MAIL Online: Immigrants to Britain in the past four decades have acted like hotel guests who 'do not belong', the Archbishop of York said today.
Dr John Sentamu said the failure of migrants to integrate had contributed to the collapse of a common British culture and the lack of a national sense of direction.
He called for recognition of the Christian heritage which once bound the nation together and for a revival of the civic values once represented by a myriad of local clubs, societies, associations, churches and trade unions.
The Archbishop's powerful attack on uncontrolled immigration and on 'multiculturalism' - the left-wing doctrine that encouraged migrants to ignore traditional British values - was made in a speech to Gordon Brown's think tank, the Smith Institute.
Dr Sentamu, who is a trustee of the Institute, has in the past criticised multiculturalism and official neglect of the importance of Christian thinking and history.
But his speech today was the first admission from a senior Church of England figure that large-scale immigration since over the past five decades has brought serious problems as well as benefits. >>> By Steve Doughty | Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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