Subject: Re: Starmer's Sheeple Woes
I think this is a very I think this is a very ahistorical misrepresentation ahistorical misrepresentation

Erm, okay.

For example, the Germans - who you cited above - very much did not "melt their culture with the existing one" when they arrived. The really big waves of German immigration lasted just under a century, starting in the 1820's and peaking in the 1880's, and they were for decades the largest group of non-English speaking residents in the U.S. and accounting for nearly 10% of the total population by 1900.

LOL. Part of my family came over from Germany in the 1800's and immediately changed their names to blend in. How's that not assimilating?


At any rate, the point is being missed.

Here's a neat trick for looking at it: for everything you see in Western Europe having issues with Muslims, the historical equivalent here is Americans having issues with Catholics - an alien and foreign religious group with such divergent values and cultural practices (to say nothing of linguistic differences) that they will cause nothing but trouble if we let them in. Funny how history rhymes, and love the irony of a Buchanan or a Tancredo leading the charge against the immigrant problem...

Again, missing the point, which was "What about the UK caused Reform to do so well in the council elections?" Excellent distraction attempt, though.