> That was the last great invasion of these islands but ever since we have been accepting refugees, nomads and just plain shipwreck victims. (The Spanish Armada left a lot of Spanish sailors stranded here.)
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Well.....we have been accepting more immigrants, up until recently. That was when a bunch of people (or rather several different bunches of people) who obviously haven't read this thread decided they were "more British" than the new immigrants coming along, and decided that to rectify the situation they should a) beat up the new immigrants and b)...er...do it again. And now the good ol' British Nationalist Party (please note the sarcasm, seeing as I don't want to be killed) has made this into their official party policy. And people are voting for them.

Phil-"Sometimes the first-past-the-post electoral system has its good points"-bee