Charlie McCreevy
has said that we'd be the laughing stock of Europe if we voted 'no' to
the new Euro treaty: and if the price to be paid for ensuring the
survival of a vaguely Irish Ireland is some hilarity at our expense,
then so be it. For within a generation, as cultural miscegenation and
mass population movements across mainland Europe spell the end of the
old nation state, our children might be glad that we were prepared to
put up with a bit of ridicule in order to protect some sense of
national self.

I have been banging this drum futilely for years
now, so much so that some weeks ago I decided to abandon the campaign
altogether, and never mention immigration again....

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Charlie McCreevy
has said that we'd be the laughing stock of Europe if we voted 'no' to
the new Euro treaty: and if the price to be paid for ensuring the
survival of a vaguely Irish Ireland is some hilarity at our expense,
then so be it. For within a generation, as cultural miscegenation and
mass population movements across mainland Europe spell the end of the
old nation state, our children might be glad that we were prepared to
put up with a bit of ridicule in order to protect some sense of
national self.

I have been banging this drum futilely for years
now, so much so that some weeks ago I decided to abandon the campaign
altogether, and never mention immigration again. But I find at am drawn
back to the subject like the bleeding tip of the tongue wriggles back
to a broken tooth, to caress the razor-sharp shard just a little more.
And I do so because almost every day, fresh and terrifying news about
the consequences of uncontrolled immigration comes from our
neighbouring isle.

Last weekend it emerged that English is the
minority language in 1,300 English schools. In nearly 600 schools,
English is the first language of less than 30pc of pupils. In the London borough of Newham, English is a first language for just 10pc of pupils.

In central London, only 10pc of the population are of white British ethnic origin. I don't

know
the figures for here, because no one does. But one teacher told me
pupils in her school in west Dublin share a total of 34 mother tongues.