pauline hanson, page-72

SharesRfun, Yep mostly accurate. Probably totally accurate for Britain, less so France.

I've just returned from a six week tour of Europe. Last there in 1997 (England only). I lived in England for my first 31 years.

All the tourist cafes seemed to be run by foreigners, mostly Poles in London (who also ran all the ice cream vans). Asians in York cafes. Rochdale now has a "no go" area after 10.00pm. My boys were playing soccer with a couple of kids in London - turned out only one child could speak English (well, plus my two!) but they were both Polish.

Paris definitely. High muslim population; shopowners, beggars, trinket sellers. Provincial towns (Metz, Vannes, Bayeux, Caen), no.

Rome no.

Germany, not obvious, but they are conscious of a high Turkish migrant population who apparently will not learn German.

Switzerland - well, what did you expect! No.

So the two ex-colonial powers have the biggest perceived problems (the Poles? well, we did work to liberate them :-) ).

But, what's the problem? Paris had its riots in 1968, before all this migration (I was there!). And more riots this time too, by white French. England had waves of riots well before Enoch (1831 was a good year). Britain's culture, like Australia's, has been formed and evolved by a series of rolling invasions (in the loosest sense): Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Vikings, William the Bastard, Black slaves, African Asians (from Idi Amin and S Africa), Pakistanis, Indians, Chinese; Britain wouldn't be Britain now without Chinese takeaways and a Balti on the corner. And William the Conqueror (as he preferred to be called post invasion) left huge legacies to England.

My main requirement for immigrants is to LEARN THE LANGUAGE. There can be no excuse for migrating to a country and not doing this. It is arrogant and rude not to. It is a burden on the rest of the country. It is inexcusable. And nothing fosters racist attitudes more than not being able to communicate.

Control of sovereign states by "Europe" is the far greater problem, IMO, but this is up to the sovereign states to sort out. That was the main reason why I was happy to leave (apart from my aussie wife's absolute refusal to live with British weather). 13 years spent by committees determining the noise levels allowed for new lawnmowers; or 22 years to work out the definition of jam (jam, apparently, is defined as being made from fruit. But the Portuguese, bless them, make jam from carrots. So, for the purpose of this regulation, carrots are defined as fruit ....). and the insanity continues. You can tell when the plot has been lost when all the supermarket trolleys come with instructions on how to use them.

Or maybe that is the overall plan by the EU? Racial tensions simply become smothered under a mass if bureaucratic legislation.