Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
This is one of the things, though. The book points out that this has been done in the face of consistently anti-immigration public sentiment. This has been done to us calculatedly and deliberately by the political and media classes.
I'm not sure we can accurately judge public sentiment anyway, can we. Surely, if you remove violent lunatics from the equation, most people actually enjoy a bit of the other, don't they? Certainly I'd guess that most would class themselves fairly liberal on the topic anyway, wouldn't they?