"the incendiary effect of multiculturalism in the present worsening financial crisis....etc etc."

You mean like the fact our Olympians and sportsmen are living proof of the positive nature of multiculturalism? I look forward to you telling that to Jessica Ennis or Mo Farah.

Multiculturalism is a vital part of the diversity of our music, visual arts, literary arts, national cuisine, our character as a nation (or one of the myriad characters of our nation) and christ knows what else.

Multiculturalism isn't incendiary, it's those whom are incapable of embracing diversity and accepting an inevitable change who stoke the fires of intolerance and hatred.

On doing my family history I discovered a line of huguenots dating back to the early 1600's who escaped vicious persecution in a number of places in France, including relatives from Brittany, Normandy and Languedoc, some of whom who went via Berlin and Mannheim and ended up in the East End and Canterbury, all coming to London eventually. These people were then the subject to the same sort of vilification that is being shown on this thread and wider society to modern immigrants, as they too were accused of taking jobs, houses and whatever else the locals could pin on them. All bollocks of course, as the huguenots contributed greatly to the local and national economy, being skilled craftspeople and artisans (although mine were not rich, living in the slums of Shoreditch where they were textile workers). I'm happy to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with my ancestors on this subject, and leave the haters to vent their spleen.

Like my ancestors, the immigrants we welcome into our gloriously diverse society add to the vitality of our nation and contribute with their hard work and labours. Long may they come, and sod the naysayers and little brits/scots/englanders who don't have the wit to see beyond their own bigotry. In the long run, their anachronistic prejudices always fade and die, slowly suffocating on their own bile.