Agreed but consider the fact that they have the only “all-encompassing” public health system in the world (while the Cdn. system does not pay for dental or vision, among other things). Also consider that up until a few years ago, higher education (university/college) in England was practically free for the vast majority of people – I don’t know the details, but something about *everyone* getting a “grant” which basically amounted to free money. Meanwhile Canadian students have to get a loan from a private bank if they can’t pay tuition (for the public universities) themselves; tuition fees which are already higher than public schools in North Carolina or California.

How about the ridiculously high tax rates in the UK for basic things like gas (petrol)?

The “dole”, as they call it in the UK, seems to be remarkably easy to ‘extort’ money out of, thus allowing someone to live semi-comfortably without a job. And the whole “council housing” thing is just hilarious; the poor in Canada for the most part have to struggle to make ends meet living in crappy – but privately owned – apartment buildings.

Anyways, I’m sure the resident Britons here will be quick to denounce what I’ve said in case I’m wrong…

I am sure they would count as ‘honorary Porkies’. You know the old joke about the Jewish boy in Belfast. A gang of other boys stop him and ask ‘Are you a Catholic or a Protestant? He replies: ‘I’m a Jew.’ ‘Yes, but are you a Catholic Jew or a Protestant Jew?’

In Canada, TV-land is the exclusive territory of the whites AFAICT.

I hate it when NRO-style Republicans like to bash “Red Canada” when it’s clear as glass that Britain is a far more left-leaning country. (completely unrelated gripe, sorry)

Also, is there a reason why the fairly large Muslim community in Canada have been (by and large) fairly dormant, while in the UK they’ve been quite active? If the Muslims here wanted to turn Toronto into a “Londonistan”, I’m sure they’d get catch major beef from the Chinese and Jamaicans and other minority groups (neglecting self-hating reticent Anglos). :-P Can’t ever see that happening here…

Canada is about 11% non-white (with Ontario being about 20% non-white). There is very little concern about it, probably becuase the longstanding French fact entrenched pluralism here.

In Britain, the Muslim pop is about 2.7%, not too far from Canada’s muslim population (approx 2%). But the majority of British Indian Muslims (1 million of them) live outside London. In Canada, non-whites live almost exclusively in large cities.

One explanation for the in UK is that minorities live outside London and are so visible in the declining industrial areas. Imagine if the outports of Newfoundland were 2% South Asian.

I’d note that the most recent wave of immigrants I’ve seen the London are Eastern european. Perhaps channel four should focus on the slav menace?

Au contraire: Google on ‘Australia’ and ‘gang rape’ and you will get a nasty surprise! This recent case was actually quite widely reported in the international media. Certainly it was in the British newspapers.

You must also remember that, to a first approximation, good news is no news. You cannot judge any country merely by what is reported in the press.

Also, visible minorities constitute barely 6% of the British population, yet from such media reports one would think Britain is being swamped by coloured hordes. Yet Canada & Australia have far higher proportion of visible minorities (close to 15%) but such alarmist reports are rare.

Are these offshoot societies inherently more receptive/better at integrating its immigrants? Or has it more to do with the quality of the immigrants themselves?(ie. More Chinese/Koreans/Vietnamese/Hindus in Canada and Australia vs. high black & Muslim population in Britain…) I don’t read about race riots or about Porkies or shit like this in the papers. Yet by far most race-related articles relating to Britain are negative, whereas here you read articles about affluent Hong Kong-ers constructing monster homes and University admissions spots being swallowed by an Asian Invasion (fairly harmless in comparison, really).

So what’s wrong with that jam-packed little island in the North Atlantic? And how has multiculturalism & immigration benefited the host population?

Anyways my final conclusion is that the Pakistani community was excessively demonised in the programme and great lengths were taken to portray it as the brown “other”, steeped in mysterious rituals and speaking in incomprehensible tongues.

Though I was chuckling when the lil white girl was fluently repeated swear words in Punjabi.

Therein lies the tragedy of Britain. They created this mess.