigbarry8343 oh take the day off , you nonce!!!

[@salashayder6354]

If you in the bible in heaven there is multicultural the no such thing is england or the world christainty is from Israel in the middle east wich sprees to greek then Rome then Germany then england

[@Martin-88]

Anyone with eyes can see that it's been a total disaster.

[@albert21able]

Mass Immigration and multiculturalism have been a catastrophic failure for Britain, The economy goes up and down, same as climate change, The effect of mass immigration is forever.

[@philiphughes4117]

Well said.

[@rogerwoodhouse7945]

You assume that some politicians50 years ago sat down together to discuss the pros and cons of bringing in millions of foreigners and the effects this might have on the cultural makeup of Britain? I doubt that very much.

[@paperclip612]

Mass deportation of illegals to wherever they originally hail from.

[@paperclip612]

Anyone remember Enoch Powell's predictions.

[@markferguson7563]

Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.

[@XY-dd5nz]

Yes, along with "diversity" and what's now labeled "liberalism'.

[@markferguson7563]

Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.

[@wesparsons5331]

Yes, as it has failed everywhere in the West

[@markferguson7563]

Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.

[@leehenshaw8651]

It failed decades ago

[@mikemines2931]

But they didn't listen then and they are not listening now.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Enoch was right

[@markferguson7563]

Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.

[@luckyme4136]

The UK is on a hospital bed with Stage 4 immigration cancer.

[@alanbyrne2924]

Life support

[@McFraneth]

...and no chemo meds.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

City of London says, suck it up and just think of the GDP figures

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

Any areas of Great Britain/UK where multiculturalism is virtually non existent you will find peace and harmony.

[@chrisbamborough222]

That's a good point the Govt doesn't see. I live in a town where there isn't any diversity and it just goes day to day with no drama. It's obvious if you take in people from thousands of miles away of different cultures and religions as their numbers increase trouble will ensue. It will be between themselves but we will get the effect. We didn't ask or want this I fear it's too late now.

[@testudohorsfieldii7052]

@@chrisbamborough222 there are lots of places in the UK where different cultures live side by side with "no drama" as well, this idea of the UK currently being in some kind of racial war against all exists only in the fever dreams of Spectator readers I am afraid.

[@testudohorsfieldii7052]

Oh right, so white working class areas of Glasgow where crime is sky high and drug deaths are the highest in Europe live in total peace and harmony?

[@aclark903]

@@testudohorsfieldii7052 Meanwhile there were over 200 stabbings in #Croydon. How many in #Barrow?

[@calumgallagher2095]

​@@testudohorsfieldii7052just paranoid baby boomers 😂😂😂 If they got rid of all brown ppl and crime rates were still high I wonder what they would blame then?

[@ritawjoyce]

Yes multiculturalism has failed because too many people are coming into the country who refuse to assimilate. It is understandable that the general public who see their taxes paying for illegal immigrants are getting angry. My parents came to Britain from Ghana to study. They said and assimilated, worked hard and contributed to the economy. There is no point allowing people into this country, when there isn't enough accommodation, health care and work for the British inhabitants. It is wrong for UK citizens to live in squalor in order to house illegal immigrants. There has to be a change in government policy but all the parties are in favour of open borders and illegal migration.

[@mattfm101]

No point coming to England if there aren't any English people to integrate into...

[@evolassunglasses4673]

City of London says, suck it up and just think of the GDP figures

[@mattfm101]

@@evolassunglasses4673 Number on bar chart go up so everything else must be good.

[@madMARTYNmarsh1981]

The point of multiculturalism was that integration wasn't necessary or desired. Insular communities were inevitable because that was the point. It was doomed to failure, now we have to live with the consequences.

[@parrotshootist3004]

@@madMARTYNmarsh1981Doomed to success.

[@EmpiricalMind]

Has multiculturalism failed in Britain? If it was working you wouldn't need to be asking the question, duh

[@DailyCorvid]

All depends on how you look at it ... Multiculturalism as a Communist plot, was extremely effective. _But as a vehicle for upping human rights it's absolutely a failure._

[@McFraneth]

Stalin gave Jews their OWN oblast. What are you talking about? They run their own law courts etc. Same with Buddhist and Muslim Republics. The Soviet model is the one we should be following. Not having other religions shoved down our throats but living alongside one another, not ON TOP of one another. Huge difference.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

International finance capitalism brought the millions of cheap workers here. The Anglo-sphere Right got captured by international finance capitalism.

[@jeffisnot2826]

Also not britains only failure by a longshot lol

[@simondymond8479]

​@@McFranethOh yeah. Oh yeah Russia is a wonderful place for all of the above. Maybe it works when the leader granting it is a murderous psychopath with a hankering for genocide. You could have said the same for Yugoslavia but the tensions and violence were bubbling away. But Tito knew how to deal with those who stepped out of line. Not examples of what I would think of a successful multiciltiralism if it is only achieved through fear and oppression all round.

[@simondymond8479]

​​@@evolassunglasses4673Globalism requires it. In fact needs it in the rush to the bottom. There is always someone cheaper and more desperate even as the existing workforce sees more wage attrition less rights and becomes more disenfranchised. So corporations can compete with China by creating a chinese style working environment. 'You will own nothing and be happy'. 'We will deal ruthlessly with dissent, we have now penetrated more governments aroumd the world like.. x y z!. Klaus Schwab. One of the architects of our future under corporate globalism in the 'post democratic Europe' they seek to achieve My point being that policy drives these phenomena and it is no accident.ì

[@mikemines2931]

most people want it stopped and the bloody mess sorted out.

[@alexmac337]

Agree with Matthew on a lot of this but the idea of the Tories having conversations with the electorate doesn't really cut it any more. 13 years of talk, we need to see actions, not conversations.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

1.2 million immigrants last year.

[@NiceLoki]

13 years of utter destruction of our culture and country

[@resonance10]

Tories are just as bad as Labour at this point. In a way they are worse.

[@davidyoung5830]

We have seen their actions and experienced their horrific don't give a stuff about those of us in the bottom half of the national income bracket with their austerity and impoverishment of those they consider beneath them! Their attitude seems to be 'Get rid of Poverty, kill off the poor'!

[@antonrudenham3259]

There was never any reason to suppose such an idea might work in the first pace, why would it? I've always struggled to see what possible advantage multiculturalism has, it might make sense if the cultures we import have clear advantages over the one we've developed for ourselves but I don't think they do, do you? The entire world is multicultural and if you want to experience it then you can travel there so why go to the trouble of importing it? It's trumpeted as some kind of ideal but when asked those who sponsor or promote it cannot actually tell you in detail why it is so good, they can only parrot 'because it's a good thing' then they simply condemn you as racist or xenophobic for not buying into their weird fantasy when all along you're only expressing your belief that you're quite happy with the culture we already have.

[@lauramartel5297]

The left gaslight and pretend the cities are better than ever!!!. And younger people often have not known anything else.1

[@fayabogush2956]

In my view multiculturalism is within groups with the same values. I failed to see how Islamists can enrich me.

[@johnburns8660]

It makes people afflicted with guaranteed comfort feel good about themselves.

[@alexchapman7287]

@@fayabogush2956 What? You don't want to be enriched by the death cult? Your just being a bigot who refuses to open yourself up to sharia law and violent subjugation.

[@billwood6987]

So correct my friend?

[@johnbradley6812]

Multi culturism has failed everywhere never mind in Britain

[@-DC-]

The UK is swirling round the toilet as a decent pleasant place to live, Enoch Powell vastly underestimated the problems to come.

[@jamesvdv0]

Enoch Powell may have hoped that the politicians that followed him might have heeded his warnings. Instead, they metaphorically pointed our nose down and throttled up.

[@markferguson7563]

Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.

[@andylewis7360]

Migration may have been the third most important issue for all voters a couple of days ago but after this last weekend it’s right at number one! People are utterly FURIOUS that people we’ve welcomed into our country have chosen to abuse and disrespect our country IN THE CENTRE OF OUR CAPITAL!! We’re fed up with them and now we just want them GONE!

[@cipherx6334]

Peace and a lasting harmonious society can only be achieved by ethnic homogeneity.

[@robinclarke9978]

What does your statement mean in ordinary terms? I'm not u intelligent but you talk in riddles.

[@TpolTime]

I strongly disagree - we need cultural homogeneity but as soon as you conflate ethnicity and culture you play into the elitist progressives hands

[@edwardburroughs1489]

The USA did OK for a long time and its as 'diverse' as it gets.

[@fransvandenheuvel7161]

@@TpolTime This is where progressives are more correct than the mainstream. Culture is incommunicable. The reason our lands are feeling alien to us, is because they're changing into a nature alien to us. Because the proportion of alien people is increasing. It was always going to be this way. Peoples have natures that are distinct and different from one another. You can keep denying ''little Indias'' and ''little Pakistans'' propping up all around the UK for instance, but the fact that the conflict between Pakistan and India flares up in Leicester should tell you how wrong you are.

[@megasizer5119]

@@robinclarke9978 countries that are virtual ethno states are more harmonious, which is true.

[@ML-xh1go]

A VERY BIG YES, we need to clear our country of thousands of them, flying thousands and thousands of these Syrians ,Afghans in, allowed too many Pakistani and Africans,Somalis , in and its not stopping,yesterday another 850 channel illegals,this government needs to start clearing out,

[@theydontlikeitupem7363]

There's a reason the Islamic calendar starts with a Migration

[@richardwillford2418]

Apart from luxury beliefs, I'd like to add "luxury statements". Every time there is a terrorist attack, leading politicians will say that nothing must deter us and we must carry on life as usual, fully aware that the next bomb or knife attack will not affect him/her, but someone/anyone somewhere on some ordinary street like in a game of Russian roulette.

[@fayabogush2956]

Don't mention the "I" word, don't blame peaceful cult.

[@davidfogarty2220]

'Diversity is our strength' is sounding a bit tired these days.

[@oldschoolcockneylover8138]

Until its the Jews and then its all like well they deserved it!

[@robm8809]

​@@davidfogarty2220It's always sounded like a lie to me.

[@davidfogarty2220]

Just like that Big Brother slogan, 'Ignorance is Strength'.

[@stuartwigmore3738]

Of course Sunak wont address immigration. He is the child of opportunist immigrants who themselves are the children of opportunist immigrants. He has zero loyalty to this country, even holding a pass to allow him to go to the US once it really hits the fan. It says everything about this country's people that we have accepted this unelected nobody to hold the status he holds. Same goes for recent home and foreign secretaries. The three great offices of state held by people who are only British on a technicality. What are we as a people thinking??

[@simondymond8479]

No one voyed for him. The system itsrlf is utterly corrupt and gives the illusion of choice. We have an opposition leader controlled by the WEF and he might become leader of the UK. Both parties are in hoc to corporate globalists power and interests.

[@sacredgeometry]

This is starting to smell more and more like racism by the day. You should be very careful to confuse what a British person looks like. Because we have for a very long time been pan global and not only that very largely integrated. India has only been independent from Britain and our empire for approximately 70 years, thats less than the 100 years it was under British rule and another it was under the rule of the EIC. A lot of people born in India (or our other colonies) are if anything more characteristically British than many people in Britian today. Regardless, there are also people like me. Who are the children of both first generation immigrants on one hand and on the other my family has been here for much longer than most other people. Longer than the angles, longer than the saxons, longer than the vikings, or the normans. But even though if you heard me speak you would think I was the most British person you had spoken to in a long while, I dont look like what you would expect. So I would be very careful who you start to assert are less british than you. That way leads to all sorts of stupidity. As does the assumption that someone who was born and raised here and ran for the highest public office has zero loyalty for the country just because his parents were not from here. He is. Incidentally his parents were also citizens of the British Empire. His grandparents were citizens of British India/Pakistan his parents citizens of British Kenya and Tanzania. They moved here in the 60s, where is father has worked for the NHS for his entire life. What exactly gives you the impression that you are any more devote, loyal or British than he is?

[@robertingle9845]

British = from Britain...that's the tribes and peoples from England, Wales, Scotland, and the surrounding Islands. The countries of the British Empire were and are not British, especially after independence. The slight of hand that stated that anyone from the Empire could consider themselves British is the original mistake.@@sacredgeometry

[@sacredgeometry]

@@robertingle9845 And as I said my family on my fathers side has been here for thousands of years yet I dont look how people like you would expect me to look because my mother is Brazillian. Your idea of what being British means, is over simplified.

[@Treeman196]

​@sacredgeometry what utter middle class tripe

[@boredom5132]

It’s always been about self flagellation and collective guilt. Nobody stopped for even a second to think that by letting in tens of thousands of people from other cultures it might actually have a negative effect on our societies.

[@DieFlabbergast]

This has been going on for at least 150 years. Remember the lines from Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado? "The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, every century but this, every country but his own." And George Orwell's immortal words: “It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during "God Save the King" than stealing from a poor box.”

[@simonclare-fu7sx]

many of us did, it was obvious but we've just been shouted down by the ignorant, they won't admit it until it gets much worse, and it will, and will hit the hypocrites just as hard as the rest of us, too late then, much too late

[@rabmcleod3508]

Lots of us stopped for way more than a second and thought about it and then voiced our thoughts and we were classed as racist scum by the very people in power who have brought the country to its knees and divided the population like never before. It has been a well planned and thought out replacement programme aided and abetted by the liberal middle class do gooders. Shame on this country.

[@87stevan]

They did stop and think though you idiot. They just carried on anyway because they didn't care what you or the rest of us thought. Heck, destroying this country irreversibly was even a plan by some I'm sure.. give these politicians some more credit, they're not so stupid that they didn't know what they were doing.

[@michaeldoolan7595]

Jewish liberals in Searchlight and Hope Not Hate have been pushing this sh%t 40 years. These same groups shouted, "Nazi scum off our streets" at people who had children groomed and raped. Now Islam is casting its evil eye at Jews all of a sudden " shock horror." What did anyone think the Quoran preaches about killing Jews? Grow up, people.

[@StevieAF]

In a word. Yes.

[@editorrbr2107]

That was a very insightful interview. It’s fascinating how many problems are running in parallel between the US and the UK, with a lot of the same culprits - and a lot of the same sort of apologists.

[@madelinecarling7165]

It's definitely failed

[@robm8809]

It's worked in that the people behind it always intended for it to be deeply harmful to our nations and societies.

[@Englishman4412]

YES! N make deportation great again!

[@bigbarry8343]

they will deport over 40s and bring in even more 20s something.

[@robm8809]

Yes!

[@marilynwade9448]

I think so. Certain groups just set up mini replicas of their homeland and never blend

[@IBTU]

💯 it has!

[@SAHBfan]

Did any of the politicians who were embracing 'multiculturalism' as something wonderful ever explain exactly how it was supposed to work?

[@andydixon2980]

Yes it has failed. Too many opposing cultures, mainly muslim beliefs and christian beliefs that clash. How many Hamas supporters live in the UK, for example? The truth would be shocking to reveal.

[@cannonloose3153]

Yes, next question

[@mikemines2931]

Not long now until we have an Israel situation here, maybe they'll listen then. Or maybe they'll just leave the country with the spoils of decades of cheap foreign labour.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

International finance brought these cheap workers here. The centre Right has been a disaster for our civilisation. We need to organise for our OWN collective interests as ethnic English people

[@tobywebb6452]

YES!

[@keithianlocke]

Britain has a long history of its own "multiculturism" long before migration. Based on regional differences, but within a common culture. Where today's "multiculturism" has failed, is that migration doesn't share that "common culture", and has brought with it foreign cultures. The general public knew this before the 2016 referendum, which is a major element of the result. Only now are those that were calling the working class, and brexiteers, bigots and racists are understanding what we all knew through experience.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

International finance has reduced our ancestral homeland to an economic zone open to the World.

[@keithianlocke]

@@evolassunglasses4673 I am not so sure that's the driver behind it. The interviewee hit on a crucial point, that being that today's politicians are not concerned with preserving the UK for the UK citizens. They are obviously globalist, and in my opinion its because they crave a global stage for furtherance of their careers and egos. They work to align the 4 nations of the UK & N.I with international partnerships for their own gain, not the preservation and prosperity of the Nations.

[@kevinwoplin9322]

But the pillars that held the homogeneous culture were swept away with the distruction of the family unit during the sexual revolution and the other was established christianity ... the rise of secularism was not fought against ,the CofE and RC just handed over the public square with their tail between their legs .

[@bigbarry8343]

indians and pakistanis voted en mass for brexit, to get more asian visas ... 🤣

[@robm8809]

The regional cultural differences within Britain gave us all the diversity we needed, for sure.

[@Switchglade]

I think we need more multiculturalism in the form of a million Israeli refugees, preferably fighting age men. Level up the playing field as it were by welcoming people who don't despise the UK and are not islam extremists.

[@wynjones285]

SPOT ON, WELL SAID

[@robm8809]

What on earth makes you think that Israelis don't despise the British? Research the "two sergeants" incident and the "King David Hotel" incident. They and their diaspora also frequently advocate for mas.imm. into European countries, including Britain, of course, which harms us.

[@Truthtalker365]

Brilliant idea, love it!

[@paperclip612]

Why are they in Britain at all? They have a native land where they should stay!

[@calumgallagher2095]

​@@wynjones285how is this ignorant one sided take on a conflict "well said"? 😂😂 I'm definitely on the wrong side of the internet here hahaha they'd have loved you lot in 30s germany

[@pheebsbee1280]

I can remember 45 years ago when the liberals wanted to change the nursery rhyme to 'Baa Baa Green Sheep' - the war on culture and free speech began all the way back then.

[@bigbarry8343]

and note - blacks are not black, whites are not white, yellows are not yellow and reds are not red. 🤔

[@schmozzer]

Matt is spot-on when he talks about people's positive attitude towards Britain and how much they still gain from the country they live in.

[@jasoncornell1579]

YES!!! And roll credits

[@robertingle9845]

Is this 16 minutes of the word "YES"?

[@user-uu1rz6oh9o]

Yes from the day it started

[@davebrown5539]

A brilliant summation of the Conservative Party

[@TpolTime]

Where has it succeeded? A nation state is dependent on a shared culture

[@janeburke147]

That never happened,we lost the country.We haven’t got the money to get out.

[@erinwoempner1228]

Absolutely

[@dissonantiacognitiva7438]

That's not the right question, the question is: Has multiculturalism worked anywhere?

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

Well you definitely don't see china, Saudi, Qatar, India et al rushing to import and give nationality to hoards of different cultures.

[@Truthtalker365]

Or Japan. Smart people!

[@4_am]

Yes. Well that was quick

[@lindapayne1595]

Yes,most definitely. Their allegiance is with their ancestral home, even if they've never been there.

[@osiris7800]

The only crazy thing is that anyone ever thought it would work. I now despise my own country and what is has become.

[@alankirkby465]

@osiris7800 Hello to you. Perhaps it could work if all!! religions never existed, ever !! ( just saying ) Anyway, Peace to all.

[@jimspencer3072]

It's not even a question it's a known failure almost everywhere

[@maryg124]

YEA!!!

[@lawsonspedding6136]

The Labour Party are exactly the same ! They look down on the working class, they look at them with disdain, with contempt !

[@markferguson7563]

Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.

[@mrror8933]

Of course it has failed because it's either ideological naivety or hypocritical posturing.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

We got captured by international finance and the forces of open borders Globalisation

[@robm8809]

It's worked in so far as the people behind it always intended for it to be deeply harmful to our nations and societies.

[@angusmcangus7914]

Yes. Because it has been forced down our throats against our will. Next question.

[@davidmiller4078]

Yes and any one who has dared to walk alone down a Manchester Birmingham Bradford Luton High wycombe or London high street in the last 20 years will say the same small groups of diverse people have and can co exist but large scale immigration of people from primitive cultures has irevocably altered for the worse britains society the polititions of all parties are complicit in this betrayal of indiginous british people many of who not only pay tax but have also sacrificed life and limb to fund this national discrace of miss management since T blairs time in power

[@bigbarry8343]

yet brits complain about peterborough and boston 🤯

[@markferguson7563]

Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.

[@jimpickard3850]

I have only become aware of Matt Goodwin in recent days, but he talks so much sense and really knows his stuff. Looking forward to hearing more from him.

[@markferguson7563]

Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.

[@amcluesent]

Very obviously so.

[@duckndive.]

All politician's have a vested interest in nothing but them and theirs.

[@heidijames8825]

Most people have no issue with legal immigration per se. The problem arises when the sheer numbers coming into a country over a relatively short period of time disrupts the infrastructure and culture of that country. Also many immigrants demand that the host country should be accommodating for their culture. The problem is with many western countries is that the guests have taken over the guesthouse. Here in the UK we also have a group of people who are too lazy to work and that necessitates low paid work to be done by immigrants. Many politicians say that legal migrants are necessary for the economy yet as an example I’ve heard many British people wanting to become nurses yet have failed to get onto a nursing degree. Yet I’ve recently come out of hospital where some of the nurses are foreign born but their English is poor. So which is better? Trying to get British people onto nursing courses or taking in migrants whose English and other skills are less than satisfactory? The politicians/establishment take the latter view. Recently a local health board has taken on a number of nurses from India - all hoping to bring their kids over to the UK. So instead of 1 migrant we take in whole families who then get established. Also marriages between British people and people from abroad need looking at esp when a spouse from a developing country wishes to live in the UK. And that’s just legal migration. The Gov’t needs to get a grip on illegal migration too.

[@bigbarry8343]

its not that brits are lazy - its the cost of living question. professional salary in india is only $500 per month, yet considering the sharp differences in the cost of housing, energy and other basics they still live 10 time better than brits. offshoring and importing millions of indians to do low and middle it and nhs jobs drive salaries down to the level where it does not cover even basic long term necessities. ofcourse, some vested interest in immigration industry is benefitting, but for the economy and society as a whole this is not sustainable.

[@heidijames8825]

@@bigbarry8343 I've lived in India so I do know. My point is twofold - it's dangerous having people whose English is sub standard working especially within the medical sector. My other point is that we have an underclass of people who don't wish to work - whether that's picking vegetables, working as cleaners etc hence we've had to bring in foreign workers.

[@heidijames8825]

@@nickgarner-uc7jq So you don't want anyone foreign in this country? No French, no Germans, no Americans. You clearly are unable to differentiate between people who have integrated into this country and come with high skill sets with the ones who haven't integrated and who lack skill sets. In fact I mentioned the sheer overwhelming numbers and poeple in the medical roles who se English is sub standard.

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

​@@nickgarner-uc7jqcompletely agree here Nick. The integration issue utterly revolves around the cultures we are importing. This clearly isn't an issue with "foreigners" from culturally shared areas.

[@heidijames8825]

@@nickgarner-uc7jq Ditto. My point was firmly that I think immigrants should only be allowed into the country when they have sufficient skills that we need. The British also need to be prepared to work doing low skilled jobs instead of loafing around getting benefits whilst we have to import low skilled workers to get jobs done like cleaning, picking vegetables etc.

[@GaryTaylor-gp2qc]

immigration with people with similar culture is fine , immigration with people whos culture is completely peaceful is imho fine , importing culture alien to ours and indeed any culture that actually hate us seems frankly utterly ridiculous

[@MrMarcy76]

Yes that’s the issue isn’t it.

[@powertrioagency5795]

😂 Just Go To London.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

English people need to organise for our OWN collective interests.

[@leonardgibney2997]

Is water wet?

[@davidmorgan1798]

Really interesting point about the ‘supply and demand’ aspect of politics. It feels like there is quite a chasm between what many voters want, against what is actually being (not) done.

[@smelltheglove2038]

Obviously

[@benkerr6759]

Why even ask the question of course it has failed

[@carl5381]

Spectacularly

[@robm8809]

Multiculturalism has worked extremely well, actually. At least, it's worked in so far as the people behind it always intended for it to be deeply harmful to our nations and societies.

[@MrMarcy76]

It hasn’t worked at all. Lots of us work alongside each other in offices, but deep down secretly hate each other. You can see division in the workplace, certain people not going to after work drinks, or being excluded from social situations. That’s part and parcel of the situation we find ourselves in.

[@robm8809]

@MrMarcy76 Yes, that was my point. It doesn't create a friendly, open, cohesive society, in fact, it's harmful to society, but that is what the people inflicting it on us wanted. It was never intended to be good for us, and it has worked as intended.

[@michaelscales5996]

In my opinion Tories want immigrants as cheap labour for their businesses or to help in their homes.Labour want them as they will give them the vote and without doubt,they will mainly vote Labour. The average person is sick to death of seeing them move into their area and slowly change it,not for the better.We now see TV adverts that are dominated by them,companies have targets to hit for ethnic minorities,and we get everything monitored to ensure they are well represented,even though according to the last census, they are only around 15% of the population. I wouldn't object to immigration being reversed and immigrants who fail to learn our language and accept our lifestyles, are encouraged to return to their country of birth !

[@Da1Dez]

Matthew..... PLEASE RUN FOR PARLIAMENT!!!! We need you as PM! You get it totally!

[@QXZJX]

No, it has almost taken over and destroyed British values, norms and way of life; this destruction being plan behind it 😢

[@markferguson7563]

Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.

[@chrisgibson5267]

Luxury beliefs. I'll add that one to my dictionary along with ' rootless cosmopolitans'.

[@TheFragilityOfIdeas]

In Multiculturalism, everybody asks what about [insert minority] and never asks or accepts the legitimate concerns of the majority, in this case, native Britons. The tragedy is it really is an existential worry for many yet they are constantly silenced, denigrated and marginalised if they air their views. What an affront to what are overall a tolerant people, who had little say in this and then are castigated unless they willfully support their own minoritisation.

[@pleasestandby5954]

If only the Conservatives could win an 80 seat majority, then they'll totally do what they say lol

[@RIp-sz6yn]

Has it failed? No, it's done exactly what it was meant to do.

[@markferguson7563]

Yes, Rip, it has achieved 'exact' goal it was intended to do, which is to destroy the host society and transform them into something akin to India as a Raj. **********************************************************8 Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.

[@davidkelly7272]

In a recent reshowing of Parlinson's 1973 interview with Prof Jacob Bronofsky we heard discussed the disparity between US & UK's genetic makeup; ours largely homogenous,(50 years ago)the US showing increasing strain amongst its racial diversity. 'Trumps America' has since exposed even greater divisions whilst we at home have witnessed considerable changes,where outside of the capital, diversity has largely failed. We're we to look now at the incredible unity of the Ukrainian people and speculate in the awful event of us having to face adversaries, I doubt our more recent diverse makeup would see us band together as during 39-45?

[@johnhudghton3535]

I am a working class former Labour party member/voter. I left the Labour party some time back on the abortion issue - driven by the ultra feminist lobby. Had so much hostility and hatred from this first expression of identity politics that I left the party, but continued to vote Labour. I switched to Conservative mainly over woke policies and Brexit, but have been dissapointed on both counts. I am now a member of Reform, the conservatives betrayed our trust. Once bitten...

[@daveerickson9524]

has multiculturalism succeeded - anywhere?

[@Irishtradchannel]

Has multiculturalism failed in Britain? Failed in every place?

[@bdcalling1391]

Rishi Sunak Swallow Brav mann have done very well. How much multiculturalism in the UK do you want? first ever Hindu pm, first ever south Asian home office minister, how much more integration do you want?

[@hywelmurray]

Martin Amis once described it as a polite myth

[@edwardburroughs1489]

What compelled him to use the word 'polite'?

[@AnnDale-ie3jn]

Many people in Britain never thought of themselves as white instead they thought of themselves as Yorkshire men Cornish cumbrains Scots Walsh but with the growth of immigrant induce diversity the government had to come up with a category this is where the racial noun of white came from even though most native people of Britain don't see themselves in racial terms but it was being approximate to non white newcomers that this racial category came reverlent it is also a nagtive identitiy that only exists because of the presences of non white people this is true of all racial identites

[@rohinipatel3037]

Absolutely, 100%.....never ever had such problems, issues, insecurity, population or threat in 80s....which shows why now

[@andylewis7360]

It’s gotta be said, Matthew has his finger on the pulse of The British People! One would normally expect an academic who’s associated mainly with think tanks to be happily ensconced in an ivory tower but he has a very refreshing honesty and clarity. I hope this man will help Britain to rekindle its belief in itself and move forward from Brexit.

[@testudohorsfieldii7052]

Amazing isn't it that the people you think have their finger on the pulse of the nation happen to share the same prejudices you hold.

[@andylewis7360]

@@testudohorsfieldii7052 And of course, you’re totally impartial. Matthew gave the results of his research. Is it not reasonable to assume that those results have been arrived at by honest and professional means?

[@testudohorsfieldii7052]

@@andylewis7360 clearly you haven't grasped the rather simple point, there is extensive polling that shows that the majority of the UK population, including Conservative voters, are concerned about climate change. How come you never hear him mention that, why does that never feature in Mail and Telegraph columns about the will of the British people? He is just telling you the information that chimes with the prejudices of Spectator readers, why can't you get that?

[@andylewis7360]

@@testudohorsfieldii7052 1: Why would he mention climate change when the question is about multiculturalism? Please tell me you’re not going to roll out that old chestnut about climate change being the cause of mass migration. There’s no evidence whatsoever to support that assertion. 2. “He’s just telling people what they want to hear”. That’s as may be. It’s not as though The Guardian and The Socialist Worker don’t do exactly the same thing. And given that The Guardian is BBC Producers’ go-to rag and that the other broadcast media tends to follow the BBC’s line it’s reasonable to assume that the Guardian has more influence than The Spectator. You’re making exactly the mistake that the establishment made when they expected the country to vote against Brexit and Labour made at the 2019 election when the so-called “red wall” collapsed. You’re underestimating the depth of feeling and extent of the revulsion that ordinary British people feel for the results of the so-called “progressive” Neoliberal dogma. Our sensibilities are, in the main the result of the influence of The English Constitution over 900 years and no amount of Marx or Engels is going to persuade a majority of Brits

[@testudohorsfieldii7052]

@@andylewis7360 oh how childish, you lose the argument and imply I am a communist, grow up. The idea that the Guardian has more influence in government (the BBC don't run the Country) than the Spectator is just deluded. I also find it bizarre that you seem to think that you represent the common man, whoever that is. I have news for you, the Spectator has been promoting "neoliberalism " for over 40 years, if you think they are on the side of the common man I can only assume you have just enrolled on a first year politics A level.

[@gitfoad8032]

There's a lack of long-term planning in Brit, that is a clear indication of the selfishness of the political parties, PFI being one of the most obscene self-serving examples, along with Grenfell Tower. Our 'leaders' ought to be dispensed with extreme prejudice, PDQ.

[@janeburke147]

Long term 😳our country is finished.When you are frightened to walk the dog in your own country,ya done.Saw a Somalian watching children playing in the park & it was a deathly stare.Our villages will get the same treatment as Israeli villager got.All the men are in position to carry it out too.The toffs will leave the peasants to suffer.

[@deborahhobbins7131]

it was never expected to be a success, its a trojan horse for a one world goverment

[@64SGH]

A house divided cannot stand

[@Bartimus543]

Without a shadow of a doubt it has failed.

[@blazedsamurai9684]

It was inevitable, you don’t even have to morally judge any of the cultures. Having an array of cultures will always create in and out groups. It’s obvious and always has been obvious.

[@BlackGriffin195]

What ejit ever thought it would work? If you are rich, you live in a nice neighbourhood in a very impressive house, you take exotic,expensive holidays without the imconvenience of flying or staying with the peasants, your children go to private schools and immigration is of no interest. Let the working class worry about it. As the old song goes "it's the Rich what gets the gravy and the Poor what get's the blame".

[@MichaelPhillips-wn7fs]

Multiculturalism would only work if everyone present wanted to take part and wanted to respect and tolerate all cultures. This is not human nature. This is definitely not how cultures sustain themselves (quite the opposite). This is certainly not something many coming to western counties are remotely interested in.

[@christianbolt5761]

Asking the question, is like asking, is water wet?

[@tooldtoplay5892]

I am sick and tired of terror/wars and diversity. While it is easy to point blame I have been watching Superman/The flash where hero's are not their power but their hope and goodness. It's a shame young people today do not get the messages of those movies or tv shows, I'm now 48 and I always treat people with respect because I want respect and the stories of Superman is in my heart that one day humans will treat each other with respect. I know it's not true now and it's not going to happen as long as A can not live with B so the only solution for now is to make sure A and B are not in the same place. Our young people are not educated they are not being taught how to get along and that is the way government works, keep people arguing so they can keep control. It's an illusion that we are the people in control, nobody wants war, nobody wants fighting but the government has made sure that we fight between ourselves with the "Diversity is our strength" when we all know that oil and water do not mix.

[@jamesw2414]

I’m not sure it’s been an overwhelming success.

[@christinalayzelle832]

This was brilliant, and certainly speaks for me.

[@markferguson7563]

Fifty-five years have passed since Enoch Powell warned us that the culmination of open-door immigration programs of drawing in non-Europeans and, MOREOVER, those of non-Christian faiths, would lead to what Nigel Farage and a few others in the media now dare to expose. Five years after Enoch Powell presaged what was in store for Britain, from the insanity of having unfettered intakes of immigrants from the Third World swamping the country, Jean Raspail’s novel, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ was published. Therein, Raspail not ONLY predicted to an absolute ‘T’, as to how France, and Europe would be overrun with interlopers from the third World but, more so, with how liberals in those societies would consciously assist asylum-seekers to safely reach their destinations. Incidentally, the American, George Lincoln Rockwell, preceded that duo by 5 and 10 years, respectively, with also forewarning that, North America, would also be overrun with millions and millions of interlopers from the Third World. So, considering that there is now currently a total of 30 million people in Western nations (France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia and the US/Canada, and Australia/NZ) who are Muslims means that, these societies are inundated with Fifth-Columns of totally unassimilable ethnocultural and religious entities. Quite simply, these groups are all potential threats to the host societies. And, in the likelihood that, the war in Israel/Gaza balloons into a major conflict then, so too, is the likelihood that, Islamic based terrorism will again eventuate in the Western nations, which have been stupid enough to facilitate the madness of malevolently facilitating mass non-discriminatory immigration programs.