[She-Ra]

People can travel, they move and races and cultures change and mix in places - country boundaries are artificial, political and can be geographical in terms of changes/difference in terrain. This movement of people is not the same as conquering and wiping out 'true' races - unless of course all these potential immigrants from different countries have conspired together to wipe out or push aside the British that live here already and perhaps seek out the ones that have moved elsewhere and not bred with anyone else, keeping their generations in tact.

The interesting question was why here? Good point. I think I read somewhere on this forum that we would be likely to survive certain pressures hence our location would be desirable but then geologically we don't stand much of a chance do we? So yes why here? So they can wipe out multiple peoples together or cause further division not only through hostility from anti-immigration but by emphasising differences and perhaps furthering tensions by being involved in more political action in areas where the 'new' immigrants (anyone from the 60-70's onwards which was the last major wave of 'different' immigrants) came from? Moving peoples to certain places to make population culling more possible as customs/immigration controls would make these people easier to track and leave other areas easier to control with less people?

Note - English is a 'junk' language in as much as Latin was perceived and made of in its day. It's a trade language and empire language mixed from many other languages which themselves have root languages. I love language in general and hence don't like to see them lazily butchered but have no problem with them evolving with different cultural and practical use which is how language, including English came to be.

Jacqui D - London has numerous boroughs, there are plenty of areas with a majority of certain races, White and White British included not excluded. I disagree with your inference that heritage is wiped out because of mixed breeding or living amongst other cultures; heritage and culture is changed and wiped out any way over time as people change their demands, yes it changes with mixing cultures as well but not simply because of it. Like you said there are plenty of mixed raced relationships but within many of those there are those who mutually admire and take part in each other's cultures and being in such a situation doesn't make them any less unless they choose so or are forced. For example, I'm not any less culturally what my parents were because I was born a British citizen and I'm not less British either. The existence of a 'British gene' is questionable and if it's based on a recently historic group of people i.e. in the last couple of hundred years then it was wiped out or greatly reduced already.

Edit - Duh how silly, I knew I saw it in the article and then forgot - water shortages apparantly, but then again we could easily have too much due to flooding... I wonder, if we did receive many more people in a 'lifeboat' situation, would flouride overtly be added to all water supply as currently we supposedly only have it in a few places in the drinking/tap water.