what are the short and long term effects immigration has on the people of the UK?

Answer 1

We have, over the centuries, welcomed people from various parts of the world, and of course, the true "Brits" are the Welsh; our own origins the result of foreign invasion. Any sense of being "British" is more to do with culture and law, than it is to do with genetic origins.

Consequently, we have many Jews in top-flight positions, many excellent Indian and other Asian medics, some splendid nursing staff from the far east, fine black musicians etc etc.

Immigration is nothing new and nothing to get too alarmed about, unless the immigrants seek to establish their own power-base and do not feel that they wish to integrate....hence the muslim "problem."

In recent years, we have welcomed a large number of Eastern Europeans; especially from Poland, the Czech Republic/Slovakia, Latvia and Estonia. They not only tend to work very hard, they are really very nice people who have already made quite an impact; especially the charmingly polite young ones who come for a while and then return home to study.

We live in a country with specific skill-shortages and an increasingly elderly population who will need to be supported. With youthful immigration from Eastern Europe, our economy will both grow and benefit. Equally importantly, when the economies of Poland and the other former communist countries start to catch up, who will they most want to do business with?

Will it not be with the one European country who welcomed them and has become a second-home to many of them?

That can only be good for the future of this country and perhaps for the future of a wider Europe....but hey....there will be problems on the way.

It takes good-will to solve problems, and maybe the lesson that many muslims could learn, is that being "British" is not about race, but about "good will" rather than confrontation.

Some have that already, and they are, of course, the true muslims rather than the Islamists who hi-jack religion and turn it into a political divide.

Answer 2

As far as the long term effects: I believe it has a rather demoralising affect on the British people. It basically says - we (the government) never asked you, the people of the UK, if you wanted your country irrevocibly changed by allowing untold numbers of peoples from all over the world to flood into your home.

The British people were silenced by political correctness, high-brow notions of utopian multi-culturalism and a feeling that anyone who spoke up for British (especially English) customs, values and beliefs was labelled a dreaded, nasty right wing biggot.

The long term effect is that the British today often feel like strangers in their own country. Little by little their age-old customs and heritage are being eroded away in favour of foreign, introduced beliefs.

An English girl I knew said that British history didn't matter anymore, that nobody cared about it because it just wasn't taught in school in any meaningful way anymore. It seems that British culture is now more foreign to the British than things like Hindu, Islamic cultures etc which are praised and propogated by many left wing British institutions, including to a large extent the BBC.

British history, heritage, culture and customs are just as valid as anybody elses...let's hope one day their worth will once again be recognised and reintroduced into British classrooms.

Answer 3

In the school I work at there are Poles, Icelanders, South Africans, Pakistanis, Indians, Kenyans, Sri Lankans, Czechs and Turkish students. Without fail they are harder workers and bettter behaved than 90% of English children.

Answer 4

totally agree with beowulf except he forgot to say that very soon there wil be an indian prime minister, and who's to say he wont run the country the same way india is run?

Answer 5

short term: cheap plumber
long term: unemployment

Answer 6

Stop the lot now...especially anyone of Muslim denomination

Answer 7

the long and short of it is........its a bloody pain in the backside

Answer 8

Lots of Polish people working with me!!!!!!!!!!