England was no longer England when the Saxons invaded, when the Romans invaded, when the French invaded, when there was an influx of Afrians in this country after we abolished the slave trade, when we expanded the British empire and absorbed all sorts of cultures, when Jews fled to us in the early 1900s.
Our language is a complete mix of Greek, French, Latin, Old English and about every single country we invaded while had an empire. There's nothing 'pure' about this country, we owe a great heritage to being an odd mix which has allowed us to accept all sorts of different ideas and ways of doing things.
To counter your counter points:
1) Over 90% of the population is English born and has British ethnicity, so you're not more likely to be a "foreign ethnic background" if you are British born. 82% of crimes are not of an foreign ethnic background, I'd like to see where you got this. Statistics surveys show almost always that the majority of crimes are committed in deprived areas, regardless of whether the deprived area is mainly of an ethnic population or a "white" population.
2) That sentence made no sense, what does : "disappear into the workforce via benefits" mean? And how does it even counter my point that we don't have enough plumbers, dentists or field workers in this country? The slack is being brought up by immigrants.
3) There are less immigrants using our health system than there are British born citizens using foreign health systems. You take a little you give a little
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1/3 of Doctors and Nurses are made up of immigrants or people with a foreign ethnicity, lucky their parents came as immagrants a generation or 2 ago
. Otherwise we'd be really screwed as we'd have 66% of the heath workforce and about 91% of the population and it's old people which tie up the health service more than anyone and there are more old people in "white" British born citizens than any other ethnicity.
Gone are the days of the village "Bobby" due to mass transportation and high speed communication. Look at other countries where they don't have the same rate of immigrants, they are still suffering all the same kinds of problems that comes from trying to adapt a society to the new world we live in today.
