Reply #9: Threatened? [View All]

[T_i_B]

Many of those who - largely through lack of actual knowledge - feel "threatened" by the immigrant issue are also people who were "threatened" by Thatcherism and haven't forgotten. I am not convinced that, for them, immigration will ultimately trump issues like Healthcare and Social Security.

Down here in deepest darkest Essex the people who tend to feel most threatened by immigration are often the ones who have benefited from Thatcherism and who still admire the woman. This is Toryland down here after all and I must admit, we do have our fair share of anti-immigrant wingnuts.

Of course I must admit I see this most in the more rural necks of the woods where it's all pretty Anglo-Saxon anyway.