Well, I have lived in a few foreign lands and I decided a long time ago that the rich and selfish, note, not all rich people are selfish, have more in common with each other, wherever they are on the Globe, than with the ordinary people of their own nation, and that goes for the UK as well!
Politicians never asked the people in the UK about immigration, its a difficult situation, personally, I feel that the main problem in the UK is a lack of investment and a political culture which stops any financial progress for the majority of people, in taxing you @ every opportunity & allowing inflationary practises to take place too with no in-built safeguards. When houses became commodities, then it was inevitable that most people would eventually not be able to earn enough to own their own home.
We can all easily fall into the trap that colour and creed is to totally blame for a particular nations woes e.t.c, but the plain fact often is, if people open their eyes, many or our own countrymen, the same skin colour & possibly religion, but definitely culture would send you down the river, without a blink of an eye.
The biggest shafting that has gone on this last Millennium has been by the Financial Institutions and associated rip-off practices, bent Coppers and dishonest MPs, a manipulated gutter press, dodgy Council Officials, greedy developers and dangerous ideologies that stop anyone doing anything in the UK, unless you have bags full of money, prove you have an NVQ in something and have a piece of paper saying you are not a nonce, all this has been @ the expense of the ordinary British public & the advancement of the Nation.
The fatherless ones, that attempted to steal a moped & damaged it beyond repair, then my old BMW motorcycle was damaged in an attempted theft, then damage to the cars, the theft of copper pipes and cast iron from the house last week or so, just happened from witnesses to be indeed English, except for one occasion when I caught an eastern European "lost" in the back garden clutching a piece of copper pipe!
If India & Pakistan did send all the real poor & starving we would then have a serious problem, the fact is people may suddenly see that the wealth creation in the World is shifting very quickly to the Far east, the West didn't put its house in order fast enough.
Maybe & unfortunately in the 21st Century, instead of a more balanced World, the economic powerhouse & wealth creation probably will be the other foot, in the East, with the West "civilised" and economically advanced nations experiencing, a bitter pill of increased economic instability and increased poverty, because they have been hood-winked by misguided Democratic processes, which have little to do with what the majority of people want or need.
Well done Kenneth, it might have been done before but @ least you are doing something for Human Beings even if it is somewhere other than Blighty. I will try & follow your blog, I wish I was riding round somewhere exotic, rather than facing ridiculously stupid senseless speed restrictions and speed cameras @ every turn in places where they shouldn't be.
John Aspinall when comparing humans to animals always said, animals only breed in the right environmental conditions & when there is enough food around & that we had a lot to learn, as investors buy food stocks the availability of food get distorted too, when our markets and Supermarkets exhibit hyper -prices of food or not much @ all on the shelves, then perhaps most people will realise we need to get some Global cohesion to mend this broken World of ours.
I can't think of a total solution to the problems of World poverty, but as a book "The Spear of Destiny" by Trevor Ravenscroft is a damn good read & gets the old grey matter thinking, that perhaps things aren't always as they seem.
Cheers
JBW
