I agree with Melanie Phillips
says Melanie in the Mail. And she's right. Lies are 'continuing' (there's that awful continuous tense again) to be told about immigration, particularly in certain newspapers we could mention.
I'm glad she's finally come out and admitted it to everyone, because that paragraph clearly shows that she believes the Mail is lying about immigration. I'm not sure I'd go that far, but it's a brave decision for her to say that.
No, you say? That paragraph doesn't prove that at all...? But surely if you take a paragraph, or a couple of lines, or a sentence, out of a longer document, and then ascribe a point of view to it that you believe it has, whether it has it or not, because it fits in with your worldview, then that's perfectly acceptable journalism. That's what MigrationWatch did. They claimed they'd found evidence of a secret plot to create multiculturalism in a society where none existed, by their interpretation of a couple of paragraphs in something that wasn't even a Government document and therefore not Government policy; and the papers then reported that there was a secret plot and it was Government policy.
Melanie's just repeating what she's been told. Other people have actually looked at the damned evidence and realised it's a void. But then they're mere bloggers and can't be expected to be proper journalists like Melanie. How dare they look at the facts and things rather than just parroting, in a slightly more shrill tone, what other people have said:
Actually, no. I don't really agree with Melanie Phillips at all. I agree when she says that lies are being told about immigration. But I'm afraid the lies are a lot closer to home than she might claim.
Thanks to Nick for spotting that beautiful opening paragraph.
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February 25th, 2010 - 10:28
There is actually so much wrong with the latter paragraph you’ve quoted. I mean what Phillips is effectively stating with “homogeneous society rooted in 1000 years of history.” Is the BNP argument with one less zero.
I’ve actually gone and had a look around the migrationwatch website http://tinyurl.com/yl47fsy – here’s what I found
February 25th, 2010 - 10:44
that is a crazy thing to say! britain has not been homogenous for the last 1000 years!
i went to see the amazing richard herring on sunday and he did an experiment to prove this. everyone in the audience put their hands up if they were born in the UK. if your parents weren’t born here, we put our hand down. grandparents – hands down. great grandparents – hands down. at great grandparents, most people in the audience had their hands down.
britain is a nation of immigrants, from the romans, vikings and saxons (more than 1000 years ago), normans (1000 years ago), and it didn’t stop there. irish, european, american, african, asian immigrants have come to the UK since 1000 years ago and have created the society we have today. the normans didn’t put a wall up and say ‘no more after us!’. i love the fact that we have such a rich, diverse society. i love the fact i can trace family members from all over the globe, that my boyfriend can do the same, that my friends can do the same. this lie that labour created immigration from thin air, that this country suffers due to immigration is quite simply a lie.
most of all i love the fact that we all come from the same place, that we’re all related to 100 people from thousands and thousands of years ago, because we are all immigrants.
including melanie phillips. including BNP members. we are all humans, after all. (altho, i have my doubts about phillips and griffin!)
February 25th, 2010 - 10:58
Britain was a largely homogenous society rooted in a 1000 years of history? Duh? So feudalism was “homogenous”, was it? What about the countries that now make up Britain? What about the regions? Cornwall? Taking language as in some respects reflecting culture, in the 1940s language survey, England alone had c.1000 dialects! And do these ignorant numbskulls genuinely believe there was no immigration prior to Windrush? Oh, and by the way, what about royalty during that period – Norman, Dutch, German… (anymore, anyone?) and all the courtesans that came with them. Our history is a history of cultural diversity!!
February 25th, 2010 - 12:17
I like that ‘largely homogeneous society’ as a get out clause when someone points out her background and the likelihood that her ancestors were almost certainly immigrants in the near past.
But that’s the same hypocrisy as displayed by Amanda Platell when talking about immigration. Don’t look at me, just read my bile.
It’s the complete ignorance of history and disregard of the fact that anyone who has an empire ends up with their subjects on their doorstep at some point.
February 25th, 2010 - 17:07
Actually, the thought of Labour Ministers waking up one day and thinking ‘gaaad, I can’t stand this homogeneous society of 1000 years standing’ is quite funny in a surrealway.
February 25th, 2010 - 23:01
So pre-1997 Britain was homogenous was it? Well I didn’t get the memo.
But anyway, I’m right there with Melanie Phillips. Being the Borg would have it’s advantages. Curse NuLieBoreMcJockStalin for taking that away from us!