Joe Thrush
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

Hi Reginald,

Suspect I won’t get a fair hearing here but I’ll give it a go!

Most people on the left agree including myself with you that immigrants should be assimilated into society and not allowed to live in ghettos cut off from everyone else. That’s in everyone’s interests. There has to be a bit of give and take though and I am happy to live in a democracy where people can worship whatever religion they want. I don’t agree with religious schools however, or radical preachers being allowed to preach hate against Britain with no consequences, whatever religion they are.

Also, in Britain it’s the Tories rather than Labour who’ve run the government for the past 7 years, and they have talked a lot of bullsh*t about reducing immigration but they have actually deliberately increased it. I’m not talking about migration from the EU which we don’t control, I’m talking from the rest of the world. That immigration figure has gone up and on its own is still more than the Tory target of 100,000 a year from All countries including the EU. What’s more unlike Labour, the Tories don’t want to spend money on assimilating immigrants because their priority is the business community. Labour for all that you probably hate us, we actually set significant funding aside for assimilation which the Tories cut when they came in.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/aug/06/fund-impact-immigration-scrapped

In terms of immigrant violence, that’s just not the reality. There’s no difference in the rate of violent crime between immigrants and native Brits. Literally none. Here are the statistics on this from a reputable source: http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/immigration-and-crime-evidence-for-the-uk-and-other-countries/

You’ll see there is a link between refugees and higher property crime (a 1% increase), which is just because they are likely to be poorer and poorer people commit most property crimes like theft.

I hope that’s cleared a few things up about where we’re coming from. We aren’t being blind to immigration there’s just actually quite a lot of data that backs our position. I could cite a lot more about immigrants being a net benefit to the tax system and how other countries with low immigration like Japan have suffered from a massive aging crisis, but I think it would be overkill and probably not relevant to this specific discussion.