So, I am the only one thinking things are going downhill in Europe?

[Subotan]

I think the issue has more to do with poverty and a lack of social mobility, more than anything else. I, like Beskar, come from The North, and I come from a particularly white part of it. There were no non white kids at my primary school, there must have been no more than six non-white kids at my secondary school, out of a student body of 1,500, and there are maybe a few more at my college, which is of a similar size.

And yet, there is a pervasive, all-encompassing fear of immigrants, and immigration. Never mind the fact that immigration is negligible in my community. Never mind the fact that immigrants have a (general) economic benefit to the nation. Never mind the countless statistics that prove that immigrants are less likely to cause crime, put less strain on public services etc. It is so utterly out of proportion that it cannot be called anything other than how Gordon Brown called it, bigotry.

I wanted to post some more thoughts, but I'm very tired