Immigration: "Tipping Point reached"

Immigration could lead to the political break-up of Britain, according to right-wing think-tank Civitas.

A pamphlet by the group suggests that Britain may have reached a "tipping point" beyond which it could no longer be seen as a single nation.

Shadow home secretary David Davis has called on the government to put a cap on those coming to the UK.

Quite sensible. If only one could believe that the Tories would actually do anything about the situation, should they come to power. However, the views of their vice-chair on what should be done with failed "asylum seekers" render laughable the idea that the Tories could be the party to stop mass immigration .

The Civitas pamphlet - A Nation of Immigrants? - said the "seemingly reckless pace and scale" of immigration was bound to cause concern for people who saw the UK as a model of tolerance and freedom.

The 100-page booklet said Britain may have already reached a tipping point beyond which it could not longer be said to be a single nation.

"Once such a point is reached, political disintegration may be predicted to be not long in following," the report said.

Indeed, and I am reminded of Paul Weston's article on the possibility of pan-European civil war. Of course, Mr Weston only considered the prospect of a war that would be, in essence, Muslims against infidels. What could happen is a war in which many different sides face off against one another. Muslims and natives will be the two largest groups, of course, but there will be others. Take blacks, for example. A small number might side with the natives in any conflict, a larger number will side with the Muslims, on the premise that they're not white, and are therefore good, while a still larger number would be likely to just fight both sides with equal aggression. As the report by Civitas suggests, we could well see Britain (and Western Europe as a whole) dissolve into a large number of tribal lands, of various size, existing in an almost constant state of war with one another.

All this is no more than the almost inevitable consequence of mass immigration, which brings people of completely different cultures and beliefs into close and unwelcome proximity, and of multiculturalism, which then encourages these groups - or at least the immigrant ones - to maintain the very differences which make that proximity so unwelcome, while constantly running-down and disparaging the native population, their culture, and history. Now the natives are angry, the immigrants are grasping, the politicians are too cowardly to do anything, and sooner or later something is going to snap.