On paper, 100% agree with you, if anyone ran on the back of removing all religion from all schools, I would vote for it in a heartbeat.
Big issue is with the "We need to be pro-active and control the agenda..." part. "We" cant agree on what the issue is, or even if there is one. I don't see that there is an issue at the moment other than maybe the press hammering almost dehumanising language to all foreigners to appeal to people that want to hear it.
I stand almost polar opposite to a lot of the people here and neither side are going to move from our position no matter how many arguments we have here...
If me and...for example...Stirlingsays can't agree on what the issues are, "We" can't even agree on what the agenda would be. You throw another 65 million people in there, nobody is controlling anything...

Love your concept on using "Soft-power" to instil national pride though, I just don't think it would work

Don’t underestimate nature. In this instance, do so at the peril of mankind. Don’t ever think we can ‘manage’ nature. Nature is a part of this world that protects it. We are a mere tenant who occasionally upsets the equilibrium which results in dramatic kick back. To suggest we can manage nature is frankly laughable.
I site earthquakes, eruptions, tidal waves,flooding, storms, etc. the list is long. All things way beyond our control that nature uses to re balance any imbalance we cause. If you disagree then so be it. This is merely my view. A view which I believe will lead to a significant reduction in mankind in years to come.

Yep, bang on.

Yeah but what are the pasties like?

If you're unhappy with the demographics of your locality where would you prefer to move to? I certainly appreciate that if an area changes at a rapid pace, it is naive and somewhat arrogant of people to infer that you're somehow not allowed to form an opinion on that.

If anything changes in life, a direct experience of it counts, which is of course one of the more compos mentis points you make, when you're not being lured further down the garden path. I think rate of change is always important, and is a reality that's lost where people tend to drift to complete opposite ends of the spectrum with their language on these issues.

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As previously said this implies that the various nationalities and religions involved respect and love each other and they don’t. Do you honestly believe that Hindus and Muslims, West Indians and Africans, Poles and Russians, etc love and respect each other?

When they arrive here intending to remain, and probably acquire citizenship, then they need to understand that, alongside their original cultural identities, they will be adopting a British one.

That won't necessarily happen by default so it needs to be worked on but every immigrant must be left in no doubt about what is expected.

We are moving someway towards that with the "Life in the UK" test requirement but it needs to be greatly expanded.

OK. If you say so. Personally I’d have thought hundreds of years of enmity aren’t going to be forgotten after a few lessons but maybe your hippy dreamscape is the way forward.

You just don't get it do you?

Just as we don't carry the responsibility for our forefathers owning slaves because we have moved on in our way of thinking so will the future generations of immigrants, so long as we manage the situation correctly.

Going to British schools, watching British TV and being involved in British culture will ensure that. It's the schooling though that is the key. In the internet age if we allow a situation in which children grow up entirely surrounded by another culture nothing will change.

Let me try to help you get it.

The "group of people" you refer to will, over time, become another group of people. They will become second and third generation children of immigrants, who have been brought up surrounded by British culture and, so long as we don't isolate them, by British people too. That changes people. You can already see it with some of the youngsters kicking back against the authoritarian control of their parents. We need to slowly draw them into the mainstream.It's happened before and there is no valid reason why it cannot again. It just takes effort and patience.

I agree though with the Commissioner. Some folk are set in their ways and will not change so it would be counter productive to try to force them. We must not allow radical groups to claim martyrdom and recruit the young to their cause. That, by the way, is the biggest danger of the "Robinson" approach to this issue.