David Cameron struggles to rebrand xenophobia
Perhaps it’s the desperate search for a scapegoat or maybe it’s just an expression of his core Thatcherite values but today that milquetoast PR flack who somehow became our Dear Leader is going to deliver a speech blaming immigrants to the UK for the racist treatment they receive and imperilling our welfare system.
He won’t put it exactly like that. He’ll talk of how communities across Britain have a “kind of discomfort and disjointedness” imposed on them by immigrants. I think this is supposed to be about people coming to the UK, finding no viable community to join in with and starting their own.
This relationship is a two-way thing. It’s not just up to immigrants to join in with those time-honoured British traditions of binge drinking and casual violence. New people joining a community change that community in the process.
It is amazing that a nation that professes “curry” to be its favourite dish is so xenophobic. Perhaps the British would do better embracing people who choose to come here. They might even learn how to build a community in the process.
