For most of my life I have always been proud to be British. Flown the Union Jack when camping in Wales. Much to the disgust of the local villagers and even once being advised to remove it so we never found a camp fire

The greenies and hug a Hood types keep saying social integration is a good thing and multiculturalism is a good thing.

Having non natives move into the UK is nothing new. Many generations back on both sides of my own family, my routes can be traced back to Ireland. Are the Irish a bunch of free loaders, demanding laws to change to suit their own religions and faith or just sticking two fingers up at the very foundations that have made England so great and which I was once so proud. The answer is a simple no.

So if one group can do it why cant the others, that every one is meant to gladly receive with open arms.

Through out my employment and social activities in the UK, I worked and mixed with many types of people and ethnic majorities.

I had the race card played on more than one occasion. The most memorable being in the office one morning collecting spares for other jobs. I was chatting with another member of staff about a recall I had been to and the customer saying it was the coloured guy that had attended. Being the only Caucasian engineer, I had to try and find out which of the other had been in attendance. Simple description "big coloured, little coloured, Indian or Iraqi" was the method used. Needless to say one of the coloured engineers over heard what I was saying a tried to play the race card.

The same guy who openly admitted that he was after a council house so he could buy it at a cheap rate then sell it on at profit and buy one he liked.

On another occasion it might have been well deserved when I kindly offered to finance a one way trip back home for one guy. He faced the death squad for giving details of a secret chemical plant to the UN forces. He was also facing the death squad prior to that for knowing too much about it. And many of his fellow co workers had already gone missing.

At the time he had been moaning about the UK and how unfair we were to him.

So yes I do honestly believe there were chemical plants being used for war fare purposes prior to our invasion.

Several of the guys were Muslims. They expected their special days off plus moaned if they were asked to work on our own religious breaks.

One friend I had for many years. Got married through an arranged marriage. He met the girl for 24hrs, long enough to decide they were ready to be married. Then complained about the unmarried mothers in the UK being given council housing and he would have to wait his turn. Because his new wife was already bearing a child after only three months of living in the UK.

Thats just a few of the things that got to me, others being the true lack of respect being shown to women members of staff along with being told that an Indian prime minister would make Britain a whole lot better

You can call me racist, but there is more than just racial integration that got my goat. And the invasion of free loaders who wanted nothing more than a free council house and the dole money to support it.

How can the country throw money and open their arms to these people when the charity and resources should go to our own people first. Look at the way pensioners get treated.

Lets face it, charity starts at home.
You have the feed the starving day.
You have the feed the starving persons children day.
Easy way to stop all the starving children, send them boxes of condoms or teach them birth control and how to farm the land rather than look at it with an out stretched hand waiting for more grants.

Why don't you get a help the old people day.
Lets face it, many of these people lived and fought through the war. The freedom everyone cherishes or takes for granted has come through their sacrifices. The old men who got called up to fight for our freedom, who now seem nothing more than a burden on society, the list goes on.

People say Spain is corrupt. Does Spain take a straight bit of road and bung a speed camera on it to gain more revenue, or place one at the bottom of a steep hill where a lot of motorists will be edging just over the speed limit. Or use the media to brain wash people into believing that speed is bad or every car thats a 4x4 is killing the ozone layer or just kills more people when you have an accident. Tax the 4x4 owners even more, they love paying extra tax.

As you can tell, I love cars that are real cars and not a shoe box with a poncy engine thats as much practical use as a chocolate tea pot.

Even the social values have changed in the very fabric of the UK. The nanny state has done away with respect. Head masters can no longer cane a student or teach them a lesson they would not forget. To often schools get blamed for poor learning or not producing grade a students. If a kid is playing up and distracting the lesson, send in the head master with a cane, not blame learning disabilities or some kind of attention disorder. If a kid has a disorder, teach them to cope with it and not how to make excuses or blame the state schooling for the rest of their lives.

Every one wants respect, but very few know its something that you earn rather than have a god given right to receive.

The days of "may I" or "please" have been replaced with "give" and "I want"

When was the last time you saw a person hold a door open for some one or if you did, hear those magic words "thank you" being uttered for doing so.

The UK has changed over the years, to the extent that I would never want to return or admit to being proud of it.