{"id":12255,"date":"2018-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/alexander-downer-has-given-a-risky-immigration-speech-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2018-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"alexander-downer-has-given-a-risky-immigration-speech-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/alexander-downer-has-given-a-risky-immigration-speech-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Downer Has Given A \u2018Risky\u2019 Immigration Speech In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Downer has spoken in London overnight about his shock at how isolated certain immigrant communities are from the British mainstream.<\/h3>\n

Mr Downer steps down from his role as Australian High Commissioner to the UK in one month, and in his speech — which he described as a \u201crisk\u201d — he said Australia had benefited from insisting migrants can speak English.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI visited East Birmingham with the West Midlands police and was astonished how an immigrant community had their own street and shop signs, schools, places of worship, social activities, sports teams and had barely any contact at all with mainstream British people,\u201d Mr Downer said.<\/h3>\n

\u201cWhat seems to have happened in Britain as in other English speaking countries is that generations of leaders have played down the country\u2019s national identity and replaced it with a near obsession with identity politics.<\/h3>\n

\u201cInstead of building on an existing national identity by working to integrate migrants into the mainstream of society, the elite have salami sliced society with an ideology of identity politics.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Alexander Downer urges Britain to continue leading Western alliance https:\/\/t.co\/1jlG8veQ2i<\/a> @smh<\/a> @theage<\/a> via @latikambourke<\/a><\/p>— Fairfax Foreign Desk (@FairfaxForeign) March 28, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote> \n