Immigration poses political problem for island UK
ROCHESTER, England (AP) — Generations of British children learned history through a book called "Our Island Story." Nowadays the old-fashioned Edwardian primer is experiencing a nostalgic revival — and its title sums up the mood of many as Britain heads into election season. [If you don't want to become a teeming violent UK-istan, it means you dreamily want to go back to Edwardian England.]
For British politicians of every stripe, immigration is increasingly seen as a problem to be curbed rather than an opportunity to be embraced. [If only six million years ago the dinosaurs had embraced the opportunity afforded by the immigrating asteroid.] The 28-nation European Union, to which Britain belongs, appears a bureaucratic burden, not a strengthening alliance.
This increasingly isolationist mood [Why is it that only the citizens of White-majority nations are considered "isolationist" when they believe in sovereignty and not letting the rest of the world flood in to divide up their remaining resources?] has begun to alarm the U.K.'s EU neighbors. Even Germany, among the most sympathetic to British views, has warned that an attempt to restrict immigration from other member states — an idea floated by Prime Minister David Cameron that goes against a core EU principle — could lead to Britain leaving the union.
Chancellor Angela [I'm-demographically-erasing-the-German-people-as-fast-as-I-can] Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said Monday that "freedom of movement inside the European Union is not negotiable for Germany." ...
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