Immigration

Went to the London Jewish Museum in Camden Town. An interesting exhibition about immigration. Untill 1905 there were no restrictions on anyone travedlling in Europe, true globalisation, no passports, not nothing.

Then the nutters started getting worried about immigrants form Eastern Europe, the lies by the newspapers and MP's trying to whip up hatred against the immigrants who were mainly Jewish. The stories keep getting repeated as each new wave of immigrants arrive, they take our jobs, steal our women, take housing, etc. All untrue but somehow appeals to some peoples' fears, fears of difference. Why, it is new things, change which drives us all on.

In Norwich at one time a third of the population were French speaking Hugenot refugees, I wonder what percentage of the current population of Norwich now has Hugenot blood? We must realise we are all human and should have a decent chance of a good life. Britain is one of the richest countriesw in the world why do we have to be so mean and selfish