ADHDel-DRAFT-v10-final (2).doc@YorksBylines It's not a price. It's a benefit. Throughout history immigration has always brought more than it has taken.
As an island of repeated waves of immigrants going all the way back into prehistory we do well to remember this.
Tim Groves@del @YorksBylines interesting, I have always thought of them as invaders not immigrants
Invaders want to rule. 🙁
Immigrants want to contribute. 🙂
Beyond a few raids and failed attempts the last time Britain was invaded was by the Normans in 1066.
Before and since almost everyone that’s made there way here has wanted to contribute. Something we see demonstrated by the net increase to the economy.
@del @YorksBylines yes, after the Normans we haven’t been invaded, but between the 1st and 11th centuries we were invaded by the Romans, Vikings, Anglo Saxons, French, Norwegians, and before that maybe the Celts and Picts.
@TimGroves @YorksBylines I see the Romans as separate and, maybe akin to the Normans. Both came to conquer and both excluded the local populations rather than integrating with them. The locals were lower than them and treated as such and ‘kept in their place’.
The Vikings and others weren’t quite that bad though poorer locals always came off badly.
My point still stands though. The thing that has always worked for us has been true immigration. We’ve never welcomed it yet we’ve always been better for it.