Spoken word poet Hollie McNish spells out what's wrong with most of the arguments used against immigration. She cites as her inspiration a book by economist Philippe Legrain called Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them.
Spoken word poet Hollie McNish spells out what’s wrong with most of the arguments used against immigration. She cites as her inspiration a book by economist Philippe Legrain called Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them. (Hat tip: Adam Mordecai)
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85 Responses to “Next time someone claims that immigrants are destroying Britain, show them this”
Kilburnaut Mat
Unless 70 million people immigrate here in a relatively short amount of time, the majority of people on these islands will be British.
Why anyone would want to move to a country filled with petty-minded, ignorant thick as pigshit fascists I don’t know, but the world is a wonderful place full of wonderful people… (present company excepted)
Kilburnaut Mat
We don’t use shekels in the UK
Kilburnaut Mat
I live in an area with one of the highest immigrant populations in Britain, and she’s still right
ghost whistler
What point? Are you a benefit to the UK? Qatada is one person with silly opinions. That’s all he is. He’s a convenient bogeyman that Theresa May likes to have around. He should get a cat and you should get a life.
Robe D
How can you expect anyone to seriously have a conversation with you when your posts a filled with so much hate?