British citizens pose largest terrorist threat to the USA

[polehawk]

Move to Oz and sink the bloody place and send the Royal Family to the U.S., they love them

Yeah, we do ! And we keep wondering when Bonnie Prince Charlie will get his chance.

No lese majeste was intended, btw. Our Royal Family, we thought, was the Kennedy Clan but they turned out to have feet of clay.

[westerby]

Interesting speech - thanks Tilo.

A question for our pommy correspondents - what is the perception in the UK (by the white population) of the Sikh and black communities now? Is it in accordance with Powell's predictions of 40 years ago?

Any answer you get to this will be subjective, Jack because it depends what class your respondant comes from. Under class and working class white people will have an axe to grind because they perceive immigrants as jumping the Benefits queue.

Urban middle class professionals will class second and third generation people from immigrant families with no distinction. Indeed, these descendants of immigrants now comprise a significant proportion of the urban middle class as doctors, engineers and lawyers.

Those that live in the country and vote Conservative have no perception of immigration because they live in a different World. They're more worried about their city bonuses and second homes in Cornwall than how many immigrants enter the UK.

Powell's predictions are now obsolete and the closest we got to it was the 1980s. The nation has changed since then. Immigrants have always been coming to the UK and there's always been a significant level of whinging about them (you know Poms, Jack). There's nothing new about it all.

[beer monkey]

Move to Oz and sink the bloody place and send the Royal Family to the U.S., they love them

Yeah, we do ! And we keep wondering when Bonnie Prince Charlie will get his chance.

No lese majeste was intended, btw. Our Royal Family, we thought, was the Kennedy Clan but they turned out to have feet of clay.

Don't worry don't think we got that....well if we have don't recall seeing anyone up on a charge....the whole of the spitting image team would have got life in the bloody tower or something.