Which one of you on here is Jean?

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I suppose that makes you Lammy then.

Well for you, for me, some of what he said was reasonable and some wasn't.

Indeed.

He handled that caller superbly well and was correct with what he said so I’m fine by that.

'No restaurants on the high street from other cuisines outside Europe, your local Indian and Chinese takeaways gone'

Kind of amusing that you start off with that one. As Douglas Murray said, 'thanks but we have the recipe now'.

This idea that you have to be foreign to cook a good curry is bizarre. Apparently you have an economics degree, so if these outlets are popular then Europeans people would provide them.

But I really have to mock this simplistic notion that...people in Poland are really missing out in life because there aren't enough curry houses.

Bizarre.

Next point:

'American and Asian roots gone because people haven't been able to emigrate to the UK to expand and grow their businesses'

Oh you mean those businesses that would have been European businesses instead employing Europeans.....Why are we supposed to care about a lack of foreign owned business? Do China care about the lack of European companies or do they actually restrict them?....Are their leftists in Vietnam lamenting the lack of pakistani takeaways?

Again, bizarre.

'Inventions and technological advancements that have been down to people coming to study in the UK's great universities'

Before mass immigration the British led the world in this field. Israel for example is a country (and an ethnostate) with less than 15 million people and leads the world with the number of Nobel prizes. Success in this field doesn't require an influx of foreigners....Besides why is it ok to deny non European countries their right of development using their best minds in technological development? There is no reason that collaboration can't happen anyway....Nope this is a non point.

how much poorer our music, films and art scenes would be without people from different cultures mixing and creating something new out of it.

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The answer to this is similar to the last answer. Firstly all of them would be replaced with our own artists and secondly we don't need them here to enjoy their input.

'All the people that have fallen in love with someone from outside Europe would never have met that person.'

Again, this is bizarre reasoning. How is this worst than the European they would have fallen in love with instead? The Europe friendships instead. The father who was born in St Albans instead of St Vincent.

Again, I don't imagine anyone in Poland is sitting around lamenting the loss they have because their friends aren't from different cultures....Instead they are very proud and celebrate their own.

As for your point on the British Empire.....your points here have been answered many many times....Yet here you are putting the same points across.

Ok, once again.

The British empire was for the gain of the British.

We had and have no obligation to those within the Empire other than what we decided for ourselves. The action of giving people access to the British homeland was a disaster for the native British.

As a reward for giving a home to foreigners we get attacked as 'racists' (really)
and we find that over time we get our culture, history and traditions belittled, demeaned, silenced and destroyed.

Errrr....How was that a benefit again? If the British in the fifties could see what was going to happen there would literally have been non stop riots.

Edited by Stirlingsays (22 Mar 2021 11.24am)