Is Immigration Beneficial to the UK?

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        Immigration Essay

        Is immigration beneficial to the UK? This is one of the most important questions to ask about our ever changing society. Although, from my perspective, it isn’t just one question, it is many. Do we need to strain our traditionalist society by inviting lots of new cultures? Does this country need to be turned into a breeding ground for terrorism and extremism? Does the British taxpayer need to fund the needs of families abroad, all because the outcome of a foreign education system claims our benefits and then sends them home? Can this society benefit from a large influx of immigrants entering our already cramped little island, when they refuse to integrate with that very society by living in their own secluded Polish speaking or Muslim communities? My answer is no. In this essay I will seek to express my personal opinion on a number of critical and sometimes controversial subjects. I have chosen to discuss what I believe are the most important topics on immigration today.

        My main concern for the country is the destruction of the British society. Our survival as British people with British ideals is at stake. Mass immigration is changing this country beyond recognition, and we have to realise that there will be no going back. Immigrants have brought to this country an obsession that I like to call the ‘thought police.’ You may know it as political ‘correctness.’ But is it correct? Where right and wrong come from is a whole different argument that I’m not even going to dare to touch on, but the idea is there. What justifies these people coming into our country and telling us what to say? Immigrants come to this country and get a share of the work our forefathers fought to give us. In turn they get the privileges of living in the UK, and what do we get? We get forced not to criticise them. We Britons have ideals to live by. A way of life we are known worldwide for. It might sound like foolhardiness to suggest this, but one of these British ways of life is that we tend to not like a lot of the people we meet. We tend to put others down. Political correctness is putting a stop to this very odd but very simple British way. Another ideal - less peculiar than the last one - is that we tend to moan and complain. Although if you try to moan about immigration you get branded a racist. Political correctness is policing your thoughts. What really gets me though is that Muslims can moan about Christmas lights being put up in a Christian country, so we take them down. Gypsies can complain that there is nowhere to park their caravans, so we make way for them. However if a British person moves to Italy and complains about the local butcher selling horse meat, he’ll be told where to get off. Surely we must be the only country that mollycoddles our immigrants.

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People living in ethnically mixed areas may notice that there is no community. After all, I imagine it would be quite hard to communicate with someone that speaks in Pidgin English. But what I wouldn’t realise if I was in this situation is that I was actually rather lucky. Statistics show that almost 59% of immigrants don’t speak English at all. If these immigrants move to our communities, the communities will decay.

On the other hand, in my opinion it would be disastrous to society if the immigrants lived in their own secluded communities. Being surrounded by ...

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