Immigration: Ken Livingstone V Gordon Brown
DIZZY notes: “Internal split over integration and immigration looms for Brown
According to the Government, in order to ensuring that immigrants to Britian are integrated we need to amongst other things, cut translation service and teach English, introduce lessons on British life, as well as providing guidance for social norms so immigrants can adapt to British life. The Government takes such matters so seriously in relation to community cohesion that they have increased the spending on such projects from £2 million to £50 million.
Meanwhile, the London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, has just finished a consultation called “London Enriched: the Mayor’s draft strategy for refugee integration in London” which makes clear that the Mayor believes integration is “not about adapting to a given norm”. One of Livingstone’s official’s made this clear at a recent meeting of London Council’s saying that as far as the Mayor was concerned there should be no notion that foreign migrants to Britain should adapt to existing norms in the defintion of integration.
It’s well known that these two men despise each other, the question is which one will win? Lord Protector Brown or King Newt Livingstone?
People mix. Things change. Humans adapt…
November 12th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
At least their both agreed that Sir Ian Blair doesn’t have to resign, despite his force shooting dead a member of the public he’s supposed to be protecting. Not only do we have to worry about bombs, we have to worry about the cops putting 7 bullets in our heads when all we’ve done is pick up a copy of the Metro.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Holland has a scheme whereby people need to embrace dutch culture regardless of who they are, that is in my opinion is rational.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:36 am
Norms in Britain? That’ll be Friday/Sat. drinking till you pass out and how to get through school without learning to spell or have thoughts forbidden by MC & friends. Will classes be compulsory? What about the rest of us they allow to live in their country?