Foreigners in Britain are not equally spread. They concentrate in
urban areas, where the proportions of foreign to native are often
either parity, or in the majority. How does one inculcate a sense of
Englishness amongst schoolchildren in entire cities where the majority
of their mothers are foreign?

But even that is to presume that
all native-born mothers are culturally English (the immigration crisis
being more acute in England than in Scotland or Wales).
And this is simply not so. Many young English-born mothers have been
raised in alien cantonments, in which they might well speak a regional
English (or a Caribbean/Asian patois thereof), but they are as much part of E...

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Foreigners in Britain are not equally spread. They concentrate in
urban areas, where the proportions of foreign to native are often
either parity, or in the majority. How does one inculcate a sense of
Englishness amongst schoolchildren in entire cities where the majority
of their mothers are foreign?

But even that is to presume that
all native-born mothers are culturally English (the immigration crisis
being more acute in England than in Scotland or Wales).
And this is simply not so. Many young English-born mothers have been
raised in alien cantonments, in which they might well speak a regional
English (or a Caribbean/Asian patois thereof), but they are as much part of England as one of Somerset Maugham's tea-planters was culturally Malay.

Moreover,
for the first time in decades, a straightforward increase in fertility,
rather than immigration, was a prime mover in the overall growth of
population in Britain, by some 408,000 people. But this was not of
British people. Nearly 60pc of the increase was due to the fecundity of
foreign-born mothers. More births in Britain does not necessarily mean
more Britons. Britain doesn't need immigration to have lots of
foreigners any more, because now it's growing them at home.

Just
about every single statistic in the British birth survey should be
ringing action stations in the British media, but instead there is
merely the white flag of mute surrender to post-Powellite political
correctness, no matter the issue. For example, the population of
Britain rose by two million in seven years, to reach 61.4 million.

That is more than one fifth the population of the US,
but in just one-fortieth of the land mass. And there's almost nothing
to stop any part of that multinational, culturally-inchoate mass moving
to Ireland.

IT is an indisputable fact that immigration is good for a society.
Ireland is far better off as an immigrant-receiver than as a
people-supplier.

But we have a duty both to ourselves and to
future generations to create an immigration policy that matches our
national requirements. Even the compromise of being in the EU does not,
of itself, make us vulnerable to the manifold failings of the only
state with which we share a land border, the UK.

With enough political will, we could have created a land border at Newry or, preferably, an insular one at Larne.

Instead,
our weak and abject compromises with the two irreconcilable tribal
extremes of t...

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IT is an indisputable fact that immigration is good for a society.
Ireland is far better off as an immigrant-receiver than as a
people-supplier.

But we have a duty both to ourselves and to
future generations to create an immigration policy that matches our
national requirements. Even the compromise of being in the EU does not,
of itself, make us vulnerable to the manifold failings of the only
state with which we share a land border, the UK.

With enough political will, we could have created a land border at Newry or, preferably, an insular one at Larne.

Instead,
our weak and abject compromises with the two irreconcilable tribal
extremes of the North have meant that we have effectively removed
almost all barriers between Birr and Birmingham, Ballina and Kandahar. All that is needed now is time.

Geologically, it made the Rockies -- demographically, it can unmake Ireland.