Keith A. Personally I'd have said that Britain is much more racially intolerant than France, but that's not what I was getting at. Intolerance of immigrants is not caused by population pressure. It is caused by members of the host population perceiving, and refusing to accept, socio-cultural differences between them and the immigrants. It is exacerbated by racist genetic-determinist cruds like the BNP battening onto what are often groundless, but nonetheless understandable, misgivings about jobs, housing etc, on the part of the said population.