Are immigrants eating our identity? In debates about citizenship, health and education, the government is displacing its own crisis of identity on to newcomers / sp!ked.com, 19 March 2007
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/2973/
Alka Sehgal
"UK Chancellor Gordon Brown’s recent initiative to ensure that immigrants feel a proper sense of loyalty to Britain has been criticised for being either too little too late or just plain daft. Brown said last month that immigrants should do some ‘community work’ before being granted British citizenship. For Brown, citizenship should be a ‘kind of contract’ with ‘rights and responsibilities’. This follows on from other proposals suggesting that immigrants should be ‘encouraged’ to learn English and should take tests to demonstrate that they know what Britain is all about and that they wish to be part of it."