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 Brtain 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?
8 comments:
Dizzy: You are spot on with the title of Lord Protector for Brown is spot on ! Who do you think could play the role of King Charles ?
Good result for Everton yesterday, against Chelsea, don`t cha think ?
In fairness it's a phrase that Corydonian was first to coin I think. And yes, Timmy Cahill's goal was marvellous
Dizzy; I used one more "spot on " than I intended, oops !
BTW Are you an exiled Livepool person, I do hope so as your Blog site is very good, I visit it most days !
Both Brown and Livingstone are right and wrong. A proper society does have a norm, but this is just a point of cohesion for the multitde of sub-cultures that lie below it.
This is how Britain has always been. It's about time we got back to it instead of denying a majority norm for the chaos of multi-culturalism. The two concepts thrive best in unison.
Nope. I have no connection with Liverpool whatsoever, although I do have distant relatives in Wigan which is close. I just picked Everton when I was kid because it was the first football game I ever watched from start to finish on the telly and they won.
What would be really great, is if the 2 of them could catch the plague.
I enjoyed Cahill's goal and I am an armchair bleu...
Anthony North is correct. I hate the idea of forcing people to conform to a "norm" because who decides what that "norm" is - it must vary from decade to decade. For example what was acceptable behaviour 30 years ago may not be now and vice-versa. However I think newcomers should be expected to learn the language and a bit of history so that they can understand where the natives "come from".
I think Brown and Livingstone are both wrong in that they think that any number of "initiatives" is the way forward.
"...the question is which one will win? "
Can't they both lose...?
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