Email #29

Dear Harriet

This afternoon my dad came round to help me put up my fencing. While we were doing this I was greeted by my new European neighbours.

[insert anti immigration diatribe here].

Except I wont, because this is not how I feel.  Immigration is the right wing red herring.  If ever there was a right wing bandwagon, this is it.  And on everyone jumps, every time it rides past.

Anti immigration rhetoric is almost at the point of being a cultural phenomenon.  National pride is seeped in a tradition of Britishness that is swiftly becoming anti foreigner.  Except what everyone forgets, or is completely ignorant to, is the fact that as a nation we are all foreigners.  Not one of us, however British we feel, can trace their own heritage back to being purely of this land.  Simply because each invading nation from the year dot wiped out the previous.  

And yet that doesnt stop those who fall into the trap of blaming immigrants for the problems of this nation.  Even without immigrants we would still have homelessness, an economy that is struggling in a climate of fiscal uncertainty, a drastically underfunded NHS, a ruthless government with dictatorial undertones.

Immigration is not to blame for a global economic crisis.  And those who point the finger tend to forget that immigration is simply a bandwagon to be wheeled out whenever it suits the ruling class (who like to conveniently forget their own cultural roots), namely when they want the majority of the electorate to focus on it rather than the other important issues of the day.

And so many people are grossly misinformed on the issue.

But then thanks to the incumbent government many people are grossly misinformed on every issue, and that includes MPs who ought to know better.

I would like to invite you therefore to take a little test, just for fun, no need for answers on a postcard!

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/quiz/2014/oct/29/quiz-how-well-do-you-know-the-uk

See how well you know the UK

And when you know how to sort myth from fact, start informing people of the facts behind the myths and lies that this incumbent government hides behind.  After all as Frances Bacon once said:

"Knowledge is Power."

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