I was born in London, lived in Dublin for a few years, spent my youth in Huddersfield, and am between homes, and deciding on location, simply because of wildfire immigration. I can, it seems, claim non-racist intent until the cows come home…. I won't be believed. I no longer care. I have no agenda, and my integrity remain intact!

I appreciate your perspective, and your motives are genuine(I hope?), but hindsight is a terrible approach, for the communities of which you write, warnings, which were blatantly avoided due to fear of that awful label, 'racist'… and conceit!

You have…. 'been to Yorkshire, and Huddersfield, and yes there many Muslims, but does it bother me? Of couse not. Does it bother the other percentage of residents? Not in my experience.'

Well thank you, firstly, for gracing us with your presence! Did it bother you? No… of course not… you don't live in ghettoised areas, and I say that from three different points of view!) There are FOUR communities in Yorkshire. White(UK & Eire)), white(Other, primarily Eastern European), black(UK), and asian(muslim). Black and white communities are, in many instances, lessening tensions. I say 'lessening' because that is exactly what is happening! There are immense social, communial, and basic differences to overcome, STILL! Asian influx in Huddersfield alone is diabolical. There is no such thing as integration, and multi-cultural liaison? It is segregation by proxy. The north/south divide is evergrowing. The south of England is swamped… a horrific term to apply to human beings, but the only applicable one!

My father is Irish and the stories he tells me of when he first came to England, in the 1960's, repulse me. Signs on guesthouses read, 'NO DOGS, IRISH OR BLACKS'. Police harrassment was prolific, and being the youngest of 10 children, he was LUCKY to have had forewarning and prior knowledge of the expected social atmosphere. The same experienced from Dubliners, when he first moved there from Cork! It happens! Basic instinct can not and will never be swayed. 'Local prominance', 'National pride', 'Racial bias', and 'Religious denomination', will always prevail.

I moved to Dublin in 1979, and lived in the north of the City until 1982. Yep… the roughest areas there! Ballyfermot, and Ballymun. Ballymun was an experiment in human endurance. Sean McDermott Tower, one of 7, surrounded by thousands of lower flats, was a hovel. (I understand they pulled them down, but drug culture is rife? Drugs weren't the problem then! It was trying to hold onto what little dignity the living conditions allowed, but if you treat a person like an animal… they will bite back! ) Being English, on those estates, at a time when Bobby Sands was fighting his cause, made life slightly uneasy, but I'm here to tell the tale, but I do understand 'hatred', and true friendship, due to those times. It was, at first, 'them and me', but after acceptance, 'them and us'. I read from time to time about the trouble that the kids in 'fermot, and 'mun, cause. It is distressing as they have never had it better! I am an architect, and my thesis in my masters, was social conditions, and the effect of Le Corbusier's visionary 'cities in the skies'… he was wrong. They became, throughout the world, pillars of condemption.

I state the above for the sole reason as to why spontaneous communities, arising from immigration, and the wholescale movement, from south to north, of newly arrived migrants, with little or no, desire to integrate…. 'scares' people. Not just the locals, but the immigrants too. Fear leads to a 'fight or flight' situation, and a stand-off is the result. Tykes(Yorks residents) will never back down, it's against the very fabric of their nature, and immigrants, have often come from wartorn, crime-ridden, and lawless situations.

The government, today said that it was an out of control plight, that they inherited from the Tories. The Tories claim that when they broached the subject, they were hung out to dry… and they were! Sept 11th was a milestone, which was 'lockjawed' by the Americans. They naturally overreacted. A cause of more immigrants. Blair and co. did all things for all people, he was a messiah in his own mind. When it hit the fan, he'd feathered his bed, and had his suitcases packed. Europe does less. The result…

…IS an explosive concoction. It will combust!

Romanian, Czech, Lithuanian, and to a much greater extent, Poles, are flowing into an already volatile dilemma. Yet we still dilly and dally over whose fault it is that we have got to this stage? And whether it's 'racist' to say that 'Yes, there are too many immigrants congregating in very small towns'. The 'Rivers of blood' speech…. was wrong only in the fact it was a premonition, not a statement of possible outcome.