Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
True, but he was rather naive, I think.

The thing is that it was very well received by the public at large. The people who got their knick-knocks in a twist were the media and political establishment. Everyone else thought he had a point.

Of course he's turned out to be a bit of a Cassandra. Albeit one who'd identified the wrong threat.
Making the point that important a 'different' culture in a massive way extremely quickly is likely to cause some social issues strikes me as remarkably sensible and not a little obvious. He had to go and get all 'bloody' about it.