[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Hmmm. Scotland isn't losing its culture... N.Ireland isn't losing its culture... if England is losing it's culture, frankly it's because England never had a particularly strong cultural heritage in the first place.

Or rather, it did, but it was rooted in the British Empire, the end of which had nowt to do with immigration (other than the fact that it left half the world dirt poor and keen to migrate).

Now before the bleating starts; I know that Scotland played a large role in the British Empire. But Scotland also has a strong cultural identity and history aside from that that England just doesn't have. There are some strong regional identities but those aren't really the same thing.

....hmmmm it is hard to fathom what the British culture is that we’re apparently losing...is it fish and chip suppers on a Friday night..?...but we haven’t lost that, we can still have fish and chips if we want to and if we’re lucky enough to be able to afford it because that culture comes with a very high price tag...is British culture going to the cinema and watching a movie with our families..?...but we haven’t lost that either, we can still do that but again...only if it’s affordable to us...but migrants haven’t been responsible for the high cost of things...is it going going out for a family picnic, is that what the culture that is so British...having a pub lunch on a Sunday....?...I’m just kind of wondering which boxes of ‘ ritish culture’ are not being ticked because of the ‘harm’ of migrants...it’s not an easy one to find the answers for...maybe it’s because the migrants took all of our NHS away...no it can’t be that because the governments through time have caused that to happen by not keeping investment in line with growing population...or maybe that was just impossible to do...?...maybe it’s because the migrants took our benefits..no again, it can’t be that because it’s goverment purse strings that is the main factor there...the pesky governments, not the pesky migrants...anyway I’ll carry on giving thought to what it is the migrants have harmed with the apparent loss of our culture...and when I get that eureka moment...I’ll be on those darn migrants, how very dare they cos I’m not having it, TS.....(...help me though in finding out where the harm came, TS ...because I’m struggling a bit on my own...)...